Roughneck reality - On the rig floor, makeup gets a new meaning

摘要

It appears that pop culture has finally found a beneficial use for the drilling industry - as entertainment. In the fictional television series, "Dallas," the petroleum business was mostly used as a plot device that funded the Ewing family's dysfunctional behavior, the show's main concern. But this part could just as easily have been played by cosmetics or auto parts. For a certain new television series, the industry - or at least the US land drilling segment of it - is cast in a more central role. This latest manifestation of "reality" TV follows the entertainment industry's cost-cutting practice of doing away with writers, scripts, actors, directors and who knows what else you may have once thought essential to the task.