(!) of tools, etc.): firstly, the imperfection of the samples of breeds obtained during rotary drilling, and the difficulty of compiling a detailed (•>: section of strata, and secondly, the absorption by some strata of the liquid clay solution pumped into the well during American drilling, as a result of which there is no return of this solution (circulation)...
[34 — 35] ...Since the rations received by Persian subjects were completely insufficient for them, the salaries received were not even enough to feed themselves, the Persian subject workers—cart drivers, drilling party workers and other workers, for whom service here had lost all meaning and significance, began to abandon their places, leaving either for their homeland or for field work, where their labor was paid highly and in kind. As a result, we were forced to shut down, due to the mass departure of cart drivers and drilling party workers, about 700 operating wells, and more than 40 wells that were being drilled...
[35] ...How adversely this shortage of qualified workers affects the work of our fields can be seen, if only from the example of the Surakhany district, where we have 10 completed wells with expected high productivity (except for two wells), which, however, we cannot put into operation due to a shortage of carpenters and fitters. The extreme shortage of transportation also has a very adverse effect on the progress of work in the fields...
...And we have quite a few cases when for many days and even several weeks we could not, due to a lack of sufficient means of transportation, transfer several dozen barrels of cement or | some heavy tool from one area to another neighboring | area, to the destination. And such shortcomings adversely affect the entire oil industry, where many equipment has not been repaired for the past few years due to a lack of materials and needs significant repair. They especially adversely affect the progress of drilling...
...Suffice it to say that we are threatened with a shutdown of compressors due to a lack of packing, a reduction in night carting and night work in general due to a lack of electric light bulbs.
Even more important is the fall in labor productivity...