I know. Chapter 25. The first chapters are numbered 1, 2, 25, 7.
Chronologically, chapter 25 occurs before chapter 1. It’s out of place in the narrative.
Most of it is a lesson on how an oil rig works. Five solid pages are devoted to a description of a 90-second oil strike.
The main character doesn’t appear at all. Two new characters appear, one is an ass and the other … is an ass, but he contributes to the only pleasant scene in the chapter.
Problematic. It needs some dreamy harp music, or narration. “Y’all remember when we struck oil?”