Posted on 05/26/2018 5:16:03 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A “you’ve probably already seen this” ping.
No description of the jobs available. Grapes of Wrath reminder.
Basically, it amounts to having a huge skills gap. Millenials don’t know how to drive cranes or forklifts.
Had several friends that went out there to work. Never made anymore than if they had stayed at home and worked around there.
OH they made bundles of money alright, but the cost of living sucked it all up.
“Millenials don’t know how to drive cranes or forklifts.”
And they get muddy and greasy too. Yuck!
35 years working oilfield ..
Production hoists and drilling rigs..
Retired Real proud of that fact
‘Bout the time they finally get the personnel in place, the AWL bubble will bust.
Actually it is just difficult for a state of 3/4s of a million people to adapt to changing conditions.
Getting power, pipelines, even decent roads completed in the patch is an ongoing battle.
One thing for sure, the “conservatives” in the state capitol surely didn’t have any trouble burning through oil revenue during the last go-round.
They’re going to have to get new bumper stickers: Dear Lord please give me another oil boom...I won’t p-— it away like I did the last two!
p.s. Thanks.
You have seen the boom towns. I remember going through Gillette, WY in ‘73 and then going back up in ‘78 to build two new schools. A spot to hook up your trailer and connect to sewer was $650 plus utility charges. Renting a house or apartment was impossible.
In 2011, I bid some B-52 hangers up in ND and tried to price in housing for field management and others. Impossible, there was none to be had except double the price. A 1959 house was the price of a new home 50% larger in Dallas. Apartments were clapboard. People were going up there and finding out you couldn’t live on the fringe with the winters that they have in North Dakota.
Oh yeah. Heard that bumper sticker made the rounds in Houston also.
Interesting...
The only problem with living and working in North Dakota is that you have to live and work in North Dakota.
“.. Millenials don’t know how to drive cranes or forklifts”
Agree. IMO,there has been such an emphasis on a college degrees in the previous administrations that good paying vocational trades went un-noticed.
My junior year in high school I worked summers on a roust about crew for my uncle. Went into the Army in in 69 got out in 72 and went to work for the Sheriff’s Department but took a side job as a pumper on a friend of mines place. Did that for 5 1/2 years and went full time in the patch. When Conoco offered to sell us the wells on the ranch we bought them. I operated 22 stripper wells until we had the money to drill our own. We now have 72 wells on the ranch and 16 more on some other leases we picked up over the years. I’ll be 68 in November and have no intention of retiring. When we survived the oil crash of 98 I knew I could handle anything from that point on. I’ve reentered 4 of those old stripper wells that still had good casing and took them down another 1500 ft and tapped into the Cline, they’re making more now than they ever did. Origional production when we started was just under 1000 barrels a month and almost no sell able gas. Last month we did a total of 26,320 barrels and running an average 133,920 MCF a month. Not bad for starting life as a lowly roustabout worm. I’m in it until I die!!
They believe a job is to steal more taxes.
That is their problem.
And foreign immigrant imports are too lazy to do those harsh jobs, they would rather take welfare in a warmer climate.
What wonderful story....do you use a Jimmypole to pull your wells and lay rods and tubing on ground. Do you pipe some gas into your home and use it....what do you do with the production water. Man so interesting so many questions to ask
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Our wells are over 8500 ft deep I don’t think a little Jimmy Pole could handle it. The service rigs need to be able to handle over 10,500 ft of 2 7/8 tubing. The ranch (Built in 1905) house is now all electric but I do have a poly line running cleaned casing head gas to a generator for emergency back up. Everything from the well goes to the battery where it’s separated. First it goes through a separator where the gas is removed from the fluid and then the fluid goes through a heater treater which separates the water from the oil. The oil goes into 500 barrel steel tanks and the water into 500 barrel fiberglass tanks. When either gets a load (175 to 180 barrels) a truck will pickup. The water is taken to a disposal well and the oil is taken to a holding area where it’s pumped into a pipeline headed to the refinery. The gas goes directly into a pipeline that crosses the ranch.
On a train going home hard to text..thank you for reply..couple days got a few more question ...worked for a very large oil company
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