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Yep, that's the life in the oil fields.
Yep, that's the life in the oil fields.
Not the oil fields I worked.
Yep, that's the life in the oil fields.
Not the oil fields I worked.
Guess you was a company man. Entirely different .
I was in the oilpatch for 25 years and never was without a job. It wasn't always the job I wanted and was qualified for, and it wasn't always WHERE I wanted to be, but I never drew a nickel in un-employment money.
I was in the oilpatch for 25 years and never was without a job. It wasn't always the job I wanted and was qualified for, and it wasn't always WHERE I wanted to be, but I never drew a nickel in un-employment money.
What year did you get out, Gene?
Yep, that's the life in the oil fields.
Not the oil fields I worked.
Guess you was a company man. Entirely different .
You ever work outside the US?
I was in the oilpatch for 25 years and never was without a job. It wasn't always the job I wanted and was qualified for, and it wasn't always WHERE I wanted to be, but I never drew a nickel in un-employment money.
What year did you get out, Gene?
I shut down my Oil Well Servicing company in 1987.
That is how I lost may dad in 47 he was working derrick and they hit a gas pocket and she blew, burned for 3 hours. They had backed off the blow out preventer just 90 feet before as the geologist had said hit was safe to do so.
I was 13 at the time and the eldest of five, made life a bit rough for a while. Cheers NC
Yep, that's the life in the oil fields.
Not the oil fields I worked.
Guess you was a company man. Entirely different .
You ever work outside the US?
Never saw it as life time work, just a paycheck between semesters. The Gulf of Mex and New Mexico.
Fought 1 fire where the BOP failed - flames over 700' high when we got there. Adair's group got the call. We hauled water and mud in for 4 days, non-stop. 12 frac-masters full, IIRC.
Took 98 gallons of water to extinguish said fire.
Rig demolished - no injuries, but some spectacular gymnastics performed by the (rapidly) exiting crew, according to tracks in the mud!
Lots of locals still work the fields when they are active... almost every one stashes the cash these days.
Not so much in the boom of the 80s around here.
But the latest ones they ain't spending, other than most buy a big truck, used, thats about it.
Folks got a bit of education along the way.
makes me think of all the 18-21 yr old "fresh outta high school types" who got the job cause of daddy or some other relative anyways
fuggem.....................
always burger king or mcdonalds or the cell phone kiosk at the mall to go apply at
worked for transocean myself
GOM & Black sea
looks ole EdM sucked arse and done alright two homes garage bigger than most houses all the toys guess his $4000 or more a week worked out and he got out before the plunge. No wonder he hates $1.50 gas.
looks ole EdM sucked arse and done alright two homes garage bigger than most houses all the toys guess his $4000 or more a week worked out and he got out before the plunge. No wonder he hates $1.50 gas.
Jealous your monthly gub'ment check don't pay that well?
I've been in the oil field for 28 years so far and some of the comments on this topic are nothing more than someone talking [bleep] about something they know nothing about.
What their meter said!
Basically spit on it and it was out.
Dumped in close to 100 barrels of mud to help contain it, after the flames were out.
Douglas Pass, Western CO.
If they're only making $500/day, they aren't much of an oilfield worker.
only worked 15 1/2 hours this past week installing floors. its always slow in jan/feb after the holidays. i made just under 1600 dollars, not oilfield pay but i'm home more and have time to fish/hunt now. i'm just thankful i had a trade to fall back on.