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anyone on here work on a drilling rig or work in the oilfeild?

Discussion in 'Jobs & Careers' started by Tacomatrd2010, Apr 26, 2011.

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  1. Feb 2, 2012 at 12:47 PM
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    Tacomatrd2010

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    this is no good.. i wish it would pick up around here so i didnt have to be gone from home all the time
     
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  2. Feb 2, 2012 at 7:26 PM
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    Yeah I've been watching the gas prices. They just closed down the nitrogen part of are yard yesterday and closed another yard in KY and VA due too the low natural gas prices and that the company that they did all there work for pulled the plug on there whole operation in va & ky due to the gas prices being so low and not making enough profit. :(
     
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  3. Feb 5, 2012 at 1:20 PM
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    dYL0n

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    dYL0n أنا لست الإسلامي

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    I worked off shores for a contractor. 24/7 on call. It SUCKED. But the pay was good and all the guys out there are pretty cool. Good food. But not knowing if you're leaving the next day or not sucked.
     
    dYL0n, Feb 5, 2012
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  4. Mar 25, 2012 at 6:56 AM
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    pa blaster

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    wheres your cabin ours is just north of I80
     
    pa blaster, Mar 25, 2012
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  5. Mar 25, 2012 at 7:45 AM
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    Btnewman

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    Btnewman Benjamin Newman

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    Uh. It's beat to he//. But it's only 1 owner.
    Custom body work/damage ARB rear locker Bumpers Shocks Other parts Tires and Rims Air tank fully plumbed into truck "Golf ball mod"
    I hate to say it, but williston nd is the booming place right now, I just couldn't deal with traveling back and forth with a fam at home anymore. Just make sure you go to work for someone that provides a place to live. Nabors and h&p arent the only ones up there, anyone under the sun with a drill rig is up there.

    I do wireline, specializing in pipe recovery.
     
    Btnewman, Mar 25, 2012
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  6. Mar 26, 2012 at 5:12 AM
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    bethes

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    Oh hey. Just saw this thread. Hooray!

    I do mudlogging and geosteering on location in ND.
     
    bethes, Mar 26, 2012
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  7. Mar 28, 2012 at 4:24 AM
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    skep48

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    I went international on a rotation. It sucks being gone for 4 weeks but great when I get back for 4. The money is better as well.
     
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  8. Mar 28, 2012 at 8:02 PM
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    Taco207

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    Deepwater drilling in Turkey.
     
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  9. Mar 28, 2012 at 8:07 PM
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    Tacomanator

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    So is the oil field really anything like Black Gold (show)?
     
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  10. Mar 28, 2012 at 8:16 PM
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    No. It's much less dramatic and no one cares what's happening on nearby rigs.
     
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  11. Mar 28, 2012 at 8:18 PM
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    Thought so. "true" TV my ass...
     
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  12. Mar 28, 2012 at 8:21 PM
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    lots in mind already
    alberta canada balls to the wall
     
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  13. Mar 28, 2012 at 8:27 PM
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    are you working there?! my buddies dad has been telling me and his kid to go try and get jobs up there because there is so much work
     
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  14. Mar 28, 2012 at 8:28 PM
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    i work for the cementing department at halliburton in east tx and its slowed down alot here. all the rigs are going to west and south tx
     
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  15. Mar 28, 2012 at 8:30 PM
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    Uh. It's beat to he//. But it's only 1 owner.
    Custom body work/damage ARB rear locker Bumpers Shocks Other parts Tires and Rims Air tank fully plumbed into truck "Golf ball mod"
    The show "black gold" is ass backwards from real oil field. Crying shame.
     
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  16. Mar 28, 2012 at 8:34 PM
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    I read somewhere that the average reality show leaves 99.98% of their footage on the cutting room floor. It can't be that hard to make you or your job look cool or interesting 0.02% of the time.

    Little things happen sometimes, like I've worked on rigs where a roughneck lost a finger. And bigger things, like last week I guess a rig around here somewhere had a roughneck basically beheaded by some equipment. One of the rigs I used to work on burned to the ground last fall, but it was after I had gone to another rig. Of course you don't want that stuff to happen.

    But that stuff is rare, thankfully. I don't ever want to hear the horn sound for a rig evacuation. Most of the time it's about as routine as any other job.
     
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  17. May 8, 2012 at 7:04 PM
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    What part of ND are you in? I grew up in Grassy Butte, and have family from Dickinson to Minot, to Williston to Bismarck. LOL What a place, so big, yet so small.. or it was before all the people showed up..LOL
     
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  18. May 8, 2012 at 8:33 PM
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    I live in Bismarck, but work has me just about everywhere else about half the time. Right now I'm on a rig by Killdeer. Last rig was only a few miles outside of Grassy Butte. And the one before that was in a godforsaken twilight zone of no phone service and nothing resembling civilization for 10 miles down dirt roads. So... obviously, that was near Mandaree. :D
     
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  19. May 8, 2012 at 8:49 PM
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    bethes

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    Don't watch it, see above comments. ;)
     
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  20. May 8, 2012 at 8:58 PM
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    I work for a gold exploration drilling outfit here. Were always hiring like crazy.
     
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