Re: Oil fields

Posted by Hurst on June 27, 2015 at 17:26:34 from (98.23.25.134):

In Reply to: Oil fields posted by NY 986 on June 27, 2015 at 13:44:48:

I spent 2-1/2 years in the oil fields from 2012-2014 working for Schlumberger. I worked as a field engineer for an open-hole wireline crew, which basically took readings in wells that were just drilled before they put the casing in the well. If he is thinking about working as a roughneck on a drilling rig, it is a lot of work, but the pay is great. Try to get on with a bigger company if safety is a concern. They have so many rules and regulations that you have to almost have someone there to watch you wipe your rear, but they are very very very focused on safety and having as few injuries as possible. That being said, it is a lot like working around equipment on a farm, and sometimes those rules just make things even more unsafe because you have to do something in a whole new way. But I think a bigger company would still be better as far as hours, benefits, time off, etc. Most of the bigger companies worked a 14-7 schedule, 14 days on, 7 days off, and your first 7 days would be night or day shift 12 hours, and the next 7 days would be the opposite. Depending on where you are, you may live in a camp near location, on location, or a hotel near the drilling location. If you work for a service provider, you might be stuck working 24-48+ hours straight without sleep. My longest day was just under 60 hours with no sleep, and I spent hours 50-53 driving back to the shop. Not exactly kosher by the company's rules, but there weren't any hotels around, and I wasn't too keen on sleeping in a work truck. I worked with some people that had been in the oil field since the 70s, and they always joked that the new oil patch was the flower patch compared to the old days. For the most part, you don't have guys with no shirt, smoking cigarettes, wearing cut off jean shorts and a hard hat covered in oil and mud. It is a lot more safety oriented now, and it is a great place for someone young to start their lives off with a good financial standing. I used it to pay off all of my college loans and start a 401k and saved up some stock options. I don't think it is a lifestyle I would want to do for the rest of my life, but it is an experience and will teach a lot of good skills when it comes to hard work in a group and trusting others. There are a lot of dangers, just as you expect when working with such large equipment and holes that extend miles into the ground and are under 1000s of psi of pressure at the surface, but there is a lot in place to keep a person safe, and with common sense and a level head, safety is not a hard thing to achieve. That being said, I did have the tip of my finger crushed by a 300lb tool on a catwalk when one of my coworkers lost his temper and jerked it while I was trying to free it from where it had hung up. But that can happen in a lot of different jobs, and to this day, I am still great friends with that co-worker. I'll stop here before I start writing a memoir of my short time in the oilfield...

Hurst

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