budsmoker87
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And I just got hired today on a drilling rig. The drilling activity out here in ND has slowed down in recent months as the cost of crude has risen past $100/barrel.
Some of the speculation I'd heard from others/assumed myself include:
1. politics and recent election
2. aquifers leaking oil/sucking up water from wells
3. price-gouging in this boom-town causing companies to exceed budgets
4. multi-pad wells reducing pump pressure from wells and thus lower output
5. stacked out rigs due to a slow down in pre-drilling construction
Anyway, I'd been calling drilling companies since I arrived in ND 3 weeks ago and was frustrated with the same old response..,"thanks for calling. if we're interested, a recruiter will call you." As the weeks went by I started applying to other companies as well...yesterday I called National Oil-well Varco, a company my college buddy just got with out here, and asked if they were hiring. The guy on the phone said that he could probably give me a job working in the warehouse (distributing and ordering parts for the rig)...he said come on down, so I did.
On my way there I got my 3rd flat tire in 2 weeks. The first one was the result of a nail, due to construction outside the hotel I was sleeping in my car outside of, in Minot, ND. Then when I made it to Williston, a different tire went flat....and this most recent time, the original nail-punctured flat tire went flat again. UGH! I've become very quick at swapping tires/donuts lately. Turns out the tire was fine...perhaps the occasional -30 lows were fucking with my tires' air pressure
Anyway, I interviewed with the guy at NOV...he asked if I was looking to get back on a drilling rig and I said honestly, yes...it might just be a temp job for me. He said he'd let me know by Monday.
This afternoon I became frustrated, thinking "I've been busting my ass for weeks trying to get a gig going and now the weekend is here again, and H.R. are all out of office, FUCKK!!"
I walked out of the library to my car to eat a meal and then my phone rang.... it was a recruiter at Unit Drilling asking me if I needed a job and to go see the tool pusher at the rig.
And just like that, I go from living in my car for a month to being housed and making thousands a week again.
I take my drug test Monday and then start Monday night 5pm-5am (halfway through the hitch of 14 days on/14 off)
DRILL baby, DRILL
Some of the speculation I'd heard from others/assumed myself include:
1. politics and recent election
2. aquifers leaking oil/sucking up water from wells
3. price-gouging in this boom-town causing companies to exceed budgets
4. multi-pad wells reducing pump pressure from wells and thus lower output
5. stacked out rigs due to a slow down in pre-drilling construction
Anyway, I'd been calling drilling companies since I arrived in ND 3 weeks ago and was frustrated with the same old response..,"thanks for calling. if we're interested, a recruiter will call you." As the weeks went by I started applying to other companies as well...yesterday I called National Oil-well Varco, a company my college buddy just got with out here, and asked if they were hiring. The guy on the phone said that he could probably give me a job working in the warehouse (distributing and ordering parts for the rig)...he said come on down, so I did.
On my way there I got my 3rd flat tire in 2 weeks. The first one was the result of a nail, due to construction outside the hotel I was sleeping in my car outside of, in Minot, ND. Then when I made it to Williston, a different tire went flat....and this most recent time, the original nail-punctured flat tire went flat again. UGH! I've become very quick at swapping tires/donuts lately. Turns out the tire was fine...perhaps the occasional -30 lows were fucking with my tires' air pressure
Anyway, I interviewed with the guy at NOV...he asked if I was looking to get back on a drilling rig and I said honestly, yes...it might just be a temp job for me. He said he'd let me know by Monday.
This afternoon I became frustrated, thinking "I've been busting my ass for weeks trying to get a gig going and now the weekend is here again, and H.R. are all out of office, FUCKK!!"
I walked out of the library to my car to eat a meal and then my phone rang.... it was a recruiter at Unit Drilling asking me if I needed a job and to go see the tool pusher at the rig.
And just like that, I go from living in my car for a month to being housed and making thousands a week again.
I take my drug test Monday and then start Monday night 5pm-5am (halfway through the hitch of 14 days on/14 off)
DRILL baby, DRILL
