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any oil workers on here
I am going to be working at fractech in pa I want to make more cash. My buddy made 8 grand in January and he loves the job
Figured I would see if anyone here had anything to say about the oil field |
That's the kind of job I need! Do you have any kind of back ground for that field? I looked up those type of jobs online and it said you needed some kind of degree or background for it.
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You need education to have the super high paying jobs in the field... if you just wanna do what someone says and get paid really well to do it, then you can work a rig. You should meet some of the guys I meet, they are missing teeth, they probably have grade 9, but man can they ever toss around bits and strings so they have a job. There might be 15 guys working on the site, and I bet only 2 have a degree... The other 13 would just have all the courses and stuff that your employer would make sure you have before they can work you on a site.
There is tons of that work in my province! I haul stuff to oil derricks and sites almost daily, and driving around in the countryside there is plenty of drill rigs and pumphouses around. Some of the guys here make much more than 8G in a month after you move up the chain too. My kid brother is a heat-treater and works in a specialty job in the oil and gas industry. He attaches electrodes and machines to critical parts and cranks up the heat and it kind of "tempers" the steel to make it stronger and more rigid. I have no idea what it really is, but he makes a killing in his union. http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot...69601713_n.jpg I got a tour the other day of a drilling derrick, it was pretty neat and the guys there were trying to get me to sign up but we made about the same money so Im starying in my clean line of work :) I did gain ALOT of info to satisfy my curiousity, and I did get a little info on the chain of command around an OIL DRILLING rig, dont know how accurate it is: -Roughneck (works the tongs and clamps on the drill floor, does the labour) -Tool Push (sets up the drill string and bits on bottom end, orders stuff needed) -Motorman (works the top drive and the top of the string, works up high) -Driller/Mudman (Controls the power and mud mixture/viscosity/speed from the comfort of the cabin) -Engineer (the shot caller in the clean office not wearing safety gear watching the monitors and on the phones, its his rig) There is different rigs come in along the making of the well and do different things. From what I understand this is how it works: -Nerds - use their school to figure out where the O&G is... -More nerds - come to the site and mark it and make a plan and hire a drilling company -Tractor crews - come level the land -Truckers - haul in the 30 some loads of rig bits, parts and equip -Rig workers - Set up their tool and motors and pumps and site. Work begins... -The rig drills down to a certain depth, then backs out the drill string and runs down 'casing' to depth, then cements it -Workers install a BOP (Blow out preventor) and the rig drills through the BOP the whole time, its a safety thing. -Now the rig runs drill stuff back down the casing, and starts going again to depth, then 'trips out' and runs more smaller casing down the larger first one -Might run a 3rd drill/casing string down. The "Drilling" phase is done, and they pack up and move to another site leaving a big square of cleared land with one of these left behing... http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._7522380_n.jpg Now a service rig moves in to actually strike oil, and for gas they use a "frac" crew to strike the gas. Fraccing uses extremely high pressure to push a mix of silicate and liquid down the hole. The high pressure opens up cracks in the gas shale formation that the sand can fit into. Now when the pressure is off, the sand stays there to hold the cracks open. Pretty simple idea really. The bad thing is that all that pressure can force gas and stuff into the groundwater table... I beleive the eastern US has had a big problem with that. Farmers can use their wells anymore, and some people have even reported flammable water out of their faucets in the house and undrinkable water. Other specialty trades in the O&G industry that you could look into are: Directional drilling (can turn a drillstring NOT down) Engineer (The shot caller) Welder (joins metal) Heat treater (Tempers the welds) Fraccing Crew (Optimizes gas production) Wireline Crew (Fishes broken parts ouf or hole) HD mechanic (Fixes heavy machinery) XRay/Ultrasound tech (Checks welds and heat treats) And a few more I cant think of. Wow, that was alot just cause of my curious nature. I dont even work in this industry, but I do alot of reading about it cause its interesting. |
when i lived in new mexico i was a pulling unit dereck man and then went on to pump jack service...
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Originally Posted by ohsofly
(Post 495898)
You need education to have the super high paying jobs in the field... if you just wanna do what someone says and get paid really well to do it, then you can work a rig. You should meet some of the guys I meet, they are missing teeth, they probably have grade 9, but man can they ever toss around bits and strings so they have a job. There might be 15 guys working on the site, and I bet only 2 have a degree... The other 13 would just have all the courses and stuff that your employer would make sure you have before they can work you on a site.
There is tons of that work in my province! I haul stuff to oil derricks and sites almost daily, and driving around in the countryside there is plenty of drill rigs and pumphouses around. Some of the guys here make much more than 8G in a month after you move up the chain too. My kid brother is a heat-treater and works in a specialty job in the oil and gas industry. He attaches electrodes and machines to critical parts and cranks up the heat and it kind of "tempers" the steel to make it stronger and more rigid. I have no idea what it really is, but he makes a killing in his union. http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot...69601713_n.jpg I got a tour the other day of a drilling derrick, it was pretty neat and the guys there were trying to get me to sign up but we made about the same money so Im starying in my clean line of work :) I did gain ALOT of info to satisfy my curiousity, and I did get a little info on the chain of command around an OIL DRILLING rig, dont know how accurate it is: -Roughneck (works the tongs and clamps on the drill floor, does the labour) -Tool Push (sets up the drill string and bits on bottom end, orders stuff needed) -Motorman (works the top drive and the top of the string, works up high) -Driller/Mudman (Controls the power and mud mixture/viscosity/speed from the comfort of the cabin) -Engineer (the shot caller in the clean office not wearing safety gear watching the monitors and on the phones, its his rig) There is different rigs come in along the making of the well and do different things. From what I understand this is how it works: -Nerds - use their school to figure out where the O&G is... -More nerds - come to the site and mark it and make a plan and hire a drilling company -Tractor crews - come level the land -Truckers - haul in the 30 some loads of rig bits, parts and equip -Rig workers - Set up their tool and motors and pumps and site. Work begins... -The rig drills down to a certain depth, then backs out the drill string and runs down 'casing' to depth, then cements it -Workers install a BOP (Blow out preventor) and the rig drills through the BOP the whole time, its a safety thing. -Now the rig runs drill stuff back down the casing, and starts going again to depth, then 'trips out' and runs more smaller casing down the larger first one -Might run a 3rd drill/casing string down. The "Drilling" phase is done, and they pack up and move to another site leaving a big square of cleared land with one of these left behing... http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._7522380_n.jpg Now a service rig moves in to actually strike oil, and for gas they use a "frac" crew to strike the gas. Fraccing uses extremely high pressure to push a mix of silicate and liquid down the hole. The high pressure opens up cracks in the gas shale formation that the sand can fit into. Now when the pressure is off, the sand stays there to hold the cracks open. Pretty simple idea really. The bad thing is that all that pressure can force gas and stuff into the groundwater table... I beleive the eastern US has had a big problem with that. Farmers can use their wells anymore, and some people have even reported flammable water out of their faucets in the house and undrinkable water. Other specialty trades in the O&G industry that you could look into are: Directional drilling (can turn a drillstring NOT down) Engineer (The shot caller) Welder (joins metal) Heat treater (Tempers the welds) Fraccing Crew (Optimizes gas production) Wireline Crew (Fishes broken parts ouf or hole) HD mechanic (Fixes heavy machinery) XRay/Ultrasound tech (Checks welds and heat treats) And a few more I cant think of. Wow, that was alot just cause of my curious nature. I dont even work in this industry, but I do alot of reading about it cause its interesting. Thanks for any advice! |
You just apply for work with any drilling company. Look in the phone book. You start at the bottom I guess, sweeping shop, shipping in the warehouse, shovelling, stuff like that. Just look up drilling companies. There is also a tonne of supporting industry that builds the stuff that rigs use - companies that make drill bits, drill pipe, the rig units themselves, the chemicals used, stuff like that. Just start a googling. The biggest name that comes to mind is HALLIBURTON... You probably want to get in with a Halliburton company.
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