November 2011 Blog Posts (5)

I am currently working for a small outfit right now, but had an offer to go work for Baker Hughes.

 I was wondering how the MWD department is to work for, how is their software?

Are they wireless from doghouse to shacks or do they still rub cables? 

As well I was wondering if anyone has any input on how long I should do MWD before moving up to become a Directional Driller, because I do have actual rig floor experience.

 If anyone has a pirated version of Winserv…

Another late night researching OSHA confined spaces and H2S safety.

Eagle Ford Shale is in my back yard, and started Crude Rig Washing LLC with my younger brother, we are two months in the works.

I'm now fully comply with federal, state, general liability insurance, workers comp, truck trailer, employees hired, have all the equipment to perform my service to the oil and gas industries, PPEs', MSDS, and the dream team, with two (bad to the brizzle!) seasoned veterans as senior…

Oil and Gas drilling has seen its ups and downs through the years. The phrase "Boom or Bust"must originate with the drilling industry,  because things are either always balls to the wall going fast or so slow that workers are having to sell everything they have acquired just to survive.

Roughnecks have always been a resilient people willing to give a hard days work for a good days pay. Tough oilfield work has always attracted men from all walks of life. College educated professionals…

What it's Like To Be Oilfield Trash

Everyday the headlines read something about the hardships hard-working American men  are causing on cities and towns where drilling is occurring.

In Pennsylvania a Congressmen accuses oilfield workers of spreading sexually transmitted disease among his "womenfolks" as he calls them. The issue to him was never

"What were the womenfolks of his community doing dropping their panties for these oilfield workers" or "maybe it was…

As I sit here in this dark house looking at old pictures of wooden drilling rigs and comparing those monsters with the iron we have now days,  I just can't believe on how far we have come. Now if you're new to drilling or to the oilfield for that matter, you can't possibly imagine the stuff they have come up with.

 When I first broke out on a drilling rig, we had spinning chain and tongs and slips we had to throw every connection. This past summer I was on a rig that had an ST-80 with…