Google did not spend much time mapping ,someone post a good map of mountrail

county,North Dakota or Williston. Only ads for paper map books for travel. The roads

are built 15,000 trucks ,they see 180,000 trips for short period of time.....show me the

the maps.

 

Use google earth if you want a good view of whats out there. The last update they did is in a high enough resolution you can easily pick out where the vehicles are on the roads.

 

@ Brownout ,you are good at cost of living ,how does the distant ,housing, cost of living

compare to the good money.

Haha, Loosie, The last time I worked out of town, the money was very good and covered all my expenses. I tried to keep my expenses low by living in a little trailer I can pull with my vehicle. But I haven't worked in about 6 months now, and so I'm forced to live on savings, which are disappearing quickly.

To answer your question, living away doesn't mean you're spending a lot more money. Food, utilities, gas and such doesn't necessarily change, you'd be spending money on those things anyway. The extra money you spend come from housing, but you can partially cover that by claiming per diem. There is also some things you must pay for back home that you would otherwise do yourself, like yard maintenance. Just do the math, and make sure you ask for enough to cover your costs.

 

It will be interesting to follow this thread ,they keep saying big money...far away. Then

they say there are many things that could go wrong. It is against the law in many

states to disclose what fracking juice they use. They are fracking in the Everglades ,

they just received more permits to drill. I think we have a pipeline to the port ,we don't

see the trucks. The only trucks ,take gas to stations that come from ships...go figure

where that gas is coming from.

 

I will give you more info when I go back to work. Right now I am on my week off. I work 14 - 15 days on and 6 - 7 off.

 

It is against the law in many

states to disclose what fracking juice they use.

In which states is it illegal for a company to disclose the content of their fracking fluids?

 

What I know so far.

Proppant = Sand of which is used to 'prop open' the cracks that happen as the formation material cracks open.

Around here most often normal sand is used that has been screened to a specific size range. After that polymerized sand is used.

The polymerized sands and or ceramic beads are basically inert being all they are is just inert sand or ceramic materials that have been coated in a plastic polymer that once put down the well will bond to itself so that it does not get washed back out as oil is drawn out. BTW it comes in a rainbow of colors depending on what temperature and pressure it is supposed to bond together at or with what reagent is to trigger it to bond.

Typically a single well will use many hundreds of thousands to a few million pounds of the stuff.

 

Acid = Industrial hydrochloric acid.

When a new zone is being opened up in a well initially a few tens of bbls (500 - 1500 gallons) of hydrochloric acid will be pushed down the well to help dissolve the formation material. Depending on the number of zones and size of the well this may be done 10 - 40 times during the fracking operation.

For the most part the hydrochloric acid reacting with the formation material turns into Calcium, Sodium and Potassium salts and hydrogen gas which comes back up the well with the production water and naturally occurring methane.

 

What about down time ,are you working to get things back on line.

 

We don't have down time.

The company I work for is very proactive on doing proper maintenance to our equipment so that things don't have major breakdowns when on site.

Unlike past companies I worked for the equipment here is not old beat up worn out junk that should have been retired 20+ years ago. The oldest things we have are less than two years old and have fewer than 2000 running hours on them!

Now for me as an E tech as long as everything works I honestly sit around doing a lot of nothing for most of my 14 hours shift. Mostly I just walk around the site picking up garbage and talking to the guys about how their machines are running along with learning how they do their jobs.

I would like to do more but I have actually been told that I am not supposed to do any heavy work or hard labor work. Light assisting and watching everyone else work is about all I am allowed to do.

Granted in a way thats good being my lower back has been giving me problems for the last few months and it does not take much to aggravate it.

 

Try to be grateful that, "boring" is part of the job.

 

To be honest I am very grateful for this job despite the fact I really did not want to get a job this summer.

I have easy work and excellent pay by my expectations and I am gone all the time now so my wife finally got to learn some appreciation for everything that I did and do around here.

I really like the wife learning some appreciation the hard way part.

 

Read national geograftic ..interview of woman tanker driver.

Very interestiing read

 

I am gone all the time now so my wife finally got to learn some appreciation for everything that I did and do around here.

Must be a different kind of woman up there in "farther North America". The ones I know don't learn, they just add, "gone all summer" to the list of resentments.

I know I'm supposed to write after that, but I feel honest this morning.

 

I never said she is actually learning from it. She is dealing with it with the option to learn being there.

It was her idea that I get a job opposed to working on the new house so now she has to deal with the repercussions of her decision which now means I have a job and the new house project is going to just sit there.

BTW my wife is from Turkey and the concept of think first and speak later is beyond her capacity to grasp.

 

the concept of think first and speak later is beyond her capacity to grasp.

I know several like that. Only 2 days ago, I asked one of them, "Have you ever consider that you might have a thought that doesn't come out of your mouth?" I further explained that when she says every thought she has, we can't tell which ones are important, and we eventually get tired of listening in case anything important arrives.

She carefully explained that she has the right to talk incessantly and all men are required to listen constantly.

Believe it or not, that was one of the smarter ones. I wouldn't even bother explaining this to my niece-in-law.

ps, thanks for the LOL.

 

Boy, listening to you guys just underscores how fortunate I was in the lady I managed to find! I've got a keeper in just about every respect.

 

Dog bless you! I knew there was a good one somewhere.

 

I know several like that. Only 2 days ago, I asked one of them, "Have you ever consider that you might have a thought that doesn't come out of your mouth?" I further explained that when she says every thought she has, we can't tell which ones are important, and we eventually get tired of listening in case anything important arrives.

I go through that constantly. I can't count how many times I have asked her if she is talking to me or just talking because she has words to use up.
Apparently most of the time she is not even aware she is talking out loud.

Daughter is no better. She speaks two languages, Turkish and English, so most of the time she does a half and half randomized mix so nothing makes sense in either language which she seems to not notice the problem at all.

 

I guess I'm real lucky, after being divorced for 30+ years I got my keeper back. Too bad I didn't know then what I know now.