by "E90M3" (e90m3)
Published 10/12/2017 at 14:48
by "E90M3" (e90m3)
Published 10/12/2017 at 14:48
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So almost exactly a year ago , I had a phone interview to be a frac engineer for an oil company in Colorado. Today, I got a call from a service company looking for a field frac engineer in Colorado. I said I wanted to stay out of oil, and live closer to home, yet I find myself still applying to oil jobs. I have no idea what the fuck frac I’m doing.
"benjrblant" (benjblant)
10/12/2017 at 14:52, STARS: 0
I’m sure the M3 would appreciate the roads in CO.
"E90M3" (e90m3)
10/12/2017 at 14:53, STARS: 0
Guess I’ll have to get some snow shoes.
"benjrblant" (benjblant)
10/12/2017 at 14:58, STARS: 2
Blizzaks, unless you want studded.
"MonkeePuzzle" (monkeypuzzle)
10/12/2017 at 15:00, STARS: 2
I have no idea what the FRAC I’m doing.
"E90M3" (e90m3)
10/12/2017 at 15:01, STARS: 0
Fixed, I don’t know how I missed that.
"Nothing" (nothingatalluseful)
10/12/2017 at 15:06, STARS: 0
Frac crazy here! There’s a COGCC meeting regarding residential fracking in my neighborhood this evening. Seems like there’s a lot of work out this way.
"MonkeePuzzle" (monkeypuzzle)
10/12/2017 at 15:07, STARS: 1
also, you cant come to CO, we’re all full up, my commute has doubled in the past few years
"E90M3" (e90m3)
10/12/2017 at 15:07, STARS: 0
I think we had a discussion about them fracking near you before. It seems like there is a lot of jobs there, I might be trying to get in on the action.
"Nothing" (nothingatalluseful)
10/12/2017 at 15:10, STARS: 0
I believe we did. It’s still a negotiation in process for the stuff around me...we’re at 99 wells at last count in about a 5 sq mile area, if that large an area. Originally it was 160, but those have been shuffled just outside of city limits, so the count is still roughly the same.
"E90M3" (e90m3)
10/12/2017 at 15:14, STARS: 0
That sounds like a lot of wells, but if you look at other shale patches, that’s about right.
All those patches of dirt are well site, usually with multiple wells on them.
"benjrblant" (benjblant)
10/12/2017 at 15:25, STARS: 0
That’s cause you work in the DTC.
"davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com" (davesaddiction)
10/12/2017 at 15:31, STARS: 0
Money, and the cars you can buy with money, is a hell of a draw.
Colorado is pretty.
How much did you hate life as a frac engineer?
"My bird IS the word" (mybirdistheword)
10/12/2017 at 15:32, STARS: 0
Hey, if the price is right, get that sweet sweet oil money.
Although BTW I heard from one of my sister’s friends that those jobs can get sketchy sometimes, those wells are not always maintained to the highest safety standards if you catch my drift.
"davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com" (davesaddiction)
10/12/2017 at 15:34, STARS: 0
Plenty of incorrect info in here, but it’s a catchy beat...
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"E90M3" (e90m3)
10/12/2017 at 15:36, STARS: 0
I used to work for a major oil field service company doing this exact thing, I know what I’m getting into. There are some sketchy companies out there.
"E90M3" (e90m3)
10/12/2017 at 15:39, STARS: 1
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This is more my style.
Also, I don’t think people realize we’ve been fracking since the 50s and it took off in the 80s. Those were much shallower wells, too.
"MonkeePuzzle" (monkeypuzzle)
10/12/2017 at 15:46, STARS: 0
STALKER!
"E90M3" (e90m3)
10/12/2017 at 15:48, STARS: 1
On the money part, what better than getting an M3 at 24? Paying it off at 25.
I could live in CO.
I’ve thought a lot about that. There was a 6 month period that I was miserable, but I think I did that to myself. I didn’t really try to do things for myself and just sulked. I also went after a girl I worked with, right around that time period, and when that fell apart, that fucked me up a lot more than I admitted back a few years ago. In early 2016, I finally started to try and be more positive. I was working on making new friends and trying to do things for myself and then I got laid off.
I guess I’m not really that happy here either. I’m still lonely, I don’t really care for my job at all. It is way less hours and a normal schedule. I thought all of that would help but it really hasn’t. I don’t know what I’m going to do if someone offers me a job back in oil. I tell myself the worse thing that happens is I tell them no.
"benjrblant" (benjblant)
10/12/2017 at 15:51, STARS: 0
http://oppositelock.kinja.com/1818860183
"davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com" (davesaddiction)
10/12/2017 at 15:57, STARS: 1
Haha - nice. Guy’s pretty good!
They definitely don’t realize. There’s plenty of people who have legitimate beefs, mostly related to bad operators and bad casing jobs; they’ve just misdirected their anger at a technology that’s not really related to the problem (other than it’s very prevalent and we’re drilling a lot more wells in places that haven’t had them in the recent past).
See also: Oklahoma earthquakes - it’s not the frac’ing, it’s the SWD. Granted, there’s a lot more water to dispose of because of the new activity brought on by the new horizontal activity brought on by better techniques, but if you place the blame in the wrong place, the issues aren’t going to get fixed.
"E90M3" (e90m3)
10/12/2017 at 16:03, STARS: 0
Ignorance and misdirection of anger isn’t going to fix the problem.
I heard that some companies were trying to use produced water. BHP brought my some either flowback water or produced water and were like can we gel this up and frac with it. I was a green hat and in the oil field for about a total of 3 months and was like I’m not really sure but I can try. Besides smelling terrible, that water was not suited for what they wanted. Now had that been slickwater, frac away, but not for our borate gel.
"davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com" (davesaddiction)
10/12/2017 at 16:04, STARS: 1
If it’s not the work that was the issue, and the current situation is still less than ideal, maybe it’s time for another change.
Never a bad thing to have options.
"MonkeePuzzle" (monkeypuzzle)
10/12/2017 at 16:06, STARS: 1
STALKER!!!
"Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove)
10/12/2017 at 16:07, STARS: 2
The lure of the familiar.
You need to decide what kind of life you want, which is not the same thing as what kind of work you want to do, although they are related. Most of us can be happy doing different jobs, as long as the things that matter in life are there. You just have to figure out what those things are for you and then figure out if the job facilitates or prevents you from having them.
"E90M3" (e90m3)
10/12/2017 at 16:12, STARS: 1
I honestly don’t know. I say I want to go back, but now I might have a real chance, I’m a little more hesitant. Regardless, it’s good to have options. I also might be in a position at my plant to try and get a better job, we had an engineer quit, so there might be a spot open for me to move somewhere else. It might be a lateral move, but it would get me away from one of my least favorite thing about my current job, my boss. Although, my dad wisely said, at some point you have to have a terrible boss so you know what one looks like.
"E90M3" (e90m3)
10/12/2017 at 16:14, STARS: 0
Yeah, all of this is true. I’m really not sure what I’m going to do, nor do I know what it takes me to be happy.
"davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com" (davesaddiction)
10/12/2017 at 16:16, STARS: 1
My wife’s company built a water recycling plant in the Permian capable of processing 30,000 BWPD, 20% of water used for 2017 completions will have been recycled water (up from 15%), and their water gathering system displaced 95,000 truckloads of water last year.
"E90M3" (e90m3)
10/12/2017 at 16:18, STARS: 1
That’s impressive. I did hear that the cost of disposing of SW was astronomical there, compared to other places like the eagle ford, where I worked.
"Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove)
10/12/2017 at 16:19, STARS: 4
Go get a cat like you were thinking. They honestly don’t give a shit if you’re happy. It lends perspective.
"Dru" (therealkennyd)
10/12/2017 at 16:38, STARS: 1
My grandpa always advised that I make the money while I could, especially when young. You may not always be able to.
"Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo" (akioohtori)
10/12/2017 at 16:50, STARS: 1
I left the oil industry once. It did not go well.
"davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com" (davesaddiction)
10/12/2017 at 16:52, STARS: 1
Not sure who they used, but this is a company doing similar work: