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Originally posted by quik96
Well I gave you some info in your last thread, and actually before Wireline I frac'd with Halliburton. I was an engineer there so I'm more familiar with that role but hopefully I can help.
GP frac is extremely busy. The hours in frac'ing are much much better than wireline. A conventional frac generally takes place in the day time, usually you have to be on site at 8am which means your day will start at around 5 or 6 to give you time to travel there. Operators work much much harder in frac then in wireline. It takes a few hours to hammer all the pipe together and get everything set up. After everything is set up you start pumping the program and generally the greener operators operate a pump during the job. After all the fluid and sand has been pumped (usually around 2 hours) you hammer everything apart and drive home. For conventional fracs my days started around 5 or 6 and I was back to the hotel by supper time.
For unconventional (multi-zone horizontal) fracs that go non-stop for several days, there's a day and night shift working 12 hours. These fracs are nice because you know exactly how long you're working, they pay great, and there's only 1 rig in and 1 rig out.
Any other question just ask. Sorry but I haven't lived in GP so not much help there.
That is old school frac unfortunately, gone are the days of getting into the shop at 5 and fracing during daylight hours.LOL GP Haliburton got the ball rolling on 24 hour a day frac. In the past 2 years about 75% of my work in frac has been shift work ( 2, 12 hour shifts a day) I frac for Sanjel out of Red Deer but the majority of our work is north of GP now as convential oil/gas work in Alberta has shit the bed. Chancesare he will be working in the Pouce Coupe and Dawson Creek area of BC and doing 24 hour a day fracs. Arc and Talisman are punching holes all over that area .