It was actually a she... She also was hired the same time as me and went through PEPTEC-1 with me as well. The difference was that I broke out and proved that I was alright to run my own jobs in a month vs. 6 months for her (there was another guy in my district who went to school with me and he broke out in a month so its not unheard of). This was probably her 2nd last job before she got promoted to being unsupervised .Originally posted by Graham_A_M
Damn, how new was he? bringing it back up was easy as shit. A chimpanzee can do that without issues, just watch the feed rate and youre golden pretty much.
Yeah, only doing Single O did the guys make the decent coin. Not fun work though. Kind of odd the engineer didn`t notice the trainee`s fuck up. Usually the other operators or the engineer would notice it right on. Mind you, Ive seen some amazingly stupid shit happen, so who knows. I can honestly thank God that I`ve never had to deal with Fishing. I heard many nightmares about it.
CRAZY they`ve since closed Whitecourt and Wainwright. WOW. I never saw that coming. When the slow down of 07 happened, we laid off two thirds of the workplace. Funny that we went from SCREAMIN for people and shutting down trucks due to a lack of people to run them: to laying off 65% of the workplace within three weeks. That taught me everything I ever wanted to know of the oil patch. I dont miss it not for a tenth of a second. It was interesting seeing Motormen & drillers working at Walmart as greeters just to try to make ends meet.
Its funny, you can always tell how well the oil patch is doing by how friendly the towns folk are to each other.
Its interesting being in oilfield manufacturing now. We have some idiotic orders in from the Provost / Macklin area, and Lloyd. Some ridiculously huge orders are coming in. So I assume its just gang-busters out there right about now.
Same with Russia, Australia & Venezuela. we just had a $400 million order come in a few months back. Its just bumpin busy elsewhere.
Halliburton is decent. I wanted a job with them but took SLB`s offering first since I wanted whatever I could take at the time. BJ looked very promising as well.
Basically what happened was that there is a well known software glitch in the logging software which will cause everything to freeze and the software to stop recording data if you dont stop your repeat log manually. You'd think a trainee with 15 some jobs under there belt would be well versed on manually stopping the repeat but she forgot and we had to redo it. First time anyone in the district went fishing in 5 years
Lloyd's still busy I think but outfits like Tucker and Weatherford have taken over alot of the jobs there. SLB consistently charges more than the other guys and pays their employees less and I guess it's starting to catch up with them.
Back on topic... I also agree with what others say about EPC's and hence why I only stayed with one for 8 months before I moved to my current job with a owner/operator which i am much more happy with. That being said, I think if you spend a year with a oilfield service company (such as Schumberger) and then start looking for something else with a owner/operator the experience will certainly set you apart from a fresh grad with no field experience.