High Desert Services - Cheyenne WY (Oilfield)

Thats not the fresh water site in that picture, that is a disposal site down in CO. We pull fresh water like you do; from rural farm wells. Then put it into either the mobile frac tanks or the Poseidon Concepts holding tanks.

Our asphalt roads are in decent shape, some are worse then others. The dirt roads into the location I'm going to be working at tonight are in pretty crappy shape.

 

Been busy working nights hauling water to frac tanks last three nights. Have tonight off, then back to work Saturday morning. Looks like they are getting us on normal type shifts (12hr), and we got a few new(er) trucks in.

Tuesday night around midnight I was driving (new truck) down the lease road doing about 15mph and I hear something hit the floor behind me, I look back and I see that my rear window was shattered and falling into the cab. I continue on and empty my load of water, then break out the rest of the glass so it's not flying around. I bungy corded my jacket over the opening to try to keep some of the dust out, and pressed on. When I got back to the yard in the morning I cleaned up all the glass and got most of the dust out of the cab.

Yesterday Afternoon, I get to the yard and another new K/W had it's rear window busted out also. The fenders in front of the drives on these two new trucks are not well suited to these types of conditions. And I didn't feel like an idiot anymore for having a rock kick up, since another driver had it happen to them. I threw a piece of cardboard up there and duct taped the heck out of it. New windows are ordered, but will not be in for a day or two. Hopefully they replace the fenders also, or get some type of guard for the windows.

Last night we had some storms roll through which made the roads wet, and the locations muddy, but at least it wasn't dusty.

Fun Times

 

Yeah, most of the trucks are day cabs. There are a couple with small sleepers but they are winch trucks.

 

Dang...long wait times. When I was went to the disposable place this past weekend, it only took a little over two hours to go from location a little north west of Hillsdale WY, to the disposal a few miles south of Briggsdale CO. No wait when I showed up in the afternoon.

When we are filling our frac tanks we are continuously either driving, or loading/unloading the tanker. And yes, I live on the south side of Cheyenne and our vehicle yard is about 20 miles east of my house. The locations we are currently working are about 35 miles away from the yard.

 

Finished topping off all the tanks at the location we were working. Makes no sense that folks would start to fill a tank and then stop about 6" from the top. Thats a lot of water left to still be put in it. I was told to go to about 1" from the top. So yesterday I picked up a load of water on the way to the location, there was a driver from another company already there and I showed him which tanks we had identified the night before as being low. Then rechecked a row and found a few more that needed a little bit. Luckily one load each (mine and the other driver) was all that was needed to top them off. The day/night before yesterday we humped it all day, and I logged 14 hours exactly.

A nasty thunderstorm rolled through in the afternoon as I was heading home. From the amount of rain we got at my house, I could just imagine what the roads and location are like now...it was so bad I sat in my driveway for 10 minutes until it tapered off before going inside.