Jobs in ND Oil Patch

I didn't have my CDL, but wanted to go to ND like a lot on here, so I went to a JUCO and received some CDL training. After doing a lot of job hunting or making my own luck, I found a good tanker job, not in ND, but I have other skills that probably helped me get the job. They are out there, you just have to find them. No BS here.

 

lotts and lots of blessing 4 you driver

 

It is freaking dead up here

 

Where?? ND or Liberty, TX??

 

Dead in ND but no rooms to rent? That doesn't sound too dead to me.

 

I've got a buddy thats a crude hauler in Willison leased on to a large carrier. He's been sitting for the last 8 days ... No work.

Fuel prices have to be driven up somehow. If output from wells is decreased the supply for gas/diesel will far exceed demand and price of fuel goes up. The powers that be want high fuel costs right now, they will drop around election time.

 

From what I've heard the price of gas really has nothing to do with it.

My husband was talking to the office bigwigs at the outfit he drives for (sand and water) last week.
They said the biggest problem they've had is that the oil co.s hadn't planned on such a mild winter. Consequently, when they put in for well permits for this quarter they underestimated what they'd need.
He said they have several companies that they're contracted with who were either completely shut down during the last few weeks, or running with a skeleton crew. He also said they told him the companies are starting to move rigs back into the area to start up again, going hard for the spring/summer.

 

Guys right now we are fighting frost laws so that has us slowed down some. The bigger thin that is going on is that t oil companies are shutting operations for a while to get the costs down. They did the same thing in Wy, Co, Ut, and Alberta in 2008.

 

As the saying goes.. "it doesn't matter what it costs; it only matters what it makes".
Must be a supply glut. When the excess supply makes its way to market maybe the workload will return to busy.

 

It matters to the bean counters in the office when their costs on a well go up 4 to 500% pretty quick they tell the guys in the field to get costs under control. The solution in the field is just to shut down and let everybody cutthroat each other until the costs get inline. It has nothing to do with supply it's just that the patch is a whole different animal.