most stable jobs in the oilfeild

I was asked this question by a friend of mine recently and thought it would make a good post here as well.

a Job that services existing wells will be more stable than jobs that are dependent on drilling
hot oil trucks,
crude hauling trucks
work over rigs (very little driving in this job mostly labor)
roustabouts.(meany require a cdl but you probably wont drive a truck much)
production water


now with production water a lot of trucks in the oilfield to support fracing and when drilling slows or stops the number of trucks required vrs available will be probably 20-1 but there will always be a need for some water trucks to service existing wells

even less stable than water trucks would be sand trucks as they are 100% depending on new wells being drilled and fracing.

frac heating is even less stable than sand because not only does it depend on fracing but also water is normally only heated in the winter time.

well there you have it not a complete list tried to just cover cdl jobs but i surly missed a few but the point is jobs that service existing wells will be most stable and jobs that depend on new wells being drilled will be less stable.

 

yes a pumper is a good job as well, i actually applied with Continental for a pumper job. as a company man had encouraged me to apply made it threw the first two interviews but didn't get the job i haven't applied again sense i probably should but right now im working on getting into hauling belly dump as a o/o on state road construction projects. we will see how that goes, if winter will ever go away this year.

yes there are 100's of trucks sitting right now. nothing like it was 2-3 years ago.

The company you work for has everything to do with stability as well, glad you brought that up, company's that maintain good working relationships and reputations with the oil company's has a lot to do with stability. many times oil company's get a company they like to work with any that company will get 90% of the work for that oil company while the next company sits with nothing.

as a oil feild worker try to build as meany relationships in good standings with as meany people as you can. you never know when that guy on that that you met on such and such site might be the contact you need in the future. alot of the oilfeilds is who you know. most all the best company's to work for NEVER advertise they get all the people they need threw word of mouth some even require a recommendation from someone that already works for them to get your foot in the door.

jobs supporting existing wells will be around for a very long time to come, jobs that are dependant on drilling of new wells, may be gone in 10 years 5 years tommorrow who knows? but when the drilling is over with the jobs are gone. but there are wells here that were drilled in the 50's and 60's that are still pumping to this day and these wells still require support to keep pumping. The jobs that offer this support will be here till all the wells stop producing oil. 20-50-100 years?