migrant oilfield workers

I'm not sure if that is the expression but I'm interested in oilfield work for guys maintaining homes outside oilfield regions. In ND, there are trucking jobs that allow you to go home as often as one week a month, sometimes even your airfare is provided.

Halliburton's frac crews fly home for a week after two working, or two after four working.

How about Texas? Texas has no shortage of workers, I guess? Are all Texas companies set up for drivers who live locally or do some allow home time like they do in North Dakota? How many of us had jobs in the past where they tell you three weeks out, three days at the house, one week off after your first year? Screw that!

Anyone else care to discuss working in the oil patch while 'living' in another state?

 

OK so, if you are like me, and you have a house and gardens that you love, family you don't mind too much (jk, absolutely nuts about my niece, for one), and you don't want to leave them for a year, or whatever, North Dakota is the place to be. Is that what I'm hearing?

I've talked to some of the Halliburton truck pushers. I'm hearing $90k/year (based on hourly pay), four weeks on, two weeks off, free lodging and food, and THEY ARE FLOWN HOME during their off time. True or not, that's what they are saying

 

Can I hear a little more from Texas about this. I'm hearing there are in fact places down south that will allow you a week off after five, or so. Anybody got anything?

 

A guy (truck pusher) told me his frac crew is from OK and they are flown back there and then hop into their cars for wherever home actually is. They've been sent to different states to frac.

No one is going to fly drivers home from Texas but I know there are man camps and I believe there are companies that work on "rotation" Rotation is this concept of working for a number of weeks, like 5, and then you get a week off. It's not the norm in Texas but I think it's done in places, I just want to know where. I could stay in ND but everything gets weighed in the balance. If I'm going to risk ice and snow I need a rea$on.