Alberta oilfield driving jobs

Thx Northbound. Yea he did say they were kinda slow right now & asked me if I'd be willing to haul the "queens" to location yadda yadda. Any advice on good winter gear for the GP area?

 

Eires, are you going to be stationed in GP? Is it 15/6 and then travel back to Kelowna? What tickets did they require you to have? Im located in Kamloops and will be heading back to GP in the next week or so, even if I have to rent an apartment.

 

Thoughts on Sanjel?

 

Yep, stationed in GP. I don't have any tickets except TDG & WHMIS & they didn't ask me if I had any. My interview was about 10 minutes, 20 minutes driving test & hired on the spot. I'm trying to find a furnished apartment right now and not much available, just a "room" is going for $750/month.

 

James...what was your overall impression of the crane training at OE 155? I live 15 minutes away from their school and am thinking of going the crane route now I have almost 2 years of driving experience....

 

What's the difference between a Frac Pump Operator and a Fluid Pump Operator? From what I can gather, the work which takes place in both the processes is the same, except one's frac and the others acid. No?

 

Anybody know why this video is funny? I went through the comments and it seems like they were picking on this 'green hand'.

 

He's doing a 'seismic test' with a HAMMER. Normally explosives are used....also, look up Frac Pump calibration....

While your at it, get me a bucket of steam and a glass hammer................

 

Frac is just frac pump horsepower unit. Kinda basic really.

Frac, you have about 30 people to back you up. Pump op usually has op and supervisor only.

Fluid pump pumps fresh water, produced water, chemicals, and/or acid. Job can be for frac, plug & perf with wireline trucks, acid squeeze for frac, standalone jobs, pumping down well to burst disc, quick pumpdown jobs, and so forth.

So for fluid op, you often rig in to jobs with a coil or service rig, or do standalone, or tie in to big frac ops. Work is a bit more varied, often you drop chems into the line at certain rates/volumes so there is a bit of a different skillset required. I'd say the op needs to be a bit more aware and have (or quickly gain) a broader skillset, probably fair to say it's a bit more demanding and a bit more complex. Need to know rig in line and kill line, possibly servicing multi well pads with multiple ties to the wellheads, rig in suction lines from the 400 tanks, pressure test, run rates/volumes, track the various treatments, pump down tubing and/or annulus (and how to swap over), load and pump different chemical types and volumes, and for more advanced skills, create a ticket for the job on behalf of the company (most likely be done by a supervisor, but that would be the end game skill set if you are training to run the unit in the long term).

 

Thanks for the detailed reply. Thing is, I find it a little hard to understand just reading all of this. For example, "...often drop chemicals into the line..." - what does line mean here? Pipe? You know any good videos explaining all this? I've tried YouTube..