Current state of industry / advice for new driver in British Columbia

I transport fluids etc for various drilling companies. Drilling is very close to zilch percent rig utilization. It is so peaceful and quiet in the woods. Birds chirping (early breakup due to warm weather), streams gurgling, chipmunks scampering from tree to tree. It really is a time to get back to the land and get in touch with nature without the incessant roar of rig motors and truck motors.

Drilling rigs are peacefully resting on racks. Some will eventually be hauled off to scrap yards. Some will become museum pieces.

Christy Clark's Crazy Gas Plan was crazy from the beginning anyway.

 

It's very slow in NE BC

I'm thankful to still be working full time because I don't know where I could get work... a lot of guys are only working a day or two a week.

 

Nobody should expect it to return to the wild west it was for the last 10 years. Structural changes in the oil and gas business and a return to semi-normalcy in capital markets due to the pricing-in of a future with guaranteed wilder price volatility for oil and gas mean that employment levels in oil and gas in Canada will never be what they were recently. There were definitely too many eggs in one basket. Good riddance to that craziness. Let's try to be a normal country for a while instead of a crappy petro-state where the money from the oil flows out of the country leaving a costly mess behind for Canadians to pay for. Alberta looks strikingly like Nigeria at the moment.

 

Notley is from Algeria isn't she?

 

Ha, ha! Notley is your Pipeline Lady Prairie Boy. She is fight'n to get you those pipelines! I guess you have heard about the latest scheme to send hot tarsand bitumen (no diluent/ Lac-Mégantic inferno) by rail from Fort Mac to Valdez by (yet to be constructed) rail. I guess somebody had a look at the new Kinder Morgan Railcar Loading Rack on 17th Street in Sherwood Park (can do 250,000 barrels a day per rack) and got an expensive bright idea.

Wouldn't there be enough work for pipeline workers replacing existing old pipelines (especially the new-ish ones made of pipe made in China)?

 

Worst thing Canada ever did was vote in the liberals..... I can only hope oil and gas picks up someday.

 

I think oil and gas prices are independent of Canadian politics.

 

Justin Trudeau and that ndp ##### certainly don't help the current state of affairs. Maybe not the prices themselves but they could do more with what were working with price wise. Can't get the product out so lets import oil when we have our own. Smart...