Bakken Bound

Brmac, if you discover that other drivers are using gps, and finding it useful, let us know...

Hope your job search is going well.

 

Ohhh grasshopper.... you have so much to learn. Lol.

Here is what I was told as a newbie one night about midnight after looking for a well for several hours. " Well, those maps were probably drawn by a driver 12-15 years ago... the most senior driver I have has been here 8 years... so that's what ya got".

 

Oh yes, gotta have fun at work. lol

Arky,.. that could be a fun thread to start. Educational one as well...

 

We are using a tablet now with some mapping software that is pretty good. It can send you way off course, but for the most it's the best thing I've seen. One of the biggest problems you run into is the mapping software shows a road that goes all the way through from one road to another... but when you get there it dead ends a mile into it. I have had to back out of a couple those situations. Sometimes it may 10-15..maybe even 20 miles to circle around and follow the road in from the other side. I had one a couple nights ago that the road does actually go through... but it was closed due to flooding. I could see the freaking well but I couldn't get to it and no place to turn around. I backed up probably 1/2 mile, then rerouted a few miles around. The thing is...even that is better than the nightmare of what we were doing in San Angelo with hand drawn maps that wouldn't get ya out of the yard much less on a well pad..lol.

Btw, the software is "Wellsite Navigator". Its an app downloadable to Droid and IPhone both...I believe. I know I have it on a Droid. It ain't free though.

 

In sight of the well pad, and couldn't get to it. That's painful. lol

Good information Arky, I'll certainly buy the app along with cross referencing paper maps, .. Thx man

 

I ran across another one, www.blackgoldmapping.com but don't know anything about it. Has anyone used that one? Not sure what areas it covers either.

 

oh, I can see the well, I can walk to the well, but there is a barb wire fence between the truck and the well, 1/4 mile away... Have to turn around, the windmill, back track 5 miles, to find the road that crosses over the section lines, and then drive down the road on the opposite of the fence line to the well...

NO GPS, or web site, can keep up with all the new lease roads built and removed in the oil fields... They are beneficial for making your own maps, but will probably fail the first time to the well... and a hand drawn map may make sense to the map maker, but no sense to the new guy.

And in my area of WY, many of the ranchers have tired of the trucks using roads they should not be using, and have put up no trespassing signs, and are calling the sheriff to enforce the trucks to stay on the designated routes. One area we have to drive 14 miles out to the highway, 3 miles down the highway, then 18 miles back in, to travel exactly 1.5 miles between the two wells... and there is a road, but the rancher wants more money than the driller is willing to pay for that stretch of road. We change which rancher's property for the two wells also, and they do not get along.

 

I've heard of another that is supposed to be good. Rigmaps.. or some name similar to that. Can't remember exactly.

Blackshirt... it was painful. There was even a driveway in the perfect spot for me to turn around...of course, it wasn't big enough to turn a truck around in though... but it was there for everyone else..lol.

 

Dont bank on finding your camping/sleeping site....Unless alots been done since I left, (Last Desember)

Anyways, I loved it...Im looking at land, just outside oilfield..Totally my future up there..

If I was desperate, Id grab the belly dump 23 to 30 dollar jobs....they're on the spot and less BS, less everything, same pay though..

With a permanent company, you gotta drive out and look at em, talk it up with drivers there...Start big/Halliburton/Patterson etc etc...then go to Mongoose trucking if needed...Been there done that did all the work for you..

Im lookin at a 440 acre 4b house for 440k....3 of us doin it...(maybe)

Seems nuts to drive 70 with 100bbls onboard and run head on towards oncoming rigs goin 70 mile per hour on them 2 lane roads...didnt like that at all...

favorite thing is, some disposal sites have hot biscuits and gravy ready, free snacks and energy drinks..I lived off thier #### for 3 weeks...

Most tickets youll write will be for 105 to 135 an hour for the truck...that could be ours if we had a truck!!!...thats what im doin anyways...

wee haa have fun whatever later dood goodbye!!

 

PLEASE watch this weather adviseiry for up there!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAq1Ml3PlGc