How to get a job in the oilfield and become a truck driver

If you were half as knowledgeable about fracking as you think you are, you'd know there's little evidence to support any of the claims being made about it. There was supposedly water table pollution in Wyoming, but the EPA's analysis is suspect. The big EPA fracking study won't be completed until 2014. At this point, they have no evidence that anything is wrong. And there is definitely no credible evidence that 23 states have contaminated ground water caused by fracking.

Don't believe everything you read and hear from liberals with an agenda. They're more concerned about eliminating fossil fuel consumption and they'll say whatever they have to about fracking to shut it down.

Before you pass judgement on those of us working in the oil field, please bring some credible evidence to the table and not some half-baked opinion after watching a PBS documentary.

I accepted a job today in west Texas hauling frack water. I start orientation next Monday and I do so with a clear conscience.

 

Are you a newbie? If yes try Key Energy and Nabors in the permian basin. Nabors won't hire inexperienced drivers in South Texas, but they WILL in the permian. Key Energy hires newbies in both areas.

I begin orientation with Key next week in Crane, TX.

 

EZ, our horizontal shale wells are pretty deep, some are producing crude oil also. Our shallow vertical wells are still cased and have been around forever, heck they used to just dump flowback from shallow wells over the hill, they don't require 1/20th the water a marcellus well does nor do they get deep enough to get really high TDS or bring back some of the said bad stuff such as lead and radiation.

 

i don't know a lot about the gas well side of things but i know i don't buy any of this liberal agenda bs against fracking. i do know at the depth of the wells they are drilling here the casings and the procedures taken to prevent ground water contamination the claims don't even make sense. the one thing that i did see as a environmental hazard were pits. in nd we had some liners leaks and pits overflow this last spring with high snow run off and some other problems. pits now require lots of special permits and are almost non existent now and closely monitored by the state.

 

In the barnett they went to a closed loop system a few years ago. I haven't seen a pit around here since 2008. Everything is contained in frac tanks. I would guess that's what they'll go to up north as well. The only area I see pits as feasible is west Texas.

 

I'm just a dumb truck driver but I try to keep my ears open, when you say closed loop you mean using an injection well correct? From what I've heard the shale in this area isnt good for closed loop wells but there were a couple of injection wells in eastern ohio.

 

all our disposal sites are injection wells. with a tank battery that you unload into. pits were widely used when i started out here, first the pit would be used to hold fresh water + frac tanks for the frac then flow back and everything else would get dumped into it, as well as all the nasty #### that couldn't be put into a disposal. invert mud frac gell ect ect. now they use posiden tanks for fresh water + frac tanks, if flow back needs to be cooled before hauling to disposals its put into frac tanks pits are almost non existent now and for good reason in my mind. they have been using some 3 sided tanks placed in at a angle for the nasty stuff now. unload into it come back the next day suck the clean water off the top then they clean the bottom out with a skid steer and haul off the waste.

 

We use impoundments all the time, sometimes we haul flow right out of the well from a frac tank, I've hauled it pretty warm in the winter time it was steaming going down the road.

We haul anything down here, from fresh, flowback, drill mud, oil based mud, etc. If we get too much solids in the tank you get your ### in there and shovel them out...

 

alot of times if the flowback is too hot, (can be just a couple degrees below boiling at times) its got to be cooled before taking to a disposal site. as it will start to melt the oil sludge that accumulates on the inside of the disposal tanks and can plug up the injection well. iv hauled plenty of water that was hot enough to steam on the outside of the tank when snow or rain hits it. a lot of what we can and cannot haul has a lot to do with what the injection wells will accept. sometimes you have to take a load of nasty stuff and you will fight to try get rid of it somewhere, normally ill refuse to load the real nasty stuff and they will pawn it off on a new guy (same way i learned not to take the ####)

we have to do washouts from time to time when going from hauling dirty water to fresh. normally what you do is pop the hatches with a hot water pressure washer and another vac trailer hooked to the back of your trailer you wash everything out and they suck it into the next trailer.

 

By closed loop I mean frac tanks. They'll have five or six frac tanks on one side of he location and after the mud goes through the shakers to get shavings and stuff out it goes to the frac tanks till it's circulated back down the well.

By what both of you guys describe the oilfield is the exact same down hear as it is up there. Lol.