MBI Water transfer

Some, but not many in the water hauling side. Most have gotten away from it due to severe unreliability from out of state workers.

 

Just my opinion... stay where you are.

 

ND winter is nearly over so let that deter you. $20 per hour plus overtime is a great wage for this area right now. Esp for water transfer. I know other WT companies that pay $12-15 per hour. WT is not necessarily working "with frac tanks" all day, the ones i see are sitting in a pickup all day manning a pump along side the road.

Yes Killdeer is a little boring town but Dickinson is only 35 miles away and is along the I94 hub. Plenty of restaurants and some shopping to spend your $$ on.

ND wage will still be better than the other oil patches and if you are in it to make money and maybe move up the chain with MBI i say do it. MBI has ops all over the country and can transfer you out once things pick up...in 2017...

 

I was laid off Oct. 9th from C&J Energy in Belfield and had an interview with MBI for a winch truck/heavy haul driver. MBI is trying to restructure the pay scales out there to a lower rate. Did you ask, or did they tell you how much you'd have to pay for company housing? It's anywhere from $400-$700/ month. I started as a water hauler in 2010 for $23.50/hr., with a 60 hour a week guarantee. I was at $28/hr. driving winch truck before being laid off. MBI offered me $21-23/hr. to start, maybe as high as $25 if now other people could be had. Told them no thanks and walked out.

My suggestion would be to skip going to ND. until spring at the earliest. I plan on going back, but not till the price of oil rises and things get hopping again. Then you'll see wages back up close to where they were.

 

I doubt that wages will ever be where they were in ND. The oil companies dictate the rates and that reflects employee wages. 30% price reductions will not allow companies to pay their employees what they were making during the "boom'. If you are going to wait for prices to come back up you might be waiting a while. We still haven't hit the bottom. The best thing ND has going for it is that fracking will have to fire up soon since there is a time limit on how long wells can sit idle without being completed and put on production. Currently that number is around 1000 wells. Frac crews and water transfer jobs will be busy again soon. If you can get on somewhere now and weather the next 5 months, you'll be in a great spot when things pick up.

Boom's over.

 

The last I read was the oil companies were petitioning the State of North Dakota to be able to not complete the nearly 1000 wells that were punched a year ago.

 

Oil companies got an extension from state to delay fracking, so now it will be sometime.............

 

I believe they had a one year time limit and now the state pushed that out to a 2 year time limit to get a well on production.

 

When the time comes that they start pushing to get frac'ing going again, there will be a big need for drivers. Companies will pay what they need to in order to get crews put together and making money for them again. The oil field could get back to pumping over a million barrels a day again in a weeks time if they can get the crews put together to do the work. Right now, most of the experienced workers have been laid off and have left the state. The locals are still there, but there aren't enough of them to fill all the needs if things go back to "boom" again. There were over 10,000 men laid off this year. They aren't sitting around that state collecting unemployment.

 

Any jobs hiring i was thinking about trade star or plot thomas