New Driver- How to get a Fracking Job at Haliburton?

Who am I to try and save you from yourself.

 

they can hired you if you are a recent newbie out school , but they dont hired newbies when their license is from 2007 .even when no criminal and no tickets.

 

Why wouldn't you go with Halliburton?

 

Low pay for starters. Everybody that works there thinks when things get slow it will be the only place working but I don't see that at all. In the Alvarado yard they just recently took away thier week off pay a swell as their vacation time. Not to mention those guys are only making 13-14 an hour. Lots of the guys I worked with said after they left there they felt brain washed. They were told over and over how nobody else had any work and you would get laid off at those other companies but the market has changed. The big companies can't compete with the small one on wages or price anymore.

 

Me99, I get the "any place other than Halliburton", but what about the other big guys? Do you have any sense of what the situation might be at Baker Hughes, Schlumberger, Nabors, etc.? It is pretty sad to hear a company would pull back on pay. I'll bet it varies by yard or location. A manager with bad management skills can take a place down hill quickly. I define bad management as not valuing your people. My opinion.

 

I can pretty much speak for the Baker guys at my yard in frack...happy as clams.

 

It's always different between yards but I personally am scared of working for the bigger companies. To me it just doesn't make any sense. The benifits are usually great at any well established device company and the smaller companies don't have anywhere near the overhead the big ones do so they can be more competetive in harder times and still make a profit. Don't get me wrong Halliburton and Schlumberger created the huge market we have now and most companies use technologies that they made but times are changing. There's hundreds of companies out there now to compete with and a smaller more streamlined company that doesn't have hundreds of policies and procedure that get in there way are goin to be more competetive.

 

That is good to know hunnydew. What kind of hours does you group pull in a an average week?

 

I work in the Eagleford shale with SANJEL. 15 days on and 6 off

 

Interested. Any idea what the pay is like for a frac hand? Also have a CDL tankers and Haz.