Oil Field work splitting time from Texas to North Dakota i.e. "seasonal"

I work in North Dakota now, I can't tell you that there are companies that will be cool with that, but I can tell you I know of guys that do it. You can work year round in texas without the weather issues, but you wont make as much money. I haul water and we are busy from May-November. Some guys make enough money in those months to take the rest of the time off. What I can tell you is once you have experience you can always find a job and some companies are happy to hire guys back if they were good workers. Hope it helps, good luck.

 

Where are u from in Michigan? I'm in north dakota now. I'm finally hauling water for a decent company now. I've been here ten months, and been jerked around a bit by a couple companies up here. But I'll account that for being very inexperienced in the oilfields, but it gets easier as you figure some things out

 

Good thread. I've thought about similar things myself. I've heard things slow down after Thanksgiving. I'm in North Dakota right now and the weather is perfect and the place is quite beautiful- few trees, but that allows you to see the shapes of the mountains and the hills. That said, if things slow down as I've been told, I'd be cool going back home and skipping out on as much of the winter as possible.

 

If you could get company paid housing summer ND and winter TX it would be great!

 

Water hauling is not seasonal but it slows down between December and April. With your experience, even though you just got your tanker, you could probably get a gig hauling oil or rock also. Those jobs never slow down. Be careful with the rock hauling jobs because alot of those pay by the load. You want one that pays by the hour. As far as housing any company worth anything will provide housing, don't settle for less. The snow is not that bad, they clear it quickly and when its dangerous you just don't go out. Chaining is easy once you do it a few times. I only had to chain up 4 or 5 times this year. The oil haulers chain up more though because they go to more remote areas that are less traveled.

 

Has anyone here heard of B&B heavy haul? Does anyone currently or used to work for them? Considering going up there to haul water at first and oil later once I get a few notches in my belt.