PA oil jobs

What do you want to know and where are you looking at? BTW, I had to put chains on today, these roads can be trecherous with the littlest amount of snow.

 

Thinking about going back into oilfield myself, pulling a sand can with a couple of old coworkers. Housing, depends rather on where you are. In my experience, NE PA (Bradford/Susquehanna/Wyoming counties) has plenty of housing, not sure about SW PA as I've only gone out there for week-long stints. There aren't too many people advertising at the moment though, and the ones that are want some amount of oilfield experience, but that may be flexible depending on your driving experience/record.

The one thing to remember here is, we have hills, snow and ice. An easy grade is 9%... As they say up here "This ain't ##### Texas"

 

Its kinda slow right now. Everything depends on what you want to do in the oilfield. I know a few years ago up in the NE part of the state the larger companies were renting out entire motels. I work Southwestern PA, WV, OH. Housing depends where you are based out of. I was always within 1 hour of home but still got a room. However, my yard was 2.5 hours away.

 

Highland Environmental and Stutzman Vac, both out of Somerset, PA put their guys in hotels here in Washington county. I spoke with a Stutzman vac driver and he told me he worked 3 weeks and went home for 1. Things are very up and down here like Joey said, natural gas isn't bringing the return on the investment to drill the well. I've serviced 2 sites in the last month where they only horizontally drilled 1 well on the site to keep the lease, the site had 6 wells on it.

My opinion TX would be the better option, I spoke to a company named Compass Well Service earlier this year about driving, they offered 2 weeks on 2 weeks off. They're a frac operation, so you would be doing just as much physical labor as you would be doing driving. Hope this helps.

 

Kenan is involved now from what I heard. A guy that used to work with me is working over there, seems happy and says 23$ an hour, but that's all heresay since I've never seen his check. I do know he spent most of the end of the year sitting at home because there wasn't any work, supposedly things are going to pick up for them here in a few days with 2 frac jobs supposedly on the schedule.

I would prefer Texas just for the warmer climate, I have a tough time with the cold and the wind up here.

 

There are quite few companies hiring but what do you want to do? Most Frac places you will drive about once a week or less and only about 20 miles. There are a few water hauling places but they dont pay that good until overtime kicks in. Sand hauling jobs pay less and worse hours.Right now everyone seems to be gearing up for the new year, lots of contracts going to start then but the bottom may fall out of the market.I know this summer Texas yards where laying off people and sending them up here for 1 week. They where going to lay off us Pa guys so the Tx guys could work but I think that would have been a PR disaster for them, running locals off the job for out of state guys. Didnt N.C. approve fracing this year?