permian basin in west tx

I would work 3 months and fly home for 10 days. I had to buy my own ticket though.

 

Who the heck knows what 2019 will bring. You could get a job today and make bank. By 2019 it might be dried up or it might be even better. The thing about these “booms” is they don’t last forever so you need to get while the getting is good.

 

You'd wanna be based out of Kenedy, or Hobbs, for one patch, or Midland for another. There's a patch still working in the Kenedy area. Midland's always a good bet. When you drive through a place and see the nice, like-new oil drilling EQ like you will in Midland sitting in staging areas and EQ dealers' lots, it won't be drying up anytime soon. It may slow, but it won't stop.

 

Welcome to the ‘Man Camps’ of West Texas - BloombergQuint

 

There are spaces and apts. but very high priced, like at least double in price. One guy I work with reports that his rent on a small apt. went from $650 to $1400....yikes!

 

Never one of that magnitude. Only the camp houses on a drilling rig location. Lots of noise round the clock.....

 

One word. Actually, two letters. RV.

 

West Texas is like being on the Moon - BUT I hear PIlot built a tiny lol new truck stop out there at 285 and 652.
So there is that - Best of Luck if you venture out there

That bench in my avatar is right there at that intersection. A buddy of mine spent the night on that bench several years ago on a motorcycle trip - it was miserable he said lol