4 essays, 200 words each.

[racrguy]

who were you on with?

This.

[Cooter]

How many of you guys have ever roughnecked? I take it from the replies I'm the only one.

who were you on with?

[Denny]

How many of you guys have ever roughnecked? I take it from the replies I'm the only one.

Then you don't know.

[Gasser64]

How many of you guys have ever roughnecked? I take it from the replies I'm the only one.

[Denny]

Ol Marty!

You know... Old Man Martin's kid!

[Cooter]

lol at being a company man with less than 5 years of rig experience.

lol @ the story

"ol marty"? LOL

is that kinda like an old black dude named Justin that lived down the road from you as a kid?

[matts5.0]

lol at being a company man with less than 5 years of rig experience.

[Cooter]

Same here, only ever saw one young one. Back in my roughnecking days, one of our company men was named Marty and he was "almost" fresh out of OU. We were drilling out near Cheyenne, OK. It was a hotbed of drilling activity. Anyway ol marty was 23, and it took him awhile to come around to ordering shit instead of making us work like dogs. His dad got him in, after he roughnecked for 6 months. I've seen a LOT of good ol boy network stuff in my time. I've almost come to believe that's the way the oilfield works. You either get really lucky, or you're in the good ol boy network. When it comes to the drilling rig side of things. I was never on any of the before or after stuff.

when were you drilling out near Cheyenne, OK?

[Gasser64]

Same here, only ever saw one young one. Back in my roughnecking days, one of our company men was named Marty and he was "almost" fresh out of OU. We were drilling out near Cheyenne, OK. It was a hotbed of drilling activity. Anyway ol marty was 23, and it took him awhile to come around to ordering shit instead of making us work like dogs. His dad got him in, after he roughnecked for 6 months. I've seen a LOT of good ol boy network stuff in my time. I've almost come to believe that's the way the oilfield works. You either get really lucky, or you're in the good ol boy network. When it comes to the drilling rig side of things. I was never on any of the before or after stuff.

[Trip McNeely]

When I ran service for FMC in the Barnett in '06 I only encountered ONE young Company man, fresh out of college. The rest were old and worn, and half of them were nice. The other half were assholes no matter how nice you were to them. It was always nice to finish a job at 2am and have to wake him up to sign your ticket let me tell you.
At my current job (work for an E&P) There are several Engineering roles for people out of college and have never worked on a rig in their life, let alone set foot on one. Usually those are the Facilities and/or Midstream Engineers. The Production/Completions guys almost always have worked in some capacity in the field for a Frac crew or cementing crew. As far as the Drilling Engineers, I would say it's a split from ex-field guys to not.
That being said, there are opportunities for non field experienced Engineers, but it more than likely wont be in a field trailer as a consultant. Those guys have seen every scenario out there and that's why they're there in that role.

[Gasser64]

I'm not sure what yalls beef is, but I will say they're right in that you will not walk into a company man role...and there are a lot of them sitting around or working in other roles waiting to be a company man again. I talked to a Directional driller the other day that was a company man not too long ago.

I suspect it will be quite a while before we see anything close to what we did over the past 4 years before the crash if ever.

So just put that into you're planning...the market will be very saturated for quite some time.

If I ever gave the impression that I thought that, it wasn't my intention. I just said I've heard of it happening at other points in the timeline. I'm not that lucky, such things do not happen to me. I either earn it forcibly or I don't get it at all. Just the way my life works.

[Ruffdaddy]

And if it's your passion...don't he afraid of it. But if you're in it for the money, just get and ME/CE/EE/SE degree and open your options.

PE degrees are massively limited, but you can make the same with any other proper engineering degree and less limitations

[Ruffdaddy]

I'm not sure what yalls beef is, but I will say they're right in that you will not walk into a company man role...and there are a lot of them sitting around or working in other roles waiting to be a company man again. I talked to a Directional driller the other day that was a company man not too long ago.

I suspect it will be quite a while before we see anything close to what we did over the past 4 years before the crash if ever.

So just put that into you're planning...the market will be very saturated for quite some time.

[Gasser64]

This, and lots of it. We have a case of Justin talking about shit he doesn't know a fucking thing about.

Said the pizza delivery man lol. You crack me up you retard. I guarantee you I know more about this than your lazy ass ever will. And not even by choice, I'm surrounded by it every day, most of my family and friends are in it, and I've been in it. Irony

[racrguy]

I guarantee you that no one has been hired as a company man without rig site experience.

This, and lots of it. We have a case of Justin talking about shit he doesn't know a fucking thing about.