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Thoughts from those out in the field? I was considering heading out to Dickinson after acquiring my CDL license but am now worried that the boom is fading.
Thoughts from those out in the field? I was considering heading out to Dickinson after acquiring my CDL license but am now worried that the boom is fading.
You might want to read some of the other threads. You will find out that the boom is running kind of flat right now, but in no way is it fading.
My husband said they're fracking like crazy right now, the last two months of 2012 it slowed down but it has picked up, they hardly get any sleep, they've been rotaing the guys as quick as they can. Companies should be hiring because they are short handed, my hubby usually works 2 weeks on and one week off, but he is starting his straight fourth week due to not having enough people to handle all the wells.
My husband said they're fracking like crazy right now, the last two months of 2012 it slowed down but it has picked up, they hardly get any sleep, they've been rotaing the guys as quick as they can. Companies should be hiring because they are short handed, my hubby usually works 2 weeks on and one week off, but he is starting his straight fourth week due to not having enough people to handle all the wells.
This, it slowed down during election season and there's typically a slow down towards the end of the year as companies try to stay within their budgets. My husband has been extremely busy the last few weeks though as well as a lot of other people. At my husbands work they were sending office engineers out into the field they were that busy.
If anything, in the hot spots of Williams, McKenzie, Mountrail, and Dunn Counties, there are plans to drill wells with even tighter spacing between them and at four different levels. In some of the more marginal locations, like Burke, Stark, Billings counties, there has been pullback in drilling.
Remember too that the rigs out are much more efficient than one used 2 years ago: they can drill faster and be moved faster and often times will drill 4, 6, or 8 wells at nearly the same spot.
Because of some of the road conditions in November, there has become a big backlog of wells waiting to be fracked. Even more sand / ceramics is often being used, so the fracking season come April will be intense.
From the window of our home east of Watford City, we watched a rig go up in November, another in December and pads being set for two more.
My hubby is busy hauling water and the company he works for is busy hiring drivers.
The 187 rigs in ND can probably do what 250 or so rigs did 2 years ago. For the bigger companies, some of them now have water lines and oil lines in place where they have majority of leases, so there actually may be fewer water trucks or even oil collection trucks. Sand and ceramics still have to be delivered though.
ONEOK announced last week that they will build another nat gas processing plant, Garden Creek III, near Watford City. Those construction worker on Garden Creek II or Stateline II near Williston will just move over. Supposedly, each of the five plants will have 80 workers each permanently to staff them 24/7.
It has been proected that a new nat gas plant will be needed every 8 months or so until 2020.
Montana rig counts have picked up on their part of the Bakken. Apache has leased a lot of land in the next county over from Plentywood on the Canadian border.
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