I am "Rockin the Bakken" and "Frackin the Forks"!

26.11.11

Spanksgiving

The oil field never sleeps.  In my year and three months of working for the oil field I had a rig shut down for 4 hours.  The reason they shut down is because the roads were so snowed in that an ambulance could not get onto our location if we needed one.  Other then that, we work around the clock, day and night, weekends, and holidays.  I have actually forgotten what it is like to be in a good mood on Friday because the weekend is in sight and the feeling of dread on a Sunday night because you have to go back to work the next morning. 

Last year I worked Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years!  This year I had to work Thanksgiving again.  I decided that I was going to cook a huge Thanksgiving meal for all the guys out here because I was craving turkey, stuffing, and tators!  There were a few superintendents from Oxy in the neighborhood that stopped by as well.  All in all, I ended up cooking for a total of 40 people or so.  It was a lot of work but ended up pretty darn tasty.

The company men appreciated the meal so much that the next day I got a dozen roses delivered on the rig.  It was pretty funny and kind of embarrassing.  I am assuming flowers to not get delivered to rig sights very often.  I wonder if I would be a man if they still would of delivered flowers?  hmmmm...... Another thought...why do we not have any vases out here on location?  I had to use a water pitcher. 

23.11.11

Making out in the shower!

Have you ever arrived home after a 20 minute drive and hardly remember the drive?  This happens to all of us and known as a subconscious trance.  I feel in my job I sometimes do the same thing over and over again that I find myself in a subconscious trance.  For instance, one of my daily duties is sending out a morning report and an afternoon report.  In this report we document a bunch of data and the last part is writing out what occurred in the last 12 hours.  We get some of this information from the tour sheet which is written by the driller and roughnecks.  The other day I was in a subconscious trance and just copying word for word from the tour sheet to my morning report.  I was just about to e-mail my morning report when I jumped out of the trance and literally laughed out loud.  Here is what the daily tour sheet said.

21.11.11

Should I stay or should I go?

We have had our first snow falls of the year in the past week or so.  Here is a picture taken up by Stanley of those that do not know how to drive when a little snow falls.  In a 6 mile span there was over 70 vehicles in the ditch! Lucky I have my Ford Escape (which I prefer to pronounce as Es-cop-ee' like on Finding Nemo). 

16.11.11

Change

I know I know...I have been a terrible "blogger" lately!  I have a few blogs that I have fallen behind on my reading as well!  This blog is about change.  Lately there has been a lot of change going on our here.  First of all, the weather.  The days are getting colder and shorter.  I come to work in the dark and leave work in the dark.  Our rough necks have been dropping off like flies (is that the saying?  I am not good with sayings, but that would fill a whole other blog).  As soon as the temperature dropped into the 70's the tough boys from down south stayed down south.  We have had people coming and going!  Speaking of going, I headed up to a job near Stanley, ND.  Stanley used to be a very small little town in North Western, North Dakota.  I decided when I got to town that I needed my coffee fix and had to use the restroom (the bad part to being a coffee addict!)  I drove around the whole entire gas station and could not find a single parking spot.  There was a line of about 20 vehicles that were waiting to fill up their tanks with gas.  Good think I had a full tank!  I finally just parked across the street and walked in, used the potty, grabbed some coffee and went to pay.  I noticed instead of only having 2 tills they now had at least 6 tills.  Each line had 5 or more people standing in it.  As I looked even more closely, I realized I was the only woman in the whole entire store!  Eeesh!