Ask a guy who quit a $26/hr gov job to work the oilfields of Williston anything.

[Ecto_FU]

You know any brahs working there from either of the coasts? Is it detrimental in getting a job if you live farther away?

[HankScorp1o]

How's the oilfield lookout with oil prices going down?

Brent is down to the $70's now.

Depends where you're at because production costs vary wildly in different areas. Places closer to refineries and with better shipping infrastructure can stand a bigger hit (South Texas, Pennsylvania), whereas places without these key pieces to the puzzle (outer territories of North Dakota, Wyoming, etc) will see production slow if the price of Brent and/or West Texas Intermediate keeps sliding.

Meanwhile, I'm in West Texas where they're fracking as hard as ever and you can't take a walk around a frac site or down the street without having someone from another company offer you a job lol

You know any brahs working there from either of the coasts? Is it detrimental in getting a job if you live farther away?

Yes, people come from all over to the oilfields, but you really have to be here to get hired unless you have critical qualifications, know someone, or get really lucky.

Seeing as how you're in Maryland, look into the Northeast and Midwest. TONS of frac sites and rigs going up and they need people bad. The Marcellus Shale is gonna be a gold mine for a long time coming.

[hawkrock60]

sup oilfield brah. havent read through whole thread, but what are you doing/where?

Fracking in North Dakota.

how many of your coworkers are missing fingers or smoke meth regularly?

One guy on the crew lost part of a thumb a while back. No one smokes meth.

How's the oilfield lookout with oil prices going down?

Brent is down to the $70's now.

As was mentioned above, some of the costlier production processes are cutting back. Drilling/fracking/wireline/coiled tubing charging ahead.

You know any brahs working there from either of the coasts? Is it detrimental in getting a job if you live farther away?

I know guys up here from both coasts. It's not detrimental, but traveling here would be costlier for sure.