Semper_Sometime

Flow backers and other completion/production will be less affected by this than actual roughnecks (the REAL oilfield trash). Or, it will be a more delayed impact. As the price of oil drops, Operators (e.g. Chevron, Conoco, Oxy) cut their budgets and therefore have to drop rigs from their fleets. As this happens, newer/low-performing workers are laid off across the Contractors' fleets (e.g. H&P, Nabors, Big Dog). Expereienced hands from stacked (read dropped) rigs are filled into open positions on rigs that are still running.

As the number of rigs declines, the number of holes drilled will decline, leading to a decreased need for completion/production crews. At this point OP will feel the direct impacts of the downturn with similar layoffs as described for Rig Contractors. This could be as far out as 90 days from the actual drop in oil prices (from $100-80, or $80-$60 in November)

I retired my chains and tongs for a keyboard and ergonomic mouse... Still waiting for this office job to pay as much as the rigs

As a rough neck who worked 14 days on / 14 days off and made around $75k/yr (wages+bonuses+safety bonus) with 0 education and theoretically only working 6 months out of the year... fuck yeah

edit: I will add that I believe the pay is so good for two reasons 1) to attract good hands 2) because roughnecks incur a great deal of risk of not just bodily harm, but the market turning (like it is now) leaving them unemployed.

LPT: when someone makes a comment that skates along the edge of the racism lake but manages to avoid falling in by being funny... don't do a fucking cannonball next to them.

Somehow, you have managed to ride a thin line..on thin ice

What's your stance on people hunting pigs on your property? We used to troll the dirt roads south of Lubbock all night and would usually get a couple dozen.

We felt like the farmers wouldn't mind since we were killing pigs, but weren't driving across fields.

edit: there weren't any fences