telefawx

Are you suggesting there is no safe way to implement a pipeline?

When the frac side fuck things up and screens out, we hand it over to flow back so we can try and get sand/crosslinked fluid out of the wellbore without having to rig down and bring coil in.

If you're a frac hand, you drive a truck with a pump, wing up some iron and hoses, and do routine maintenance. You make great money.

I am in South Texas, and I work for one of the big 3 so the wages are the lowest(but great benefits and stock purchase it's a Fortune 200 company) but I think all the green hats make 13-14 an hour, 32 a day per diem, and some of the crews get customer funded bonuses which add up to a grand a month extra. A lot of those guys leave after a couple years and become hands for smaller companies and make 22/23 an hour. If they don't leave, and become a supervisor after two or three years, then they are salaried at 120-130. 13-14 an hour might not seem like much, but you're working 14-15 hour days, but you hit overtime your third or fourth day out every time, and per diem is really like bumping up that wage 2-2.25/hour so you're really looking at 15-16 per hour.

And keep in mind, I am describing the lowest paying wages. A smaller company with less security(less guaranteed work as well) you can definitely make 80-90k year 1 no experience if you find the right job/company.

It also increases the quality of life for everyone. Modern medicine wouldn't exist without plastics. Cheap energy lowers the cost of everything for everyone. I find it far more cynical to live in a fantasy land where the only benefits oil and gas provide are to rich people that don't care about the environment. How old are you? Are you college educated?