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As my name suggests I am Greg, and I'm a hand! If your not in the oilfield you probably don't know what that means but oh well. The other post about healthcare workers got me thinking we probably have a lot of folks who work in and around the oil industry being it's Texas and all.

I started in 2001 at Wilson Supply in Bryan, TX as a driver and moved up to warehouse manager. Sept 11th happened and I got activated for a few years.

I came back from the Army and did a summer internship for Rod and Tubing Services LLC doing parts inspection at our shop and out on workovers in the Bryan, TX area during the summer of 2004.

I started back to college at SHSU in 2004 and after giving police work a try went back into the oilfield and worked for Red Man Pipe and Supply in Conroe, TX as that companies first ever intern in 2006.

National Oilwell Varco stole me away and I went to work for them also in 2006. I started at their International Distribution office on West Little York as an expiditor in Houston while still going to SHSU. I only worked there for 4 months and then got transfered to our Bryan, TX location because of the growing rig count we had out there, I did inside sales and a little outside sales there. I stayed in Bryan until I graduated and then moved to Harvey, LA (West bank of New Orleans) in May of 2007. I worked on the Nabors Offshore account as well as a lot of fab business and our new Apache/GOM contract as a inside sales guy. I worked there until September of 2007. With about 5 mins notice I took over our Port Fourchon facility because the store manager and our top inside sales guy had just got canned.

So far it's a great job. I wouldn't do anything different and I'm very good at it! I'm one of the very few people who actually live in Fourchon! My company provides a little modular type home thing that I stay in which is a lot better than some of the places I had to sleep in the Army! I still can't wait to get back to Houston though!!

So who else? :txflag:
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Wow not a one huh? :headscratch
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I guess you can say I am in the oil field business. But in a very different area. I am a 3D offshore designer which is more of and office job than what I would really consider oil field.
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My father worked in the oil fields in electra when he was young. I ended up in IT instead of the fields :mrgreen:
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Well you guys are making me feel very old.

I broke out on a drilling rig in West Texas in 1969 when I was 16. Worked my way through high school and college doing that. Earned a petroleum engineering degree and spent the next 10 working oil booms in West Texas and the northern Rocky Mountains. Left that part of the industry in 1986 and changed (kinda) careers into project management where I have been ever since. Worked onshore, offshore, shallow water, deep water, subsea, refineries, power plants, petro-chem, LNG - just about every kind of petroleum or petro-chem project you can think of.

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I know a guy that's a paramedic for an off-shore oil rig. so, um, that counts for both threads, right?
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We are going to electra in a few weeks to go tend to my grandfather and grandmothers grave. I will try to get some pictures of the derilick oil fields.
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I was a doodlebugger after my discharge from the Navy. Worked for Seiscom Delta. Worked on a bay crew in Galveston Bay and on their seismic ship Tiger Seal.

I died on that ship and my wife was a widow for 6 hours. Long story.

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I burn gas in my motorcycle and change the oil in it pretty often....... :headscratch
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Does the word casingpoint tell you anything?

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i am also in the petroleum industry, but different from everyone that has posted so far. i am a petroleum landman and also do a little bit of GIS work for our office. right now i am working for Apache Corp, but have done lots of work for other companies like XTO Energy and Palmer Petroleum.

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Well, I'm semi-remotely tied to the oil field biz. Many years ago (high school/college) I worked as a grunt on a (nasty and dangerous) pulling unit for Windsor Servicing Company and subsequently Green Pipeline Company one cold, cruel winter near Pampa.

I recognize the name "Apache" as we get a little royalty check from them each month from Grandpa's old place near Chickasha, Oklahoma.

Another gas well drilling pad site is currently being installed directly across the road from our little 1.45 acre gun range property in Denton County. We do have mineral rights and are in a pool, but I'm not so sure the royalties are going to be worth having the inherent traffic, dust and noise within 600' of classrooms ... Maybe "The Price of Progress" ...
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apostate wrote:I used to work in oil exploration - 3D marine seismic surveys. Now I'm in the energy trading space.
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