I have an opportunity to do contract work for an oil company. I'd like to talk/correspond with some surveyors/engineers at the project manager level about drilling permit surveys, pad grading plans, designing roads and such, basically about the business side. Anybody willing to lend me a hand can email me through this site. Thanks!
I would contact Kris Morgan or Matthew Lossien. I believe they are involved in this industry. They seem pretty reputable to me.
Good luck.
Horse traders, used car salesmen and oil-related company people have far too much in common. Cash. In advance. Or go away and lose my number.
> I have an opportunity to do contract work for an oil company. I'd like to talk/correspond with some surveyors/engineers at the project manager level about drilling permit surveys, pad grading plans, designing roads and such, basically about the business side. Anybody willing to lend me a hand can email me through this site. Thanks!
I have some stuff from the 1980's that we did along the line of what you are asking for. No doubt since then, things have probably changed drastically of what the requirements now are. At that time all we had to do for roads was to set pinflags for the road builder to follow to get to the well site. If you want, I can send the documents to you by e-mail, maybe 7 to 9 sheets that I scanned.
Cash. In advance.
That ain't gonna happen, not what the contract says. I'm not worrying about getting paid. More like how much can I get paid.
Thanks for the offer. I can look at all the drilling permit survey plats I want online. I'm being provided with examples of what they expect for site grading and I can do roads. It's how doing business with these sort of things I would like to get a feel for. Can this be lucrative or not? Stress level and such.
I did a Wal-mart construction stakeout in 1996. Most stressful survey job in my life. Never wanted to do another one even at double the price. I need work, just don't want to die doing it. So what's life like in the oil patch. This is sort of similar to what's going on in North Dakota but not near as big.
Been doing this for the last 9 years, actually that last 3 have been pretty slow. Still do off and on things. You are really at their call. Started out with just a crew than added another to keep up with the demands. Was pretty busy at the start but eventually it slowed down because of changes to the process that were either not needed or found a better way of doing it. Depending on what they want you could be there 40 hours a week and some extra at night to process and draw. I don't know your situation though. Only thing I found stressful during the busiest time was trying to process and get the drawings out (lowering the mistakes) and fixing or changes. Who I worked for was really easy going and it was a great experience. Each company is different. Bottom line is we billed by the hour and submitted invoices at least monthly sometimes more often and got paid about 30 days later.
THANKS SCOTT!!
> Thanks for the offer. I can look at all the drilling permit survey plats I want online. I'm being provided with examples of what they expect for site grading and I can do roads. It's how doing business with these sort of things I would like to get a feel for. Can this be lucrative or not? Stress level and such.
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> I did a Wal-mart construction stakeout in 1996. Most stressful survey job in my life. Never wanted to do another one even at double the price. I need work, just don't want to die doing it. So what's life like in the oil patch. This is sort of similar to what's going on in North Dakota but not near as big.
The oil companies that I did well location staking for were easy to work with. Invoices were paid sometimes within 2 weeks of submittal and most within 30 days. Once in a while they would ask why the cost was so high, but when they were told that in order to run in control in order to define the section when there were not enough corner monuments, they were satisfied. Also, all the time was billed at an hourly fee, not any lumpsum fee. Too many unknowns and all my work on any project was charged at our hourly fees. We never had to do any of the permitting as they had landmen that would do all of this. All we had to do was to provide all the necessary drawings or plats that they had to submit with their documents. Seems like the only time we had to do all the extra drawings was when the Feds were involved, either the location was on Federal lands, or there were Federal mineral ownership involved and when private minerals were involved, it seems that the application documents were different.
Sounds like about what I'm looking at. Similar work, hourly fees, 30 days. Mostly private land, some state and federal.
Expect to be surveying on weekends.
Been doing that for years! Every day is just another day to me.
I worked for one company that posted invoices on the 1st of the month and paid 30 days later. If you gave them an invoice on the 29th, you got paid in 31 days. If you gave them an invoice on the 2nd, you got paid in 59 days. Find out their policy beforehand.
James
