Daily Archives: May 2, 2012
Sales Day . . .
Apparently at this Marathon site, Monday is Sales Day. At our earlier gate, it was Tuesday and Thursday. Don’t know yet if they have more than one day a week here yet.
Sale Day is when all the sales people come into the site to try and sell their products and services to the “Company Man”. He’s the head guy over the entire site, in this cases, from Marathon Oil. At our last site it was Petrohawk.
Anyway, they seem to have a better class of sales people here, or at least cuter. All we got for sales people with Petrohawk was grizzled old oil guys. But here, like in the pharmaceutical industry, a number of cute young women called on the Company Man on Monday.
Don’t know if they sold anything, but the view was certainly better. BTW I get to talk about the cute sales women since Jan gets to talk about the cute guy oilfield workers. Turnabout is fair play.
FWIW, there’s a day Company Man and a night Company Man, but both of them live onsite. They seem to only leave to get groceries and the like.
Since this is a 24 hour gate we’re working longer hours, but not 12 in a row. I work from 2pm to 6pm and Jan works from 6pm to 11pm. Then I take over at 11pm and work till 7am. Then Jan finishes up with a 7am to 2pm shift.
So I work an 8 hour shift and a 4 hour shift, and Jan works a 7 and a 5.
The work is certainly not hard, and kind of entertaining in a way, watching the drilling rig operate and all the different trucks come in. All we do is write down the name, company, license plate number, and time when a vehicle enters. Then when they leave, we write down the time and if they were injured on site while here. This is something that we didn’t have to do with Petrohawk.
For all this hard work we make $1000 every 8 days ($125/day).
And we do have a nice view.
The last few nights it’s been kind of cool here, cool enough to make me put on a jacket. The temp has been in the low 70’s, but with the constant wind, the wind chill makes it much cooler.
Last night they must have had a problem on the rig because alarms started going off and guys came running out of the trailers and up the tall stairs to the rig control room.
But after a few minutes, the alarm stopped and everyone went back to bed.
That’s about it for today, Another wonderful day in the life of an oilfield gate guard.
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Thought for the Day;
If you can count your money, you don’t have a billion dollars. – J. Paul Getty
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