New Rig Site
New Rig Site
Those in the oilfield know the same old routine. When a new drill site has been discovered, all of the equipment goes out to the area and is set up. The site will remain set up for several months while that site is drilled for oil. Men will work, eat, and sleep on this site for days on end to produce that black gold that is so vital to our North Texas economy. Everything is on site. There are barracks, roads, food trucks and caters, and of course the rig. The drill site is its own self-sufficient enclosed community. The first stage to this vital component of the oilfield industry is to get the job site set up and prepared to take on the rig and work barracks.
Setting the New Rig Site Up
It is not so easy that one can just drive to the site and set the rig up. Most of these sites are located on someone’s land. This means that there are no roads to the site, and the area is overgrown with bushes and trees. To get this rig going there is a specific order of operations that must be conducted to prep the site to be worked. This first stop is to dig and cut roads. If there are not sufficient roads in place, then the equipment cannot make it back to the site. The next step is to clear the entire area of trees and to level the ground so that the platform and barracks have a place to sit.

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