mdbass
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Anybody working for EOG out there? Has anyone heard what their gates are like. Don't need specifics-just how the work experience was.
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We're working EOG gate up north. Unfortunately I have nothing to compare it to, but have been meaning to ask the same question, in case anyone else wants to chime in too! ![[emoticon]](http://www.coastresorts.com/sharedcontent/cfb/images/smile.gif "smile")
We follow them around, so it's steady work. And it is *steady work*, sometimes there's 1-3 hours at night with no one here, but often not. The EOG company men have been good to work with. The EOG outsiders that come in.. Some we don't much care for, but they're mostly fine too. Had to invest in FRCs and some PPE, as they're required on site. And speaking of that, the hardest thing has been the huge safety list that they want us to go over with every single person who comes in the gate, every single time! They're coming down hard on GGS that the guards need to do it or they'll switch contractors I guess, but the EOG folks on site unofficially imply that they want us to just read it to those we don't recognize because otherwise we'd be out there all day backing traffic up halfway to the main road. Everyone grimaces at this list, including the company men, but the higher ups at EOG are very serious about it! So it's been difficult balancing that, but otherwise we're pretty happy with this as a first gate.. Probably gonna stick it out here till the end of the month then see about having someone fill in for a few days if you want to come north and experience it for yourself ![[emoticon]](http://www.coastresorts.com/sharedcontent/cfb/images/wink.gif "wink")
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Ajones42
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mdbass wrote:Anybody working for EOG out there? Has anyone heard what their gates are like. Don't need specifics-just how the work experience was.
Mark,
Most of my blog entries from last year were from an EOG gate. We liked all of the EOG guys and the way they did business. This was all up in the Barnett Shale. I would work for them again without hesitation UNLESS it was their new program where you are attached to a frac crew and follow them from pad to pad.
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Don/Shar wrote:Okay.... this week I have called our service man 3 times, he told me he would be here tomorrow each time. Well here it is Friday I am down to a little under 10 gal of desiel. He told me yesterday he would be here this morning early with desiel, water and weed eat the weeds to keep snakes out. So far no one has showed up, I am really getting tired of being way out here in nowhere land and not being taken care of. I am about ready to call Jay and let him know the type of service we get.
I have been reading each and every message and thought it was time to chime in since we now have quite a bit of time on the books with GGS.
We have not met a service guy yet that does not work his butt off 6-7 days a week sometimes trying to satisfy all of our 'demands'. Just by the nature of the business, their whole schedule can be thrown off by one phone call. Something like an emergency with a down generator, a rush-rush new set up or somebody suddenly discovering they are completely out of water or fuel is enough to disrupt their whole day. A phone call like that will push everyone else back in the schedule. Sure, some guys are better than others but they all work HARD from what I have observed.....
We always seem to get assignments that are a good ways from the closest yard ( We are 335 miles west of Carrizo Springs on this assignment) -- maybe Roger doesn't like us so much???? Being this far from the yard comes with some additional considerations as far as service. I think they would probably apply in most cases even if you are 5 miles from the yard.
When fluids are getting low, I call 48 hours prior to entering the critical zone just to give them a heads up.
I insist on spare fuel lines, belts, filters being available for the generator. I do not mind doing an emergency minor repair. If you are not mechanically inclined, just skip this step.
I keep 2 5 gallon fuel cans full of diesel on the generator trailer which belong to me. In a pinch, they will extend my generator run time 1 day+ and the service guy can refill them his next time out. If I don't need them, I can dump them in the MH tank when we move locations and re-fill them at some point to keep the fuel fresh.
I make contact with every vendor delivering supplies to the rig as I am sure everyone else does. It takes ONE extra step to ask them if I had an emergency where my service guy could not make it out for several days --could they help out? All of them said a splash of diesel or some potable water would not be a problem.
The rig has adequate supplies of both diesel and water. In a real pinch, I am sure the Company many would send someone down with 50 gal of diesel or 100 gal of water. This is NOT something I would ask for unless we were really in a bind as it reflects poorly on the way I (and GGS) do business.
I joke with the service guy and my supervisor about me calling them... I tell them if they ever get a call from me outside of the normal service window heads up type call, they better be dialing 911 for me next because it is a serious emergency!
Face it, many of us are in fairly remote locations and the logistics of supplying all of our needs must be formidable. Just by the nature of our jobs, I think some resilience and resourcefulness is called for on our parts as part of the job.
Just remember-- this job doesn't suit everybody.
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Ajones42 wrote:mdbass wrote:Anybody working for EOG out there? Has anyone heard what their gates are like. Don't need specifics-just how the work experience was.
Mark,
Most of my blog entries from last year were from an EOG gate. We liked all of the EOG guys and the way they did business. This was all up in the Barnett Shale. I would work for them again without hesitation UNLESS it was their new program where you are attached to a frac crew and follow them from pad to pad.
Yeah, I read most of it-looks like we're getting an EOG gate down here, so I hope it works out for us. Don't know where to get FRC's but they can't be hard to find.
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Ajones42 wrote:I tell them if they ever get a call from me outside of the normal service window heads up type call, they better be dialing 911 for me next because it is a serious emergency!
That's kind of our hallmark, too. And I tell newbies the same thing.
(We have been getting potable and non potable water from our rig for some time now. I'm sure the company man would helps us out to. As Andy and I have said; getting to know the crew helps in many ways.)
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Don/Shar wrote:John & Terry
I ams sorry you have all but given up on the forum please come back, there is a wealth of information and its good to have friends you can talk to. I am sorry about posting the PM that I received but I really wanted everyone to see the type of person that LivinGood obviously is. I had read some of his other posts and believe me that has to be one unhappy, miserable person. May God bless him and let him learn to love himself so he won't be so negative all the time.
I have tried this forum twice now and been pretty much "run off" both times by the trolls. The way I see it, I'm in control of where my browser goes. Why should I knowingly go to a web site where I am going to be ridiculed for not living in a $200,000 diesel pusher or daring to pull my toad with a tow dolly?
This sub-forum is as far as I'll go from here on in. Andy's forum has an RV repair sub-forum and he keeps the nonsense down MUCH better than this one.
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Ajones42
I also agree with what you said
#1. I call our service man when we reach 80 gal of diesel
(as per request)
#2 I call our service man when we are at 40 gal of Diesel
(as per request just to remind him) He says he will be out the next morning
#3 I call him to let him know we are now down to 30 gal of diesel
again he says he will be out early in the morning
#4 I call him and tell him we are under 20 gal of diesel.
(again he will be out in the morning before going any where else.
Sometimes he makes in but only with 50 gal, which only gives him
a few days to come back again. Never had a full tank of diesel)
#5. Our lights burned out and it took 5 days to get new bulbs. We do have a lot of Illeagles on this ranch. Roger did finally get us two tower lights boy what a difference.I just could not understand why they tell us to be very careful at night when we go out and not get in the dark then takes 5 days to get new lights.
The service men have a tough job, I am saying Jay needs to be aware they have too much on their plates and need some help.
As far a Roger goes, we had an emergency right after we got here. One of the colechie drivers got sick and we had to have the ambulance come out and get him. We had just arrived and I wasn't getting through to the emergency people how to get to us, so I called Roger. He was very short with me and told me to tell them where we were. I told him I tried but they were having problems following and I figured he could get through to the better than I could. Well to get to the point another driver stopped took my phone and call the 911 again and they got here in about 10 minutes and took the guy to the hospital.
As far as Jay goes, he has been very helpful and I for one think he is doing a good job, this is not a consentual feeling with other gate guards.
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Don/Shar
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Okay I have beat this thing to death I think it is time to move on to something a little more productive. I am not one to pick on anybody so I will not be posting about the service we get anymore. Sorry to have been a bore, didn't mean to be a pain. I just wanted others to be aware of some of the problems.
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