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"Oilfield Trash is written in a charming, flowing style that any reader will enjoy....In Weaver's capable hands, the gypsy lives of a generation of young men unfold on the rigorous stage of drilling fields...."---Paul Spellman, author of Spindletop Boom Days --
Author : Bobby D. Weaver Publisher : Kenneth E. Montague Oil and Bu Page : 0 pages File Size : 55,9 Mb Release : 2013-08-20 Category : Business & Economics ISBN : 1623490642
When the first gusher blew in at Spindletop, near Beaumont, Texas, in 1901, petroleum began to supplant cotton and cattle as the economic engine of the state and region. Very soon, much of the workforce migrated from the cotton field to the oilfield, following the lure of the wealth being created by black gold. The early decades of the twentieth century witnessed the development of an oilfield culture, as these workers defined and solidified their position within the region’s social fabric. Over time, the work force grew more professionalized, and technological change attracted a different type of laborer. Bobby D. Weaver grew up and worked in the oil patch. Now, drawing on oral histories supplemented and confirmed by other research, he tells the colorful stories of the workers who actually brought oil wealth to Texas. Drillers, shooters, toolies, pipeliners, teamsters, roustabouts, tank builders, roughnecks . . . each of them played a role in the frenzied, hard-driving lifestyle of the boomtowns that sprouted overnight in association with each major oil discovery. Weaver tracks the differences between company workers and contract workers. He details the work itself and the ethos that surrounds it. He highlights the similarities and differences from one field to another and traces changing aspects of the work over time. Above all, Oilfield Trash captures the unique voices of the laboring people who worked long, hard hours, often risking life and limb to keep the drilling rigs “turning to the right.”
Wives and Girlfriends of worldwide oil workers, look away now! Oilfield Trash follows the exploits of a group of workers thrown together because of their jobs, and the phrase it takes all sorts... springs to mind. It is the start of the oil boom and work for skilled workers was plentiful, the pay was good but the lifestyle was difficult and the men took their pleasure and entertainment where and how they could. Starting in the desert oilfields of Libya and moving to the tropical climes of Indonesia, Harry Macklin and his companions worked hard (well sometimes!) and played even harder, unlikely friendships were forged between men who would not, in other circumstances, have got on and the things that these men get up to will have the reader laughing out loud. Thought provoking, this novel provides an insight into a previously unknown world.
Oil Field Trash Roughneck Tales from the Rig Floor by Greig Grey Pdf
This book was previously published as "Oil Field Trash And Other Garbage." It was meant on my part to take a tongue in cheek swipe at the novel. The main story is titled "Oil Field Trash" so I figured that I would beat the critics to the first punch, hence the second half of the book title: "And Other Garbage." It was brought to my attention that many of the men who are in the fraternity of Oil Field Trash-which I'm also a proud member-thought I was referring to them as garbage. Which was not my intent by any means. It's a tough club to join and few men earn the badge of Oil Field Trash. When I broke out in the big boom of 1981 it was a revolving door of weevils. Maybe one guy in twenty lasted long enough to collect a full paycheck. One tool-pusher suggested installing nets to cover the derricks. "Keep them birds from thieving our worms." But I totally understand the confusion and would never throw a brother under the bus or a rig up tandem for that matter. I added two stories to the book, to liven it up a bit at the start; stories of theft, deception, sabotage, and a rig move gone wild. The book is written from the perspective of a roughneck-spanning my eight year career in the industry. First person accounts of breaking out as a weevil and literally working my way up the ladder. The stories chronicle the dry holes, the wild wells, and wilder nights, as well as the profound dangers of the trade. The industry has evolved but oil drilling is still by far the most dangerous dollar in the world. Roughnecks are the front lines of the world's energy industry--soldiers of fortune, hiring on for a hard earned, high risk paycheck. As you are reading this one roughneck will die every five days on average--lives summed up by six lines in their hometown newspaper. Something to ponder the next time you fill up your tank or adjust your thermostat. Unlike oil, men are a renewable resource."
Doctorin' Oil Field Trash: True Tales of Roughnecks and Rougher Women from Spindletop to Saratoga by George Parker Stoker Pdf
Would you like to know about the noble men who risked everything to make Texas the oil capital of America? Well find another book, because this one's about gambling, pimps, prostitutes, crooked officials, hard drinking, liquor fueled brawling and the roughnecks at the center of it all...real life in Texas oil boomtowns. In 1901, George Parker Stoker was twenty-three and a newly hatched MD seeking his fortune. He stepped off the train at Beaumont into a world of mud and mayhem. Within a day he was at the Spindletop field and had inherited the only medical practice in town from an old doc who wanted to "go on a drunk" for a few months. Stoker spent the next few years patching up the inmates of this oil patch asylum. He worked at Spindletop, Batson Prairie and Saratoga. This was no tea-sipping engagement. The work was as hard as the men, who risked death in ways that Edgar Allen Poe couldn't have dreamed up. But boy were they paid! All that idle cash made saloons pop up like toadstools, tacked together from pine planks. Roofs leaked and there were no doors...because they never closed. The "Kid Doctor," as Stoker was called because of his youthful appearance, saw it all. He treated them all too, giving each the best care he could in that carnival of contusion and contagion.
This 100 page 6x9 blank lined notebook or journal is a great choice for the oilfield strong and proud in your life Makes a great gift for hard working oilfield workers in the oil and gas industry to take notes, journal, or logging information. This notebook makes a great gift and is useful for all your note-taking needs!
This 100 page 6x9 blank lined notebook or journal is a great choice for the oilfield strong and proud in your life Makes a great gift for hard working oilfield workers in the oil and gas industry to take notes, journal, or logging information. This notebook makes a great gift and is useful for all your note-taking needs!
Oil Field Trash and Other Garbage by Greig Grey Pdf
"A wild ride and a beautiful read!" "This collection of writing on work in the oil fields is like nothing you've read yet! The writer is a master of narrative. He takes you not only into the culture and time and place of these oil field years and workers, but into the psyches of the characters as well as the physical and emotional world they inhabit. You won't put it down while you're reading it, and you won't forget it when you're done!" Laura Kasischke-award winning author of seventeen books. "Blowouts are mere complications for investors. Wry grins are concealed as heads are bowed in a moment of remembrance for the dead. A jackpot waits after Red Adair cleans up the mess." I worked on oil drilling rigs for eight years, starting out in the boom year of 1981. 4,500 rigs were boring for gas and oil nationwide and experienced hands were scarce. Training programs were nonexistent and safety meetings were nothing more than a once a week, ten-minute break to gulp down a few bologna sandwiches. If you made it a month without a lost time injury, you were rewarded with a dozen pairs of gloves. My life is boring now, but far from it during the black gold rush back then. The main story is titled "Oil Field Trash" so I figured that I'd beat the critics to the first punch, hence the second half of the book title: "And Other Garbage." The book is written from the perspective of a roughneck, performing the duties of this obscure profession. The stories chronicle the dry holes, the wild wells, and the wilder nights, as well as the profound dangers of the trade. The industry has evolved but oil drilling is still by far the most dangerous dollar in the world. Roughnecks are the front lines of the world's energy industry-soldiers of fortune, hiring on for a hard earned, high risk paycheck. As you are reading this one roughneck will die every five days on average-lives summed up by six lines in their hometown newspaper. Something to ponder the next time you fill up your tank or adjust your thermostat. Unlike oil, men are a renewable resource. So, here they are: first person accounts of drilling for oil and gas in the Michigan basin, as journalists and geologists refer to it. Roughnecks just call it the patch.
A groundbreaking new history of the United States, showing how Christian faith and the pursuit of petroleum fueled America's rise to global power and shaped today's political clashes Anointed with Oil places religion and oil at the center of American history. As prize-winning historian Darren Dochuk reveals, from the earliest discovery of oil in America during the Civil War, citizens saw oil as the nation's special blessing and its peculiar burden, the source of its prophetic mission in the world. Over the century that followed and down to the present day, the oil industry's leaders and its ordinary workers together fundamentally transformed American religion, business, and politics -- boosting America's ascent as the preeminent global power, giving shape to modern evangelical Christianity, fueling the rise of the Republican Right, and setting the terms for today's political and environmental debates. Ranging from the Civil War to the present, from West Texas to Saudi Arabia to the Alberta Tar Sands, and from oil-patch boomtowns to the White House, this is a sweeping, magisterial book that transforms how we understand our nation's history.
A surreal, lyrical work of narrative nonfiction that portrays how the largest domestic oil discovery in half a century transformed a forgotten corner of the American West into a crucible of breakneck capitalism. As North Dakota became the nation's second-largest oil producer, Maya Rao set out in steel-toe boots to join a wave of drifters, dreamers, entrepreneurs, and criminals. With an eye for the dark, absurd, and humorous, Rao fearlessly immersed herself in their world to chronicle this modern-day gold rush, from its heady beginnings to OPEC's price war against the US oil industry. She rode shotgun with a surfer-turned-truck driver braving toxic fumes and dangerous roads, dined with businessmen disgraced during the financial crisis, and reported on everyone in between--including an ex-con YouTube celebrity, a trophy wife mired in scandal, and a hard-drinking British Ponzi schemer--in a social scene so rife with intrigue that one investor called the oilfield Peyton Place on steroids. As the boom receded, a culture of greed and recklessness left troubling consequences for investors and longtime residents. Empty trailers and idle oil equipment littered the fields like abandoned farmsteads, leaving the pioneers who built this unlikely civilization to reckon with their legacy. Part Barbara Ehrenreich, part Upton Sinclair, Great American Outpost is a sobering exploration of twenty-first-century America that reads like a frontier novel.
1995 Central and Western Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf (OCS (Outer Continental Shelf)) Oil and Gas Lease Sales 152 and 155, Central and Western Planning Areas by Anonim Pdf
The entire story of Andrews County, Texas from 1876 to 1978. Learn about Colonel Shafter's expedition in the region, an abandoned railroad from Midland, ranch and farm life in the desert, the discovery of oil, and major events that have shaped Andrews' history.
He was overweight, barely able to surf, in chronic pain and in the doghouse... A Year Without Beer is the journey of a man standing at the crossroads. The choice was to be this person for the foreseeable future or to change habits, the habit being drinking way too much, way too often. Written in real time over a three-year period, this is the journey of failure, heartache, hope and hard work into a seemingly impossible goal of achieving three hundred and sixty-five days of sobriety in order to get a life back. A Year Without Beer is a collection of funny stories, tips and tricks to cut back or give up, all whilst still maintaining a social life and contact with friends and family that don't mind a drink. Or three.
Wildcatters by Roger M. Olien,Diana Davids Hinton Pdf
In the 1970s and 1980s the Texas wildcatter was a recognizable figure in popular culture. Since then, the wildcatter's role is less celebrated but still important, as shown in the new introduction to this edition of a book originally published in 1984 by Texas Monthly Press. Drawing heavily on oral histories, this book tells the story of the West Texas independents as a group, looking at their business strategies in the context of their national, regional, and local conditions. The focus is on the Permian Basin and southeastern New Mexico over the sixty-year period in which the region rose to prominence on the American oil scene, producing about one-fifth of the nation's output. It is a story that covers vast technological change, governmental regulation, and economic fluctuation with profound implications for the oil and gas community. The new introduction brings the story up-to-date by addressing not only the subsequent careers of the wildcatters described in the book but also the role of independents in the current economy. ROGER M. OLIEN, who holds a Ph.D. from Brown University, lives in Austin and is a member of the TSHA Speakers Bureau.DIANA DAVIDS HINTON holds the J. Conrad Dunagan Chair in regional and business history at the University of Texas-Permian Basin. Her Ph.D. is from Yale University.
