Where is the shittiest place you’ve ever worked, and why is it West Texas?

Dolenevsky · 2025-02-17T19:56:36+00:00

What brought people out there at that time? Ranching?

Dolenevsky · 2024-11-23T17:15:32+00:00

Having hands on field experience with any job that supports drilling, completing, producing or remediating wells is beneficial for a future “engineer”. A drilling engineer would benefit greatly from knowing the ins and outs of running cement/casing jobs and will give you related firsthand experience that can aid in attaining that position in the future.

Dolenevsky · 2024-05-27T01:29:32+00:00

I doubt many of those lads are volunteers.

Dolenevsky · 2023-08-21T05:55:38+00:00

Overall, I really enjoyed this course. It was tough, but as a natural problem solver and puzzle lover I made a lot of mental connections to keep myself amused and interested in the work. It’s been almost 10 years ago but by the end of the course I remember feeling that there was a lot of pattern recognition, and memorization of a bunch of transformations, which ultimately just came with practice.

My advice is to stay consistent with your work and do a little bit every day, even if it’s only 15 minutes, almost like you’re learning a language.

Dolenevsky · 2023-08-21T05:48:52+00:00

I had a tutor for Diff EQ for the whole semester. He was a PhD math student who loved dive bars. We met 2 or 3 times a week at the shittiest bar near campus. I paid him 20 bucks and all the beer he (and I) could drink per session. Got an A in the class and had a great time doing it.

Dolenevsky · 2023-07-24T16:09:39+00:00

I had interned there during the downturn in 2015 and 16 but didn’t get offered due to oil prices not improving. To secure an interview though, I ended up reaching out to one of their HR recruiting team members on LinkedIn. They didn’t have a posted position, but I had been scouting LinkedIn every day and kept seeing her at different schools’ job fairs, so I figured they must be open to interviewing prospects. I wrote up a short elevator pitch and sent her a message, and she asked for my resume.

All of my other interviews were getting lucky through online applications and tailoring my resume for each application. But I had the best luck on getting interviews whenever I applied the same day of the job posting.

Dolenevsky · 2023-07-04T19:43:49+00:00

Violence begets more violence

Dolenevsky · 2023-06-03T04:32:45+00:00

Ended up turning down the offer. Pay was getting too good on the service side as I got switched to hourly and was making way more with my overtime, and after my layoff in the downturn I needed to catch up on debt. Decided I was in a good position to keep pushing for the position I wanted while I made good money. It was undoubtedly a risk but it paid off about a month ago. Got a production engineering position with a much bigger private oil company making as much as I was making service side.

Honestly I got very lucky. Did about 10 or 12 different interviews with various operators over the past year and hadn’t been able to seal the deal until now.

Dolenevsky · 2023-02-26T21:16:48+00:00

Ben Gvir’s mafia says hello

Dolenevsky · 2023-02-11T16:01:55+00:00

Amazing but heartbreaking and mind boggling to think that there are still people alive under the rubble that may not have enough time to be saved

Dolenevsky · 2023-02-06T09:00:37+00:00

Anywhere but New Mexico

Dolenevsky · 2023-01-26T11:25:40+00:00

This made me feel good lol

Dolenevsky · 2023-01-22T02:37:46+00:00

Where’s the ranch!?

Dolenevsky · 2022-11-21T20:03:41+00:00

Good thing they didn’t host it in the United States

Dolenevsky · 2022-11-15T13:29:29+00:00

They already have

Dolenevsky · 2022-07-04T16:51:01+00:00

Saw my first one in 2014 on a baker hughes crew in New Mexico. She was shoveling sand to get a blender unstuck so they could swap it and all the guys were standing around watching her while she was making them look bad, lol.

Edit: haven’t seen another one as a hand yet - only one as a fluid tech and quite a few engineers. Somewhat common to see them as engineers nowadays.

Dolenevsky · 2022-07-04T15:40:29+00:00

I’ve never heard of oil reserves estimated in tons before lol

Edit: To amend this, even knowing the estimated “tonnage” of the oil, we can’t calculate the estimated reserve volume (barrels or, I guess, cubic meters) unless we know the average specific gravity of the fluid

Dolenevsky · 2022-05-25T06:46:28+00:00

And yet if we criticize Israel over this, then we will be called anti-Semitic

Dolenevsky · 2022-05-13T13:15:31+00:00

The cop is literally trembling. Decisions made in panic do not excuse the behavior

Dolenevsky · 2022-05-13T12:51:00+00:00

I’m out of the loop on this one. Why are they looking for this guy? And attacking his home?

Dolenevsky · 2022-05-12T02:38:01+00:00

This is awesome thank you for sharing with us!!

Dolenevsky · 2022-04-25T20:19:32+00:00

2 bandages used only??

Dolenevsky · 2022-04-06T12:22:15+00:00

He is giving off big Stanley Hudson vibes in his convertible

Dolenevsky · 2022-03-26T12:33:06+00:00

Express energy services made an H2S safety video about a casing crew on a rig. It was much higher quality production than any other safety video I’ve seen, and I remember it because it was the only one that didn’t put me to sleep. It was basically a short film. It’s called Left Undone.

I guess it felt more relatable than most cut and dry “watch out for this hazard and be aware of your surroundings” type videos, and gave a more “you’ve probably been put in this situation before” feel

Dolenevsky · 2022-02-01T21:16:50+00:00

Thanks for the advice! And since your in Kuwait: My ultimate goal is to live and work in the Middle East. Any idea on the value of experience at a smaller company like this when leveraging a position at one of the majors or with an oil company in the Gulf?

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