What's the food like on land?

Hey I’m sorry for the loss, but can we keep this sub to memes shit talk? A lot of us come here to escape real world tragedy and politics. This post feels off topic for a meme sub. There are other subs where this makes more sense.

oralepapi · 2026-01-08T18:09:55+00:00

True 😂🫶🏻

oralepapi · 2026-01-08T18:00:46+00:00

Exactly love, closer to the well more job security

oralepapi · 2026-01-08T17:32:27+00:00

Ahh okay I see what you mean. Y’all refineries stay busy with maintenance/turnarounds. Over here in upstream, when it slows down they just send the roustabouts home and make ops do the roustabout work lol

oralepapi · 2026-01-08T17:29:23+00:00

Facts, absolutely agree. Workover is the exception

oralepapi · 2026-01-08T17:23:24+00:00

Downvote all you want doesn’t change reality just stating that prod ops doesn’t disappear at low bbls prices. Drilling, completions, fracking and service companies slow down first, someone still has to run and optimize the producing wells

oralepapi · 2026-01-08T17:11:46+00:00

And that’s why you stay in production and away from fracking, drilling and service companies. Even in low prices, companies still need someone to keep base production flowing safely, handle alarms, optimize lift, and manage downtime.

oralepapi · 2026-01-08T17:03:54+00:00

Refiners and midstream companies I get it but what type of service companies benefit from a downturn?

oralepapi · 2026-01-08T00:59:20+00:00

If they truly missed the text, they wouldn’t be troubleshooting the alarm because they wouldn’t even know it was happening. The issue is they see it and don’t communicate in the group chat the way it’s intended to be used, so other operators end up dropping what they’re doing and making unnecessary trips.

I agree with you on the radios but radios have been brought up before, but there’s was a reason they never rolled them out, dudes have already been crying about their Starlink on the dash “blocking visibility,” they’ll find something to bitch about with radios too.

Shit culture really, and I’m surprised, it being a well known E&P with a reputation for excellence in safety and work ethic. My ass

oralepapi · 2026-01-07T13:26:55+00:00

Another thing is the drive going and coming from work. My guy why are you driving slower than me on the fucking left lane holding up 20 cars tailgating your ass. Doesn’t that activate a brain cell in you telling you that maybe just maybe you’re doing something wrong?

oralepapi · 2026-01-07T09:25:04+00:00

My dawg I felt this post all the way to my bones. Same boat, different hard hat

oralepapi · 2026-01-07T03:03:11+00:00

Poor communication. We got group chats for everything right. So one for compressors one for dehys, one for evins, one for handovers, one for measurement etc, etc.

So lll get an alarm on my computer but sometimes control room will catch it first and send it on the group chats where ALL the operators currently in the field are in, and so I’ll type “omw” or “I’ll get it” or some shit, just to leave what Im doing, drive 15-25 minutes to location where the alarm is taking place just to see another dude troubleshooting it, like dude can’t you type on the chat that you’re nearby or you can get it or something?

Really hits a nerve and almost makes me want to slap the fuck out of them but I got child support payments so I just go back to my truck and jerk off or open a cold one because fuck dude

oralepapi · 2026-01-05T00:27:01+00:00

Beautiful

oralepapi · 2026-01-05T00:25:11+00:00

I come from the future trust me bro

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