We will be staying here until Tuesday after Memorial Day, when we will travel north to San Antonio to have regular maintenance (Oil change, new filters and fix a small leak in our hydraulic slide) done on the RV prior to our trip east and north to Pa. This company (Gate Guard Services) is really nice to work for. Everyone is friendly and helpful.
Now a recap of our experience.
We learned about the process and stages of bringing an oil well into production. We watched a production pad go from a blank slate...
to a completed entity.
We watched 20 to 25 oil tankers per day fill up. Each tanker holds 185 barrels of oil. SO....185 barrels X 20 tankers = 3700 barrels per day X 7days a week = 25,900 barrels per week X $95.00 per barrel = $2,460,500.00 per week. And that's a low estimate.
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I think the hardest part of the job was boredom. Because you do the same thing day in and day out the boredom can get to you unless......
You build a rock garden to tend......
Also you can make games to play with the drivers such as...
Password - On Mothers Day the pass word to leave the gate was "Mother". I reminded them all to thank a mother in their life.
Toll - One day I told them that the following day there would be a toll because I was out of Klondike Bars..... I actually got 3 Klondike bars and half a pizza the next day.
Probably what we will remember most are the people themselves. The guys who were gracious enough to play along with my many games, the neighbors who brought us baked goodies to eat (Cheryl), Rosco the dog who kept running away from home to visit us and the landowners Art and Albert Garcia who told us a little bit about the history of the land and the community...... thank you!
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Interesting post. I have been reading a couple of bloggers who were working as gate guards. I can see where you would get bored after a while, but it still something different and interesting to do.
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