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Permalink Reply by Brian Powers on August 17, 2012 at 7:50am

Ben -

In my experience, the well operator and lessor is responsible for well pad/access road contruction and maintenance. Most have standard designs for both and preferred contractors, often a competitive bidding process is used, but not always,

 

Brian

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Permalink Reply by Ben Brown on August 20, 2012 at 1:56am

Thanks for the insight.

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Permalink Reply by Kathleen on August 17, 2012 at 10:59am

There's a company called CESO that Chesapeake is using is columbiana county to survey their well pads. You see their criss cross stakes at the road edge where the pads are going in.

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Permalink Reply by Ben Brown on August 20, 2012 at 1:56am

I'll check them out, thanks for taking the time to reply.

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Permalink Reply by Jim Litwinowicz on August 20, 2012 at 2:30am

Ben; just about everything is subcontracted out. Even the drilling rigs are owned by specialized contractors and subbed out by the O & Gs. They will use contractors they have a prior relationship with...makes it hard to break into the business.  If you are trying to do so, I suggest you find out the what subs are working in your area and see if they can throw some work your way. Get your foot in the door doing some smaller jobs and then move up.

Or attend job fairs, trade shows, talk to the Chamber of Commerce. Contact the Marcellus Shale Coalition, a consortium/lobbyist group for the O & G industry.

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Permalink Reply by Ben Brown on August 20, 2012 at 3:38am

Thankfully I'm not trying to break into the industry, merely trying to get an understanding of how the construction process works and who's involved. I'm working to get a list of the most active contractors in Marcellus and other plays and who they generally work for. As Kathleen commented earlier, Chesapeake uses CESO and I've found that they also use a company called Kelchner sometimes.

I've found other contractors who list well pad construction as one of their services, but haven't been able to link other E&P's to specific contractors or designers.

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Permalink Reply by Kathleen on August 22, 2012 at 6:53am

Weston Solutions is another company. They tested our water back in June and said they would be out of our area early July. Today I saw them in a very rural area by me with no houses or I know of wells in a different type of truck than they used to test water. I looked at their site and they appear to do a few different things.

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