4:45 a.m. Wake and shower, pack a lunch and drive out to location. Our rig typically moves every three to four days to a new well on a new location. The wells we work on are usually in the same area which is about an hour from the camp we…
Joey Roth currently works as a well intervention supervisor for ConocoPhillips. She started in the oil field as a truck driver on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline (TAPS), then went to work as a roustabout in Alaska’s Cook Inlet as a roustabout in 1979. Roth worked her way up to a drilling foreman for Shell Oil Co. She then decided to get her engineering degree and has had a long career as a senior drilling engineer, working for major oil and gas companies such as Amoco, Schlumberger, Vastar/bp, Hunt and Shell Intl. E&P. Roth holds a Bachelor of Science, Mining and Mineral Engineering, from Colorado School of Mines.
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