Mobile Crew Camps -- This Is Really Quite Clever

Link here to the Oil Patch Dispatch.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

This is a very cool story.

Boston-based Target Logistics is the largest provider of man-camps in the Bakken oil patch.

It is now being reported that Target Logistics is going mobile. First example: 24 53-foot trailers that can be easily moved and set up at a new location.

The mobile camp includes an eating facility.

Two things come to mind: first, wagon train with chuckwagon.

The second thing: this is very, very clever. This helps solve the problem for lodging for construction workers on site at a temporary, but fairly long, building project, such as the ONEOK natural gas gathering and processing facilities.

At the linked article, the mobile camp is near McHenry, North Dakota, about 100 miles west of Grand Forks, nowhere near the oil patch:

The residents are employees of Michels Corp. working on the Minnkota Power 345-kilovolt transmission line project that will run 250 miles from Center to Grand Forks. As the $312 million project progresses, the camp will accommodate up to 80 workers. The mobile camp is expected to house the workers through 2013, also setting up in Sharon, Fessenden and Mercer, according to Target Logistics.

But they are also perfect for pad drilling where four to ten wells will be drilled on one pad before the wells are fracked. Taking about 26 days for each well, the drilling team could be on station for six months with a large multi-well pad.