Truck Traffic in North Dakota….It’s No Joke
We’ve all heard way too many, “How many (you fill in the blank) does it take to change a light bulb?” jokes to last us a life time, but it seems like family get togethers during the holidays bring out these over used, worn out jokes in truckloads. So I was pleasantly surprised to hear a new one this year, “how many truckloads does it take to develop an oil well site in North Dakota?” Okay – is this a trick question? I’m from Montana, so I thought I had heard every North Dakotan joke possible – but not this one.
So the replay, “how many truckloads does it take to develop an oil well in North Dakota?” The answer, “1,012″. Okay – where’s the punch line ? Well (no pun intended) there isn’t one. The answer really is “1,012″ truck loads. No doubt that a oil well site under development is a hub of activity, but just how much truck traffic does it take to……?
- 80 truckloads of sand
- 400 truckloads of fresh water
- 200 truckloads of waste water
- 100 truckloads of Frac tanks
- 50 truckloads of rig equipment
- 50 truckloads of drilling mud
- 4 truckloads of chemicals
- 15 truckloads of cement
- 10 truckloads of pipe
- 80 truckloads of scoria/gravel
- 7 truckloads of fuel
- 15 truckloads of Frac/Cement pumper trucks
- 1 truckload – workover rigs
I’m waiting for, “and a partridge in a pear tree”!
If, the number of “1,012″ isn’t daunting enough – that’s “1,012″ truckloads into a site, and “1,012″ truckloads back out.
