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I dont think very many services use 2-ways in there trucks like (haliburton, schlumberger...), but i know most your tank trucks and companies like that use them.

Schlumberger just went to 2-ways in oklahoma about 3 years ago

Hmmm they must have gone another route for a while maybe cellphone's or nextel type things. Must have not worked out that well especially if they are in remote rural areas.
Back in the 1980's they used 47.68 some. What is Schlumberger using now freq wise?
 

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also schlumberger has a strict no cellphone policy so thats why they also went to two-ways cuz cbs were so garbbled with stupid people transmitting pink panties bs
 

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also schlumberger has a strict no cellphone policy so thats why they also went to two-ways cuz cbs were so garbbled with stupid people transmitting pink panties bs

Looking at the database Schlumberger just has licenses for mobiles only I reckon they just talk amongst themselves with no base stations involved.
 

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OK LETS SEE IF YOU CAN FOLLOW THIS CUZ THEY ARE KINDA SCREWED UP.


SCHLUMBERGER USES
151.62500 M CSQ SchlmbrRoad1 Schlumberger Services - Road 1 --Central Oklahoma Truck to Truck FM Business
151.50500 M CSQ SchlmbrRoad2 Schlumberger Services - Road 1 --Central Oklahoma Truck to Truck

FOR DISTRISCT AND FOR ON THE ROAD IN YOU LOOK AT THERE LICENSE IT WAS FIRST ISSUED IN 2003 BUT NEVER TOLD ANYONW ABOUT IT UNTIL 2008 THATS WHEN THE MANDATED 2-WAYS IN TRUCKS... BUT BY THAT TIME MOST SLB UNITS HAD 2WAYS ALREADY IN PLACE... AS OF RIGHT NOW SLB DOESNT USE THOSE LICENSED FREQS MUCH AS OF NOW BECAUSE MOST TRUCKS USE MOTOROLAS AND THEY ALL NEED TO BE KENWOODS
 

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OK LETS SEE IF YOU CAN FOLLOW THIS CUZ THEY ARE KINDA SCREWED UP.


SCHLUMBERGER USES
151.62500 M CSQ SchlmbrRoad1 Schlumberger Services - Road 1 --Central Oklahoma Truck to Truck FM Business
151.50500 M CSQ SchlmbrRoad2 Schlumberger Services - Road 1 --Central Oklahoma Truck to Truck

FOR DISTRISCT AND FOR ON THE ROAD IN YOU LOOK AT THERE LICENSE IT WAS FIRST ISSUED IN 2003 BUT NEVER TOLD ANYONW ABOUT IT UNTIL 2008 THATS WHEN THE MANDATED 2-WAYS IN TRUCKS... BUT BY THAT TIME MOST SLB UNITS HAD 2WAYS ALREADY IN PLACE... AS OF RIGHT NOW SLB DOESNT USE THOSE LICENSED FREQS MUCH AS OF NOW BECAUSE MOST TRUCKS USE MOTOROLAS AND THEY ALL NEED TO BE KENWOODS

Unless the motorola's are using a proprietory mode like Mototrbo they night not talk to each other, But if the Kenwood's and Motorola's are analog Narrow FM the can be made to talk to each other. There must be more to this radio thing than Kenwood vs Motorola. Those freqs I think are Multiple Use Radio System?? MURS. frequencies. You may not even need a license now.
 

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I'm confused about this no cell phone policy. If it's for tank truck drivers only, I can see that, but their horizontal and submersible techs probably couldn't get anything done without phones.
 

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Dowell-Schlumberger also has a listing in the Texas database for 464.400, 464.625, 464.800 & 464.975. These are probably on-site communications headsets like we wore at Halliburton. We wore these during frac ops because the equipment was so loud you couldn't hear anyone. And Halliburton lists 463.900 & 464.425. We could only chit chat before the frac, strictly business when the Frac Master said, "Okay, lets go."
 

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My dad's been with Halliburton since the late 70's. They haven't had any 2-way's since the late 90's/early 2000's depending on the field camp.

I remember him one time having a "mobile phone" that had like 20 switches on the side of the handset cradle and you had to figure out which tower you were closest to and flip that particular switch.

I also remember his logging and perforating days...that group was on VHF high and they had two control heads.....one had a couple of rows of "tower sites" and the other had the POWER, CALL, HORN and F1, F2, F3, F4 buttons as well as a volume and squelch knob.

I vividly remember that the unit designation was assigned to the particular radio...I remember him changing radios so he had to change numbers.......they used traffic like "105 to 954 on Oklahoma City" and that meant he had the "Oklahoma City" tower button depressed.
 

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My dad's been with Halliburton since the late 70's. They haven't had any 2-way's since the late 90's/early 2000's depending on the field camp.

I remember him one time having a "mobile phone" that had like 20 switches on the side of the handset cradle and you had to figure out which tower you were closest to and flip that particular switch.

I also remember his logging and perforating days...that group was on VHF high and they had two control heads.....one had a couple of rows of "tower sites" and the other had the POWER, CALL, HORN and F1, F2, F3, F4 buttons as well as a volume and squelch knob.

I vividly remember that the unit designation was assigned to the particular radio...I remember him changing radios so he had to change numbers.......they used traffic like "105 to 954 on Oklahoma City" and that meant he had the "Oklahoma City" tower button depressed.
My uncle in Shawnee ran an answering service in the 80's. He had radios for several oil companies. I think Welex was one that had multiple UHF linked repeaters across western and central Oklahoma.
He had a phone line remote and a phone like dial on it. He could punch in a code and activate a repeater in Woodward to talk to a crew out there much like the older Oklahoma DOT VHF repeater system. It worked well and was really slick...AH the free spending 80's oil boom.
 
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unless the motorola's are using a proprietory mode like mototrbo they night not talk to each other, but if the kenwood's and motorola's are analog narrow fm the can be made to talk to each other. There must be more to this radio thing than kenwood vs motorola. Those freqs i think are multiple use radio system?? Murs. Frequencies. You may not even need a license now.

they are running kenwood yk-2160's and using voice inversion thats why they dont talk to the motorola's. The motorola's they are running pr 400 handhelds and cm200 mobiles.
 

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i'm confused about this no cell phone policy. If it's for tank truck drivers only, i can see that, but their horizontal and submersible techs probably couldn't get anything done without phones.

i said that wrong there strict no cell phone policy is while driving
 

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dowell-schlumberger also has a listing in the texas database for 464.400, 464.625, 464.800 & 464.975. These are probably on-site communications headsets like we wore at halliburton. We wore these during frac ops because the equipment was so loud you couldn't hear anyone. And halliburton lists 463.900 & 464.425. We could only chit chat before the frac, strictly business when the frac master said, "okay, lets go."

schlumberger uses all vhf for wellsite communications. Because companies that run wireline, chemicals, and water on and to location use vhf radios.

Other frac companies like haliburton share some these frequencies ive heard them on multiple occasions on schlumbergers channels.

Those 400 chanels are different creews individual freqs
 

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they are running kenwood yk-2160's and using voice inversion thats why they dont talk to the motorola's. The motorola's they are running pr 400 handhelds and cm200 mobiles.
Ah I see I haven't thought about voice inversion in a while. Interesting ...sounds like they don't want people listening in
Thanks for the info.
 

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I think J&L only uses cell phones in your area (they are based in Shattuck, OK). I've never seen them use radios other than CB's.

Many of the trucks use CB when loading/unloading things on locations. They don't always use Ch 19 - search around.

Several of the drilling rigs in that area have some handheld radios for a few operations (they don't use them much). Ch 1 on their radios is 462.650 dpl 172 simplex. These are usually used to pig water lines or when using the forklift around location.

Halliburton uses 154.57 and 154.60 csq on location during cementing operations and frac jobs. They do have a policy about using cell phones while driving, so they can't do that (have CBs in trucks).

I think there are a few LTR systems out in that area that aren't published on radioreference yet. I don't have enough information to publish anything yet, so search around and see what you can find...
 

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