At Northern Oilfield Services, we put more than 100 years of combined experience to work for you. We help make your oil and natural gas operation as stress-free and help continue smooth operations. Whether you are a fresh wellhead or oil and gas veterans, you can benefit from the invaluable services…Read More
Oil and natural gas are often lumped together. This is intuitive since it’s called the “oil and gas” industry. But oil and natural gas are different in many ways, including the way they are formed. Northern Oilfield Services in Williston specializes in oilfield equipment rentals, including dri…Read More
For the vast majority of Americans, most don’t think much about the oil and gas industry. After all, the news is not pounding it down our throats about the lack of these nonrenewable resources or our use of them. We aren’t in any energy crisis like during the 1970s where there were lines a mile …Read More
When someone asks you what is made from oil, your immediate thought is probably gasoline. This is understandable since about half of every barrel of oil (a barrel of oil contains 42 gallons) goes towards making gasoline. However, did you know that a lot of products you use everyday are made from oil…Read More
A big part of drilling for oil is controlling the flow of liquids, whether it’s liquids you are using on the production side, such as fracking fluids or water, or it’s the actual petroleum itself. Oil companies use what are known as Christmas trees, which contain a set of valves, spools, and fit…Read More
While Northern Oilfield Services is based in Williston, ND, we serve most of the western United States, including Wyoming. We specialize in helping oil companies extract oil. We do this by renting and services oilfield equipment, including hydraulic fracking equipment and drilling rental equipment. …Read More
In our last blog post, we discussed in detail the different types of wells, which included natural gas wells, oil and natural gas wells, and strictly just oil wells. In this blog post, we’ll discuss the different locations of gas wells, namely offshore oil wells. Northern Oilfield Services based o…Read More
Oil wells are usually marked by oil pump jacks that can dot the entire production area, depending on the size of the field beneath the earth. Most people assume that oil pump jacks are pumping out black oil. But that is not necessarily the case. There are different kinds of oil wells, which we explo…Read More
No one enjoys when the end of a life arrives. Typically, a mourning period ensues, followed by a return to life as normal, depending on what life has ended. This can be anything from your career life, when you switch jobs and move on to something else, or more impactful, the end of a family member…Read More
Since oil is found in the ground, we have to dig for it. Rarely does it decide to just appear on the surface of the earth for the taking. And dig, or drilling in the case of oil wells, oil companies do — and do quite well — in order to fuel the demand for oil, which, once refined, fuels our cars…Read More