Does anybody know what these guys are doing?

[crays]

As said above...JugHeads. Lock up your daughters.

[hghclsswhitetrsh]

Quarters? you need a better class of hotel, try credit cards.

Yo credit no good here, cowboy.

You should try to hit em with golf balls.

[trlcavscout]

They paid me $25 to pit one of the sensors in my yard back in November, I still haven't seen it but those trucks are all over up here.

[brutal]

They paid me $25 to pit one of the sensors in my yard back in November, I still haven't seen it but those trucks are all over up here.

And you didn't ask what for?

[hghclsswhitetrsh]

And you didn't ask what for?

Nsa surveillance.

[Jamnanc]

I guessed that it was seismic, what I don't get is where they get the permission, money, authority to do it on such a large scale. I also guessed that it was oil co. If it's government, who has access to the data? If travicascout has them up where he's at, and I know a couple of people in between, that's a huge undertaking.

The odd thing about it is the work hours, there are buses on the highway carting people in to do the work on Friday, then they do the work on Saturday and Sunday. I haven't seen them out on weekdays. It's probably a large scale survey that travels. I hoped someone here would have a little insight or inside knowledge about the operation.

[ray1970]

You guys live on top of a large shale play. The seismic trucks are looking for the best places to drill wells to extract the oil. Before horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, this oil was pretty much unobtainable. Now they are pulling it out everywhere.

That's why gas prices are so low right now.

[gnihcraes]

go outside when these trucks are operating. Very cool... vibration that is.

[BPTactical]

go outside when these trucks are operating. Very cool... vibration that is.

Sitting on the fence horsey style again eh Kelly?

[fj605]

Looks like they're doing a seismic survey. They're typically contracted by an oil company (E&P). The shock waves travel at different speeds through different rock formations, so the petroleum geologists can identify any faults or grabens and adjust the wellbore placements accordingly. They can pair the seismic model with the geology model from the mud logs, etc from other wells in the area and get a pretty good picture of what's going on 7000' below surface.

As far as where they got permission to be working out there, I'm sure it's covered in the land use agreement between the landowners and the E&P.