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Housing is a vital consideration for workers in the oil and gas industry. Convenient oilfield housing benefits both workers and energy companies. Why? Because oilfields are often located far from nearby communities; attempting to commute can put a strain on local roads, communities, and energy workers' pockets.

When you’re in charge of housing onsite employees, there’s a fine line to walk between budgetary demands and residential comforts. Inadequate living space can affect productivity, morale, even turnover rates. On the other hand, pumping cash into an elaborate, permanent infrastructure is a risky investment—one you can’t recoup when your project’s lifecycle stops cold.

Can tightly packed urban areas produce fresh produce? We’ve heard of the urban vegetable or flower garden that urban communities and city environmental groups have started, to bring the garden culture to the city. 

It’s not exactly breaking news. There aren’t enough housing options for America’s mining, gas, and oilfield employees. So oil and gas companies are taking dramatic steps to room their crews near high-producing U.S. basins.

A scratch, a dent, a ding – all of these may be a part of your 20 or 40 foot repurposed shipping container or - they may not be.  These steel storage containers have literally traveled half way around the world to land at your business location to assist with simplifying your operations. While the condition of these containers vary, each comes with its own ‘type’ associated with it. We have written about the designated container types in prior Boxpert Blog  posts.

We have seen some great examples of living solutions using a repurposed shipping container and have shared some of those examples in prior posts.  The conex box has moved into an interesting industry – bridge construction!

The use of a modified shipping container for your business’ operation has been decided.  The steel structure has the ideal exterior dimensions. The inherent strength of the corrugated steel combined with its overall stability and mobility has made it the perfect base structure for the extra space you need.

It just gets better and better! These amazing innovative uses for steel shipping containers continue to have far reaching effects on solving business solutions and simplifying business operations.

One of the most interesting pieces of our business here at Falcon Containers is our ability to work with a variety of industries. Our client base is filled with businesses of all sizes covering the retail, industrial, construction, oil and gas and food and beverage industries, just to name a few. The use of repurposed shipping containers for all of these businesses has been utilized in a variety of solutions to simplify their business operations.

We are taking a few minutes this week to bring everyone up to speed on the developing shale formations throughout the West Texas area.  Our focus is not only due to our Austin roots, but to also highlight the abundance of drilling activity and current oil reserves for these exploding shales and their dominance in these areas compared to any other state in the US.