This is part of the employee trailer home camp at the Seneca Resources Marcellus well drill rig near Smethport, Pa. We were told there are about 60 workers on site with 30 on a 12-hour shift while the others are off. They work for two or three weeks straight and then have the same amount off.
The "company man" at the site, Seneca's top manager there, is from Oklahoma, has been drilling since the 1970s and has worked around the world. Many well services are outsourced to specialist companies. I did not check all the license plates of the vehicles there, but I didn't see any from Pennsylvania; just west and midwest states with significant recent histories in the gas boom.
