$36 per night w/free meals. A 700-square-foot apartment in Midland—the Permian’s unofficial capital—goes for $1,300 a month.
Three years ago, all 188 rooms were as empty as the landscape—a testament to crude’s tumble from more than $100 a barrel to $30. Today, prices are up around $70 and almost every Aries bed is occupied, just as at many other “man camps” throughout West Texas.
I didn’t see one word about “camp followers” or the RVs and travel trailers which we all know find places to set up. The workers may leave their families at home but there’s no way guys making $27.50 per hour plus other bennies is going live like a monk.
More of this Bloomberg story @ Welcome to the ‘Man Camps’ of West Texas - BloombergQuint
