Job advice needed! Calling any oil rig workers!

[Fisty]

Ok, so Im not enjoying my current job at the moment whatsoever. The contracting company I am with have told me there is the possibility of a job coming up working on oil rigs.

14 hour days, 2 weeks on 2 weeks off £28 - £34 an hour. All board, food etc is included.

Has/does anyone on here work on an oil rig? whats it like? I would be joining on mechanical maintenance.

I have no missus/pets etc to worry about leaving at home for 2 weeks at a time, the only thing Im slightly worried about is the survival training part.

If anyone here has worked on rigs please share your experience !!

Cheers, Tom
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[Whosthedaddy]

No alcohol allowed whatsoever on an oil rig.

2 week stints sounds a little short, normally months at a time?
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[JonB]

That's like £6,500 for 2 weeks work. effing sweet.
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[ken]

Always wanted to do that in my 20's,
anyway here is a link I was reading the other day,
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[Mister James]

It's always been something that's had a bizarre hold over my interest - especially the decent wages and huge amounts of time off!

https://www.guardian.co.uk/oil/story/0,,2200308,00.html

I saw this article the other day - worth a read and gives you a tiny glimpse of what life is actually like on the rigs.

EDIT: Ref. survival training, I'd guess that it'd involve a lot of stuff about ditching Helo's and damage control. Not much use swimming about in the North Sea, you'd be dead in about 2 minutes from exposure and secondary drowning (inhaling spray whipped up off the waves, rather than actually drinking the 'oggin because your head is under the water). They also have these funky lifeboats that drop into the water from about 100 feet up - very cool, if slightly nauseating!
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[cagiva gezzer]

Skim read a book called "The Oilmen - The North Sea Tigers" by Bill Mackie the other week.

I wouldn't do it, not hardcore enough.
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[Robby]

I'm feeling rather tempted by this too. Anyone ever used oilcareers.com to get a job?
they want money, although it comes with a money back guarantee.

Hmm. Banish the office, the 9-5 boredom, and the bullshit, to go and be cold and hardcore on an oil rig.

[Tarmacsurfer]

When you say "mechanical maintenance" are you talking fitting work or general roughnecking?

It's hard work. Not especially fulfilling and you'd better like being part of a "team" (ie around people all the time, as a roustabout you'll be at the very bottom of the pile as well), particularly offshore.

If you can hack it then go for it, just believe me when I tell you that you really will earn that money.
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[Stevie GooGs]

There are a few on the Scottish section that do it m8. I live in the highlands of Scotland now and a lot of the locals work offshore. Depending on what you are doing you can get in with an agency which will get you work but you need your survival course etc before doing that. If am right roughneck is about 25k and works out to be like 2 weeks on 2 off or 2 weeks on 3 weeks of depending on the agency finding you work.

If you are young enough try and get in with BP or somone that is where the real money is, my g/f brother has been working for BP since 16 and he's minted. There are a lot of different jobs you can do, i did think about it but two weeks on and off sounds good but when people come back here they tend to work for a week doing somthing else cause they are bored.
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[Fisty]

Right, my cv and cover letter have just been sent off! If I do get it ive gotta pay for the survivak course myself


Thanks all for your advice
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[Fisty]

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[Deckx]

Yeah go for it, sounds like a good number. Haven't been to North Sea myself but work in the overseas Oil & Gas industry and been off-shore Africa on a couple of jobs where the safety standards and conditions are not as good.

Surival certificate is pretty easy, not as bad as some people make out, just a pain in the ass really.

North sea experience is also good on your cv if you want to do any overseas work later on. Safety is a big factor offshore so you can spend half a day dicking around with permits just to do a small job.

Things usually move at a slow pace until something breaks down and you lose production and then the shit hits the fan especially if you're doing 100,000 barrels /day at $ 80 a barrel (do the maths)


I was in Angola earlier this year, supposed to go on a platform for hook-up commissioning , Unfortunatly it SANK when leaving the yard in Texas so I'm over here at the moment so for the re-build, hopefully don't end up in Angola till next March...

[scorps]

as Stevie googs can confirm, its not a straightforward place to get into work, my partner has his medical, survival and greenhand tickets plus his HP and UHP pressure jet tickets at a cost of approx 2.5k and still isnt offshore a year after getting them, hes now working as a banksman slinger in the hope it may get him a foothold on the rigs working with the crane operators at some point, he registered with atlantic resources who has him on their database with new greenhands and they phoned yesterday to see if he was still wanting to be registered they have nearly 1000 hopefuls waiting, easier f you have the mechanical background though, what most people who try to get into offshore work dont realise is that theres are loads of jobs but not for greenhands hoping to start on the ladder as a roustabout. we even moved from Nottingham to Aberdeenshire to give him a better chance.
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