Oil Rigs

yop

Lads

Anyone know where or anyone that works in rigs? Did a search on the net but going around in circles!!

thanks

The Sweeper

what exactly are you looking for?
i work in the oil and gas industry and obviously most of my clients have assets in the north sea etc.

The Sweeper

oops!

this is wwman by the way

Borzoi

:eek:

damnyanks

No its not

WhiteWashMan

yes it was.....

so yop, what is it you are looking for?

Lenny

He may be thinking along the same idea as me..
I wouldn't mind working an oil rig, off the sea for 2/3 months and make a nice wad of cash.. got any info about that wwm?
I know theres few or little in ireland that operate that way? haven't heard much about em if there is

ToxicPaddy

Found this site, might be of some interest as this guy seems to know what he's talking about and you might get some useful hints off it..

Best of luck,

Tox

daveg

A lot of people who did my course go on to work on oil rigs (Radio Officer). Just a word of caution. There is a reason you get paid a large wod of cash. It's very dangerous work.

WhiteWashMan

Originally posted by ToxicPaddy
Found this site, might be of some interest as this guy seems to know what he's talking about and you might get some useful hints off it..

Best of luck,

Tox

cool site.

oil careers

oil rig jobs

most hobs are for graduates, and i have no idea what sort of numpty unskilled type work they do.

you can also look up Schlumberger, as they are about the largest Oil and Gas services company in the world, and have their finger in every facet of the energy industry from rigs to wells to seismic data to transport to end products to service stations.
in fact, look at the back of your credit card and its probably a schlum card.
we compete against them, but only in a small fraction of the industry.

Schlumberger

Wook

what kind of proffesions are they looking for ?
engineers ? catering ? i just don't have clue

yop

Thanks Lads

Tis for my cousin this, he is an engineer by qualification/experience. He is looking for skilled work on the rigs if he can get it, if not slog work does not bother him. Preferably in the Europe/African regions. Went to a lot of sites but not a lot of information just claims that if u pay us 100 pounds then we will get u a job, no idea of money, conditions etc.

Thanks lads

irishguy

wonder if its easy to get an unskilled job on an Oil rig [suppose they wont want programmers on board ] just like to do it for the experience and also the money

DotPotty

I've got a friend who was a diver on oil rigs and worked all over the world - from Scotland to the Middle East and Malaysia. He earned a lot of money, but it was very hard work. If you are interested, I could try to find out a bit more about working on rigs from him and let you know.

irishguy

if you could it would be helpful i would just like to know how to go about it

Lenny

Dotpotty, I would be intrested too.
really want to get into an oil rig for the money & experience
Just got an email off this site
my question was

"Hi, I am just wondering if there any age limit on getting a job in an
>oil rig?
>
>Do they generally go for older generation people ie. 30-40 ? or the
>more
>around 20 s?"

His responce was

Hello Len

Thanks for your email. I don't think there would be an age restriction like
that... provided you are able to do the work, I don't think it would be an
issue

However, you might like to put this question directly to the people at
http://www.oilcareer.com/?a=000025 Once they get back to you, provided it
is all still looking good, I'd recommend you take up their service.

They will distribute your resume to a large number of oil rig companies
which should help your prospects of getting a job. Also take a good read
through their site - they have a lot of informative FAQs and other
information on there.

I hope this helps - if you have any further questions please don't hesitate
to contact me.


Best regards

Barry Hughes
http://www.provincer.com/oil-rig-jobs.html

Now twas a fast responce(in an hour)
but I have mailed back to see if he knows any sites that will send me resume to some eu rigs...

Lenny

Holy ****, looking at the site that he refarred me too.

Price: This service costs $397, but as a promotional test until August 1, 2003 we've lowered the price to just $197 Choose your payment option by clicking on the button below.

This is the lowest option! pricy or what!

irishguy

This is the lowest option! pricy or what!

well it is and it isnt if you get employed through and agency the acency charges the company 1.6 time the normal weekly wage of the worker and pays you the normal wage then

Lenny

I know I know... but weather to trust this company over the net?
don't fancy on forking out about 180e to some website I've never heard of, and may get absoloutly *nothing* out of it...

Lenny

My second email

At 12:05 a.m. 31/07/2003 +0100, you wrote:
>I see you have referred me to that site.. all of the oil locations are
>located in north America.. I am from Ireland and flights to America for
>an interview hotels etc, could be costly And sites you got handy for in
>Europe? Really appreacated for the response
>len
>

Their reply, all the seem to be is trying to push me into paying this company.. I could pay this company and never hear from them again...

Hello Len

Thanks for your email.

The OilCareer service at http://www.oilcareer.com/?a=000025 does distribute
resumes to international oil companies, as well as North American ones. For
this service, you'll need to either opt for their advanced or professional
package.

I hope this helps - if you have any further questions please don't hesitate
to contact me.


Best regards

Barry Hughes
http://www.provincer.com/oil-rig-jobs.html

WhiteWashMan

you really want to restrict your search to aberdeen
this is where a lot of the british north sea oil is based out of.
i can give lists of companies and phone numbers, but then again, these aresily found on the net.

hold on, i did find one cool resource for all sorts of stuff. i will have a scoot and see if i can find it.
it may help, it may not, but its up to you to search through it. i know nothing about the actual production of oil.
although, companies like petro-canada, perenco, apache and encana have just started production in the north sea, and might be good places to look.

i'll post that link when i find it

WhiteWashMan

the big list of oil links.....

this is about as much info as you are ever going to need.

whether oyu can actually get the useful and relevant details, is up to you.

this covers a lot fo the global stuff, so you may have to search and trawl for UK and IRish stuff.

i do know that BP operate of the coast of ireland, and that there is some gas wells of the south of ireland in kinsale.

but read up and research.

and let me know how you get on

Lenny

Ill try read up pver the w/e
really appreacated WWm ww)

DotPotty

Originally posted by irishguy
if you could it would be helpful i would just like to know how to go about it

Hiya, sorry this took a while - I had to try and get hold of this guy. Anyway, this is what he e-mailed me with:
Working on the rigs without any training in one field or another would be difficult but not impossible. The only way I ended up there was by being a diver but there are all sorts of jobs available offshore from engineers to galley stewards. If this guy really wants to get on the rigs or offshore vessel of some sort and has no trade then he could try going up to Aberdeen and applying to one of the catering services that operate on the rigs. The one that I know is called Kelvin. I almost went to work fo rthem once in my desparation for work. They supply chefs, galley staff, cabin stewards etc. The pay is pretty good but getting a job might be hard. To work off shore in most places you need to have offshore survival training which will cost about 1000 pounds and take 5 days. The best place to do it is probablly at Nutec in Middlesborough. Don't bother looking for work without that training. You can probablly find Nutec on the internet and they will be able to help with any o! ther things that might be needed. It is very strict and they change the rules all the time. Offshore work in warm places like the far east would not be possible because they use locals for all those kinds of jobs.

Hope that might be of some help as well - although I know you've been given some good links.

Sangre

Don't know about that warm places thing.
My dad worked on an Oil rig for 2 years while saving up for our house (bless him ). It was off the coast of Saudi, can't remember his exact job because he was freelance and was always chaning. I'd ask him about it but he is away.

emerald5150

Hello Sweeper,
It's been 4 years since I worked offshore but have now done my survivals again in Aberdeen. I am wondering If you know anyone who is a roustabout etc as I am wanting to get in to this area fo work ?. I am an electrican & I have worked offshore before. I would appreciate your help on this.

Emerald.

loyatemu

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