Life Inside Giant Offshore Rigs in the Middle of the Sea
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- Опубликовано: 20 ноя 2022
- Do you want to know what it's like to live inside an offshore rig? This video will take you on a tour of one of the biggest and most famous offshore rigs in the world, and will teach you everything you need to know about oil and gas production.
This Jack up rig tour is a unique opportunity to see how life on an offshore rig works from the inside. You'll learn about the oil and gas production process, as well as the weather and ocean conditions. After watching this video, you'll have a better understanding of what goes on inside offshore rigs, and what it takes to produce oil and gas.
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''They use vertical take-off and landing helicopters''
Y-yeah... that's... the idea. That's pretty much one of the features that helicopters are insanely good at. o_O
It is a rather handy feature.
That’s what I thought when he said it, like what’s the other option
@@BoutTime73 helicopter with nose mounted blades maybe???????? idk.
🤣🤣
Exactly what i thought!
Like what else u gonna do? Use a horizontal ass drag take off??
Vertical take off AND landing helicopters??!! WOW! 😲
I thought the same thing haha!!!
Is such a think even possible? lol
@@bullmiller3800 No they are submersibles.
Damn I knew someone would beat me to it. I’m sure glad he explained how that all works. It’s been perplexing me all my life. Now I understand though, helicopter’s take off and land vertically 🤔🤔
I prefer helicopters that take off horizontally. 😂
I worked on ONGC offshore rigs and platforms for 18 months. That one and half year taught me how to live life with whatever you have.I was a medic and hardly had any clinical work apart from minor injuries and ailments and checking food box which used to arrive every week by a supply vessel. Good food, ample time for exercise and fresh air gave me good health. Radio operator was my room partener and I learnt quite a bit of radio operation. All in all it was a good time.
I'm in Tulsa ok and I'm trying to work there.
I require an offshore job.
I always wonder what they all do for sex. Just like on a Navy boat. I heard there are gloryholes in all the resrtrooms for discrete oral sex.
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few things to add i get paid a base salary of about $3500 per month plus about $340 each day i "work" off shore, my day consists off playing ping pong, pool, staring out the window and eating all the cakes in the cake fridge. normal swings are 4 weeks on/4 weeks off. the semi submersible rigs are actually attached to the sea bed via cables/chains and anchors (unless it has DP- dynamic positioning then the rig will float there and will keep its location via GPS and thrusters built in to the rig) which can be pulled up and the rig can be towed to a new location, the "fixed platform" oil rig is actually called a "jack up" rig and again, the rig is floated in to location and the legs are jacked down in to the sea bed which then lifts the whole rig out of the water, these are used more often in shallow water, and used to "work over" a platform as the whole derrick slides out over the top.
They use vertical take off and landing helicopters. In other news they use light bulbs that turn on with the flick of a switch
Oil rig worker in Newfoundland Canada here. Pay is around six figures plus for most workers. Also we do three weeks on and three weeks off rotation. Most transport is by helicopter. Only use vessel transfer when the choppers are backed up due to weather. It's a tough job but it's also very rewarding.
Good day , please can you connect me to this job like to work there . I have heard of newfound Canada before. Hope to receive your feet back
I worked on an oil rig and it was the absolutely best experience i ever had in a work place.
phenomenal food! easily better than 80-89% of restaurants.
great atmosphere, great air, great vibe! excellent job, 10/10 would return to a similar job if let the possibility.
Any companies you recommend? And what’s the main qualifications
@@mustbemeech BP, Exxon, Shell,
Quals; you need engineer
@@nolesy34 thanks for the info
You don't always travel by helicopter. Some times you are transferred by boat and lifted to the rig by crane. Working offshore pays well and depending on your profession can be way over $30 an hour. The food is unbelievable, steak's, seafood, anything you want to eat the cook will order and make for you. The best part is you can live anywhere in the country and still work on an offshore rig. You just have to be at the site to either catch your flight, or crew boat on time.
Could you give me a company name that uses boats not helicopter
@@tylerbarrett8008 Apache oil is one. Most of the helicopters are used to transport to deep water rings. The production rings transfer people mostly by boat. I haven't been in the industry for several years now. But I still hear from friends who work out in the Gulf on what's going on .
Somehow this gets skipped in high school along with other lucrative trades …vs college.
@@charliedallachie3539 Ha! Yup, I'm a crane op, with a high school education, pulling down 150K a year, screw college!
I worked on an oil rig over 40 yrs. ago off the coast of New Jersey when they did experimental drilling. If i didn’t take the supply boat, overnight,from Rhode Island, I’d catch the helicopter from Atlantic City, then later, Cape May, N.J., but anyway, i put on over 20 lbs., there also being a full meal served at midnight, in addition to the other three meal times.
The roughneck life isn’t for everyone. I worked briefly as a Galleyhand and I can tell you even the safety training prior to deployment can weed out those who aren’t committed to the adjustment.
Galley crews are way under appreciated. I’m thankful every time I get off of work in the evening and a fresh towel and my cleaned and folded clothes are on my bunk.
I bet part of your job was also rig psychologist. Some times after a long 12 hour shift someone stops by the galley for a quick meal and would like to talk about their day with someone. That someone could be you!
Had a job as a roustabout on a rig in the North Sea off of Aberdeen in the late 1970s and made enough in one summer to pay for two years of college. Twelve hours on, twelve off; two weeks on, one week off. Good times. As far as I could tell the oil company had an unlimited food budget; all I had to do was ask a chef for something and if he didn’t have it, he got it within a day or two. No alcohol on the rig!
No business having alcohol on a job like that.
Don't all helicopters take off and land vertically?
More dramatic I guess
VTOL Helo
Optimally, yes.
The helicopter I rode on seated 10 people, and when it took off, it climbs maybe 20 feel, then moves horizontally
I worked for about 1.5 years. It's a very hard job, especially the night shift.
The cool thing about being an oil rig operator is the chance of saving our planet from an asteroid.
Wat
I made 44.00 an hour running crane on dry ground. Fuck that ocean stuff
Wait, they use vertical take-off and landing helicopters? Who would have thought these things existed!
Roughneck for Penrod and Transworld in the late 70's and 80's in the Gulf of Mexico. Loved the work!!
I was in gulf all so 70 80. 67 yrs old
They screwed me 8 9 an hour 12 hours a day seven on seven off . Missed helaport ony 2 months out loved it worked Permian bassin 20 yrs setting bushing with pry bar came out went thru draw works. Safety was show up don't get killed and you passed Safety requirments
Worked on the rigs from when I was 18 to 28 ten years until on the way to work our helicopter went down breaking my back and a spinal cord injury. It’s a great job and you can make 6 figures without a college degree but it’s dangerous. But hey you can get killed or hurt on land too. The oil companies have very big insurance in case they hurt you.
I'm so sorry that you got hurt that bad. I hope that you are doing well. Take care.
Plan Blaine: best wishes to you and Hope are doing OK. Sorry about the helo accident!
Dang sorry to hear that happen to u. hope u have a full recovery sir and hope that oil company still paying u a hefty check every here and there for that
Was it cuz of the weather or the pilot?
@@Bizzcuitz probly both
for a few years, I was an offshore paramedic for dive ships, underwater construction/welding vessels, recovery ships, crane lift boats, and did some rotations on a few oil rigs on the Gulf of Mexico. for the crew for sometimes a couple of hundred or so people I was the only medical person on board or on the rig. from burns, to medicals, to minor illnesses to trauma to simple cuts and sprains, I saw and treated it all. From Trinidad to Mexico I saw some amazing sunsets, sailed and enjoyed shipboard life. I met some of the most incredible people, and had some times I will never forget. t was one of the most fascinating, amazing career highlights I have had thus far in my fire/EMS career.
Cool👍
I went off shore n 2014 Gulf of Mexico blessed to make it back it ain’t promised
I used to do the ac off of oil rigs in seal beach, ca. That was such a gnarly job. We got our tools brought up by crane and had to swing from the boat to the oil rig with a rope and the ocean chillin below you.
I did it for over 5 years was the best experience in my opinion
This video and the comments were very interesting; thanks for the insight....it would scare the bejesus out of me but I think I would love to be on the rig during rough weather (at least I think I would)🤔
Awesome video
75k a year for offshore drilling is actually a very conservative figure I'd say 25-50% more is about average in the south
I worked for nabors in north Dakota back in the day the difference is you make a lot more money on land than offshore ,it's crazy
I worked in the field for years, I was a Driller on Land Rigs.
The reason why more people don't work Offshoe is that it's Tough as HELL to get on!
I make the same on land.
They just get paid 24 straight.
Most oil rigs are hiring like crazy it’s not hard to get on . The pay is shit starting at 20$ an hour roughneck pay is 23$ . It’s a dead end job unless you make it to a position that doesn’t require you do do physical labor
I worked on the drilling rigs here at home in saskatchewan Canada I was making $32 an hr rough necking idk where you were working but thats shut pay haha
@@jordanfiddler3497 it’s shit pay like that everywhere offshore
I’m currently an entry level production operator offshore and make $24/hr. I make my daily rounds at 6am and 3pm, other than that we are either watching tv, playing on our phones, or playing madden or 2K
When I first started working at the rigs I didn’t have my tickets yet so I was cleaning and I made $28, I worked 12hrs 7 days and 7 days off
after I got all my tickets I made $40 working 7 days on 7 days off.
I worked still 12hrs not including travel time.
Honestly out of that 12 hours I probably work hard for 4hrs because you spend most of your days waiting for permits or parts or just waiting to access some areas so most of your 12hrs are spend WAITING.
I remember my supervisor used to say “ working for Suncor is like robbing the bank slowly”.
😃😃😃 WOO, W-O-O
I like that good for you and thank you
@@rebeccaperry-piper2733 it’s different for each company it can be 4/5 5/4 6/6 7/7 14/14 21/21 it’s honestly up to the company and each company is different
They have the money , its still pennys for them
That 70k a year is starting out, believe me they have a lot of guys making 90-110k a year. That’s good money especially when you get weeks off at a time. A majority of America is surviving of 50-60k a year, so nearly double the national average…
You can make a helluva lot more than 110,000 on offshore rigs especially if u work for a contractor and not the rig owner itself but u earn every penny of it
Awesome job....🔥🔥🔥
High risk but worth it.
Just be grateful if people can got best job for their life cause lot of people sometime got jealous to us ...
Work rotations are usually equal, 2 week working 2 weeks off, 28 days on 28 days off. Only work half a year and make 75k, not bad
I was a roughneck on a land rig (M&X rig) and my father has also worked on an oil rig for a long period of time. Rig work ain’t easy but it can be fun. Tbh this video makes it sound like a walk in the park compared to what it really is.
Worked at pump station #12 on the Alaskan Pipeline in '76. Same sort of conditions, isolated, well paying/long hours, great food , 6-9 weeks on with two off. Great thing is that you didn't have any expenses. First two week expense, $.25 for a Snickers candy bar in the commissary
thats not a lot of money today
You have to really like your coworkers. I could never live so close to mine no matter how much we get along.
Did a few things on a submarine. THAT is living close to your coworkers.
2:48 VTOL helicopters! WOW, that's a first!
Greta for singles in transition or on a career path. Every one of the riggers I know have told me it sucks for those with families. The rig divers are the only one’s who think it’s great; but those guys are crazy.
I've known and dated rig divers.. you are not wrong.
Helicopters rarely deliver supplies to an oil rig, that job is done by Platform Supply Vessels, or PSV's.
Thought about doing this for a while, I was a enginemen in the Navy, power plant operator now for a hospital. Looked up jobs to work in the power plants on these things….113k a year. To work half a year 🙃 but as some good family and friends have told me before…not all money is good money. And I would rather be here making about 3/4 of that and having my family and friends. Always still a interesting thought…just don’t think I want to be gone like that again and in that much danger after 6 years in the Navy.
They really don’t make that much money considering the danger and isolation. Bless them all.
good view
Anybody in the industry have any useful tips, tricks or suggestions about getting a job on a offshore rig with no experience? Or even where to fill out applications? Any advice or comments are appreciated
Find a driller on a land rig or try to get on a mudlogging crew to get your foot in the door. I started with a small mudlogger and soon worked up to MWD hand. Looking at $100 my first year as MWD but ex was burning through money faster than I could make it. / The smaller companies seem to not be very safety conscious and have some really sketchy people.
You can also get all your certifications before hand but you will have to pay.. I took 8 classes and the THUET was the most expensive..
They use vertical takeoff and landing helicopters….WTF.
I know, Who uses vertical takeoff and landing helicopters anymore ?
i prefer helicopters that need a runway
Some people don't know what helicopters do, I guess.
Lmao 🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂
@@edbrown6985 please explain, I really don’t know.
As a mom of twins that didn’t sleep for the first 3 years you got me at the 8 hours of sleep! I’d have taken that job in a heartbeat!
Sure thing Michelle
not comparable, but keep exaggerating.
Wow all snow s kuds
make WAY more than that!!
Sometimes your job puts your life on the line and you're thinking if they paid you triple you still wouldn't do it. Everyday leaving for work thinking this could be my last.
For what they endure, they don't get paid squat. That should answer your question as to why more people don't work on such rigs. They'd just about have to have 2nd jobs on their off weeks just to make ends meet.
I honestly thought that they would make considerably more than that. That money can go far if a worker happens to live in a state where property is cheaper. Here in NYC though, you are making nearly as much at most union based jobs. More if you happen to work in a residential building (Doorman/Porter) cus of tips & end of the year bonuses.
Helicopters aren’t the only way they get supplies. 100% of supplies comes out on the vessels. Worked in the Gulf of Mexico my entire adult life. I am 41 years old now.
The Gulf of Mexico isn’t the only oilfield or rigs in general. Though the gulf rigs do use vessels for the most part the other rigs around the world might use more helicopters or a even combination of both.
I would love to work on these oil platforms one day.
@@AAADADZIE anyone can work on these and most cases. Jus gotta google for your country. Most companies do pay for travel.
I understand that drilling is world wide, but due to the weight limits of helicopters they can only carry a max load of 12,000 #’s. I am referring to the largest used in the oil field which is the Sikorsky S-92. As for the North Sea helicopters are used a lot due to high seas all the time but still, if they need a winch for a crane it wouldn’t come out on a helicopter.
You can make that much delivering pizza remember that when you tip lol
I'm on 37.25 per hour working in a food processing plant, add 15% shift loading onto that and it increases to around $42 per hour, clearing around $1500 per week after tax
Always wanted to work in the galley of rig or as a steward, but couldn’t ever get the right connection.
I don’t know where you are located but there is a HUGE entry level career fair at the Cajun Dome in Lafayette, Louisiana!! It on February 1st. I hope you see this before the time passes. They are hiring warm bodies right now!!!!!!
Even with all those costs and extra logistical hassles. It's profitable enough to do it. It makes more then enough money to make it worth while.
Entry level is 70k a year. Also, once you hit 40 hours you are on Overtime for every hour you work till you hit land.
Of all the places for these offshore rigs, the North Atlantic has iconic and legendary storms. These will either grow or test your faith. So say the ones who work on these rigs. The North Atlantic is no joke! Believe that!
Isn't the North Atlantic where the Titanic sank?? And it sank TWO miles down!!
@@KnowTrentTimoy, yes Mister Trent. It didn’t forgive that night either.
I make more than that as a bricklayer on a prevailing wage job right here on the mainline. I would not trade jobs because the pay is actually better on the mainland but not everyone is afforded the opportunity
Lighting is very important. It can get awful lonely out there.
So what do they do if hurricane force winds come in. Can those rigs flip or break apart. And do they leave the rig during violent storms?
They won't go anywhere they just bounce up and down
Think of a ping pong ball tied to the bathplug, now splash water around
Rode out a hurricane on one in the gulf back in the 80s. Was scary for awhile until I was assured by the veteran crew that they'd seen worse. A hawk blown offshore flew in through a porthole window in the galley during it. Gave us a little excitement while eating lunch. The galley hand caught it and stuffed it back out. After the storm we found a pigeon with a band on it's leg on the deck. One of the guys took it in on the helicopter and attached a note to it's leg stating where it had been found and turned it loose. Never saw that guy again so don't know if he got a response. I found a sparrow the same day. Put it in a coffee can with holes in the lid and took it in and released it on land.
$34 an hour is not alot for offshore, I make that working onshore in a warehouse. Day rate when i’m out for inventory is $675 a day.
71 k a year aint enough there, 150 probably
That’s chump change for that type of hard work and sacrifice, they should make a minimum of $50
The fact oil companies are literally swimming in money and making billions more in PROFIT than they had before, kinda makes it sound like a slap in the face they’re only making $74,000 a year. This guy makes it sound like that’s awesome.
I've wanted to do this job for at least a shot at it. Never got the chance. I'm over 40 now and never did it, so I'd imagine it's not suitable lol
the sea was angry that day my friends- like an old man sending back soup at a deli-suddenly the great beast appeared
My old man worked on Maui A Rig of Taranaki NZ.
That $71k is an approximate starting average. Most offshore drilling and production personnel make 6 figures in the USA Gulf of Mexico after only a few years. Cooks and galley hands make the least, but typically they work 28/28 and travel back and forth to countries like the Philippines where their money makes them kings.
Why don’t they use horizontal takeoff helicopters 😳
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I test them but I don't go out and work on them. I should though because I am told the food is wonderful.
I worked for pinrod .No training worked on standard rig
My biggest wish I worked here
Still offshore running cranes 35 years same platform
Imma stick with my $21 an hour driving forklifts and working 8 hour shifts. One thing I gotta be able to do is go home when I get off work for the day and the last thing imma do is stay at my job when my shift is over
I agree with you 100%. To be honest though, that kind of job (oil rigs) is not for everyone. I make close to $70,000.00 as a skycap and wouldn't charge my job unless I win the mega million. To get a three month break sometimes is tempting though.
the thing is to have a full week of off time every other week... they are technically working less than you are
@@justinpigg1694
…and making more than $45,000 a year before taxes.
Do you think $34 an hour and being away from your family is a lot of money… you have to be kidding.
Vertical helicopter take off and landing? Is there another type I'm not aware of for helicopters??
I would love to turn one of these into a Mansion resort.
You know cruise ships exist right
34$ an hour ain’t worth it
Add in your per diem and hazard pay you’re looking at around 60 an hour
70K a year isnt that great considering the risk involved and the lifestyle change. Utility workers in Calif in many cases make over 100K/year with OT
Made that as a tankie working in the field 34.00 an hour plus per diem of 75 a day.
I smashed the subscribe button and broke my monitor. Bill in the mail. ;)
Work is hard pay sucks, unless you are management.
How can I get a job in these Field without any job experience.
The number of inaccuracies in this video is off the chart
Rolling in the dough? 😆
where ever you see risky and high death rate jobs, you will also see more "Men only" workspace.
Wonder how many breaks you get on those shifts. Surprised smoking is allowed on those rigs. And I guess no tree for you guys even when you're off I'm sure they piss test quite often
42 YEARS IN THE GULF RETIREMENT 3/1/2023
I literally drive a forklift and I make $35 an hour, $42.5 overtime, $70 an hour on the weekends 😂
Wow!
No imagine a forklift driver ON the oil rig
Must be Elon musk salary then
@@nolesy34 But imagine actually exhaling your cigarettes
@@kangenathan9703 yeah nah yeah nah kent
$71,000 a year is not a lot of money.
No, it's really not alot of money.
Good video. With having over 20 years offshore experience, my recommendation is get into production, not drilling. Much more money, not as hard work. I do automation work, basically sit behind a computer and maintain the safety systems. Work 14 & 14, off half the year plus vacation time. Job is not for everyone, if you are married you need a very understanding spouse, and expect to miss half of your children's lives. But overall, I wouldn't have changed my carrer a bit, except to get involved at a much younger age.
They make way more than the base pay.
6 figures a year is common
How in hell does anyone onsider 34.00 dollars an hour good money. In Australia miners can earn over 175000 per yer.
Thought they would have made way more
We do or they do now ,I retired at 54 . 36 years and I had enough,and they make way more than 71k now ,trying to think how long ago it was that I made 71 k offshore,maybe like 1990 or so .$35 an hour x12hours a day + safety meetings is well over 100k a year ,then you got schools and spud meeting and don’t forget when you will work more than 12 hours a day ,it will happen
71K per year? lol...
Can anyone help me how to apply for this company pliz
Worked offshore 14 years
Most commonly, oil platforms engage in activities on the continental shelf. They are not in the middle of the ocean.
That's no joke.
That's way too little money for all the risk and uncomfort.