Worked in the Oilfields in Texas for a couple years… worked 12-hour days for weeks at a time. My longest hitch was 6-months straight. The money was great, but when your gone for such long periods all you want to do is spend the money when your home. I also missed out on a lot of milestones with my daughter. Years later I’m still trying to make up for all the lost time. This isn’t something you make a career out of because of how cyclical the industry is, your goal should be to save as much money as possible and invest and make that money work for you so that you can get out. I worked with a guy that worked out there for 4 years making 160K a year and moved to Florida and bought a condo and works as a bartender at one of the beach bars and surfs most of the time lol. Living his best life because of he sacrificed 4 years and was smart with his money.
Well its all about your objective and goal. Being 15 years working for oilfield as mud engineer with top 3 services companies, I never had that much saving to heavily invest in any venture. Saving is not for me unfortunately😢
You work for 40yrs to have $1m in your retirement, Meanwhile some people are putting just $10k in a meme coin for just few months and now they are multi millionaires. I pray that anyone who reads this will be successful in life
Trading without professional guide...Huh I laugh you, because you will remain where you are or even make huge losses that will stop you from trading, this has been one of the biggest problem to new traders
You're right! I have lost a lot trading all by myself without a guide. It's been an uneasy ride for me. Who is your mentor please. how can i reach her i really need help in this bear market now?
When I discharged from the military, I wanted to ‘get away’ but I wanted to work too. Ended up on semi-submersible for around 6 years. I actually loved it out there. If you’re lucky enough to have a good crew, it makes a massive difference. A lot of the guys I worked with were ex forces from around the world, so having that in common probably made us work better as a team. The gig was hard, but a lot of us still trained every day after work. Weights/boxing etc… Saw some incredible things in my time there. Like marine life depending on where we were. Looking down and seeing the silhouettes of 100 hammerhead sharks is a surreal reminder that if you end up overboard, you won’t have time to drown. The best sunsets and skylines were seen from the helideck. Food was great because a good chef will earn 3x more on a rig than he will in Sydney harbour. Quality of food has a big impact on morale, so I didn’t see many rigs without great food. Yep, it was a dangerous gig, and I saw some bloody awful injuries. Nobody that knew what we did had the stones to say we didn’t earn every dollar. Also met some awesome people, and gained some life experience most don’t.
"Most hammerhead species are fairly small and are considered harmless to humans. However, the great hammerhead's enormous size and fierceness make it potentially dangerous, though few attacks have been recorded." Still fuck that.
@@paulreel3844 I’m Australian. Hammerheads are one of 3 sharks known to attack people. They say they don’t like the taste… but that’s of little comfort because you’re usually in 3 pieces by the time they figure that out. Anyway, sharks were the least dangerous part of my job. They just looked badass.
To the people who worked in oil rids rather on land or on the ocean, thank you so much for your services, With many close calls and sacrifices. Without you guys planes won’t fly and cars won’t move. So many many thank yous. ❤💕💕💕
My husband works in these conditions. The weather conditions has always stressed me. It really takes a lot of hardship and courage to work in such places and conditions.
They money is good but it’s not worth it if you ask me. My husband used to work offshore for about 10 years. The weather and rough seas, being stuck in Mexico for 6 months straight not being able to come home or see him. Being in fear of pirates attacking his boat while he was out there, it was just so nerve wrecking!! And EVERYTIME he leaves you never know if he’s going to make it back. On his last hitch, when he was off for 30 days he put in for an application for an at home job, a week before he was set to return he got the job. THE SAME BOAT he was set to work on, (which he worked on for years SEACOR POWER) headed out a couple of miles from shore , hit some unexpected rough weather and the boat capsized! It brought us to tears because many men including his captain lost their lives and that could have easily been my husband! Had he gone back a week later.
Did that for 10 years until our helicopter went down 35 miles offshore Louisiana coast breaking my back and retired me at 28. Great job with a bunch of crazy tough guys and few girls. I sure miss that job.
@@scammer9348 I was paid well. But I didn’t stop I have rental homes and apartments and trailer park. I do live in pain everyday and I don’t do the things I love like I used to like fishing I love it but boats kill my back. It’s was not worth it. But my kids and wife have greatly benefited the most. I can say I break my back for my family. lol. I didn’t die so I don’t bitch.
@@drewapple9681 I don't know if you believe in God or not but just stop by Churches that believe in healing and have them pray for you, you might get healed. People do get healed, it's kinda random.
If you're lucky enough to work for some Norwegian companies, you can end up working 2 weeks on and have 4 weeks off. Benefits and pay are also really good. Thats what i want to do.
It’s truly mind-blowing, seeing these massive structures & the people working on them! I used to have some friends that worked on these things. They’d go out for 2 weeks & come back LOADED w/ money! I wanted to do it too, but never did after discovering how they had to work out there. I worked at a steel mill, & decided I was better on dry land! 😁
It appears you’ve never been in a cruise ship. They are like an entire city on the water with amenities that are ten fold better than the ones shown on this video. The only difference being that they aren’t drilling.
@@HiThisIsMine hey, at least I’m not getting all greasy & worn-out from work when I’m on a ship! Anyway, I’m staying on dry land from now on. I used to fly small planes too(Aircoupe 415C & Cessna 150) but I’m not doing that anymore either! 😄👍🏽
The rough necks I worked with with their hours and time off made almost as much as the entry level engineers around 90 k. The drillers 130-140k and the tool pushers 150s to 180s. The drilling supervisors pay varies a lot of them are consultants get paid a day rate, but the senior ones I worked with would make 200 to 300k. The directional drillers same or more, just the LWD hands would make 180k and the directional drillers 300k, but they work a bunch of hours. Their salaries are off. 60k-70k is more what an entry level process/production technician gets paid. I never heard of anyone making 40 k on a rig 😂 Edit: This was in California, USA so I am not talking about rates abroad. Also the more senior field electricians and production operators would make in the 110 to 120k range which I consider the cushy jobs compared to rough necking.
As a consultant to Royal Dutch Shell, I have spent many weeks on the rigs in the North Sea as well as the Gulf of Mexico. It is hard and cold work, especially the North Sea. Shell required a week of Off Shore Survival Training (mine was in Rotterdam, Netherlands). It was very rigorous and scary. Everything was 12 on-12 off. The shifts ran two weeks off--two weeks on except the ones in Norway.
I've been working offshore in the Norwegian part of the North Sea since -06, and I can't think of a better job - especially considering our schedule is 07.00-19.00 for 14 days followed by 28 days of leave. -With that said I did loose income when we went from 14-21 to 14-28, but I haven't had one day of regrets from voting yes on that offer. 👍
I was a cook on several rigs. It was tough. I've worked 12 hours a day. Away from my girlfriend at that time, family, and friends sometimes for 6 months. Longer if the weather is going to be bad. Because other shift of guys couldn't get on the Rig. A large Crane would transfer a group of guys from one rig to our main rig. Literally hanging in the air. But it was awesome to feed over a 1,000 men 3 meals a day, and putting out snacks for the guys. Also banking homemade pies, cookies, and cakes. Unfortunately, women wasn't allowed on the rigs anymore with men employees. Due to you know what was going on
you guys are the heroes of the rig. I worked with similar situations in remote land before, 12 hours shifts, weeks in and out, you have to work hard when you are at it. the good meals are not only our mental comfort, but also our time clock, that is when we know the time when breakfast, lunch and dinner are served.
One of the largest wave ever recorded was one that hit an oil rig in the North Sea. The battering they take from the weather is extreme. I used to load oil tankers off the Shetland Isles with North Sea oil. One such wave hit our ship on the dock which happened to be the largest ship in the world at the time. The weight of the ship and cargo and the dock it was tied to were in excess of 1 million tonnes but the wave moved the entire ship and dock with ease.
I could never. I think I would shit my pants if I saw a wave the size of a mountain. I have a fear of deep water and what could be in it, so this seems like a night mare for me
Heh heh - I paddle out there in that deep black water in a tiny 16 ft sea kayak, storms and all. Hundreds of miles...love it. No fear. The sea is a Beauty.@@ChrisPtoes27
Worked on one for 10 years. Paid off the homes I own. Made my Super healthy. Life is good due to the time spent. Now my work is split between office and field.
@@NatBrook-k1h You apply onshore ofcourse, any major oil & gas company that is involved in offshore drilling. Then based on your experience, they offer you. Its the start. Good luck.
Having 3 weeks off for every two weeks of work is really good! We been fighting to get equal time off at where I used work offshore but we never had it. Our work schedule was 7 days work and 3-4 days off. Also only 12 hours is considered work time.
Worked on North Sea and Caribbean for years. Challenging, enjoyable every day....loved every minute. Sitting at my desk then suddenly chair slides across the room!.
My dad was an R&D man back in the 70’s. He would have to fly off to the North Sea on occasion to repair a part used in drilling called a pig. One of my favorite times with him was attending the OTC conference in Houston at the Dome. It’s where the world comes together to hold conferences and show future tech for offshore drilling. It was amazing then as a 10 year old Mexican American girl to see the future and my dad saying your future as engineer and life. I cant even imagine now in my 60s, what is out there awaiting the next generations. Unfortunately, I did not have the mindset to be an engineer, so junior year switched to Finance!
I'm an IT Administrator for an Offshore Oil company based in California. Ours are close enough to shore where locally based employees get to go home every night however some of the workers come from other states and prefer the 14 on 14 off shifts.
I just looked up offshore oil rig job pay. first hit was zip recruiter which stated ~32k a year. That is like $15 an hour which many states is minimum wage. These men deserve more than triple that imo.
I worked the rigs most of my life, the money is good but not great. It's hard dirty work with lots of hours, in my case 12 hour days for 14 straight days, and you're away from home. On your days off you are trying to catch up with everything that didn't get done while you were away, then it's time to head back to work...... Because it seems everything goes wrong when you're away at work it's extremely hard on family life as well......
I worked in the Gulf of Mexico as an Electrical Engineer on Oil Rigs & loved it! It's a lonely job being out 7 days & off 7 days, sometimes 14 on & 14 off but, the pay was great & the Food was even better! You eat like hog on the Rig. I had my own helicopter Pilot assigned to me because I was overseeing many rigs & Stems (smaller Rigs) and he was Straight out of the Military & could fly! We had big flat screens, pool tables, ping pong tables, we could fish & it was great. 🤟
"Life on off shore oil rigs isn't luxurious" *3 minutes later* "Workers are provided with food, don't have to worry about laundry, have access to private cinema's, pooling area's, gyms, entertainment rooms and get 3 weeks off for every 2 weeks of work"
with the amount of work and hours they have to labor through, it really is not luxurious, I did similar things back in 2016, after every shift you will be too tired or mentally focused on work to enjoy those amenities. Life out there is basically Work, eat, work, shower and then sleep. you hardly have time and energy for anything else. basically the only benefit those guys enjoy are the food, everything else are just there to make it look good.
they are paid more usually, but the "relative low paid" from the beginning is to weed out the "lazy and undesirable" ones. most companies don't fire the workers in most situations, they just don't give them a raise and let those find another way out. after a few months, they will bump you up to nearly 100k if they like you and you know who to ask.
Worked offshore for thirty years. We had no gyms. We had no movie room. 12-hour day at minimum. There were times we wished we had a 12-hour day. The work out there NEVER stops.
@@fahadmohamed346 You were right boy. But back in 1980, there were no programs to send undeserving people to collage. Damn sure none for a white guy. Nobody cared if we succeeded. There were no programs to help us. I went offshore because they were considered the most badass blue collar workers of that time.
Counting the days to on my off time, I work 28 days on and 28 days off. It was bad during covid, we had 14 days of isolation, test and then 42 days and 28 days off. 8 years in this field. I say that I work 6 months a year.
I work as a chemical engineer in designing those oil rigs and FPSO's. Generally you are posted as a production engineer with 14 days on off pattern. 14 days you are at home free from work. At oil rig you have to work for 12 hrs food is provided. To and fro tickets are completely borne by the company. It gets dirty at time and feels laborious. IT jobs are better.
Damn this job sounds exaxctly like my barracks lol. Living tightly together with your mates, getting everything provided and not seeing home that often all while working in an important, yet inherently dangerous job. Guess I know what Im doing afterwards
pay is just a bit more than the military. just a bit. like 10s of thousands of dollars more, at least for entry level drilling floor and support and exploration
I was in the oil industry for 47 years and never worked a day in my life….I loved it….I learnt something new everyday…life was never dull….I met a lot of wonderful people….and I made good money…..absolutely no regrets….I am now retired and look back at my working life with the fondest of memories plus I traveled the world…..
One correction: Demand has not exceeded supply in decades. In fact the supply is carefully constrained to maintain prices according to what OPEC+ want. Otherwise, a very interesting video on working in offshore oil rigs.
@gordongekko5886 And global warming is not directly related to fossil fuels, reduction in worldwide fires due to urbanization is just one aspect of it all, but we're insignificant compared to what mother nature is able to accomplish. One wrong move in foreign relations or a solar flare could do insurmountable damage to this planet, we should focus on reducing pollution and garbage.
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I have been on more rigs than most people that work in the industry, I have been on many rigs, and drill ships that no longer exist, such as the Leo Clark that are now reefs. For 17 years I worked on many land rigs, barge rigs, jackups, semi submersibles, and drill ships for several contractors. I did work for Sperry-Sun Halliburton for a few years before finally moving on to other industries. I think everyone should get the chance to ride a crew boat in 20 foot seas for 6 hours, you would certainly thank God for your land jobs.
8:10 Did just under six years in the military and was paid roughly $59,000 total. Less than $10,000 per year. They owned me 24/7/365. Do the math as to what my hourly wages were. No complaints, the military made me what I am today, I knew what I was signing up for just like these people did. They shouldn't complain.
As an oil and gas worker, after you finish your shift, clean a stupid amount of grease and oil from you, talk to your family back home, eat dinner and sort anything else you have going on in your life… good luck finding time to use the spa or pool table 😂
I can confidently say, no salary or benefits would ever get me on one of those rigs.. the guys and girls who work on these have next level abilities to suppress fear
2:09 - I spent 4 yrs on that platform, it was called Heidleberg. I was there through start-up & comissioning and first oil. Anadarko was a great company to work for.
I worked onshore covering the some of the wellhead and manifold equipment for heidelberg along with other Anadarko projects (horn mountain, lucius, caesar tonga, etc). Anadarko was great before Oxy took over. Oxy culture has pushed a lot of knowledgeable people with a lot of experience out of the company. Many of the old Anadarko people have gotten fed up, found other jobs, and quit.
What exactly did you do as work? I'm studying to become a chemical engineer in the field of petroleum and apparently I may be working on a rig and I can't find actual real life examples of what people do on it for their day to day work.
@@Brooke7218 hey, I don’t know if woodside/BHP are still doing this, but they were hiring people to go through a traineeship of sorts some years back. Your particular qualification would make you highly competitive as a candidate. I went through woodside’s recruiting for this once, and got to the stage where I’d been ‘successful’, but they also froze applications as did a lot of offshore hosts at the time. Opportunity never came up again. Your University should really be bombarding you with information on where to get a start. But generally speaking, get in the habit of monitoring positions for chevron, BHP, Halliburton, Schlumberger, Woodside, CCIWA, Maesrsk etc… there’s plenty of TPC’s out there that might give you a shot too. But you might need to fork out for your own TBOSIET and other necessary work permits. Good luck.
I wanted to work on a rig so badly. Life took me another direction, I now have my wife, a son, my dogs. I could ask for more. I can imagine if I was a roughneck I wouldn't have any of this.
Eh? Women go after offshore workers for the money and the freedom to cheat half of every month. Right enough, it does usually end in divorce, but not before she squeezes out a couple of heirs.
Thats pretty interesting. I'm grateful for everything done out there but I hate the risks involved and the family time lost. Someone's got to do it I guess but my heart goes out to every man/woman who does this work for a living.
Only $40k - $60k? Lmao..... It should be $60k outright. Given the extra weeks off are nice, but that's seriously not a lot for a exhausting job like this.
@@jameshenderson5385 I used to work for a company wiring HVAC equipment. I would work 12-14 on the daily for 5 days and sometimes Saturday... Lunch in driving between jobs....I asked for a raise and they told me if I could find a better offer somewhere else, the door is wide open. They also informed I make good money overtime.
@@bodybong well king, for those kind of hours, you DESERVE more. Enough to make you care and do your job with a 110% dedication because you SHOULD care.
@gojitmal1978 what you smoking sports players make millions easy and that shit ain't nowhere near as hard and life threatening as this shit and it ain't nowhere near as important either. Shits backwards these workers deserve that much
I am myself a seafarer I work on ship as a OS ordinary seaman and I know how much risk involves is this job you are always disconnected to outside world including family and you will get mentally disturbed..
Not a bad work schedule when they break it down, work for two hours, take a break, work for two hours, eat, work for two more hours, take another break, hard work but that schedule is amazing 😂
This is basically a book report written by Chat GPT. Some of the footage was awesome but the stock footage was brutal at times. You could tell the editor didn't know what he was looking at.
@@kevman360 I’m glad a fellow Tradesman showed up and saw exactly what I did : ). Like I’m not trying to “hate on” the video. Mainly because it may inspire some people to actually go to school, learn a trade, and have means to feed their families. But boy howdy, I wish this was made by actual tradespeople lol. Take care and stay safe Brother 🤝.
Much respect to all of the men and women oil rig workers every where and thank all of you every where around the world 🌎 for all that you brave people do❤️
@@mr.doctorcaptain1124 There's certainly less women, but not no women. In terms of roughnecks one in twenty of them is a woman, and for other positions it can get up to one in five.
I mean, there are plenty of women on board oil rigs- not nearly as many as men, but they're there. You can see a good number in the video. Even roughnecks are 5% women.
Most women are raising families or have husbands who definitely don’t want them in this type of work. I’m an engineer and my husband constantly tells me to leave my job because i don’t have to work. Most ppl would take the offer of never having to work again, and since the husband loves the wife & appreciates her for yk birthing his children, he WANTS her to stay home. And here you are, unmarried and clueless about the agreement most wives have w their husbands🤦🏻♀️. Stay out of married people’s business ;)
and being an engineer is nothing like this i’m mostly inside designing all day. I couldn’t imagine trying to convince my husband to be okay with a job like this☠️
Can’t believe I just seen the company I work for “ESS compass group” I work in defence but had no idea they done oil rigs too! Might go for a transfer and try something new one day 😏
Had an incident on our platform once during well drilling. The drillers miscalculated the trajectory of the drill head and it perforated into an active well and huge ass gas cloud engulfed our rig. Had to abandon the rig into small lifeboats. The experienced change my outlook on life
I found this to be a somewhat light view of the realities no mention of some of the first class assholes you WILL encounter nor some of the less than desirable "older" rigs !
This and many jobs like it are proof that for certain people in this world myself included some risk is certainly acceptable if the pay is good enough.
As a person whose worked on a rig for 25 years all ima tell you is make sure this is really what you want to do because its not all glamorous like the cameras make it seem and its definately not for the weak minded.
It amazes me how so many people find our job so fascinating haha. When you are out there, you don't see that way very often. You are just at work, counting down the days to get off. Good internet is the your bff
we had a crew change every 3 weeks (overlapping 6 week rotations), so once you got to that first crew change, then you could start counting down. 21 days and a wake up! get off the boat, see the fam for a couple days, pack the boards and head to Bali for a month...
"For the past 500 years, the demand for oil has exceeded the supply". Which is not true at all. There's enough oil in the ground to last more than the next 1 million years at current consumption.
🙏❤️I can’t say thank you enough for risking your lives for ours💙sending all aloha positive safety vibes! U have my support & prayers living in such an off shore environment Be safe 🤍
i am a woman. but i would reaallllyyyy like to work on this thing. thats sooo cool !! work 2 weeks straigth then 3 weeks of weekend omg this is so cool !
My cousin was a gulf rig diver/welder. Dude made 200K a year after 6 months of trade school and 2 years of field work. Lots of tests all the time, especially safety mandatory and OSHA. Unfortunaly a shark ate him.
on my first jobs Offshore for 3/4 weeks we didn't have 'Wifi' Cell phones, Gyms, cinemas, etc. We had a laptop and shared USB sticks with ripped bad-quality films. No communication with the real world at all. I have seen and once almost went mad, when we did have a few bars on the cell and tried to call your 'girlfriend 'or wife and got no response it was a mind fuck. Even worse I had a girlfriend at my first jobs, that always answered the phone at some 'after party'. Not fun. if you go offshore, don't get into a relationship!
I'm a welder and alwayd wanted to work on a rig. I'll be attending STCW course next week and start working on Adriatic Sea rigs. Hopefully I can work on bigger ones
@Peter O’Brien no when you get hired the give you all your licenses and training it's simple stuff the job is pretty east if you apply apply for operations cuz if you work on the drilling side you will be busting your ass
Do they? No doubt some jobs are high paid. But, with the 4 weeks on and 4 weeks off (unpaid) you have to divide many pay rates by two. Many offshore workers arrange to do an onshore job during that set of weeks. (I can't remember what the usual on/off day periods are, may not be 4 weeks. I'm recalling conversations with folk who have considered offshore work. There are vacancies for them, but they are surprised to find it's not necessarily a lot of money over the whole year)
divide by two? say what? you make $60,000 a year after taxes, thats 52 weeks, but you only worked 26 weeks. its $60k a year no dividing about it, and its about half the year off to do whatever you want, surf around the world, which is exactly what i did.
Worked on the Frigg field TCP2 compression platform , ships with a flat back deck would come and a crane would pick up and load the containers the sea was rough waves would toss the ships every which way , when the containers were tied the ship movement would result in several dozen tops of containers sweeping around sailors would be crushed , limbs severed as a common occurrence , the skill of the crane operator was paramount he had to judge the sea movement in three dimensions , the weigh of the load and the timing . one operator was famous for being the best , ships captains would even refuse to get in until he was on shift such was his skill and reputation he could have deposited or lifted a tray full of champagne glass from the back of a bucking bronco
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FYI, it not just oil rigs.. It is oil & gas 😉
@@ACR_BOX right. I spent 10 years working offshore oil & gas in the diving industry. Never worked on a rig, always on vessels, and made good money.
6:16 I don't want to go in that break room. The pay isn't high enough.
@@yvonnebowe4970no other option sir.
@@yourpathmatterslmao come see what is tower climbers do..plus we don’t get breaks at all lol
Worked in the Oilfields in Texas for a couple years… worked 12-hour days for weeks at a time. My longest hitch was 6-months straight. The money was great, but when your gone for such long periods all you want to do is spend the money when your home. I also missed out on a lot of milestones with my daughter. Years later I’m still trying to make up for all the lost time.
This isn’t something you make a career out of because of how cyclical the industry is, your goal should be to save as much money as possible and invest and make that money work for you so that you can get out.
I worked with a guy that worked out there for 4 years making 160K a year and moved to Florida and bought a condo and works as a bartender at one of the beach bars and surfs most of the time lol. Living his best life because of he sacrificed 4 years and was smart with his money.
Well its all about your objective and goal. Being 15 years working for oilfield as mud engineer with top 3 services companies, I never had that much saving to heavily invest in any venture. Saving is not for me unfortunately😢
How does one get hired on an oil rig ?
Damn some people really do get it, bartender and surfing lmao good for him
@@caseybaker1147weird flex
@@caseybaker1147what do you do?
I am still amazed to think human could build these giant complex structures and place it in the middle of the sea
Absolutely, this is engineering ❤❤
Right and everyone is just like ok what's next.
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Exactly like how do you build and place this stuff
Enough money will make most humans do anything
You work for 40yrs to have $1m in your retirement, Meanwhile some people are putting just $10k in a meme coin for just few months and now they are multi millionaires. I pray that anyone who reads this will be successful in life
Trading in Bitcoin now is the wisest thing to do now especially beginner....
Trading without professional guide...Huh I laugh you, because you will remain where you are or even make huge losses that will stop you from trading, this has been one of the biggest problem to new traders
You're right! I have lost a lot trading all by myself without a guide. It's been an uneasy ride for me. Who is your mentor please. how can i reach her i really need help in this bear market now?
I know someone who can help you Olivia Brown
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When I discharged from the military, I wanted to ‘get away’ but I wanted to work too. Ended up on semi-submersible for around 6 years. I actually loved it out there. If you’re lucky enough to have a good crew, it makes a massive difference. A lot of the guys I worked with were ex forces from around the world, so having that in common probably made us work better as a team. The gig was hard, but a lot of us still trained every day after work. Weights/boxing etc…
Saw some incredible things in my time there. Like marine life depending on where we were. Looking down and seeing the silhouettes of 100 hammerhead sharks is a surreal reminder that if you end up overboard, you won’t have time to drown.
The best sunsets and skylines were seen from the helideck. Food was great because a good chef will earn 3x more on a rig than he will in Sydney harbour. Quality of food has a big impact on morale, so I didn’t see many rigs without great food.
Yep, it was a dangerous gig, and I saw some bloody awful injuries. Nobody that knew what we did had the stones to say we didn’t earn every dollar. Also met some awesome people, and gained some life experience most don’t.
"Most hammerhead species are fairly small and are considered harmless to humans. However, the great hammerhead's enormous size and fierceness make it potentially dangerous, though few attacks have been recorded."
Still fuck that.
Amazing explanation on the lifestyle. I got mad respect for you's.
Sharks will not eat you, you would drown.
@@paulreel3844 I’m Australian. Hammerheads are one of 3 sharks known to attack people. They say they don’t like the taste… but that’s of little comfort because you’re usually in 3 pieces by the time they figure that out.
Anyway, sharks were the least dangerous part of my job. They just looked badass.
@@cmen6895they sure as hell will eat you. We’re not on the normal menu but we’re not off limits. Meat is meat
To the people who worked in oil rids rather on land or on the ocean, thank you so much for your services, With many close calls and sacrifices. Without you guys planes won’t fly and cars won’t move. So many many thank yous. ❤💕💕💕
My husband works in these conditions. The weather conditions has always stressed me. It really takes a lot of hardship and courage to work in such places and conditions.
But y'all loaded 8:34
How much is the salary
Why not just become a software engineer
@@sheldonhollis5258 so who will do the hard job ?
@@nitesh_pusham25 32k a year
They money is good but it’s not worth it if you ask me. My husband used to work offshore for about 10 years. The weather and rough seas, being stuck in Mexico for 6 months straight not being able to come home or see him. Being in fear of pirates attacking his boat while he was out there, it was just so nerve wrecking!! And EVERYTIME he leaves you never know if he’s going to make it back. On his last hitch, when he was off for 30 days he put in for an application for an at home job, a week before he was set to return he got the job. THE SAME BOAT he was set to work on, (which he worked on for years SEACOR POWER) headed out a couple of miles from shore , hit some unexpected rough weather and the boat capsized! It brought us to tears because many men including his captain lost their lives and that could have easily been my husband! Had he gone back a week later.
damn. this life just doesn't make any sense
Wow
Cap 🧢
Better this than military combat deployments
What was the name of the boat that capsized?
Literally no one thought life on an oil rig was luxurious …
Well, I did -- but then discovered I was confusing it with life on The Love Boat.
-- Capt. Stubing
I assumed they lived in penthouse suites and ate lobster only taking breaks for spa time.
@@Actias1974 ...or maybe even some "Diversity, Sensitivity & Inclusion" classes fitted-in there as well?
-- BR
millennials do
Shit they live better than me, I don’t have any pools around that I can swim at. I have to drive 3 hours to a beach lol gym gets pretty expensive too
Did that for 10 years until our helicopter went down 35 miles offshore Louisiana coast breaking my back and retired me at 28. Great job with a bunch of crazy tough guys and few girls. I sure miss that job.
How is life now? Do you get paid well because of the incident?
@@scammer9348 I was paid well. But I didn’t stop I have rental homes and apartments and trailer park. I do live in pain everyday and I don’t do the things I love like I used to like fishing I love it but boats kill my back. It’s was not worth it. But my kids and wife have greatly benefited the most. I can say I break my back for my family. lol. I didn’t die so I don’t bitch.
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@@drewapple9681 you're a fuckin legend just for thinking like that.
🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
If you're lucky enough to work for some Norwegian companies, you can end up working 2 weeks on and have 4 weeks off. Benefits and pay are also really good. Thats what i want to do.
It’s truly mind-blowing, seeing these massive structures & the people working on them! I used to have some friends that worked on these things. They’d go out for 2 weeks & come back LOADED w/ money! I wanted to do it too, but never did after discovering how they had to work out there. I worked at a steel mill, & decided I was better on dry land! 😁
@@mishaladara meth?
It appears you’ve never been in a cruise ship. They are like an entire city on the water with amenities that are ten fold better than the ones shown on this video. The only difference being that they aren’t drilling.
@@HiThisIsMine I’ve been on 4 cruise ships. I’ve never been on an oil rig though. 😐
@@SteveBrownRocks2023 - Neither have I, but the basics are the same…. Actually, they’re often much more amazing on cruise ships.
@@HiThisIsMine hey, at least I’m not getting all greasy & worn-out from work when I’m on a ship! Anyway, I’m staying on dry land from now on. I used to fly small planes too(Aircoupe 415C & Cessna 150) but I’m not doing that anymore either! 😄👍🏽
The rough necks I worked with with their hours and time off made almost as much as the entry level engineers around 90 k. The drillers 130-140k and the tool pushers 150s to 180s. The drilling supervisors pay varies a lot of them are consultants get paid a day rate, but the senior ones I worked with would make 200 to 300k. The directional drillers same or more, just the LWD hands would make 180k and the directional drillers 300k, but they work a bunch of hours.
Their salaries are off. 60k-70k is more what an entry level process/production technician gets paid. I never heard of anyone making 40 k on a rig 😂
Edit: This was in California, USA so I am not talking about rates abroad. Also the more senior field electricians and production operators would make in the 110 to 120k range which I consider the cushy jobs compared to rough necking.
thank you for this comment. i heard 40 grand to start on a oil rig and i stopped watching, there's no way, that's full time at mcdonalds
Believe it or not, you'll get people on alot less than £40,000/$50,000
Makes a lot more sense
The gulf of Mexico is the worst paying oil field I've ever worked in
@@peterconnor4193how are you? How did you get into the field? Am from Zimbabwe
As a consultant to Royal Dutch Shell, I have spent many weeks on the rigs in the North Sea as well as the Gulf of Mexico. It is hard and cold work, especially the North Sea. Shell required a week of Off Shore Survival Training (mine was in Rotterdam, Netherlands). It was very rigorous and scary. Everything was 12 on-12 off. The shifts ran two weeks off--two weeks on except the ones in Norway.
Amazing. This is a dream for me
How much is your net pay
This is one of job .I want
Lol a consultant doesn’t work he tells the other services what oil company wants his pretty much a relay guy with the best pay there.
I've been working offshore in the Norwegian part of the North Sea since -06, and I can't think of a better job - especially considering our schedule is 07.00-19.00 for 14 days followed by 28 days of leave.
-With that said I did loose income when we went from 14-21 to 14-28, but I haven't had one day of regrets from voting yes on that offer. 👍
I was a cook on several rigs. It was tough. I've worked 12 hours a day. Away from my girlfriend at that time, family, and friends sometimes for 6 months. Longer if the weather is going to be bad. Because other shift of guys couldn't get on the Rig. A large Crane would transfer a group of guys from one rig to our main rig. Literally hanging in the air. But it was awesome to feed over a 1,000 men 3 meals a day, and putting out snacks for the guys. Also banking homemade pies, cookies, and cakes. Unfortunately, women wasn't allowed on the rigs anymore with men employees. Due to you know what was going on
you guys are the heroes of the rig.
I worked with similar situations in remote land before, 12 hours shifts, weeks in and out, you have to work hard when you are at it.
the good meals are not only our mental comfort, but also our time clock, that is when we know the time when breakfast, lunch and dinner are served.
Thanks, food is the only thing that actually keeps you working physically and emotionally
What was going on?
Yeah, can you please explain in detail what was going on.
Pls explain what was going on
One of the largest wave ever recorded was one that hit an oil rig in the North Sea. The battering they take from the weather is extreme. I used to load oil tankers off the Shetland Isles with North Sea oil. One such wave hit our ship on the dock which happened to be the largest ship in the world at the time. The weight of the ship and cargo and the dock it was tied to were in excess of 1 million tonnes but the wave moved the entire ship and dock with ease.
I could never. I think I would shit my pants if I saw a wave the size of a mountain. I have a fear of deep water and what could be in it, so this seems like a night mare for me
@@ChrisPtoes27 Same here man. It really takes guts to work in such jobs.
That’s wild
Heh heh - I paddle out there in that deep black water in a tiny 16 ft sea kayak, storms and all. Hundreds of miles...love it. No fear. The sea is a Beauty.@@ChrisPtoes27
I am so thankful for people that work these dangerous jobs and for anybody that’s served in our military’s thank you‼️
Your welcome
@@nnbs_ramirezwhat have you done ?
@@JTorres34 i was a coating inspector on one of the offshore rigs for salamis
Your children might think differently when they have to deal with the full effects of climate change 😢
@@creeib Then get off of fossil fuels. Nobody is forcing you to use them. Start with the device that you used to comment on this video.
Worked on one for 10 years. Paid off the homes I own. Made my Super healthy. Life is good due to the time spent. Now my work is split between office and field.
How does one get a job on an offshore platform ?
@@NatBrook-k1h You apply onshore ofcourse, any major oil & gas company that is involved in offshore drilling. Then based on your experience, they offer you. Its the start.
Good luck.
You must not speak English very well.
Having 3 weeks off for every two weeks of work is really good! We been fighting to get equal time off at where I used work offshore but we never had it. Our work schedule was 7 days work and 3-4 days off.
Also only 12 hours is considered work time.
you guys getting days off ?!?
@@karwanbarzngy9667
Where I used to work, we worked 7 days and go home for 3 or 4 days.
Is that what you asking?
@@Majorx93 i work 7 days a week, 30 days a month and 12 months a year...
@@karwanbarzngy9667
Why? Is it what you want?
@@Majorx93 no body want that, but this is what i have to do to survive here.
Worked on North Sea and Caribbean for years. Challenging, enjoyable every day....loved every minute. Sitting at my desk then suddenly chair slides across the room!.
What was your job position
My dad was an R&D man back in the 70’s. He would have to fly off to the North Sea on occasion to repair a part used in drilling called a pig. One of my favorite times with him was attending the OTC conference in Houston at the Dome. It’s where the world comes together to hold conferences and show future tech for offshore drilling. It was amazing then as a 10 year old Mexican American girl to see the future and my dad saying your future as engineer and life. I cant even imagine now in my 60s, what is out there awaiting the next generations. Unfortunately, I did not have the mindset to be an engineer, so junior year switched to Finance!
I'm an IT Administrator for an Offshore Oil company based in California. Ours are close enough to shore where locally based employees get to go home every night however some of the workers come from other states and prefer the 14 on 14 off shifts.
Where in California and are they hiring? Is it the one near Long Beach?
@@fog7980what offshore company is in Long Beach?
Thank you to the men and women who do this for a living. May you be protected and kept safe always.
I just looked up offshore oil rig job pay. first hit was zip recruiter which stated ~32k a year. That is like $15 an hour which many states is minimum wage. These men deserve more than triple that imo.
however free room and board, 2 out of 4 weeks off overall profitable
Zip recruiter isn’t accurate
The minimum in the North Sea is £37k a year and that’s the bottom of the bottom
They make more than 32k a year they can make up to 80k per year depending on what position you are
How can you belive a job like that starts at $34k annually lol. Start lowest $60-80k entry level
I worked the rigs most of my life, the money is good but not great. It's hard dirty work with lots of hours, in my case 12 hour days for 14 straight days, and you're away from home. On your days off you are trying to catch up with everything that didn't get done while you were away, then it's time to head back to work......
Because it seems everything goes wrong when you're away at work it's extremely hard on family life as well......
Hardworking men keep the world moving.
Oh I thought that was the Bud Light....girl.
@@KB-ke3fi LMAO!
feminist should see this comment
@@420cm they are useless people. Make them work on an oil rig for just a few hours and they will start whining.
There’s literally woman in this video too… you didn’t see the girl in the beginning?
I cruised past these once while a Cruise ship from New Orleans to Mexico. I was amazed looking at these rigs.
I worked in the Gulf of Mexico as an Electrical Engineer on Oil Rigs & loved it!
It's a lonely job being out 7 days & off 7 days, sometimes 14 on & 14 off but, the pay was great & the Food was even better!
You eat like hog on the Rig.
I had my own helicopter Pilot assigned to me because I was overseeing many rigs & Stems (smaller Rigs) and he was Straight out of the Military & could fly!
We had big flat screens, pool tables, ping pong tables, we could fish & it was great. 🤟
That sounds amazing. What kind of fish did you catch?
@@valkyrie5948blue whale 😂😂😂
What is the pay like 🤪😛😝 lol only if u wanna share
How much wages per month?
Ah, but did you se Ze Negro Diablo, the Black Demon Shark?
"Life on off shore oil rigs isn't luxurious"
*3 minutes later*
"Workers are provided with food, don't have to worry about laundry, have access to private cinema's, pooling area's, gyms, entertainment rooms and get 3 weeks off for every 2 weeks of work"
with the amount of work and hours they have to labor through, it really is not luxurious, I did similar things back in 2016, after every shift you will be too tired or mentally focused on work to enjoy those amenities. Life out there is basically Work, eat, work, shower and then sleep. you hardly have time and energy for anything else.
basically the only benefit those guys enjoy are the food, everything else are just there to make it look good.
I came here after playing a game Still Wakes the Deep
Same, hehe. I needed real footage!
I never realised it but offshore oil rigs are a feat of engineering
Lol, you really catch on quick
$40k-$60k a year for even a janitor out there is under paid. Every person on an oil rig should make $120k+ starting.
they are paid more usually, but the "relative low paid" from the beginning is to weed out the "lazy and undesirable" ones. most companies don't fire the workers in most situations, they just don't give them a raise and let those find another way out.
after a few months, they will bump you up to nearly 100k if they like you and you know who to ask.
I need a vacation after hearing the break down of a typical shift 😂
Same here. 😂😂
For me, oil rigs are the epitome of engineering 🔥
Only 46k a year !?!!??? These fellas deserve way more!!
The narrator describing the breaks made me laugh… ain’t no way in hell you’re gettin 5 breaks plus meal times 😂😂
You must work on an Oil rig. So what is the schedule like then?
@@Dirlewanger. yes I do, work starts at 0600, 15 break from 09-0915, 30 minute lunch at 1130, 15 minute break 3-315, dinner 530-6
@@Dirlewanger. ha you tried to be cute and he put you in your place
@@Sh4tterdL0g1c must be nice to have breaks lol
@@evabyrd7732 idk why people try to pretend like they don’t get breaks but I mean alright lol
Former military members were built for this type of job. 2-3 week deployments sound much better than 6+ months.
So real
Complete respect for those workers
Worked offshore for thirty years. We had no gyms. We had no movie room. 12-hour day at minimum. There were times we wished we had a 12-hour day. The work out there NEVER stops.
wages were too high tho weren't they?
@@fahadmohamed346 You were right boy. But back in 1980, there were no programs to send undeserving people to collage. Damn sure none for a white guy. Nobody cared if we succeeded. There were no programs to help us. I went offshore because they were considered the most badass blue collar workers of that time.
All of the amenities sounds like the new era to me
In the Gulf of Mexico, the norm is 14 days on/14 days off. The days are 6am to 6pm. There’s also a smaller night crew working 6pm to 6am.
Counting the days to on my off time, I work 28 days on and 28 days off.
It was bad during covid, we had 14 days of isolation, test and then 42 days and 28 days off.
8 years in this field. I say that I work 6 months a year.
how much do you earn and which rig?
Hey man do you have a email or social media I am 18 years old and I wanna work on a oil rig
Where do I sign up at
@@Gee_be_VibingGoogle lol
I work as a chemical engineer in designing those oil rigs and FPSO's. Generally you are posted as a production engineer with 14 days on off pattern. 14 days you are at home free from work. At oil rig you have to work for 12 hrs food is provided. To and fro tickets are completely borne by the company. It gets dirty at time and feels laborious. IT jobs are better.
Nice am also looking forward to work offshore as a rigger
Damn this job sounds exaxctly like my barracks lol. Living tightly together with your mates, getting everything provided and not seeing home that often all while working in an important, yet inherently dangerous job.
Guess I know what Im doing afterwards
You risk losing your life while being paid a pittance, though..
It's pretty much any ship rotation on the navy except you get to go home after 2 weeks.
pay is just a bit more than the military. just a bit. like 10s of thousands of dollars more, at least for entry level drilling floor and support and exploration
I was in the oil industry for 47 years and never worked a day in my life….I loved it….I learnt something new everyday…life was never dull….I met a lot of wonderful people….and I made good money…..absolutely no regrets….I am now retired and look back at my working life with the fondest of memories plus I traveled the world…..
Hats off to all those hard working giants, contributing to keep the world moving with great sacrifice.God bless them all. Jacolyn (Srilanka).
This video has some flaws, but a good insight into what life is like.
Also has a good amount of propaganda as well..
Apparently a shortage of oil has existed for 500 years, 1:35
Just watching those huge waves batter that rig is more than enough for me.
One correction: Demand has not exceeded supply in decades. In fact the supply is carefully constrained to maintain prices according to what OPEC+ want.
Otherwise, a very interesting video on working in offshore oil rigs.
One could make alot of corrections in this video...
@@AC-fv7kt this felt the most egregious mistake to me.
That is why Opec is called "Legal Cartel "
@gordongekko5886 And global warming is not directly related to fossil fuels, reduction in worldwide fires due to urbanization is just one aspect of it all, but we're insignificant compared to what mother nature is able to accomplish. One wrong move in foreign relations or a solar flare could do insurmountable damage to this planet, we should focus on reducing pollution and garbage.
I concur!
19 years in the offshore oilfield and going strong.
The engineers behind the entire set up is very impressive.
I’d love to work there for a month or two. Them checks all in thinking about
No way on earth chatgpt didn’t write the script
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I have been on more rigs than most people that work in the industry, I have been on many rigs, and drill ships that no longer exist, such as the Leo Clark that are now reefs.
For 17 years I worked on many land rigs, barge rigs, jackups, semi submersibles, and drill ships for several contractors. I did work for Sperry-Sun Halliburton for a few years before
finally moving on to other industries. I think everyone should get the chance to ride a crew boat in 20 foot seas for 6 hours, you would certainly thank God for your land jobs.
8:10 Did just under six years in the military and was paid roughly $59,000 total. Less than $10,000 per year. They owned me 24/7/365. Do the math as to what my hourly wages were. No complaints, the military made me what I am today, I knew what I was signing up for just like these people did. They shouldn't complain.
Narrator: Job/Oil Rig is Brutal!
2 min later.... Amenities include vacation spa, unlimited food, and arcade room 😂lol
these rigs need GIRLS for entertainment! fly them in for one night a week!!
As an oil and gas worker, after you finish your shift, clean a stupid amount of grease and oil from you, talk to your family back home, eat dinner and sort anything else you have going on in your life… good luck finding time to use the spa or pool table 😂
@@ll-nm4fw 3 nights a week!!!
I didn't pay attention to the particular rig he was covering, but it wasn't like that on mine, It was like a navy ship.
@@ll-nm4fw They DO in Houston and New Orleans.
when youtube algorithm brings this kind of stuff then there's no doubt my dream of working on an offshore rig is anout to come true😂
I can confidently say, no salary or benefits would ever get me on one of those rigs.. the guys and girls who work on these have next level abilities to suppress fear
@@caseybaker1147sure you do
@@caseybaker1147And what is that?
@@nickbesserersoftware engineer maybe, they make a ton of money
My brother in law worked on the oil rig. He did quite well, but he got hurt and went on disability.
How’d he get hurt if I may ask?
2:09 - I spent 4 yrs on that platform, it was called Heidleberg. I was there through start-up & comissioning and first oil. Anadarko was a great company to work for.
How much money did you make
I worked onshore covering the some of the wellhead and manifold equipment for heidelberg along with other Anadarko projects (horn mountain, lucius, caesar tonga, etc). Anadarko was great before Oxy took over. Oxy culture has pushed a lot of knowledgeable people with a lot of experience out of the company. Many of the old Anadarko people have gotten fed up, found other jobs, and quit.
At 4:23 looks like the Golden Eagle. It is cool to stumble upon an random video and reconize things.
@@WZPXZMDQRGTHEFYOPBMLNSHOPJBOJTwhere is the Anadarko one you worked on...?.. from Australia 🌍
Do you still work on rigs ???
Some of my favourite days working at Woodside in Western Australia were going to their Offshore Rigs... I would do it again any day.
What exactly did you do as work? I'm studying to become a chemical engineer in the field of petroleum and apparently I may be working on a rig and I can't find actual real life examples of what people do on it for their day to day work.
@@Brooke7218 Can't help you my friend, I was IT lolz.
@@r1master Thanks anyways brother. All the best.
@@Brooke7218 hey, I don’t know if woodside/BHP are still doing this, but they were hiring people to go through a traineeship of sorts some years back. Your particular qualification would make you highly competitive as a candidate. I went through woodside’s recruiting for this once, and got to the stage where I’d been ‘successful’, but they also froze applications as did a lot of offshore hosts at the time. Opportunity never came up again.
Your University should really be bombarding you with information on where to get a start. But generally speaking, get in the habit of monitoring positions for chevron, BHP, Halliburton, Schlumberger, Woodside, CCIWA, Maesrsk etc… there’s plenty of TPC’s out there that might give you a shot too. But you might need to fork out for your own TBOSIET and other necessary work permits. Good luck.
My dream to be in it, right now be in Land Rig but one day be in Offshore 🔥
I wanted to work on a rig so badly. Life took me another direction, I now have my wife, a son, my dogs. I could ask for more. I can imagine if I was a roughneck I wouldn't have any of this.
Eh? Women go after offshore workers for the money and the freedom to cheat half of every month.
Right enough, it does usually end in divorce, but not before she squeezes out a couple of heirs.
It wasnt your life that took you somewhere. It was the lack of self control within your penile.
@@ernestchadwell9069 same with soldiers
I worked offshore for years loved the job easy money good life style
Yip, I did it for 4 years and made enough money to pay off both my new cars and my 2500 sq ft house.
How much you made in 4years?
Hey guys, how could I get in touch with you? I have few questions if you have time? Thanks 😊
Thats pretty interesting. I'm grateful for everything done out there but I hate the risks involved and the family time lost. Someone's got to do it I guess but my heart goes out to every man/woman who does this work for a living.
Only $40k - $60k? Lmao..... It should be $60k outright. Given the extra weeks off are nice, but that's seriously not a lot for a exhausting job like this.
Ive heard salaries of $100-300k for 6-8 months work
Yeah 40k is way off lowest paid guy sees at least 80k for 6 months work.. I work on land oilfield and will see 150k this year easily
They honestly don't earn as much as they should.
With breaks every 2 hours... They make enough.
@@jameshenderson5385 I used to work for a company wiring HVAC equipment. I would work 12-14 on the daily for 5 days and sometimes Saturday... Lunch in driving between jobs....I asked for a raise and they told me if I could find a better offer somewhere else, the door is wide open. They also informed I make good money overtime.
I work 12 hours mon-fri, two 10 min breaks, one 30 min lunch. Then 6 on Saturday, two 10 min breaks. It sucks but they pay me enough to not care
@@bodybong well king, for those kind of hours, you DESERVE more. Enough to make you care and do your job with a 110% dedication because you SHOULD care.
@gojitmal1978 what you smoking sports players make millions easy and that shit ain't nowhere near as hard and life threatening as this shit and it ain't nowhere near as important either. Shits backwards these workers deserve that much
I am myself a seafarer I work on ship as a OS ordinary seaman and I know how much risk involves is this job you are always disconnected to outside world including family and you will get mentally disturbed..
They deserve every penny, i think they (the workers) should earn even more. They make the world run everyday!
It's pretty crazy seeing these in person. If you take a cruise out of Houston to Cancun, you'll see these oil rigs all over the place
Not a bad work schedule when they break it down, work for two hours, take a break, work for two hours, eat, work for two more hours, take another break, hard work but that schedule is amazing 😂
you got the math wrong. your formula only adds up to 6 hours, the shifts are 12 hours, every single day for 2 weeks up to 8 weeks.
This is basically a book report written by Chat GPT. Some of the footage was awesome but the stock footage was brutal at times. You could tell the editor didn't know what he was looking at.
lmao i thought i was alone in thinking that, by looking at the comments
@@kevman360 I’m glad a fellow Tradesman showed up and saw exactly what I did : ). Like I’m not trying to “hate on” the video. Mainly because it may inspire some people to actually go to school, learn a trade, and have means to feed their families. But boy howdy, I wish this was made by actual tradespeople lol. Take care and stay safe Brother 🤝.
I've read they don't earn that much $30 hr or so , props to these guys I applaud them
Depends what you do im at 55$
Yeah I'm at $42
Nah some earn thousands a day no joke
And RUclipsr makes millions wtf we doing risking our lives lol 😆
Im at 65 an hour as piping. Pressure Vessel and tank inspector. Average 160 to 170k a year. On shore though
Im doing my 1st yr mechanical engineering.. I've finalized on being part of offshore oil rig... looks fun also risky though
im glad you kept referencing oil rigs because i forgot this video was about oil rigs
This is a really well made video and fun to watch, but that film grain filter is annoying as all hell. Please consider removing in future videos!!
Much respect to all of the men and women oil rig workers every where and thank all of you every where around the world 🌎 for all that you brave people do❤️
Women oil rig workers? Whatever you’re smoking, pass it over here
@@mr.doctorcaptain1124there’s literally woman in the video.. you didn’t see the girl in the beginning?
@@mr.doctorcaptain1124 There's certainly less women, but not no women. In terms of roughnecks one in twenty of them is a woman, and for other positions it can get up to one in five.
Where’s the gender equality? 🤣
Right they don't wanna talk about that though 🤣
😅
I mean, there are plenty of women on board oil rigs- not nearly as many as men, but they're there. You can see a good number in the video.
Even roughnecks are 5% women.
Most women are raising families or have husbands who definitely don’t want them in this type of work. I’m an engineer and my husband constantly tells me to leave my job because i don’t have to work. Most ppl would take the offer of never having to work again, and since the husband loves the wife & appreciates her for yk birthing his children, he WANTS her to stay home. And here you are, unmarried and clueless about the agreement most wives have w their husbands🤦🏻♀️. Stay out of married people’s business ;)
and being an engineer is nothing like this i’m mostly inside designing all day. I couldn’t imagine trying to convince my husband to be okay with a job like this☠️
Can’t believe I just seen the company I work for “ESS compass group” I work in defence but had no idea they done oil rigs too! Might go for a transfer and try something new one day 😏
Had an incident on our platform once during well drilling. The drillers miscalculated the trajectory of the drill head and it perforated into an active well and huge ass gas cloud engulfed our rig. Had to abandon the rig into small lifeboats. The experienced change my outlook on life
I found this to be a somewhat light view of the realities no mention of some of the first class assholes you WILL encounter nor some of the less than desirable "older" rigs !
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I haven’t done offshore, but there’s definitely assholes in onshore drilling too. Was thinking about trying offshore
@@davidcrosthwaite offshore a totally different ball game a lot more equipment for starters. Assholes come with the territory!
@@davidcrosthwaite Except when you quit you can't drive away.
Like the 48 year old rust bucket Heather Alpha I am on right now? You are not wrong 🤣👍
This and many jobs like it are proof that for certain people in this world myself included some risk is certainly acceptable if the pay is good enough.
I want to work doing this. I'm a tool maker now and want to work on an offshore oil rig!!! Where do I sign up to be a pipefitter?
Get a twic card
As a person whose worked on a rig for 25 years all ima tell you is make sure this is really what you want to do because its not all glamorous like the cameras make it seem and its definately not for the weak minded.
@@stefanlal3060 and the sea sick prone. I saw newbie moppers out there puking on the floor within an hour. That's how we knew who the new guys were.
It amazes me how so many people find our job so fascinating haha. When you are out there, you don't see that way very often. You are just at work, counting down the days to get off.
Good internet is the your bff
we had a crew change every 3 weeks (overlapping 6 week rotations), so once you got to that first crew change, then you could start counting down. 21 days and a wake up! get off the boat, see the fam for a couple days, pack the boards and head to Bali for a month...
"For the past 500 years, the demand for oil has exceeded the supply". Which is not true at all. There's enough oil in the ground to last more than the next 1 million years at current consumption.
🙏❤️I can’t say thank you enough for risking your lives for ours💙sending all aloha positive safety vibes! U have my support & prayers living in such an off shore environment
Be safe 🤍
i am a woman. but i would reaallllyyyy like to work on this thing. thats sooo cool !! work 2 weeks straigth then 3 weeks of weekend omg this is so cool !
Super interesting but I plan on working on the pipelines far below the rigs as a saturation diver one day.
Hats off to you sir, that job is my biggest phobia. Probably wouldn’t do that for a million bucks
My cousin was a gulf rig diver/welder. Dude made 200K a year after 6 months of trade school and 2 years of field work. Lots of tests all the time, especially safety mandatory and OSHA. Unfortunaly a shark ate him.
If I hit complete rock bottom in life with nowhere else to go, I'd work in an oil rig
Lol I’ve worked (derricks) both on and offshore and can tell u offshore is so much more chill and is a heck of a lot more luxurious than onshore
I'm 100% certain that this script was written by AI
Why does the video have sparkles?
Seems like a pretty amazing career opportunity.
Couldn’t pay me enough to do this. Called danger money for a reason 😂
on my first jobs Offshore for 3/4 weeks we didn't have 'Wifi' Cell phones, Gyms, cinemas, etc. We had a laptop and shared USB sticks with ripped bad-quality films. No communication with the real world at all. I have seen and once almost went mad, when we did have a few bars on the cell and tried to call your 'girlfriend 'or wife and got no response it was a mind fuck. Even worse I had a girlfriend at my first jobs, that always answered the phone at some 'after party'. Not fun. if you go offshore, don't get into a relationship!
I'm a welder and alwayd wanted to work on a rig. I'll be attending STCW course next week and start working on Adriatic Sea rigs. Hopefully I can work on bigger ones
dam that's really nice
How do I work in these offshore oil rigs? Love it
How do you get into this as a beginner?
Apply they are hiring anyone rite now cuz no one wants to work these days it's hard to get ppl
Don't
@@primz5041 where to apply?
@@primz5041 I’d say you’d need some form of qualifications for work ?
@Peter O’Brien no when you get hired the give you all your licenses and training it's simple stuff the job is pretty east if you apply apply for operations cuz if you work on the drilling side you will be busting your ass
Do they? No doubt some jobs are high paid. But, with the 4 weeks on and 4 weeks off (unpaid) you have to divide many pay rates by two. Many offshore workers arrange to do an onshore job during that set of weeks. (I can't remember what the usual on/off day periods are, may not be 4 weeks. I'm recalling conversations with folk who have considered offshore work. There are vacancies for them, but they are surprised to find it's not necessarily a lot of money over the whole year)
divide by two? say what? you make $60,000 a year after taxes, thats 52 weeks, but you only worked 26 weeks. its $60k a year no dividing about it, and its about half the year off to do whatever you want, surf around the world, which is exactly what i did.
Worked on the Frigg field TCP2 compression platform , ships with a flat back deck would come and a crane would pick up and load the containers
the sea was rough waves would toss the ships every which way , when the containers were tied the ship movement would result in several dozen tops of containers sweeping around
sailors would be crushed , limbs severed as a common occurrence , the skill of the crane operator was paramount
he had to judge the sea movement in three dimensions , the weigh of the load and the timing .
one operator was famous for being the best , ships captains would even refuse to get in until he was on shift such was his skill and reputation
he could have deposited or lifted a tray full of champagne glass from the back of a bucking bronco
just being in the middle of the ocean is scary enough im glad we have men in society they do so much yet get shit on the most