This was by far one of my favorite jobs I have ever worked. I was what they called an SDR (Safety Department Representative/Paramedic) but I started off years earlier as a roustabout. If you can handle being gone from home and I could there is no better job. Yes, you work 12 hours a day for 14,21, and 28 days but when you get off you are steps from a shower, supper, and your bed. They cook for you. After my shower, I placed my dirty clothes outside my room and the next morning they were clean. When I went to work they pulled and washed my sheets, made my bed, and cleaned the room. Granted I was on a semi which was one of the biggest in the industry but I loved it. Once you get out there and start working a regular shift you end up with two families. One when you are home and one when you are at work. The only reason I ever quit was because of a bad car accident I had while I was home that left me disabled.
I got a question about living on an oil rig. When the big storms hit and you have massive ways slamming into the rig, does the rig shake a bit or like can you feel the waves hitting the rig
@@MrMoet pay usually starts out around $23.75 a hr at the company’s everyone ik works for on the gulf coast. Im actually applying to go offshore. You’ll need to get a TWIC card before you apply anywheres and have steel toe boots!
Spent three months working on an oil rig off the Southwest coast of Ireland back in 1978. 12 hour days, 14 days on 14 days off. Absolutely loved it. Had I not emigrated to the US early ‘79 I’d have gone back the following season.
@@rc59191 yea you right deep water horizon… I was working on that ship , obviously I wasn’t at that location when it exploded… I was a floater going to a different rig every time… the movie hit different for me… it was in The Gulf of Mexico.
@@makemarker money is definitely a huge plus. We had a recruiter come to our high school welding class during my senior year looking for welder's to work on those rigs. Almost took him up on that offer but I was dead set on joining the Air Force.
Fascinating. I wonder how these oil rigs evolved. Who designed the first ones and how they decided on what to include, how much space for each function, etc. Must have been a lot of learning and trial-and-error. Like a ship they have to be somewhat self-sufficient and ready to handle a wide array of problems and situations. Take food for example, how many chefs are needed for a crew of about 200? How much food must be ready for each meal? How much storage space for that food for... 2 weeks? 2 months? Etc. Then multiply that kind of planning out for dozens of other jobs and functions. Must have taken a team of architects and engineers years to figure all this out.
That giant one at the end, and the ship that transported it, were simply amazing. The expense to build such structures, maintain them and staff them is mind-boggling. You'd think they were pumping pure gold.
It wasn't trial and error. Math is used in the planning process. How many chefs for 200 people and how much food? That is a math problem. It's all math.
I must say how pleasantly surprised and pleased I am reading the positivity and support of the oil field workers in the majority of the comments posted. As an active oil field guy, myself, it seems like the media does little to paint us, or our work, in good light. I regularly have opportunities to hold great conversations with air plane passengers about the oil field, many who've never met anyone in the industry. Something all of these conversations have in common is that fact that so few people understand not only the process of getting the oil but also the myriad products oil (hydrocarbons) is used to make: cosmetics, plastics, pharmaceuticals, glass, metal, computer chips, etc. The way the media vilifies oil in such a single-faceted way shows that even they don't comprehend their dependence on it for our modern life; it's not just for fueling cars. Unfortunately, for many of the products oil is used to make, we have yet found a suitable, sustainable replacement - hopefully someday that is not the case. If all oil production and refining were shut down today, the world as we know it would drastically and irreversibly change. Until that day comes when we have feasible alternatives, oil is and will remain the backbone of modern civilization. In the meantime, you folks in the science/chemistry community, keep working at solving this problem of our utter dependence on oil... my children's children are counting on you for their future. Until then, we in the patch will keep finding the oil and bringing it to surface.
Yes people don't realize how our modern comfort is oil dependent. However if we keep burning oil at this rate, the world will radically change too. And it's going way faster than we thought !
Working offshore was the most valuable experience and greatest time of my life. I worked as a mechanic for the anchor winches on semi sub drilling rigs and accommodation platforms.
Hi, I'm a fresh graduate, offshore lover, Naval Architect from Istanbul, Turkey. Could you please assist me and tell me about what I have to do in order to be a part of an offshore company? I'm all ok from procurement to production, to start-up...etc. Just wanna work on renewable energy since I've began studying.
My husband has worked out there since he was 19, almost 10 years now. His next promotion he will soon be an OIM, very proud of him! Hard life to live but he’s been blessed and so have we
Or did you forget Here is the video in the comments Someone asked What is your age You said 9 They said okay I’m 10 Sooooo if your husband is 29 and you’re 9, that’s wrong that’s not okay, and your “husband” should be in prison for child rape
Thank you to everyone involved in fossil fuel production! You provide the energy for us to have the opportunity to have an incredible quality of life!!!
The problem with fossil fuel is it is like drinking a glass of water. Eventually the glass is empty and you have to refill. What happens when you can't refill? Eventually with the rate of todays consumption there will come a time when we have depleted the fossil fuel resource of our planet. What do we do then? Especially with our level of dependence. Most don't think about it now because it won't affect them. But what is this doing for our children/grandchildren?
The name "fossil fuel" is a misnomer! Oil does not come from dinosaur bones, it's a natural byproduct of the Earth! Oil has been found thousands of feet below the lowest fossils ever discovered!
Ygritte Snow, perhaps you should set and live your example by only using renewable energy, forgoing cars transport electric or not, not using the technologies derived from Fossil Fuels like a Cell Phone, Computers etc and don't take any of the Tax revenues from the Oil,Gas, Coal Industries, You sound like the elites who keep saying the Public must stop using Oil, Gas Coal, but then Travel around the Globe of Oil/Jet Fuel Private Jets
It's like going to the ISS or staying under the ocean in a submarine for a long while. Except here you can actually get some fresh air, that is if you ignore the terrible smell of gas and oil of course.
Amazing. Thank you for you all who have been offshore for supporting not only your family but also other people. And, I am grateful to gain more information for all about off shore oil ridge.
I absolutely love the carefree, upbeat music, smiling faces, and carefully chosen words. You could even start to forget that those are the oil giants that destroy our world- polluting and destroying oceanic and land based ecosystems using the exact platforms in the aforementioned video.
I worked offshore in the late 70's to early 80's. I don't think the word "safety" was a part of oilfield vernacular in those days because I remember some scary shit.
I worked marine pipelay,and construction worldwide,dive support,sbms installation,fpsos,it's not for everyone. We did 90/30 tours. 12-18 hour days great people but, it's work! Do your job or you are gone.lost a few friends too!
If everybody loves this work so much why does everyone leave the work in less than a year? Is there anyone out there that's made a career of this? I wish I knew about this when I was younger because I'm sure I would've loved it.
i think it’s similar to joining the military, it gives you some rigid structure, and time away from your problems, a new location and everything is taken care of.
have been involving in this offshore sector for almost 4 months, I know that I'm still a newbie and still have a lot of things to learn, it was so hard to adapt to this kind of environment in the beginning, but so far it has valuable and great experience, much love to offshore oil n gas
@@sivagnanasambandan i work in a pub and this oldish bloke came in and said he works on a rig, well someone that’s his mate said so, (it’s a local) anyway, he said that there’s courses for it, so basically if you go online I think you might be able to find courses for it, but comes at abit of a cost, might be worth looking it up :)
I have to say I am immensely impressed with the jaw-dropping engineering that goes into these rigs and all the accompanying things that happen to keep the humans alive and well on these rigs. I know the fossil fuel industry gets a bum wrap, but that aside, the engineering and the skill of these rigs and ships is inspiring.
So interesting. I've watched RUclips vids on workers at oil platforms and seagoing wind turbines. I admire those who give so much of themselves to keep us all going. Thank you.
They get paid VERY WELL even rough necks make many times what they could earn doing most other kinds of unskilled labor. I believe they earn every single penny of that money but I know that's why they are out there doing the job.
LOL, I like the use of the sucker rod rig for the derrick hand example! I have worked in the Gulf of Mexico for 38 years. Have done everything from service rig work (snubbing), conventional work over rigs and even construction work. Have been in production now 34 years working the shelf. It's been a good life and yes it has been tough at times, but I would not trade it for anything. The video shows a mix of drilling rigs as well as production platforms. I can tell you most shelf platforms are not that big or have that much room. Most platforms on the shelf average 5-9 workers per facility. The workers generally cook, clean, wash their own cloths as well as run the facility. There are some larger platforms that have some of the conveniences like on the video but a majority of the manned platforms on the shelf are as I described. The deepwater facilities are more like what you see on the videos. It was an interesting video that somewhat gives a good representation of offshore life.
@jf831024 Happy to work in the Norwegian sector, very different there. Plenty of really big production platforms there with between 100-300 workers at any time given. Safety is the best in the bussiness, world wide. Had my share of other sectors, and nothing compares.
@@geddon436 I'm a "foreigner" to Norway, living in Sweden ("Next door" neighbour). Generally it's not that easy, but with looked for/appropriate trade/certificates and contacts it's possible. Also much depending on where you live. Travel expenses is looked at, and if the companies could decide you had to live close to the heliport.
I use to work on offshore supply vessels in the North sea 2 weeks on 2 off horrendous in winter, anchor handling and offloading supplies,didn't get much sleep.
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. John 3:16-17
I used to do mostly day trips to platforms in Cook Inlet doing communications work.i also spent some time on a drill ship in the Chukchi Sea in the early 1990s.
@@drganesan62 I am sure of that. I worked in communications for 15 years along the Alaska Pipeline and then my last 6 years before retirement was working at a gateway earth station serving most of Alaska’s rural communities.
hello my dear friend I guess you are right about what you said in your comment..is nice meeting you I hope everything is going fine over there..is like you know a lot about engineering I we like is to talk more about this..but I don't know if that we be ok by you....I hope to hear from you soon🙏🙏
Just out of curiosity, are there oil rigs located 'in the middle of the ocean" or 'thousands of miles away from the coastline'? I thought they were located about 100, maybe 200 miles off the coast.
As technology advances, they are getting farther away from the coastline. But something like 400 miles is as far out as they go at present. So far as I can tell, the limit is not the distance from the shore, but the depth of the sea. 10,000 feet is about the limit, which means they can't go much beyond the continental shelves.
How do they get those things out there to stand firm in the water without moving? How they know how deep out there is to build the equipment to carry out there an it is installed?
It has always been my dream to work at sea not infront computer screens..I hope some how I get to expirience this..even its for a month..Applied couple of times at Stena bulk
hello my dear friend I guess you are right about what you said in your comment..is nice meeting you I hope everything is going fine over there..is like you know a lot about engineering I we like is to talk more about this..but I don't know if that we be ok by you....I hope to hear from you soon🙏🙏
Give your life's to christ Jesus repent of your sins expect Jesus christ as your lord and savior judgment day we all shall stand before our creator God and be held accountable for our deeds where would your souls rest heaven or hell 🙏
all depends on oil reserves all straight down drilling then this was in the sixty's then they brought in directional drilling i worked on all the rigs then the Glomar 3 -Sedco - and ocean digger
Just came home from Ekofisk in the North Sea, its almost like a city in the middle of the ocean with 6 rigs connected with bridges. And its more than 1km to walk across the whole complex.
@@davidpearson3304 In real world, with many beautiful young women around, it's surely better than working from home. But this job, in the middle of a sea, it's surely not the case :)).
“What keeps these workers going for many months” …… you mean a shit ton of money to earn? Those are all very high paying jobs. Seems the lucrative side of business is motivation *enough*
I worked the pipeline(s) for years from Texas , Colorado and The Dakotas .. 12 hour shifts 6 to 6 14 sometimes up to 21 days straight there's nothing like the ROW (right-of-way) the hands working these offshore rigs I have nothing but respect for !! But I'll stick to dry land
Gargantuan achievements in engineering: personally i don't have the gumption to work on these mammoth technological platforms and advances in oil extraction , but it takes hundreds of skilled people to make it happen. Fascinating.
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@@onehitterquitter2130 it is compare to onshore ofcourse but it depends who you work for and who you know. But yes its definitely worthwhile. Im doing it now. What people don't realise is that you don't spend while you're out there so that in essence is money in your pocket too. I been doing it for about 5yrs now.
This is the issue now at hand...very few everyday people .... and our ignorant government “leaders” .... have not a clue as to how much capital must be invested in these rigs to get oil out of the ground.
This was by far one of my favorite jobs I have ever worked. I was what they called an SDR (Safety Department Representative/Paramedic) but I started off years earlier as a roustabout. If you can handle being gone from home and I could there is no better job. Yes, you work 12 hours a day for 14,21, and 28 days but when you get off you are steps from a shower, supper, and your bed. They cook for you. After my shower, I placed my dirty clothes outside my room and the next morning they were clean. When I went to work they pulled and washed my sheets, made my bed, and cleaned the room. Granted I was on a semi which was one of the biggest in the industry but I loved it. Once you get out there and start working a regular shift you end up with two families. One when you are home and one when you are at work. The only reason I ever quit was because of a bad car accident I had while I was home that left me disabled.
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I wish I could work out there on oil rig, but I was injured as well.
I got a question about living on an oil rig.
When the big storms hit and you have massive ways slamming into the rig, does the rig shake a bit or like can you feel the waves hitting the rig
Thank you for your share. How was the pay?
@@MrMoet pay usually starts out around $23.75 a hr at the company’s everyone ik works for on the gulf coast. Im actually applying to go offshore. You’ll need to get a TWIC card before you apply anywheres and have steel toe boots!
Safest base in a zombie apocalypse, hands down.
Until a helicopter arrives
Yeah until you run out of food and water and the electricity goes out and assuming the helicopter pilots are still alive
Worst place if Lovecraftian entities attack.
@@mikeySC760 assuming you have a self sustainable setup its (one of) the best. solar panels, wind turbine, farm on the roof etc.
Still wakes the deep game😂
Spent three months working on an oil rig off the Southwest coast of Ireland back in 1978. 12 hour days, 14 days on 14 days off. Absolutely loved it. Had I not emigrated to the US early ‘79 I’d have gone back the following season.
How much money did you make?
@@dalisay1020 1978 holy shit
@@Mntguy-nr9vl They were not making that much back in 1978, that may be accounting for inflation, but it wasn't that much.
It sounds exciting. I'd love to visit such a rig.
@@sheepbleat6556 nah that’s what we make now but the roster is 3 weeks on 4 off 3 on 5 off
Props to the workers. Something about the ocean terrifies me, no way I could do it.
Facts you should see the movie dark water horizon
@@Quincy-101 lol trying to give him nightmares? Also it's Deepwater Horizon.
@@rc59191 yea you right deep water horizon… I was working on that ship , obviously I wasn’t at that location when it exploded… I was a floater going to a different rig every time… the movie hit different for me… it was in The Gulf of Mexico.
Yeah, definitely not for everyone this sort of lifestyle
@@makemarker money is definitely a huge plus. We had a recruiter come to our high school welding class during my senior year looking for welder's to work on those rigs. Almost took him up on that offer but I was dead set on joining the Air Force.
Oil rigs are fascinating to me, I love looking-at them and watching how the ocean moves around them. Especially in the wild North Sea!
@Repent and believe in Jesus Christ no one asked, nor does anyone care.
Fascinating. I wonder how these oil rigs evolved. Who designed the first ones and how they decided on what to include, how much space for each function, etc. Must have been a lot of learning and trial-and-error. Like a ship they have to be somewhat self-sufficient and ready to handle a wide array of problems and situations. Take food for example, how many chefs are needed for a crew of about 200? How much food must be ready for each meal? How much storage space for that food for... 2 weeks? 2 months? Etc. Then multiply that kind of planning out for dozens of other jobs and functions. Must have taken a team of architects and engineers years to figure all this out.
One can only imagine
@@henryphilips6563 or Google
That giant one at the end, and the ship that transported it, were simply amazing. The expense to build such structures, maintain them and staff them is mind-boggling. You'd think they were pumping pure gold.
It wasn't trial and error. Math is used in the planning process. How many chefs for 200 people and how much food? That is a math problem. It's all math.
@@MH-zg5yw , math is raycsist
I must say how pleasantly surprised and pleased I am reading the positivity and support of the oil field workers in the majority of the comments posted. As an active oil field guy, myself, it seems like the media does little to paint us, or our work, in good light. I regularly have opportunities to hold great conversations with air plane passengers about the oil field, many who've never met anyone in the industry. Something all of these conversations have in common is that fact that so few people understand not only the process of getting the oil but also the myriad products oil (hydrocarbons) is used to make: cosmetics, plastics, pharmaceuticals, glass, metal, computer chips, etc. The way the media vilifies oil in such a single-faceted way shows that even they don't comprehend their dependence on it for our modern life; it's not just for fueling cars. Unfortunately, for many of the products oil is used to make, we have yet found a suitable, sustainable replacement - hopefully someday that is not the case. If all oil production and refining were shut down today, the world as we know it would drastically and irreversibly change. Until that day comes when we have feasible alternatives, oil is and will remain the backbone of modern civilization. In the meantime, you folks in the science/chemistry community, keep working at solving this problem of our utter dependence on oil... my children's children are counting on you for their future. Until then, we in the patch will keep finding the oil and bringing it to surface.
Yes people don't realize how our modern comfort is oil dependent. However if we keep burning oil at this rate, the world will radically change too. And it's going way faster than we thought !
I wish I could work on oil rigs
Working offshore was the most valuable experience and greatest time of my life. I worked as a mechanic for the anchor winches on semi sub drilling rigs and accommodation platforms.
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Hi, I'm a fresh graduate, offshore lover, Naval Architect from Istanbul, Turkey. Could you please assist me and tell me about what I have to do in order to be a part of an offshore company? I'm all ok from procurement to production, to start-up...etc. Just wanna work on renewable energy since I've began studying.
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@@egekarpuz you have to be a good dancer and know every american pie movie
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Shout out to all oil workers. You have all helped create the wonderful world that humans get to live in.
Thank you very much.
Dean PD, Great comments
Yes the men who have created it
Inside, like a mini hotel.......some had movie theater room. Outside, orchestrated chaos and dangerous.
I was chewed out ..once for not wearing a hardhat.
I was doing some contract work and it was an experience at only 18 yrs old.
My husband has worked out there since he was 19, almost 10 years now. His next promotion he will soon be an OIM, very proud of him! Hard life to live but he’s been blessed and so have we
Wow, OIM is massive. congrats to you and your hubby
😂😂😂😂 i went to your YT page! You told someone you were 9!
Or did you forget
Here is the video in the comments
Someone asked
What is your age
You said 9
They said okay I’m 10
Sooooo if your husband is 29 and you’re 9, that’s wrong that’s not okay, and your “husband” should be in prison for child rape
Stop capping bro, you are literally 9. No way you have a husband at that age.
Yeah, plenty of those 29 year old OIM's out there. Now, go play with your dolls.
Love these looks into what life is like working in unusual places..keep em coming..thank you!😘
Thank you to everyone involved in fossil fuel production! You provide the energy for us to have the opportunity to have an incredible quality of life!!!
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The problem with fossil fuel is it is like drinking a glass of water. Eventually the glass is empty and you have to refill. What happens when you can't refill? Eventually with the rate of todays consumption there will come a time when we have depleted the fossil fuel resource of our planet. What do we do then? Especially with our level of dependence. Most don't think about it now because it won't affect them. But what is this doing for our children/grandchildren?
@@ygrittesnow1701 moronic comment
The name "fossil fuel" is a misnomer! Oil does not come from dinosaur bones, it's a natural byproduct of the Earth! Oil has been found thousands of feet below the lowest fossils ever discovered!
Ygritte Snow, perhaps you should set and live your example by only using renewable energy, forgoing cars transport electric or not, not using the technologies derived from Fossil Fuels like a Cell Phone, Computers etc and don't take any of the Tax revenues from the Oil,Gas, Coal Industries, You sound like the elites who keep saying the Public must stop using Oil, Gas Coal, but then Travel around the Globe of Oil/Jet Fuel Private Jets
I passed my younghood on rigs both work over and drilling. Convencional at that time. Now there are top drive
It's like going to the ISS or staying under the ocean in a submarine for a long while. Except here you can actually get some fresh air, that is if you ignore the terrible smell of gas and oil of course.
Amazing. Thank you for you all who have been offshore for supporting not only your family but also other people. And, I am grateful to gain more information for all about off shore oil ridge.
I absolutely love the carefree, upbeat music, smiling faces, and carefully chosen words.
You could even start to forget that those are the oil giants that destroy our world- polluting and destroying oceanic and land based ecosystems using the exact platforms in the aforementioned video.
We all agree to what you say. But, most of us participate in the process by purchasing the end product.
Would love to know how they build these things!
They start from the ground up
I enjoyed working offshore. Worked on many platforms off the California coast. Many have been taken out of service now.
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Truly amazing structures.
HIGH TECH AND DANGEROUS KIND OF WORK.
It's a great job, but it requires patience and moderation
This is fascinating to me. They don't get paid very well though considering the danger. So these people must really enjoy the jobs.
Loved working out there , flying in helicopters, on the deck at night watching the waters... Gulf of Mexico
I worked offshore in the late 70's to early 80's. I don't think the word "safety" was a part of oilfield vernacular in those days because I remember some scary shit.
I worked marine pipelay,and construction worldwide,dive support,sbms installation,fpsos,it's not for everyone. We did 90/30 tours. 12-18 hour days great people but, it's work! Do your job or you are gone.lost a few friends too!
If everybody loves this work so much why does everyone leave the work in less than a year? Is there anyone out there that's made a career of this? I wish I knew about this when I was younger because I'm sure I would've loved it.
i think it’s similar to joining the military, it gives you some rigid structure, and time away from your problems, a new location and everything is taken care of.
have been involving in this offshore sector for almost 4 months, I know that I'm still a newbie and still have a lot of things to learn, it was so hard to adapt to this kind of environment in the beginning, but so far it has valuable and great experience, much love to offshore oil n gas
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Be some rate money on a rig
How to get Into this field . I m currently working on merchant ship as navigation officer
@@sivagnanasambandan i work in a pub and this oldish bloke came in and said he works on a rig, well someone that’s his mate said so, (it’s a local) anyway, he said that there’s courses for it, so basically if you go online I think you might be able to find courses for it, but comes at abit of a cost, might be worth looking it up :)
I have to say I am immensely impressed with the jaw-dropping engineering that goes into these rigs and all the accompanying things that happen to keep the humans alive and well on these rigs. I know the fossil fuel industry gets a bum wrap, but that aside, the engineering and the skill of these rigs and ships is inspiring.
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So interesting. I've watched RUclips vids on workers at oil platforms and seagoing wind turbines. I admire those who give so much of themselves to keep us all going. Thank you.
They get paid VERY WELL even rough necks make many times what they could earn doing most other kinds of unskilled labor. I believe they earn every single penny of that money but I know that's why they are out there doing the job.
It's like working on a lighthouse, except you have a lot more people around you.
So much smiling and laughing in the opening scenes! Exact opposite of anyone I’ve met from the oil patch haha.
i'm not in the oilfield, but I was doubting how authentic all those smiles were.
LOL, I like the use of the sucker rod rig for the derrick hand example!
I have worked in the Gulf of Mexico for 38 years. Have done everything from service rig work (snubbing), conventional work over rigs and even construction work. Have been in production now 34 years working the shelf. It's been a good life and yes it has been tough at times, but I would not trade it for anything.
The video shows a mix of drilling rigs as well as production platforms. I can tell you most shelf platforms are not that big or have that much room. Most platforms on the shelf average 5-9 workers per facility. The workers generally cook, clean, wash their own cloths as well as run the facility. There are some larger platforms that have some of the conveniences like on the video but a majority of the manned platforms on the shelf are as I described. The deepwater facilities are more like what you see on the videos.
It was an interesting video that somewhat gives a good representation of offshore life.
Yeah; Rod and Derrick are great guys
@jf831024 Happy to work in the Norwegian sector, very different there. Plenty of really big production platforms there with between 100-300 workers at any time given. Safety is the best in the bussiness, world wide. Had my share of other sectors, and nothing compares.
@@MrMandelll How difficult is it for foreigner to get job on norwegian oil platform?
@@geddon436 I'm a "foreigner" to Norway, living in Sweden ("Next door" neighbour). Generally it's not that easy, but with looked for/appropriate trade/certificates and contacts it's possible. Also much depending on where you live. Travel expenses is looked at, and if the companies could decide you had to live close to the heliport.
@@MrMandelll i understand
Every feminist should watch this.
Trabalhei 15 anos de minha vida em plataformas de petróleo em Macaé UNBC. Trabalhei em P7,P12,Pampo e Enchova. Valeuuu a pena.
Working on both platforms and drilling rigs great experience
The most exiting day is when you are crew's change day and you go home safely . 😂😂
I use to work on offshore supply vessels in the North sea 2 weeks on 2 off horrendous in winter, anchor handling and offloading supplies,didn't get much sleep.
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. John 3:16-17
These are actually landing platforms for alien ships.
i am so happy that men and women are out there together all alone for long periods of time. especially being so young. just makes good sense.
Real men doing real work. Imagine that.
Spent 8 years of my life working on offshore drilling rigs as a roustabout , roughneck and Derrick hand in the seventies.
Seems so environment friendly 🙂😍 such peaceful music, carefully chosen words, gorgeous
I was thinking about that too
Thanks for putting the words in my mouth
Environmentally friendly lol they’re drilling for oil! That’s the opposite of environmentally friendly
@@flakdampler11in fairness, they do their best with the available technology
How very amazing!! What tremendous engineering.
What is the main role of a cargo supervisor on FPSO ?
Very educational. Thank You.
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I work offshore 7yrs @ al shaheen oil field Qatar
As rope access L3 blaster and painter
Very nice experience
BP is always hiring coffin builders,just apply at any onshore petro processing facility. It's true.
Very interesting ..love industrial documentary
I used to do mostly day trips to platforms in Cook Inlet doing communications work.i also spent some time on a drill ship in the Chukchi Sea in the early 1990s.
Things have changed a lot since then in offshore especially the communications and safety
@@drganesan62 I am sure of that. I worked in communications for 15 years along the Alaska Pipeline and then my last 6 years before retirement was working at a gateway earth station serving most of Alaska’s rural communities.
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Interesting and informative. Thanks
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RIG NABORS 143 for five years
Working on offshore drilling rig was very valuable for me caused I got about 8 years experience. Worked as a Radio oprt
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radio operator? well shi ady advice on getting in on this? I assume they make just as much or still good money too right and lots of overtime?
Fukn nuts
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We see them on oceans and now I know how they look from close look.Thanks for explanation.
hello my dear friend I guess you are right about what you said in your comment..is nice meeting you I hope everything is going fine over there..is like you know a lot about engineering I we like is to talk more about this..but I don't know if that we be ok by you....I hope to hear from you soon🙏🙏
Thousands of miles offshore??? Really?? I dont think so. Try again.
Just out of curiosity, are there oil rigs located 'in the middle of the ocean" or 'thousands of miles away from the coastline'? I thought they were located about 100, maybe 200 miles off the coast.
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One new development is drilling and processing ships that can be moored to the ocean floor far away from the coast.
Depends where the wells are located. There different types of rigs. Shallow water and deep water. Several miles offshore to hundreds of miles.
As technology advances, they are getting farther away from the coastline. But something like 400 miles is as far out as they go at present. So far as I can tell, the limit is not the distance from the shore, but the depth of the sea. 10,000 feet is about the limit, which means they can't go much beyond the continental shelves.
Not really. Virtually all are within 200 miles of the coastline.
Going for locked crate on large oil rig
How do they get those things out there to stand firm in the water without moving?
How they know how deep out there is to build the equipment to carry out there an it is installed?
It has always been my dream to work at sea not infront computer screens..I hope some how I get to expirience this..even its for a month..Applied couple of times at Stena bulk
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hello my dear friend I guess you are right about what you said in your comment..is nice meeting you I hope everything is going fine over there..is like you know a lot about engineering I we like is to talk more about this..but I don't know if that we be ok by you....I hope to hear from you soon🙏🙏
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Who's watching this vid after seeing the rig TV series on amazon
Fossil fuels are gifts from God
Life on the rig is only for certain people
"safety which is a prime concern of the industry" only if the media cares!
You would think with that much space they could give the crew their own small private quarters instead of a communal bunk area.
Yaaaaay, let's build a lovely working community while slowly destroying the climate.
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Very Good
Wouldn't you think it mandatory to have those damn life boats ON ALL SIDES of the rigs !? I mean what if you can't get across!
Very nice background music with smooth narration.
all depends on oil reserves all straight down drilling then this was in the sixty's then they brought in directional drilling i worked on all the rigs then the Glomar 3 -Sedco - and ocean digger
I worked on the Glomar-Pacific when it was on the coast of California. She sunk later in the Asia area I believe.
Just came home from Ekofisk in the North Sea, its almost like a city in the middle of the ocean with 6 rigs connected with bridges. And its more than 1km to walk across the whole complex.
Any hoes on the rig?
please say I’m not the only person who started, “no way, I could never,” and graduated to,” they have a pool table?! I’m sold,”😂
If only I can turn back time , would be awesome to work out there , am fascinated ..
The most we are allowed to work at a time is 28 days, not months
My ex worked 28s for Dixilyn Feild in the early 80s. Cairo Egypt and Lagos Africa. He was a driller then.
High-class technology, steady
You didn’t really show much about life on the rig.
12 hours shifts??? OMG
Yeah, so what.
Everything is as complete as on the mainland ☺️☺️😁😁😁😁😁🤗🤗
I miss my time out there. Never forget my brother's and sisters
You gotta love how he says that the rig owners are " supposed" to provide for safety.....
Nice 😄
Watching this video I realize how God blessed am I with my job. Sw developer, remote from home(from my bedroom, actually).
I wouldn’t call working from home all alone a blessing. Being in the “real world” interacting with other people face to face is much better
@@davidpearson3304 In real world, with many beautiful young women around, it's surely better than working from home. But this job, in the middle of a sea, it's surely not the case :)).
I used to work on a rig in the gulf of Mexico. They would transport us to and from by helicopter.
I’ve never eaten better fried shrimp than on a rig in the Gulf of Mexico.
“What keeps these workers going for many months” …… you mean a shit ton of money to earn? Those are all very high paying jobs. Seems the lucrative side of business is motivation *enough*
I worked the pipeline(s) for years from Texas , Colorado and The Dakotas .. 12 hour shifts 6 to 6 14 sometimes up to 21 days straight there's nothing like the ROW (right-of-way) the hands working these offshore rigs I have nothing but respect for !! But I'll stick to dry land
Gargantuan achievements in engineering: personally i don't have the gumption to work on these mammoth technological platforms and advances in oil extraction , but it takes hundreds of skilled people to make it happen. Fascinating.
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I spent more than 25 yrs working offshore, and NEVER came across facilities like this, and I can say I visited 100s of platforms!!
Yeah especially in the UK waters haha. Most are rust buckets
Was it a well paying career?
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@@onehitterquitter2130 it is compare to onshore ofcourse but it depends who you work for and who you know. But yes its definitely worthwhile. Im doing it now. What people don't realise is that you don't spend while you're out there so that in essence is money in your pocket too. I been doing it for about 5yrs now.
@@johanburger4454 Cool I was always curious. Looks like a demanding job.
This is the issue now at hand...very few everyday people .... and our ignorant government “leaders” .... have not a clue as to how much capital must be invested in these rigs to get oil out of the ground.
And am out here complaining about my job yet they are way out at sea I shld be more grateful
En suite bathroom….Did that guy just say that?
What keeps the workers going for so many months at a time is 💴 MONEY
VERY ASTONISHING!
Most of these shots could have been taken anywhere.
You can't get an idea how big these platforms are by looking at four guys sitting at a table...
How is this built? How does one pour concrete to the bottom to the bottom of the ocean floor?
Respect to them all!!!
Keren