Oil rig jobs may be your answer if a thirst for adventure is driving you to look for a job more exciting than your average nine-to-five; offshore oil rigs may be just the option for you. You might think that since the paychecks in this industry are so huge, then there would be many people applying for these jobs in the oil industry. Now, if you are interested in a job on an oil rig, then you should take some time now and be sure you have got what it takes to work in this line of work.
Oil and gas companies may be desperate for people to crew their oil rigs, but this does not mean they are going to relax their safety standards.
In 2009 the oil and gas companies are spending around 0 billions to look for oil, so getting a oil rig job is not at all hard if you’re prepared.
If you are willing to learn and keep yourself motivated, then you can earn lots of money in the offshore oil industry. But, offshore installations are dangerous places, safety and safe working practices is what they all live and breathe.
If you have not worked with oil before, these are some of the jobs you can expect to get:
- Maintenance Roustabout (,000); Doing manual duties like general maintaince, cleaning, painting and moving equipment around.
- Roustabout (,500); Main duties is cleaning the pipes, guiding cranes as they loads and unloads and supplying the rig floor. You should also expect to assist Roughnecks on the drilling floor when they are to busy to get a lunch break. In this case, the roustabout will go have his meal, then go to the drill floor and give one Roughneck his break. Then each Roughneck take turns in having a meal break. Ruostabout are members of rhe strechers..
- Welder (,000); There are two kinds of welders, the rig welders are takes care of small day to day repairs on the metal work. They are always busy. When there is a big project often a squad of welders are hired to finish the job quickly. These guys move from rig to rig wherever their company has a contract.
