Is it really “tripping pipe” like this for 12 hours straight with no breaks? The hardest manual labor job I’ve ever done was when I worked for a moving company for sh!t pay. But a job like this I hear it’s not uncommon to see guys with missing fingers and all sorts of fukked up injuries. Is it worth the pay? I don’t care about being away from family for weeks at a time I’m a single brah anyways.

What are the pros and cons? How long is the training?

Oh wow!

I watched all of the first video and 1/3 of the 2nd video. That was all I needed to see to "get it".

At first, I thought you were talking about extremely heavy lifting and such. Okay, that's not exactly what's going on here, but...

Yes, obviously real physical exertion.

But what impressed/amazed me even more was the aptitude and interpersonal coordination of those guys. I mean, they're dealing with gigantic, potentially lethal, heavy equipment. And they're having to manipulate it around and around with each other and go with the flow of big, complicated, mechanical processes. It's like a complicated dance, but an extremely dangerous one with huge implications to what they do.

I've always thought that offshore work like this is among the scariest jobs in the world. This is just further confirmation.

It probably depends, but If you work offshore in a properly regulated first world country then it should be pretty safe.
In Norway the norm is 2 weeks on and 4 weeks off, kinda jelly on my neighbour when he's on his 4 weeks.

I’m 33 but in pretty good shape to keep up with these younger guys. I just wanna get the fuk out there and grind for like 5 years straight and move onto something else. Seems like decent money but with strenuous work. I don’t care if I gotta work my way up as an apprentice. I was considering getting my CDL for truck driving but decided against it the more I learned about it. This seems better all around.

this just shows you how greedy the oil companies are...

brb 45/hr men lose fingers/hands.... get ****ed up if they slip... 40:1 men to women.... jack off in the shower.. 100k but you cood die at any time. live like prisoners.

Haven't worked offshore but colleagues have, it would vary depending on location and company but you'd be in a decent spot being a legit worker from the US

I've been told some absolutely brutal stories about things happening to undocumented migrant workers on rigs along the coast of African countries


Of course all jobs like these are dangerous to an extent

I’m sold!

i bet its pretty dangerous

a lot of tradies are fuken stupid with how dangerous chit is. there are tons of chit on the job site that can fuk you up

as an electrician in new construction the actual work itself its not like every day you could die but with all the other stuff going on it is. big azz machines and saws cutting chit, holes, chemicals, etc.

basically what im trying to say is there's a non chalantness from tradies on every day stuff that can fuk you up

on the service side, you can do chit live and that's mainly where i think electricians are stupid. ****en not taking like 5 seconds to turn off the breakers instead of doing chit live and risk someone bumping into you and blowing chit up

imo having been more on the construction stuff, i dont think i'd do it. cause of the danger

if i were pretty confident on it being safe, i'd do it

yea. and they have 0 experience in the field. lmao lmao imagine them bitching at you while youre digging in the ditches

you should see the construction field in general. remember, the quicker the job gets done the more money they save. they have to pay for parts and labor

From what I heard, it pays good. But you don't last very long from what my buddies say.

I’m your guy.

What do you want to know?

Im a Senior DPO on a Drillship.

I don’t have enough bandwidth to watch those videos but from the screenshots I see this look to be shore side drilling rigs. Offshore the Roughnecks on my Rig don’t even touch the pipe. It’s all done by something called an Iron Roughneck. All they have tk do is guide the pipe from the TopDrive into the threads of the connecting pipe. The iron roughneck does all of the turning. But yes when they are tripping Pipe or running Riser it can be days of just connecting joints of pipe or riser. They are wearing full PPE the whole time and would never have their shirts off like that. Everything is fire retardant. They also work 12 hour shifts 7 days a week. About $26/hr for the first 40hrs and time and a half the next 44hours.

Yikes.

Conversely my son just graduated from PA school at 26 and is making $57/hr his first job.

Stay in school boyos.

Depends on your risk tolerance for danger/harm. Also, largely depends on your awareness and if you do your job with caution.

That being said I think a bigger risk is if this war takes a turn for the worst U.S. offshore drilling sites will be prime targets to get hit first.

Indeed those guys are some of the lowest paid workers onboard. I make about $160k/yr for 6 months of work. 28 days on 28 days off.

There are so many different positions that pay pretty good. When people think of drilling they online think of roughnecks but there is so much more to the operation out at sea.

well, i cant speak for all unions. but as far as i know.. did you know that schooling is a part of an apprenticeship? an electrican takes 8,000-10,000 hours of on the job training and schooling to become a journeyman

what i find really fuken stupid and archaic is the stop gaps even between that. they have papers where a journeyman gets to sign off on you and your work. they analyze all these boxes and then assign a letter grade; what i find stupid is so much power given to someone who could affect your chit. like if he's an azzclown

that's for the on the job stuff. different locals handle schooling differently but for us its 6 hours one day a week for 3.5 years. then there are additional certs like welding and chit

BUT that's all paid for by the county for me.

2 absences and im done. but im pretty sure it'd just be a meeting with a committee. and if you're late 3 days its 30 day wage deferral. you also have to maintain an 80% in class to keep the apprenticeship

i think all i.b.e.w. members get 3 pensions.

i'm gonna move up north cause the wages and benefits are better, though. i dont even know all they have to offer. all i know is there's some fund that also pays for your familys schooling. and that northern benefits are way better as all the northern guys keep their chit there and dont implement the stuff down here

Not uncommon for guys to go off-shore at 18 and immediately be getting paid 50K+ per year and eventually climb the ranks to getting paid several hundred thousand per year without ever going into debt or college.

Its a good option for young people who don't have money or intellect for school.

If you knew how many fingers get lost in regular factories you'd be less concerned about that. Anything less than limb amputation doesn't get reported in the news.

One of my cousins ex husbands started with underwater welding and owns like 3 rigs now.

Absolutely fukking brutal work tho

Imagine telling someone that your job is on a "drilling rig" with 99.9% other men

You'd have to say "no homo" every single time

Sure jeff






Op I know two guys who used to work in the oil fields of North Dakota. I’ll ask them about, will report what they say. I’m interested as well, not to do it but just curious.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JBY6cpWzbFg

This is will give you a general idea of what life is like out here.

I’m on one of these ships right now. If anyone has any questions let me know.

Yea I can see that. It's just unfortunate that you have to literally risk your life to make that kind of $.

I fish under them all the time, pretty chill under there too.

Do you fish out there sometimes?