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What It’s Like To Work On An Offshore Oil Rig

Drillers

Your employer also has the contact details of your family in case of an emergency. The most basicand most physically demandingposition on an offshore oil rig is that of the roustabout. The job of the roustabout is the one with the heaviest lifting and most prolonged work hours, and it also pays the least.

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Welded Together

Permian Basin Oil and Gas Magazine

I never expected to be doing roustabout work and rentals, and now trucking, he said. Welding still accounts for about half of Shadows workload, with roustabout work at 30 percent and hydrotesting around 10 percent. I had no idea thats what it would be when we started. I was thinking it would be about six or seven welders.