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

Drillers

In essence, oil companies seek to make their workforce’s living conditions as comfortable as possible in the areas where this is manageable. Roughnecks operate cranes, run drilling engines and pipes, and are in general given more skilled tasks and paid more for doing them. Next on the ladder is the roughneck.

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Made In The Permian Basin

Permian Basin Oil and Gas Magazine

By contrast, OSIs centralized operations allow for shorter feedback loops, faster product improvements, and closer collaboration between engineers, chemists, and machinists. Derrick Black Recently I toured OSIs manufacturing facility in Odessa with Derrick Black, who oversees the firm’s Business Development department.

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