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

Drillers

Working on an offshore oil rig or platform is a unique experience Note: In this article, we’ll use the word ‘rig’ and ‘platform’ almost interchangeably, but a rig does the drilling, and a platform does the pumping. Offshore oil fields represent a substantial portion of the worlds total crude oil output.

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Hitting the Mark: A Father’s Day Tribute

Permian Basin Oil and Gas Magazine

spent his entire working career as a drilling engineer for Texaco, Inc. That career took him and his family from Illinois (the Salem field) to Kansas and to Oklahoma. He said, “In drilling a well, what you really have to watch for [this was speaking as an engineer] is the ‘marker zone.’” Jess Mullins, Sr.,