Offshore Energies UK

APRIL 4, 2025

I was hired on the spot as a roustabout, kicking off my oilfield career. After a few years in the North Sea, I joined a company building a state-of-the-art, dynamically positioned drillship, capable of operating in offshore basins around the world. This marked the start of a change in my career.

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HSE HSE Manager Roustabout Offshore 105

Drillers

MARCH 19, 2020

An oil platform operates around the clock, and while the work is divided in shifts, these shifts are long, so you would need to be able to last for 12 hours straight and even more than that if you are just beginning. The most basicand most physically demandingposition on an offshore oil rig is that of the roustabout.

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Offshore Oil Roustabout Derrick Hand 52

Permian Basin Oil and Gas Magazine

APRIL 21, 2025

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. He has also assembled a team of investors and partners to manage and help fund the ongoing expansion.

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Roustabout Field Hydraulic Fracturing Foremen 59