Roustabout Related Topics 
Offshore Energies UK
APRIL 4, 2025
I was hired on the spot as a roustabout, kicking off my oilfield career. In that moment, I instantly fell in love with offshore life. When I returned from the trip to Aberdeen, I immediately secured an interview with a drilling contractor.
Drillers
MARCH 19, 2020
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. Yet you have to be ready to start from the bottom.
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. I had no idea thats what it would be when we started. I was thinking it would be about six or seven welders.
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