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jdm4x43732 · #1 08-12-2012, 10:41 PM

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Originally Posted by scott craft

With that pay seems like it would be more advantageous for someone young to try to get into operations in a refinery or chemical plant than go offshore.

Starting pay is low but only work 6 months out of the year. Free food for 6 months out of the year, only drive to work 1 or 2 trips a month if you get a set schedule not 24 hr call. Figure food and gas cost if you have to commute every day. I doubt if I worked at a plant or a refinery I'd get as much couch time as I do now

I probably have more time to spend with my kids being gone 6 months a year than if I were home every night. To each his own but I wouldn't change it for the world. The kids love it when I miss Christmas, they get to celebrate it twice, when I'm home and Santa passes again on Christmas eve. You'd think Santa would wisen up and knock it all out in one night.

scott craft · #2 08-13-2012, 07:10 AM

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Originally Posted by jdm4x43732

Starting pay is low but only work 6 months out of the year. Free food for 6 months out of the year, only drive to work 1 or 2 trips a month if you get a set schedule not 24 hr call. Figure food and gas cost if you have to commute every day. I doubt if I worked at a plant or a refinery I'd get as much couch time as I do now

I probably have more time to spend with my kids being gone 6 months a year than if I were home every night. To each his own but I wouldn't change it for the world. The kids love it when I miss Christmas, they get to celebrate it twice, when I'm home and Santa passes again on Christmas eve. You'd think Santa would wisen up and knock it all out in one night.

I guess there are pros and cons each way. I'm not an operator, but I do work shift work, so I only work six months out of the year also, unless I work overtime. I wouldn't have minded going offshore as much before I had a kid, but now I wouldn't do it unless I had to.

jdm4x43732 · #3 08-12-2012, 09:50 PM

Pb2000 quick lesson. Drilling is the side who actually does the drilling or working over wells to repair problems downhole. Most rigs are not permanate on a location they are movable, either semi submersible or jackups. Many other styles, platform rigs which are like land rigs which are disassembled to be moved, snubbing unit which is basically z big hydraulic jack that pulls pipe, and coil tubing which is a spool of continuous pipe used in workover operations. Production job is exactly what it says, monitor all equipment on the platform that process the produced hydrocarbons from a well or wells. Platforms are a structure that stays on location after a rig is finished drilling with equipment that processes oil, gas and water. Tired of typing..... Drilling= hard work
Production= gravy job

PUREBAY2200 · #4 08-13-2012, 11:42 AM

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Originally Posted by jdm4x43732

Pb2000 quick lesson. Drilling is the side who actually does the drilling or working over wells to repair problems downhole. Most rigs are not permanate on a location they are movable, either semi submersible or jackups. Many other styles, platform rigs which are like land rigs which are disassembled to be moved, snubbing unit which is basically z big hydraulic jack that pulls pipe, and coil tubing which is a spool of continuous pipe used in workover operations. Production job is exactly what it says, monitor all equipment on the platform that process the produced hydrocarbons from a well or wells. Platforms are a structure that stays on location after a rig is finished drilling with equipment that processes oil, gas and water. Tired of typing..... Drilling= hard work
Production= gravy job

Thanks!

papap · #5 08-13-2012, 12:48 AM

Lot more to being an Operator offshore. then just openning and closing valves. LOL

papap · #6 08-13-2012, 12:54 AM

If you can get on with a major offshore you can make over 80K the first year. I know because I went offshore 12 years ago an did it. I work overseas now for the same company working 28 and 28.

bjhooper82 · #7 08-13-2012, 06:46 AM

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Originally Posted by papap

If you can get on with a major offshore you can make over 80K the first year. I know because I went offshore 12 years ago an did it. I work overseas now for the same company working 28 and 28.

And you had no oilfield experience prior to be hired 12 years ago?

PaulMyers · #8 08-13-2012, 01:23 AM

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Originally Posted by bjhooper82

Not calling you a liar but theres no frickin way!!!!

Sounds like you are calling him a liar!

jdm4x43732 · #9 08-13-2012, 08:22 AM

You guys give me a contact number if they are hiring green hands at 80K. I'll take a demotion from Lead Operator to C operator and get a raise.

"W" · #10 08-13-2012, 08:28 AM

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Originally Posted by jdm4x43732

You guys give me a contact number if they are hiring green hands at 80K. I'll take a demotion from Lead Operator to C operator and get a raise.

send your Resume to a Major....they are all hiring right now..

Big Flounder · #11 08-13-2012, 08:58 AM

I worked off shore for about 8 months when I turned 18 and I started out at $10 for a roustabout and when I was layed off I was up to $13 an hour. I worked for neighbors on I think it was called a jack up work over rig. D-106 the biggest rust bucket in the gulf but I loved it and would still be out there if I didn't get layed off.

Bass2222 · #12 08-13-2012, 10:33 AM

If yall don't know operators onshore in a refinery or chemical plant only work half the year or less also and home everyday

Big Flounder · #13 08-13-2012, 11:19 AM

Does any one work for PRO Oilfield services?

papap · #14 08-13-2012, 12:11 PM

I work for largest private oil company in the world. The year i was hired. They had 50 of us that got on. 2000 took the test and 200 were invited in for interviews. One guy was a school teacher, one was a repairman for ATT and one was right out of hig school. Best company I have ever worked for. Everyone can say what they want but they treat their employees well. I think the are fixing to test again but it is for the west coast.

jdm4x43732 · #15 08-13-2012, 12:13 PM

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Originally Posted by papap

I work for largest private oil company in the world. The year i was hired. They had 50 of us that got on. 2000 took the test and 200 were invited in for interviews. One guy was a school teacher, one was a repairman for ATT and one was right out of hig school. Best company I have ever worked for. Everyone can say what they want but they treat their employees well. I think the are fixing to test again but it is for the west coast.

Hilcorp?

swamp snorkler · #16 08-13-2012, 12:30 PM

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Originally Posted by papap

I work for largest private oil company in the world. The year i was hired. They had 50 of us that got on. 2000 took the test and 200 were invited in for interviews. One guy was a school teacher, one was a repairman for ATT and one was right out of hig school. Best company I have ever worked for. Everyone can say what they want but they treat their employees well. I think the are fixing to test again but it is for the west coast.

SaudiAramco?