Offshore Oil Jobs – Do You Have What It Takes?
Executive Summary About Oil Jobs By Calvin Loh
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Offshore oil jobs are going to be hot for the coming decade. Why? With oil prices passing $100 and expected to hit $200 due to a variety of uncertainties in the supply, companies are eagerly coughing up the multi-million and billion dollars needed to build the oil rigs and pipelines needed to get more oil.
Those oil rigs are not going to run themselves. They need to hire people to run those oil rigs. There is a reason why offshore oil jobs pay so well. The terms danger pay and hardship pay comes to mind. If you’ve ever worked in cubicle land, imagine doing this for 14 to 42 days straight, without a weekend.
So you think that you’ll be hired to work on a spanking new oil rig and nothing can go wrong? In boom times, everyone cuts corners. Your brand new oil rig is probably using some new technologies. Old rig or new rig, things can go wrong. Being stuck in the middle of a storm on an oil rig can be much worse.
Basically, to survive offshore oil jobs, you need plenty of guts and you need to be mentally tough.
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The Offshore Oil Job Market
Oil companies have their rigs working day and night to find new offshore oil fields to meet the demand. The offshore oil job market is expected to increase 30% by 2011.
Entry Level Jobs
An entry level offshore oil job is the easiest to obtain. Entry level jobs include Maintenance Roustabout, Roustabout, Welder, Medic, Scaffolders, Radio Operator, Rig Safety & Training Co-ordinator (sometimes handled by Medic), Mud Engineer, Materials Person, Painter, Motor Man and Electrician.
Deck Crew Jobs
An offshore oil job working as part of a deck crew includes the follow job options:
* Maintenance Roustabout ($47,000) is responsible for general deck maintenance, cleaning and painting.
* Maintenance Foreman ($59,000) oversees Maintenance Roustabouts.
* Crane operator ($69,500) operates the crane and supervises assistants and Roustabouts.
Drill Crew Jobs
The Roughneck ($59,000) is probably the best known offshore oil job.
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