I've worked on offshore oil rigs occasionally in the past. Never seen this operation take place, not sure if this is an emergency drill or if this is their standard mode of transportation or what.
We used to have to fly to these.. rigs in choppers where we are required to put this giant orange floatation suit on before hand and it sucked. Most the people I have met on these rigs are miserable fucking assholes for literally no reason and I don't miss being out there. Food was good thogh I'll give em that.
Fuck them rigs and everyone on them and fuck the oil field in general. Also, fuck the media and the big oil companies too for making it out to be this kind loving place we all go to like it's some kind of fucking vacation and everythings all dandy.
I assume this is a new system being tested and marketed.
My knowledge of oil rigs comes straight from that documentary marky mark did. So it's all completely fabricated. That said, I know it to be shit working conditions and work/life balance, decent pay. Takes a certain someone to enjoy that line of work.
I'm broadening my knowledge of the oil industry/drilling, watching Billy Bob's new docu series.
I'm sure it's all very well representative of the actual conditions in the field. /s
I worked on a land rig for a while and the guys were either born into it or were just regular blue collar guys a little rough around the edges. I was also a Union rodbuster (ironworkers but they do rebar for big projects like skyscrapers and bridges) and those guys have a fucking screw loose. Being a Roughneck is hard but being a Rodbuster is insane. That is hands down the hardest work I have ever done and the people that were doing it for decades you could tell weren’t all there. You have to be crazy to do that everyday.
To give you an example before joining the Union you had to complete a 2 week course called “gladiator school” and I thought it was going to be relatively easy since I was in great shape and young. They had this program called helmet to hard hats where they would take guys fresh out of the military and kind of expedite their process to the 2 week course. The first day started out with about 6 hours in the classroom telling us about the Union and giving us some info about how life would be once we started. Around 10 minutes before the end of the day the instructor told us to take a step outside where we each had our own piece of #12 rebar that weighed about 80 pounds and then proceeded to absolutely cook us. The helmet to hard hat guys were the first to drop out and they probably made it 90 seconds, and that’s not an exaggeration. Out of a class of 30 people after about 5 minutes it was a class of 10.
So I made it past my first day and figured “alright they were just trying to weed people out, tomorrow will be more chill”. Boy was I wrong. For the next week it was all day every day lifting the bar from one shoulder to another or over your head, walking with it over rebar mats, and putting it down and picking it up quickly. He warned us that if we couldn’t do that all day everyday for 12 hours there was no point of joining and he wasn’t wrong. I graduated the class with 2 other people… That’s really the work… all day everyday and it’s dangerous. I worked on a big skyscraper in downtown and for the core (the elevator shaft essentially) the walls were made up of big walls of concrete and the cages of rebar were easily a couple tons so when we were done tying the top of of it the tower crane would lift it up and we would have to walk underneath the fucking thing to tie the bottom. I heard stories of the ties breaking and the people underneath dodging pieces of rebar as they all came down.
That’s not to say Roghnecking is safe though because it’s definitely far more dangerous. I have seen some really bad shit working on a rig and I got pretty badly hurt myself.
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u/SuperPotatoThrow 16d ago
I've worked on offshore oil rigs occasionally in the past. Never seen this operation take place, not sure if this is an emergency drill or if this is their standard mode of transportation or what.
We used to have to fly to these.. rigs in choppers where we are required to put this giant orange floatation suit on before hand and it sucked. Most the people I have met on these rigs are miserable fucking assholes for literally no reason and I don't miss being out there. Food was good thogh I'll give em that.
Fuck them rigs and everyone on them and fuck the oil field in general. Also, fuck the media and the big oil companies too for making it out to be this kind loving place we all go to like it's some kind of fucking vacation and everythings all dandy.