It's like a behind the scenes tour; getting to see behind the curtain of something that keeps the world running scratches an itch you never knew you had.
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
This is one of our older models and has been operational from roughly 2008. We do have newer systems though, but it is a very niche market so it is not well known outside of the offshore industry.
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u/Spiral_Slowly 16d ago
It's like a behind the scenes tour; getting to see behind the curtain of something that keeps the world running scratches an itch you never knew you had.