4 Important Duties On Oil Rigs
Working offshore can be a tricky thing, especially if you don't know where you're heading to
, career-wise. Being away from home is bad enough, as is the hard task at hand when the elements are literally slapping your face, but all this is nothing compared to the feeling of getting lost amidst it all.
But fret not. Once you've proven your mettle at the entry level, you'll progress along the route depending on your job performance and stamina in the long run. And it's not like the typical dog-eat-dog environment at a corporate training scheme, because things like shadowing and coaching are essential to building a real team. Teamwork and communications are a life-and-death issue on a rig.
*Potential Career Courses: To each his (or her) own: there are many positions available on an offshore oil rig, each requiring its expertise in addition to sound knowledge of the general operations. The control room has its own gig, the deck its battles, while rig managers hold it all together, engineers do their voodoo magic, and caterers feed the lot.
When metal breaks - it happens all the time, given the weather condition - you call in the welders; when people break, you call in the medics. Of course, hopefully these won't happen too often, so health and safety training becomes a top priority as well.
*Control Room: You have a barge, and for that you need engineers. Starting at the assistant levels like any other job with the word room in the title, you help the control room operator (CRO) stabilize the rig so that it stays in the same place and shape. Ideally an oil rig should produce oil (and gas, but we'll come to that in due course), so getting tonnes of flammable liquid into a barge becomes routine business.
*Deck: If the control room is the backstage, the deck is your stage where all the drama happens - good and bad. "First, do no harm", so you have maintenance roustabout and foremen who tend to any bits and bobs lying around. The cranes also need to be operated in an efficient yet delicate manner.
Then we come to the drilling. The crew include the PR face of the rig, "the roughneck", and of course, pumpmen, dereckmen and drillers. In a later article we'll take a look at mud (there's a surprising amount of it to look at), but dereckmen are generally responsible for the mud pump whereas roughnecks and pumpmen takes mud weights. Can you guess what the driller does?
*Rig Management: This is no ordinary middle-level manager we're talking about. Tool pushers and offshore installation managers are responsible for the entire rig, working anywhere they need to be with whomever they need to work with. Motormen, mechanics and their supervisors work in tandem with their electrical counterpart. And of course, the catering team- a stewardess, a cook and the camp boss - takes care of everyone.
So this is where you start. There's a place for everyone on a rig, and more importantly, people go places on a rig.
by: Susan Bean
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