Oil Rig Employment

Mech eng with a masters in oil&gas.

Environmental impact assessments would mean field job for biologists, but how many are sent to rigs? 3 in the whole world?

>>8613883
Worked briefly in an oil rig

Assuming you don't mean auxiliary staff like catering and transport, there's many levels of jobs.

Roughnecks are the grunts, it's basically temporary physical labour with danger pay. They look for strong guys who can follow orders and swim. You can also get a lot of non oil jobs like these, high alt crane operator, foremen, divers et cetera.

Next level is mechanic/engineer/electrician/welders. You're in charge of handling the machinery. Anything respectable related to these with a solid GPA gets you an interview, good work ethnic keeps you there. This also has potential for career advancement.

There are two problems with the field. One it's a huge boom bust cycle, oil prices in the last decade have been as high as $120-$30/barrel of crude. Oil rig utilisation and hence your job comes and goes. Two is renewables. Everyone talks about how X is going to replace oil but it never truly does. But the problem is science progresses while oil doesn't, no one has discovered any fantastic new use for oil in the last century. Renewables only needs to win once.

>>8613883
You can work for the state when they decommission rigs. In most places they just blow them up and they need people to go around counting how many and of what they killed so a fine can be issued if they exceeded their permit for take or not.

It's a depressing job.

>>8613906
>Environmental impact assessments for oil and gas

We call those people biostitutes.

>>8613941
>implying anything ecology related is /actual/ biology

>>8613921
Thanks for the info, but you didn't really answer my question about what a could field of study would be to get in on there.

>>8614046
what kind of field**

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