re: Getting a job on an oil rig

you dont have to start off as a BR hand. most companies dont work that way anymore. as a rstb youre looking at 22-23 an hour for 40 hours a week, time and a half for 47 hours a week, a premium of around 14% of base salary, 150 dollars a month travel pay, full health, dental, vision, life, insurance. depending on which company youre working for you'll also get any where from 6 - 10% dollar for dollar 401k and also a pension plan. more and more contractors are getting rid of the pension plan and giving more to the 401k. This is working a 21/21 schedule. However, maersk works a 28/28 schedule even in the gulf.

theres some general info. obviously, company to company will vary slightly. no reason to be a BR hand.

How many rig hands are sitting at home looking for a job? And some company is going to hire a worm when they can get someone with driller or tool pushing experience for peanuts right now? Look elsewhere OP.

He doesn't have to look elsewhere. Companies are hiring worms as you put it. Just not in positions that are generally thought when one thinks about going offshore. The good ones don't stay BR hands for long. I just pulled two outside to be a part of the marine team.

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People are hiring, all positions. Just gotta look.

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Truth.

So all these hands from the 1000 land rigs that got laid down should be working? They are just lazy if they don't have jobs? One guy got a job so that means everyone that wants to work on a rig should be able to find it. I'll tell the hundred or so guys I know sitting at home that they are just lazy and not to pay attention to the layoffs because a lot of unnamed rig companies are hiring for all positions. Now that I think of it, I have a job and can pay my bills so they should too. I also ate today so world hunger is bullshite. Thanks.

So, you know all these hands that were let go? Personally? There only one person in the world that matters: the individual. There are jobs out there for individuals to get. No, no one is hiring 1000 guys. But there's jobs out there that guys that were laid off can get. If you can build scaffolds, I'll hire you right now. There are other positions available everywhere. It's one's and two's, not 10's and 20's or hundreds. But to say the jobs aren't out there is bs. You may have to travel and take a slight pay cut, but jobs are there.

there are a lot of guys sitting at home right now that needed to be sitting at home. we hired a shite ton of worms that didn't need to be out there. but, under the circumstances.......we needed everyone.

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Right now you start as a BR hand if you have zero experience. Didn't used to be that way.

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Good lord how do you hire anyone worth a damn when they can just go to every other company and get hired straight on as a Roustabout making twice the money on a better schedule?

Noble, Seadrill, Pacific, and Atwood that I know about. Most regular Drilling Companies are always hiring Roustabouts, even right now, because the turnover is constant.

Even the ones that aren't hiring TODAY will be next week or 2 weeks from now because Roustabouts are constantly quitting or getting fired because they didnt know what they were getting into.

As I said before the only people that are being forced to be BR hands are the guys with zero experience and are looking to get started off shore. Lots of good hands started in the galley. If you have experience, you're (theoretically) worth a damn and won't have to start as a BR hand. Why would Ensco hire some guy with zero experience offshore, chasing cranes all day long just to find out he's a POS when you can hire guys who already have experience for those positions and properly vet new guys in the galley, have them come outside and train and then hand pick the ones you want outside? It sounds like a good idea to me.