re: Offshore Jobs - Where to start

As far as pay goes a BP tech 1 operator makes about 120k+ a year unless they have been at it 15+ years then they make maybe 130K working 14/14. What does a driller or someone on the drilling side with 5+ years in make a year? I always hear electricians with drilling companies make 175K and drillers make 1K a day in the Gulf...

I work on the production side and everyone always says the $$ is better on the drilling side, but is that because they don't get a full 14 days off?

With your qualifications, you probably don't want to go the Roustabout, Roughneck, Driller, etc...route. You could start in MWD but the work schedule is usually brutal. Most of the time its no set schedule. Sometimes you may work 30 days on and get off for 5. Same with Directional Drillers most of the time. I know several DD's that have worked well over 300 days out of the year. But you will make a lot of money if that doesn't bother you. But as some has said, there are lots of opportunities on land also. Their are other career paths in the oilfield that you could choose from. Mud Engineering is something you may be interested in if you haven't looked on to it.

Thank you.

Being a gone that much doesn't bother me. Hell, I am gone almost 250 days a year now. Just in hotel rooms and different cities.

Is the best way to start just knocking on doors? Do companies do the training?

Look at pipeline companies. Like this one: EnergyTransfer dot com

You don't have to be gone offshore either. I live in CO and my company is working me a 4/2 schedule out of California. They put me up in a suite with a rental near Pismo Beach. Flights back and forth are paid.

You just better make sure you're ready for shite work.

Plenty people say they can handle it when they have never done it. Plenty people quit early.

Who do you work for? What do you do?

I actually miss getting out there and humping it sometime. My knees are starting to finally give me problems tho.

I'll still pull slips and throw tongs with the hands on occasion.

Directional Driller for SDI. Worked 10 years for BHI too.

That what I am shooting for when I grad, do it for 2-3 years then hopefully move in the office.