Bradz

Smit

Without Giving too much away There aint many BIG Oil Company's with a site outside Cruden Bay lol

smitsturbo

ok i'll let you off

Steve F

anyone know any companies taking on trainee rousties the now.done offshore medical,survival and greenhand course few months ago and still cant get a job how hard i try

Alps Pacino

Steve F

I'd go and do a rigging coarse then go off as a trainee rigger. At least then it a sort of trade

Steve F

just priced it up there £580 for the course

http://www.rgitmontrose.com/training...fo.asp?uid=220

only thing is have already spent 2 grand on getting the other certificates and dont want to keep spending money when theres still no guarentee ill get a job.

thanks........steve

Alps Pacino

Steve F

Agreed the problem is i doubt you will get off if you only have a survival and no qualifications at all unless you know someone. I'm a fully qualified spark and i still struggled. Unfortunatly its not what you know its who you know thats why the industry is full of chancers

craig todd

good money on the rigs, my grandad did it, he wanted to get me into it.
he went down on piper alpha, put me off for life.

smitsturbo

thats very true, in my local pub on saturday there was about 15 of us all work for the same company off shore, & all got the job thru 1 mates dad

Alps Pacino

smitsturbo

So are you 15 chancers then or just 15 people who know someone

Lambchop

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I'd say as a qualified Mech engineer you could have a great job. Its deciding specifically what you could do and with who that is hard. Stick some cv's to agencies and see what they say.

I can also give anyone a website to trainign courses for production work where a job is pretty much guaranteed. Means working away at 10 modules first though which could take a while. Costs approx £1350 and you sit an exam after each course. Can sit exam at a work place or local college etc. Start on £32k ish. Within 18months can be 50k. Website is in my tally book so can get it tomorrow.

chop

c20tbo

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Like wise folks am a offshore worker and overseas,north sea tiger mostly tho! hvac tech for a company called TYCO fire and intergrated systems,good money and easy cash. also get fed and watered for 2 weeks so canna complain!!

smitsturbo

15 chancers

Red16

sounds good to me chop chop

John Laverick

Best get my C.V. updated then

Zanderford

reading this thread has got me intrested. what exactly do rousties do

turbo terry

lambchop you seem to know your stuff, really intersted in working off shore, i'm a mig welder and fabricator, what exams do you need to sit?

also a diver, any money in underwater welding or just diving on the rigs?

what is the compnay subsea7? i'll search in a sec

Chris

baker p

i am a welder but its never appealed to me . However my mate is always on them but i wouldnt say he earns a great amount more than me plus hes still single . mainly because of rig life.
For instance last year he was working in the north sea pulling about 200/ 250 a day i think.
At the same time i was working a night shift in bury st edmunds . 7x 12hr shifts and we were on 252 a shift (less 18% tax). and i got to see the girlfriend every night etc. In my trade ive found you can earn as good onshore

Alex_86

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du får si ifra hvis det er en ledig jobb der da

turbo terry

baker p, what sort of welding are you doing and what are you welding if you dont mind me asking?

where do you find all these good jobs,

Red16

took the words right out of my mouth

Lambchop

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BTW the site for the production courses is
http://www.cogent.emitrade.com/acata..._Series_7.html

Thats the list of courses you need. It may take a while to study through them all but good end result!



erm...
Rousties are the bottom rung of the drilling contractor. They basically do all the shitty jobs. They are responsible for unloading/loading the boat. They work with their deck foreman/roustie pusher and bank the loads each with radio contact etc. They do any painting/maintenance required when not much to do. They do chemical mixing for me when required
They will relieve the roughnecks up on the rig floor for t/lunch breaks. This lets them learn the next step up the ladder.
They also do shit like clean the t shack etc.


Turbo Terry
If you're a trained diver AND can weld then i guess there's a job out there for you! I think these days ROV's do most underwater work but of course you still need divers too. As far as i know the divers offshore get paid SHIT loads because of the environment etc! If you're trained up then you should consider it!


Baker P
Aye but you were working EVERY day and it was nightshift and you think its as good a deal?
I'm really not sure but i guess welders could get £50k for 2 on 2 off which sounds fine to me!

Cossie Helen

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www.subsea7.com


I'm still waiting to hear about my Admin job

Daz-rst

can anybody do the courses in that link?? as ive got very little qualifications after gcse level (should have listerned more in college ) also is it just a case of buying the course studying it at home then taking the exam at a local college??? what job does these courses allow you to get once youve completed them all??

many dumb questions i know but dont ask ya dont get

Lambchop

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Yes anyone.
yes buy course and get the pack, study then sit at local college is best bet.
You'll start as a production tech or something like that.
BTW i think the courses are from a small company here in aberdeen. I'd give them a call if you have any Q's

Daz-rst

spot on mate cheers for that
uve been more help in bout 5mins then most of the local colleges ive been to for the past 2years!!!

Lambchop

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PM your address and i'll send the bill

I'll PM mine and you can send me a pint

RichardB

What`s the offshore training thing called? There might be a chance we are putting a crane on an oil rig. Quite fancy it to be honest.

st_owner100

Richard, there are a few different courses but the basic offshore survival course I did was Accredited by OPITO. This course is required for all the north sea platforms IIRC

cozzfather

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my old man has done oil rigs, he narrowly avoided the piper alpha
disaster.
the money in Saudi was much better, he worked for petromin-mobil
i got to go to the red O (the o in mobil) which is a oasis in the saudi
dessert.
Nigeria was a pita he worked for Agip there.
used to go away for ages sometimes.
still he has all the trappings.
£500k house in chester and one in america he bought outright
+ a merc clk kompressor but hes still bleedin miserable

K.Goa

Going out on work tomorrow..
Visiting som of the oldest norwegian rigs out there.. Ekofisk Kilo, Eldfisk Alpha, Maersk Galant.. I think I should be able to sink them all with one box of rusteater!

Alps Pacino

Bollox to rigs roving is where its at

baker p

Lambchop.--dont remember typing the words GOOD DEAL mate .
I am not saying the night shift was a better deal , and yes we did 11hrs work. I am saying i got home most nights and at the end of the month i was pulling a similar wage 15oo a week or so , clear.
Which is good for me with a family .
I have settled down with a firm at the moment which i intend to stay with(kids etc). And they pay 16hr cis4 ,You get a van ,phone and travel time.

What is the average wage for a welder then off shore? I imagine its more but it must put some strain on a family life?

If your good at your job theres plenty of money to be earned on shore . Depends what your circumstances are. If i was single then i would probably give it a go.

turbo terry... I am a welder by trade (pipes) served my time as a boiler maker . The job above was for a mob called stainless services north east or something like that.
You probably gota start with agencys mate . Or send a few c.v to firms you know of. Ive generally phoned freinds and got a start.
in the past Ive always worked with good pipe fitters and it rubs off on you so sometimes i could take a job as a fitter or even a bit of basic plumbing so long as i get home everynight .

Lambchop

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TBH mate i'm really not sure. I'm part of the drilling side so dont know all that much about production at all. I know that they moan about drilling people and they seem to forget that if we didnt dig the holes they wouldn't have a job!


baker p
If we want to nit pick then i never said you said good deal
i simply questioned whether you thought it was a good deal


K.Goa
I'll bet your rigs are still in far better nick than ours. Some of them are shocking!

rog

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What are you now, a north sea recruitment consultant????

rstoughy

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any jobs for me then

scruffythefirst

Offshore work rocks, when your off you get all your time to do what you want, when your working you get well looked after and the moneys good. just packing for my 2 months stint in indonesia doing seismic and surveying.

SapphyMike

mainly 12 hours on 12 hours off, for the duration of being offshore.

rstoughy

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As above^^^


We tend to manage our own hours so we will only work when needed.

That could mean that out of 21 days you might only do a few hrs work and the rest will be spent on R&R

On the flip side if it all goes to rat then you can be up all hours only getting the required 8hrs off after 16hrs work rarely happens but it does

Still a great job though if that type of lifestyle suits you