What a goddam mess, but least I still have a job for the moment.
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Your getting paid so shut it
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Whoever wrote the Post ID: @Lwqf27i-1qov, is right and is applicable for North Sea. Majority of the operators in North Sea won't allow the personnel at the Rig Site to work more than 12 hours/shift. I have over 15 year experience of working in North Sea Rigs and never but never I have seen any operator to allow a service hand or any another rig personnel to work over 12 hours shift. I had seen before the operations temporarily shut down because of lack of personnel at the Rig Site.
Maybe you have experience in another region but in North Sea they are very serious when is about working hours. If someone has really work 18 hours shift and is in North Sea BHI, very possible BHI will loose the contract or won't get another one with the operator. This is a a very serious HS&E isuess.
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Clearly you have never worked on a rig in your life. Operators will always "bend rules and lie" rather than shut down and wait. That's the real world, not the comfy office that you inhabit.
Talk to the operating company at the rig. Most of the operators don't allow people to work more than 16 hours maximum. They can exert pressure on your managers to help get you a second hand. Grow a pair and ask you manager which shift he would like you to work - and then stick to it. Let the rig shut down and wait on you. You are too tired to do your job SAFELY and need rest so that you do not make any mistakes.
Don't know why but I have a very bad felling that a Macondo 2 to happen in North Sea is not to far away. In BHI and another service companies the majority of experienced hands are gone, possible even out of the industry, easy oil is gone the drillng will become more and more challenging If they think that they are going to hire new grads to do the work, then they should get prepared for the worst. I hope to be wrong and we will not witness a major disaster happening under our eyes, or maybe we are just taking part of it unable to do something.
I see we are channeling Monty Python this morning. I recognize the "We were so poor" routine.
Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o’clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, eat a clump of coal poison, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah.
Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at six o’clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of ‘ot gravel, work twenty hour day at mill for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle, if we were lucky!
we had it tough. We used to have to get up out of shoebox at twelve o’clock at night and lick road clean with tongue. We had two bits of cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at mill for sixpence every four years, and when we got home our Dad would slice us in two with bread knife.
Call yourself a DD, you got it easy....... We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t’ mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt.
They need to start rehiring directional drillers now !! The downturn is over !!