Thread: The good Ole Oil and Gas boys. Is it really that easy?

Originally Posted by superman

Easy to spout that when you don't live out in the bush on a permanent basis. May be not all, but best part do. Either that or they're up to some sort of skulduggery.

Do the majority of gas workers live out in the bush ???

I don't know, maybe crank up a poll EH.

Maybe some guys except that there woman shag on the side. Depends where they met them I suppose and what the set up is.

Originally Posted by terry57

Do the majority of gas workers live out in the bush ??? I don't know, maybe crank up a poll EH.

I'm referring to where I live and the antics of the locals.

Originally Posted by superman

Trust covers many things, fidelity, finance etc. I trust my wife but I'm always looking over my shoulder, and I'd say I'm not alone on that.

Bloody hell mate I really feel sorry for you.

You may call me a fool, a disaster waiting to happen but if I didn't trust the lady I was with 100% I'd be on my rocket out of there as fast as Superman can do it.

FFS mate I spend my time looking over my shoulder walking down the soi let alone having to do it in my home.

Anyway back on topic................how is it going for you lads out there on the rigs, swinging off yardarms racking the money in?

Guys higher up who have 2,years experience make 1000 a day or more. You can't even go offshore without on shore experience or connections. Starters and stuff make 400 to 600,a day.

And don't forget, allot of oil work is considered seasonal.

And everyone bullshits a bit about what they make. Starters probaby go around saying they make 1000 a day when there is no way in hell

And a 1000 a day usually means you have about 4 or 5 million dollars minimum worth of equipment that is your responsability

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

Anyway back on topic................how is it going for you lads out there on the rigs, swinging off yardarms racking the money in?

I am an operator on a coil tubing unit. Spend allot of time inside. Not that hard. Money is pretty good until you pay your fucking taxes

Originally Posted by socal

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

Anyway back on topic................how is it going for you lads out there on the rigs, swinging off yardarms racking the money in?

I am an operator on a coil tubing unit.

Is that some kind of sick homo sex tool?

Had a bar full of em.

A lot of business was done there. A big industry but quite a small club. if you were good then you earned good


Must admit some of em weren't wired right n liked a drink.


Lot of jockanise..

Originally Posted by Smug Farang Bore

Had a bar full of em.

A lot of business was done there. A big industry but quite a small club. if you were good then you earned good


Must admit some of em weren't wired right n liked a drink.


Lot of jockanise..

What in Christs earth is jockanuse...

A 'Jockanese' is 'Scotsmen'. Or to speak 'Jockanese' is to speak with a Jock accent.

Originally Posted by superman

That's the difference between us then. I don't look over my shoulder whilst walking down the street.

Yet you do so at home and based upon what you are telling us.

Originally Posted by Smug Farang Bore

A lot of business was done there. A big industry but quite a small club. if you were good then you earned good

The good ole days mate.

You still see some of the lads around?

Originally Posted by socal

Money is pretty good until you pay your fucking taxes

The payment of taxes seems confusing to me.

I have a NZ mate who was working for an American company putting an Oil Rig into the Bass Straight off the coast of Australia.

I ashed him who does he pay tax too and he replied, no foking idea, I let the company work it out for me and he seemed more then happy with that arrangement.

Originally Posted by baldrick

one way the system gets gamed is that the company will declare that you are paid a minimal amount , thus pay small tax - but then ex-gratia payments are made into a bank account in another country for the rest of your renumeration

That seems the way it works mate.

I know a number of blokes that sign a contract based upon a flat rate, the company that employs them sets up a bank account in a tax friendly country and pays their remuneration straight into that account.

The company in turn pays a token tax payment on the workers behalf in the country where they are working which I would imagine is far bellow the normal tax rate.

Originally Posted by Smug Farang Bore

Had a bar full of em.
Must admit some of em weren't wired right n liked a drink..

Theres a show on cable that documents the working life of guys drilling for oil in the American desert.

Blistering conditions, scorching heat and dangerous work. Some hard core guys working those rigs, must be a tough bastard to actually work on the tools.

Would not last till lunch time if not cut out for hard filthy work. Sitting on your arse in an office is totally different gig.

One guy called Tank. Socal would know the program.

^ I have some friends that worked in the desert in Libya and they had blokes with Jeeps armed with machine guns protecting them.

Then they had to endure very harsh desert life and sometimes stuck in their bungalows for days on end when there was a sand storm.

Yes, they were paid well but as someone quoted before is it really worth the risk.

I was also told that they had to pay for Gadafi's protection which was not cheap.

^
Offshore, the living conditions are better. Depending on the country of course. Like Brazil, onshore Oil & Gas jobs (office) living conditions are great!

Manual labour is for duppers who are thick. Har har.

Originally Posted by flashbang

Manual labour is for duppers who are thick. Har har.

So all mechanics, engineers and others who work with their hands are thick?

Thanks for you valued contribution to this thread.

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

Originally Posted by flashbang

Manual labour is for duppers who are thick. Har har.

So all mechanics, engineers and others who work with their hands are thick?

Thanks for you valued contribution to this thread.

Not as thick as the gormless twat who sweeps up on building sites but thicker than the boss who sits in the office drinking tea and earning three times more money.

I'm glad you like my great contributions. I've been thinking of charging people to read my life changing stuff, but for now, you'll be pleased to hear, it's still free.

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

(as there seems to be a lot of work available now)

Where did you get that info from LT ?

Someone told me years ago that its really hard to get into, if you want to enter at the ground level that is, as all those jobs have to be given to the locals, who will work for peanuts anyway.

This was some guy in a bar telling me this. I think he also mentioned that even if you did know someone who could get you in, you have to go back to the UK to do all the health and safety courses and get some card.

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Originally Posted by socal

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

Anyway back on topic................how is it going for you lads out there on the rigs, swinging off yardarms racking the money in?

I am an operator on a coil tubing unit. Spend allot of time inside. Not that hard. Money is pretty good until you pay your fucking taxes

Get outside and on the Floor.

Its the same money. I did that for awhile.