Getting work on a rig

**Dalton** · 29-10-2007, 03:23 PM

Originally Posted by Rigger

forcing us to hire Arabs.

What the feck do you use them for ???

**mcc** · 29-10-2007, 04:32 PM

i am involved in crane operation and rigging.

usually heavy lift stuff

from what i can tell you need to get into the swim

once there prove yourself and your in for life

very similar to construction (crane and rigging) i feel once in your right

well similar we all seem to know each other or another person that does and we get each other work

right having said that with the oil/comidities boom there has to be openings at the moment

i would chase the crane side of things but i have experience, if i did not i would chase occ health and saftey if you could cop the shit from both ways i suppose. it would be a mind fuck

well thats imho

ps - there is plenty of tyre kickers out that that say they wantvto work on rigs but when it gets down to it

there is really only a few that truly want it and they go and get it!!!!!

watch me get on a rig prior to june 2008

mcc

**bbigman21** · 31-10-2007, 04:09 PM

All you guys that are working in the oil and gas industry talk to your Sparkies and see where they got there SCR experience and let me know where I can get some. Or any other helpful hint to get me started

**baldrick** · 31-10-2007, 04:37 PM

are you an Industrial Electrician ? have you worked at refineries and/or mining process plants ?

SCR's - silicon controlled rectifiers - Silicon-controlled rectifier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - just a transistor type device , but on a rig they are bigger to handle the current loads.

you have a bunch of them to control the speed of the big motor in the drilling topdrive ( I don't think rotary tables are used much in new rigs any more ) - the SCR's will be controlled by a bunch of electronics and a PLC. Not really that complex if you are just maintaining and troubleshooting - in this day and age electronic sensors and monitoring will tell you if an SCR is failing or fcuked.

but as I said before , for offshore drilling rigs , production platforms and FPSO's , Industrial electrical experience ( maybe some industrial instrumentation knowledge ) , Hazardous Area Installation , VF drives knowledge , PLC etc is probably more important than SCRs.

**blackgang** · 31-10-2007, 07:17 PM

But on isolated rigs the Femanazis have not infilterated yet, but they will.

Just as the guy who was on his first trip on an isolated rig,
Got off the bird and looked around, asked the tool push what they did for poontang,
Pusher said that well if times got to rough that they just fuked ol Wong the chinaman cook,, "WOW I don't go for that shit."

couple of weeks later he asked the tool pusher "Say just suppose I did go for that shit, who would know?"

"Well I would because I have to set it up, and you would know, and then the 2 guys holding ol Wong, Cause he don't go for that shit either"..555

**baldrick** · 31-10-2007, 07:23 PM

^ I heard a story a few years ago about a young kiwi mud logger who was working on a rig off vietnam , he used to spend most of his hitch locking himself in the logging container - because the russian toolpusher , she used enjoy shagging him.

**Jet Gorgon** · 31-10-2007, 08:30 PM

Originally Posted by bbigman21

All you guys that are working in the oil and gas industry talk to your Sparkies and see where they got there SCR experience and let me know where I can get some. Or any other helpful hint to get me started

Try any of the companies with operations in the Alberta tarsands near Fort MacMurray. They are desperate for staff. The only prob is housing and you have to like 40 below winter weather.

True about the cliques in the biz tho -- it's really dangerous work and you want to have guys you trust on your crew. The only reason I was offered work was coz my dad worked on the rigs.

**blackgang** · 31-10-2007, 09:03 PM

Originally Posted by Rigger

Here I am now down to three white guys the rest are now all Arabs/ indian or Thai all Cheap labour as well as having labour laws forcing us to hire Arabs.

Yea, ain't that the shits, last offshore I worked in Iraq we had to have 1/2 Arabs, so I had 20 Arabs and 20 Thai welders, damn near all the riggers and pile bucks were Mid easters and the only white guys was the Barge capt. was Aussie and the heavy lift operators were Americans and a couple of Brits were foreman along with Americans.

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