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Oil Drilling Jobs: 10 Tips And Warnings For Your First Oil Job

You have put in a lot of effort to get yourwith drugs in your personal effects, you
first oil drilling job. Once you get hired,could face the hanging penalty for drug
here are 10 tips to get you started off ontrafficking in oil rigs off the shore of
the  right  foot.countries  like  Malaysia  and  Singapore.
1) Be humble. Start from the bottom, just6) Buy enough life insurance. While safety is
like everyone else on the oil rig, even thea high priority on modern oil rigs, it never
rig  manager.hurts to be prepared for the worst case,
especially if you have family members
2) Be prepared. There are no stores on andependent  on  you.
offshore oil rig. Make sure you bring along
enough toiletries and cigarettes (even if you7) Be prepared to travel. You will usually be
do not smoke). You can trade the extras, orfar away from home in a remote location for
"bribe" a seasoned colleague to teach youseveral weeks. After all, there is a reason
part of his job. As mobile phones usually dothey  are  giving  you all that extra salary.
not work on offshore, take along a prepaid
card. You will need to find out who the phone8) Make sure you are single or have a stable
service  provider  is  on board your oil rig.marriage. More than one employee has found
himself divorced due to the odd working hours
3) Clear up any personal issues before youand long hitches. If you are married, make
leave shore. Communications can be expensivesure you can trust your wife to keep your
if your rig does not have mobile phonehousehold  affairs  running.
coverage. Offshore phone services like
Petrocom charge up to $5.00 a minute, so your9) Be prepared to work hard, no matter how
prepaid cards could run out pretty fast.rough the weather condition is. Also be
Unless you have a life-threatening emergency,prepared to work for demanding supervisors.
you will be stuck on the rig for weeksAn oil rig costs thousands per hour to
(depending on your contract, possibly up to 6operate and has no room for slackers and
weeks). You should realize that transport onlayabouts. More importantly, offshore rigs
and off the rig is strictly controlled, asare often isolated away from civilization and
ferrying an employee to shore by helicopterany serious mistakes you make could cost the
costs  thousands  of  dollars.lives  of  your  colleagues.
4) Get some basic knowledge of maritime law10)Get a sense of what the industry is all
and protocol. An offshore oil rig comes underabout. Check out books such as "A Primer to
maritime law and is treated as a sea goingOil Well Drilling" in your local library.
vessel. Protocol on board resembles that of aMake sure you have the right expectations of
commercial ship - the toolpusher or rig bossyour colleagues and bosses on board the oil
and the drilling company representative serverig.
as co-captains of the rig. Law breakers will
be  turned  over  to  the  coast  guard.Follow these 10 tips for your first oil
drilling job, and you will find things going
5) No drug use. If you have a drug habit andsmoothly. Flout them, and your career will be
cannot give it up, do not get an oil drillingin  choppy  seas.
job. Rigs test employees regularly for drugs,
so you will be quickly found out and fired.Are you looking for oil drilling jobs? Click
Apart from that, laws in your host countryhere to learn how can help you to quickly and
will also come into effect. If you are foundeasily find oil drilling jobs.



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