If i plan to apply to work on a offshore drilling rig this fall,should i apply now or then for a job,?

Question

reason being ,is because i dont know if their is a long wait list for that type employment, or maybe they have a high degree of employee turnover and hire new people pretty fast, iv'e been told many things and most of what iv'e been hearing is getting a job in this field you must know someone working their,,,, it would really help me just to know the facts and the road to take to get this job, can anyone give me the facts about this PLEASE, thank you so much for your time.

Answer 1

Apply now. Without experience it is harder to get one of these jobs. You may get a position on a land based rig first. Good luck.

Answer 2

Since I believe in accountability, I would suspend Transocean from the business for a year in waters near the USA. The fact that Transocean messed up does not mean that no organization anywhere in the world is capable of doing the drilling safely. I would look for additional safeguard technologies to assure that seal off valves at the wellhead have about five way redundancy so that if the first three tries don't work, levels 4 or 5 might work. I call this defense in depth. I used this concept when I did perimeter security counseling for DOD. I'm in favor of drill baby drill, but let's do it in the Gulf, where the oil is, and not so much on our atlantic coast where the oil is not. But Atlantic side test holes are OK, see what we can find. I would be hugely in favor of drilling for natural gas in ANWR, stuff that can be pipelined easily. Get every Caribou a psychologist and an massage therapist and a new Cadillac -- whatever it takes to make them happy -- then drill in ANWR (and the Gulf) but with bigtime safety precautions, and let's keep Transocean out of the business for at least a year. I also don't want Exxon to be running oil tankers from Alaska. I call this experience-based risk assessment. It may not be perfect, or perfectly fair, but it's rational and basically fair. Good enough if the alternative is no risk assessment and no risk containment. Getting the USA independent of Arab oil is actually quite important, or of communist oil from Venezuela. The more we depend on people that hate our guts the more we become jerked around puppet clowns. Independence is good. Renewables and conservation would be even better, but that's not on the radar. The wind and the sun are good sources but not intense enough. A national geothermal project with priority like the Manhattan Project, would make sense (if DOE were not on Curare). We are well endowed with geothermal in Hawaii and in the Western part of USA. It's a technology that we could master. It's capital that could be raised. Geothermal is second only to hydro as a source of intensive renewable energy that is 100% reliable all the time. We always get power from the Hoover Dam. The Chinese have just completed the Three Gorges Dam -- the biggest energy source in the world. We need to get GE cranked up with some French and Germans and get some big projects going in USA. It's like we took some kind of sleeping pill or something. We are so hapless. So torporous. So paralysed.

Answer 3

when you find out, can you let me know?
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i live in austin and have wanted to do this forever.
i looked into it last year and the only way i found was to pay $200+ bucks to get on a hiring agency that then owns your a** and takes a percentage.

Answer 4

you should go ahead and apply now. there are waiting lists. and unless you know somebody that know somebody good luck with that