Starting to look for oil work

[glen1978]

When you get in the door you will make pretty good money tattn' roughnecks up on your days off. LOL! Not sure how old you are but Im 33 and I wouldnt wanna be roughneckin. Gona take you a while to get to driller......3-5 years and thats still out in the weather. Get in and look for a way out! Mud Engineer is what I do and love it. Easiest job on the location. Call Newpark Drilling Fluids down in Corpus and apply, I dont have a contact for you down there but they are hiring guys off the streets.

[Pin Oak DXT]

Lee,

Go offshore and work your way up. Good pay, good benefits for your family (medical, dental, vision), state of the art high tech deepwater drilling rigs, and the recovery (post Macondo Moratorium) is well underway. Offshore (deepwater) tends to be less cyclical than land as well. The pay scales are higher too. You will be served 4 meals per day (all you can eat), have a nice state room, have your bed made for you and your clothes washed daily, and it wont cost you a dime. You need to be prepared to work a 3 week on and 3 week off schedule. Also, you cant spend any money while you are at work! In my opinion, lots more advantages to working onshore. Try Transocean, Ensco, Diamond Offshore, and Noble Drilling first.

[Hooper]

Lee we are in a hot area, always have a bed for you brother!

Get into production, not drilling, is my advice.

Agreed! Or look into being a landman...

[Skinny]

I've been working as a Pumper (Lease Operator) for going on 4 months...started with no experience. Awesome job on the production side....oil companies are always gunna need pumpers.

Good luck!!!

Skinny

[jooger17]

PM sent

Shane, e mail me or text me your e mail address, I'll get you those tank calculations we talked about.

[jooger17]

Lee we are in a hot area, always have a bed for you brother!

Get into production, not drilling, is my advice.

I did pretty well on the drilling side. Production side is for women like Skinny

[k9trainer]

Why not move to an area that will support a more stable tattoo career?

[Skinny]

I did pretty well on the drilling side. Production side is for women like Skinny

Oh no you didn't!!!!!!

Keep poking holes in the ground for me, dood!!!!

Skinny

[76truck]

Lee,

Go offshore and work your way up. Good pay, good benefits for your family (medical, dental, vision), state of the art high tech deepwater drilling rigs, and the recovery (post Macondo Moratorium) is well underway. Offshore (deepwater) tends to be less cyclical than land as well. The pay scales are higher too. You will be served 4 meals per day (all you can eat), have a nice state room, have your bed made for you and your clothes washed daily, and it wont cost you a dime. You need to be prepared to work a 3 week on and 3 week off schedule. Also, you cant spend any money while you are at work! In my opinion, lots more advantages to working onshore. Try Transocean, Ensco, Diamond Offshore, and Noble Drilling first.

I have applied to most of these places and will go to Noble on friday. My question is, do they hire off the street with no experience? My contact is for inshore work but he just moved to a new company and won't be able to help. Just looking for advice and opinions.

[76truck]

Also, what are/is a round about salary for an entry level offshore worker ?

[quackerback]

Why not move to an area that will support a more stable tattoo career?

im not sure there is an area more stable than Austin for that.

[k9trainer]

im not sure there is an area more stable than Austin for that.

I would think Dallas or Ft. Worth would be much better purely on size/population alone

[bphillips]

I did pretty well on the drilling side. Production side is for women like Skinny

+1 more money on the drilling side.. pay attention and move up and the engineers will want your check

[quarterback]

Good luck Lee. Oh, and watch your fingers!