Working on the oil riggs

[Cyber]

HI, Can someone please help, i wanting to start working on the oil riggs, however where i do i start.

Cheers.

[Postdog]

after a quick googlehttp://www.offshore-jobs.co.uk/


suggest you look for more things same way

[factor-fiction]

Postdog- maybe he Googled riggs rather than rigs.

[Buenchico]

You can't work on an oil rig unless you've completed the necessary safety courses. (That includes fire fighting and learning how to get out of an upturned helicopter which has ditched into the sea).

Unless you've got some very specialist skills, which are in short supply, the oil companies won't normally pay for a newcomer's training. (There are a few apprenticeships available but they are normally massively over-subscribed). You usually have to pay the courses yourself, and satisfactorily complete them, before you can even apply for a job on a rig.

See here:
http://careersadvice.direct.gov.uk/helpwithyou rcareer/jobprofiles/profiles/profile1099/
and here:
http://careersadvice.direct.gov.uk/helpwithyou rcareer/jobprofiles/profiles/profile35/

Chris

[KJKJ]

Petrofac who now own RGIT Montrose conduct the offshore safety training in Aberdeen. As per some of the previous answers you will need to pay for this yourself. The energy industry has been crying out for engineers for years - I don't know your background (skills, experience, trade, etc) but perhaps you could look online www.thisisnortheastofscotland.co.uk (Aberdeen's morning newspaper, the Press and Journal) to see what jobs are advertised every Friday (if I remember correctly)..once you're in the industry the world is your oyster!

[mosesg]

Don't like to alarm you but the oil industy in the Uk is in a bit of a downturn at the moment, maybe not the best career move!!!!

[trimmed-bush]

moses its the opposite.

[another-view]

It might be worth learning how to spell RIGS before filling in any application forms?

[Octavius]

My friend works on a Norwegian rig he has been there for about 5 years (shift is 2 weeks on the rig, 4 weeks off - depending on overtime etc). He has been told his next rig, if the well they are going for doesn't reveal anything, will be near Egypt and will be 4 weeks on and 4 weeks off.

Its not really a job for the feint hearted.

http://www.oilcareers.com/worldwide/