How to get a job on an oil rig...

[GT03ROB]

thainy77 said:

cps13 said:

Hi all,

Thanks for the responses! Not the response I was hoping for but the suggestion of wind farm experience sounds sensible. I suppose I will continue with what I am doing for the time being and just get myself as experienced and qualified as I can in the meantime.

Just as a side note, how does salary work in offshore work? I have seen it stated as £350p/d and £60,000 per year for example Is this just the difference between permanent staff and contractors?

I assume contractors are paid for the days offshore and that's it, so on a 2:2 rotation you would only get paid for the two weeks you actually worked. Whereas permanent staff would be salaried?

thanks

It's pretty much as you describe with contractors only being paid for the days they work. As a permanent employee i have been paid in various ways but primarily a base salary plus a day rate for the days you are away in my experience.

That's about it. I'm staff & about to switch to 4x4, will be paid for every hour worked (so 78hrs/wk) plus uplifts, then 20hrs/wk plus uplifts for weeks off.

[AbzST64]

GT03ROB said:

.......& with less & less talent in the business it's only going to get worse.

But unfortunately it's what the Client wants at the moment. We have been told many times now 'sorry, we want to work with you, your quality is impeccable etc etc' but unfortunately cost comes first and quality 2nd and we cannot compete at all with some of the rates that are being used by local companies!

[Shuvi McTupya]

K50 DEL said:

Unfortunately there are many nationalities who will work for a lot less money than Brits and whilst the industry is in such a downturn there's little incentive for salaries to go back to a sensible level.

I used to do offshore trips in an administrative capacity for diving projects on dive vessels.
As the project administrator I was on about £350 a day. My counterpart on the vessel was the vessel administrator who was part of the vessel crew rather than project crew. The vessel crew were mainly from the Philippines and places like that. This guy was doing a job very similar to me , plus he was bilingual. His day rate was about £90!

[tighnamara]

AbzST64 said:

This really..! I work in tenders for huge O&G project around the world and the one thing we are finding is there are other nationalities willing to work for a much lesser rate than UK personnel with relative experience, an example is a Brit requesting $1000 day for Middle east...Italian guy happy with $300 a day. Guess which option the client is taking?

We are being told at the moment it's cost before quality unfortunately.

Out of interest what type of role is this for ?