Every rig is equipped with a fire room, and all workers receive comprehensive training in utilizing life-saving fire equipment in case of emergencies

We have a fire indication in the galley.

Please proceed to your muster station wearing warm clothing and a Bayou mustard checker.

In case there is a need to leave the rig in a hurry.

All rigs are ɱaпdatorily equipped with enclosed lifeboats that can easily be dropped into the ocean.

All rig owners are also supposed to meet a series of technical and operational requirements on how to plan and carry out evacuations.

On the other hand, getting to an offshore rig is never done in a hurry.

Since oil rigs are often located in isolated areas prone to rough seas, the rig owners can’t risk heavy ships bashing into the sides of the platform.

For this reason, smaller work boats and crew boats are preferred to transfer the workforce from the shore to the rig, which in itself is no easy undertaking.

Helicopters, however, though more expensive, are the most commonly used transport vehicles during bad weather, through which rig workers commute both during crew change and the end of service.

Most modern oil platform installations are therefore constructed with adequate landing space for helicopters or a fully designated Helipad.

Work

The assurance of a safe ride is very important for the workers as they gear up to perform the various difficult tasks awaiting them on the platform.

In the oil and gas industry, offshore workers roles are wide-ranging.

Some are medical staff who ɱaп the rigged Sickbay.

Medics on an oil rig typically work 12 hour shifts, remain on call around the clock and are flown back to land every two weeks for change of duty.

There are also ɱaпagers, engineers and cooks among the workers, but the majority of them are roughnecks or hard ɱaпual laborers responsible for various chores.

These chores keep the rig running day after day.

Roughnecks have a variety of jobs and job titles.

Derrick hands are responsible for guiding the stands of the drill pipe into the fingers at the top of the derrick, monitoring viscosity and the mud density, while adding chemicals and oil-based fluids.

One of the most important jobs on the rig is that of the installation ɱaпager, known as the Oim.

The installation ɱaпager handles all offshore activities on an oil rig, including maintenance, drilling process, project work and training.

Oil Rigs

Oims are trained on how to handle emergencies and how to ensure the health, general well-being and, above all, the safety of the crew, which is a prime concern all over the industry whereas land-based oil companies can expand their wells as needed, ocean-based businesses need to know the size and type of oil ring required before the drilling starts.

Indeed, oil rigs come in a variety of different styles.

Some are built atop shallow ocean shelves, while some are free-floating and merely tethered to the seafloor.

Others are actually mounted atop ships or barges.

These types can easily be moved from one drilling point to another when the well dries up.

One of the largest seaborn oil fields in the world is the goliad field off the northern coast of Norway.

Goliad Field includes a cylindrical floating production, storage and offloading facility called Savann 1000 fpso and 8 subsea templates with up to 32 L’s.

This field is capable of producing 174 million recoverable barrels, so it requires an equally large extraction process.

For this, the var energy company created the Goliath fpso project.

This massive floating plant has a hole diameter of 270 feet, a storage capacity of 950 000 oil barrels and is staffed by over 120 full-ᴛι̇ɱe workers.

Despite operating in the Arctic Circle, the goliad platform was actually constructed at a Hyundai plant in South Korea.

To get it from there required a journey consisting of about 16 000 nautical miles.

This task was given to the dockside vanguard, the largest heavy transport vessel in the world.

To get the platform on board, several tugboats slowly towed it out into the harbor.

There the Dockwise Vanguard flooded its tanks, submerging its platform by around 30 meters.

As soon as a platform was moved into position, the tanks were cleared and the Goliath was prepared for transport.

The trip took 63 days.

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