Offshore Oil Rigs and Platforms

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It is different. A offshore rig worker works on a rotational schedule. Generally, work is a straight 14 day hitch. In many foreign countries, a common hitch is 28 days. This would be called a 28/28, as you get 28 days of work and 28 days off work. The company pays for your transportation from your home base to the rig site.

There are no holidays. Hours are long. Accomodations are cramped.

For every job on a rig, there has to be two people, typically a day shift person and a night shift person. Bringing alcohol aboard a rig is prohibited. There may be special smoking rooms. All rigs have workout rooms.

Life means missing special occasions with friends and family. The internet and the many forms of communication helps greatly in this manner.

Work hours may exceed 12 hours, but you don't have to worry about meals, laundry or a commuting to work, so it doesn't seem that hard.

I've included a link on offshore life.

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If your question is about the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, there are 11 workers missing and presumed dead, 17 injured, and almost 100 other workers safely evacuated from the drilling platform.

They are fabricated on land. Typically they mobilized (moved) to location by barges. A jackup rig may be assembled in pieces, with the jacket or the rig structure being installed first, and then the topsides (all housing and equipment that rests on the structure) is installed second, by large cranes. See related link.

A semi-submersible, like the Deepwater Horizon, may be towed by tugboats to its location. See second related link.

I am by no means a qualified expert in the oilfield. I do provide instrumentation on drilling rigs though and here alot about all aspects. I can some it up quickly I believe.....Oil is generally locked up in sand type material. This is carbon remains from very old life years ago. Drilling rigs are contracted by operators such as your favorite gasoline company. The drilling rig is told how they wish to drill a hole into the ground at usually around $100k per day here in the Gulf. There are MANY people involved in this process requiring real time data on their holes activity. Many job related specialists are on location inspecting drilling fluids and rock formations underground. Once they reach to belive their target depth there are tests performed to see is their "hole" is production worthy. Many holes are not, leaving the operator with millions of dollars to account for an empty hole....it is nothing more than an empty hole. The holes here on the east (GulfCoast north to New York) run from 4000 feet to 26000 feet depending on location. Production pipe is run from the well to a storage well or production facility. There are many storage wells capable of holding tremendous amounts of oil and gas underground....probably near where you live. Its a fascinating job at times.....sorry I pasted a wall and didnt truly answer your question.

There was zero evidence that Captain Hazelwood was drunk during his time on the ship. He was not on duty during the collision either. The Third Mate was guiding the ship on autopilot.

The main cause according to the NTSB was the failure to repair the sonar that would have told the helmsman and third mate that the reef was coming up. There is no mention of alcohol being a factor in any NTSB report.

The ship ran aground and the rocks punctured the hull of the ship.

1. Sonar that should have been working was not.

2. The ship was taking a shortcut through very shallow waters with the Capt. downstairs and the needed equipment not functioning. (Sonar)

3. Cheap construction of the ship reducing a margin of safety. They used a single hull system to lower cost. This meant no protection for a single puncture. Double hull laws were soon enacted by the US after this disaster in hopes of preventing or reducing further oil disasters.

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One a while not often depends what happens like a methane bubble can escape and explode or something like that there's other reason this happens it wasn't intentional if not agreed improve what I have stated

Oil companies always need to explore for new sources of petroleum. Otherwise, they would run out of oil to sell. The most accessible oil fields in the US were drilled and produced many years ago, in particular Pennsylvania and Texas.

Now, to satisfy the demand for oil, the industry is exploring in much less accessible areas, such as deepwater areas of the Gulf of Mexico, Brazil, Nigeria, Angola, and China. Also, the artic area of Alaska is considered to have considerable hydrocarbon resources.

You can find many references on the internet by searching under peak oil, offshore drilling, and semi-submersibles rigs.

There were several explosions and the rig collapsed and sank. It is located at the bottom of the ocean. It sank to one side, and it is located over 1,000 ft from the wellhead, blow out preventers and marine riser. The marine riser disconnected from the rig and dropped to the sea floor. The oil initially was leaking from three locations: (1) A tear in he marine riser as it came out of the blow out preventer (2) the marine riser lying on the sea floor and (3) the drill pipe lying on the sea floor. Using the ROV's, a shut off valve was placed over the third leak.

the oilf rig explosion killed 11 people and injured 17. The explosions oil flowed for over 3 months while people were desperately trying to get it clean the explosion was in the gulf of Mexico :) hope this helps :)

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Most of them do for the exception of Nabors Drilling USA.

And apperently Bronco Drilling.

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the purpose of oil rigs is that they suck all the oil from ocean and then the workers go to different place to suck oil