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What It’s Like To Work On An Offshore Oil Rig

Drillers

Yet as a roustabout you will acquire a lot of valuable skills in drilling equipment maintenance, for example, and electrical systems, as well as expertise that would then open up more specialised positions. Roughnecks operate cranes, run drilling engines and pipes, and are in general given more skilled tasks and paid more for doing them.