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

Drillers

Then pull that oil and gas out of the ground and transport it). Roughnecks operate cranes, run drilling engines and pipes, and are in general given more skilled tasks and paid more for doing them. Several years of work as a roughneck are enough to pass to the next level, which is that of derrick hand, or derrickman.