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Maybe they want to take it over and use it for a base to control a diamond powered laser device like Blofeld in 007!
I'd actually assume ships with cargo would be a much more likely target, other than kidnap situations.
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Just about anything them can get their hands on, tools, food, people for ransom. The threat of boarding a rig can be enough to shutdown production or drilling. With drilling rigs costing $2-300,000 a day, any downtime gets expensive, very quicky. Pirates or local hostile communities can use this to obtain brides or other concessions. It very much depends on what part of the world you are operating.
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Complete and utter tripe. I am presently on an oil installation 10 miles off the Nigerian coast which has been attacked by gun wielding militants in the past. Why would Uk (or US) special forces come here to assist? Apart from anything else they would be trespassing in the territoreal waters of a sovereign state.
We presently have a 20mm hole in the hull where an AP RPG round was put through the side. We have no armed security presence.
Advantages of being here, great pay, and only work half the year. Plus tax paid by employer.
To OP, to get into this business you need a trade, the principal ones being mechanical, electrical and instrumentation. I myself have a merchant navy backround.
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Not really, the rigs I've been on just pull the IT guys in from the offshore base when there is a problem. Larger installations might have a permanent IT presence though.
Yes I do occasionally...but we are mostly working on the DWG platform project at the moment.
well depends on likes of age, qualifications, experience etc. In the UK..most of the employemnt is arround the Aberdeen area...the likes of Great Yarmouth is another that hosts oil and service companies. Most people start off with trainnee type of positions with service companies..jobs advertised on likes of oilcareers.com...and in the local papers. If you are dead serious...go out of your way to get the Aberdeen local paper called the Press and Journal on a Friday every week. If your arent in Scotland..I dare say you could order it through most newsagents.
http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/index.jsp...try the local job section.
I dont know your background at all...but generally mechaical experience and qualifications helps. Try contacting HR in the likes of Weatherford, Halliburton, Baker Hughes, Schlumberger to see if there is anything available. Do web serches for Oil service companies in Aberdeen....phone..send CV's etc. etc. There is alsways jobs kicking about...its just finding them and getting your foot in the door. Once that is done..then most people with any sense can make a pretty decent career.
Hope this helps a bit.
And dont listen to all those comments above about pirates etc....mostly a lot of ******. There is a few areas in the world...whcih are a bit dodgy and full of oil...Nigera is one specific. My dad works there...and I know a lot of people that have so just because one or two incidents hit the news in the last few years...its kinda like the chances of getting run over when you walk out of the door.
most large oil and service companies have their own IT departments...so yes at times some of them must install the networks etc offshore.
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Ah cool, I was getting worried then (doing a geology degree at the moment)!
He should be on £40k in no time.
Is that all? Spend £1k - £3k on a one or two week course, then go straight onto plant machinery in the construction industry and earn that or more... The jobs are easy to get too.
PS: Very, very boring and frustrating jobs though!
My friends an x-para trooper who told me that the SBS do a lot of training in sieges/storming oil rigs. And as a kind of insurance policy, the big oil companies make some sort of contirbution to there training.
And why would the UK/US governments be interested in protecting oil rigs? Because UK/US oil companies are probably the most profitable companies on earth.
As for trespassing on territoreal waters/sovereign states, a lot operations carried out by SAS/SBS probably involve entering another territory without permission.
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What do you mean by plant machinery, Diggers and such? Has it got anything to do with Geology?
they train for a lot of things, they're ready for anything, hence oil rigs been one of them. Pirates generally not so much trouble anymore, national navys are a bit of a deterant for them.
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