Kenny Wood, now Assistant Rig Manager, Maersk Resilient, recalls on its 31st anniversary an accident in less safety-conscious days that seemed at first to have extremely serious consequences. Here he ...

MOBILE, Ala. -- A federal agency is looking into the death of a Clarke County man who died after falling 75 feet from an oil rig. Virgil Chapman, chief investigator with the Clarke County Sheriff's ...

Houston Community College’s visionary program to train the next generation of entry-level roustabout workers is up and running. The first four classes to kick off the farsighted Global Oil and Gas ...

Truth matters. Community matters. Your support makes both possible. LAist is one of the few places where news remains independent and free from political and corporate influence. Stand up for truth ...

When the drilling of an oil or gas well encounters pressure greater than that of the mud holding back the oil, gas, or water in the rocks, the pressure blows the mud, water, oil, or gas out of the ...

Fastest path: get your offshore medical and OPITO BOSIET, add rigging/banksman basics, then take short-term call-outs via drilling contractors or staffing agencies in port cities to build sea time and ...

With this week marking the first anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon explosion and start of the Gulf oil spill, we checked back with Christopher Choy, a roustabout who survived the blast on the rig, ...

Annualized estimate is derived as \( \text{Annual} \approx \text{Day Rate} \times D \), where \( D \approx 182 \) workdays/year on 14/14 or 28/28 rotations. Hourly equivalent assumes 12-hour standard ...

2010-05-29T11:48:48-04:00 https://ximage.c-spanvideo.org ...