This was by far one of my favorite jobs I have ever worked. I was what they called an SDR (Safety Department Representative/Paramedic) but I started off years earlier as a roustabout. If you can handle being gone from home and I could there is no better job. Yes, you work 12 hours a day for 14,21, and 28 days but when you get off you are steps from a shower, supper, and your bed. They cook for you. After my shower, I placed my dirty clothes outside my room and the next morning they were clean. When I went to work they pulled and washed my sheets, made my bed, and cleaned the room. Granted I was on a semi which was one of the biggest in the industry but I loved it. Once you get out there and start working a regular shift you end up with two families. One when you are home and one when you are at work. The only reason I ever quit was because of a bad car accident I had while I was home that left me disabled.

Safest base in a zombie apocalypse, hands down.

Props to the workers. Something about the ocean terrifies me, no way I could do it.

Spent three months working on an oil rig off the Southwest coast of Ireland back in 1978. 12 hour days, 14 days on 14 days off. Absolutely loved it. Had I not emigrated to the US early ‘79 I’d have gone back the following season.

Oil rigs are fascinating to me, I love looking-at them and watching how the ocean moves around them. Especially in the wild North Sea!

Fascinating. I wonder how these oil rigs evolved. Who designed the first ones and how they decided on what to include, how much space for each function, etc. Must have been a lot of learning and trial-and-error. Like a ship they have to be somewhat self-sufficient and ready to handle a wide array of problems and situations. Take food for example, how many chefs are needed for a crew of about 200? How much food must be ready for each meal? How much storage space for that food for... 2 weeks? 2 months? Etc. Then multiply that kind of planning out for dozens of other jobs and functions. Must have taken a team of architects and engineers years to figure all this out.

I must say how pleasantly surprised and pleased I am reading the positivity and support of the oil field workers in the majority of the comments posted. As an active oil field guy, myself, it seems like the media does little to paint us, or our work, in good light. I regularly have opportunities to hold great conversations with air plane passengers about the oil field, many who've never met anyone in the industry. Something all of these conversations have in common is that fact that so few people understand not only the process of getting the oil but also the myriad products oil (hydrocarbons) is used to make: cosmetics, plastics, pharmaceuticals, glass, metal, computer chips, etc. The way the media vilifies oil in such a single-faceted way shows that even they don't comprehend their dependence on it for our modern life; it's not just for fueling cars. Unfortunately, for many of the products oil is used to make, we have yet found a suitable, sustainable replacement - hopefully someday that is not the case. If all oil production and refining were shut down today, the world as we know it would drastically and irreversibly change. Until that day comes when we have feasible alternatives, oil is and will remain the backbone of modern civilization. In the meantime, you folks in the science/chemistry community, keep working at solving this problem of our utter dependence on oil... my children's children are counting on you for their future. Until then, we in the patch will keep finding the oil and bringing it to surface.

Shout out to all oil workers. You have all helped create the wonderful world that humans get to live in.

Working offshore was the most valuable experience and greatest time of my life. I worked as a mechanic for the anchor winches on semi sub drilling rigs and accommodation platforms.

Inside, like a mini hotel.......some had movie theater room. Outside, orchestrated chaos and dangerous.

Love these looks into what life is like working in unusual places..keep em coming..thank you!😘

Thank you to everyone involved in fossil fuel production! You provide the energy for us to have the opportunity to have an incredible quality of life!!!

Amazing. Thank you for you all who have been offshore for supporting not only your family but also other people. And, I am grateful to gain more information for all about off shore oil ridge.

My husband has worked out there since he was 19, almost 10 years now. His next promotion he will soon be an OIM, very proud of him! Hard life to live but he’s been blessed and so have we

Truly amazing structures.

Would love to know how they build these things!

I enjoyed working offshore. Worked on many platforms off the California coast. Many have been taken out of service now.

The most exiting day is when you are crew's change day and you go home safely . 😂😂

Trabalhei 15 anos de minha vida em plataformas de petróleo em Macaé UNBC. Trabalhei em P7,P12,Pampo e Enchova. Valeuuu a pena.

Loved working out there , flying in helicopters, on the deck at night watching the waters... Gulf of Mexico

3:21 - An acquaintance worked a rig off the Norwegian coast; they helicoptered back and forth. More detail would be appreciated by this viewer.

HIGH TECH AND DANGEROUS KIND OF WORK.

Spent 8 years of my life working on offshore drilling rigs as a roustabout , roughneck and Derrick hand in the seventies.

Very interesting ..love industrial documentary

LOL, I like the use of the sucker rod rig for the derrick hand example! I have worked in the Gulf of Mexico for 38 years. Have done everything from service rig work (snubbing), conventional work over rigs and even construction work. Have been in production now 34 years working the shelf. It's been a good life and yes it has been tough at times, but I would not trade it for anything. The video shows a mix of drilling rigs as well as production platforms. I can tell you most shelf platforms are not that big or have that much room. Most platforms on the shelf average 5-9 workers per facility. The workers generally cook, clean, wash their own cloths as well as run the facility. There are some larger platforms that have some of the conveniences like on the video but a majority of the manned platforms on the shelf are as I described. The deepwater facilities are more like what you see on the videos. It was an interesting video that somewhat gives a good representation of offshore life.

Engenharia incríveis muito bom 👍👍👍👍

have been involving in this offshore sector for almost 4 months, I know that I'm still a newbie and still have a lot of things to learn, it was so hard to adapt to this kind of environment in the beginning, but so far it has valuable and great experience, much love to offshore oil n gas

I worked marine pipelay,and construction worldwide,dive support,sbms installation,fpsos,it's not for everyone. We did 90/30 tours. 12-18 hour days great people but, it's work! Do your job or you are gone.lost a few friends too!

It's a great job, but it requires patience and moderation

I worked offshore in the late 70's to early 80's. I don't think the word "safety" was a part of oilfield vernacular in those days because I remember some scary shit.

So much smiling and laughing in the opening scenes! Exact opposite of anyone I’ve met from the oil patch haha.

Working on both platforms and drilling rigs great experience

So interesting. I've watched KZfaq vids on workers at oil platforms and seagoing wind turbines. I admire those who give so much of themselves to keep us all going. Thank you.

I have to say I am immensely impressed with the jaw-dropping engineering that goes into these rigs and all the accompanying things that happen to keep the humans alive and well on these rigs. I know the fossil fuel industry gets a bum wrap, but that aside, the engineering and the skill of these rigs and ships is inspiring.

Interesting and informative. Thanks

凄い仕事、尊敬します。

Seems so environment friendly 🙂😍 such peaceful music, carefully chosen words, gorgeous

Good job. Thanks for sharing.

Very educational. Thank You.

It's like going to the ISS or staying under the ocean in a submarine for a long while. Except here you can actually get some fresh air, that is if you ignore the terrible smell of gas and oil of course.

How very amazing!! What tremendous engineering.

Real men doing real work. Imagine that.

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Nice video. Very informative.

I absolutely love the carefree, upbeat music, smiling faces, and carefully chosen words. You could even start to forget that those are the oil giants that destroy our world- polluting and destroying oceanic and land based ecosystems using the exact platforms in the aforementioned video.

i am so happy that men and women are out there together all alone for long periods of time. especially being so young. just makes good sense.

We see them on oceans and now I know how they look from close look.Thanks for explanation.

I use to work on offshore supply vessels in the North sea 2 weeks on 2 off horrendous in winter, anchor handling and offloading supplies,didn't get much sleep.

Very Good

High-class technology, steady

I work offshore 7yrs @ al shaheen oil field Qatar As rope access L3 blaster and painter Very nice experience

Respect to them all!!!

Memang luar biasa

I’ve never eaten better fried shrimp than on a rig in the Gulf of Mexico.

Just out of curiosity, are there oil rigs located 'in the middle of the ocean" or 'thousands of miles away from the coastline'? I thought they were located about 100, maybe 200 miles off the coast.

Look at how happy we are!

Very nice background music with smooth narration.

You would think with that much space they could give the crew their own small private quarters instead of a communal bunk area.

Good one!

Life & death work. Really great hatsapp miracle injineers heartly hatsapp miracle u all 👌🤝🙏👌👍😘🎉💐 great hard working in peacfull lovely beautiful nature miracle nature lovely ocean 🌊

This is fascinating to me. They don't get paid very well though considering the danger. So these people must really enjoy the jobs.

قال تعالى ﴿اقرَأ بِاسمِ رَبِّكَ الَّذي خَلَقَ﴾ [العلق: ١]﴿خَلَقَ الإِنسانَ مِن عَلَقٍ﴾ [العلق: ٢]﴿اقرَأ وَرَبُّكَ الأَكرَمُ﴾ [العلق: ٣]﴿الَّذي عَلَّمَ بِالقَلَمِ﴾ [العلق: ٤]﴿عَلَّمَ الإِنسانَ ما لَم يَعلَم﴾ [العلق: ٥] فسبحان من علم الأنسان مالم يعلم ومع هذا العلم الذي وصل إليه البشر بفضل الله فهو قليلُُ كما قال الله عزوجل ﴿وَيَسأَلونَكَ عَنِ الرّوحِ قُلِ الرّوحُ مِن أَمرِ رَبّي وَما أوتيتُم مِنَ العِلمِ إِلّا قَليلًا﴾ [الإسراء: ٨٥]

Wonderful job

God's grace and only his mercy

Very interesting.Looks like a job I’d like to do.

please say I’m not the only person who started, “no way, I could never,” and graduated to,” they have a pool table?! I’m sold,”😂

“Never a dull moment”… riiight🙄🤣

I used to do mostly day trips to platforms in Cook Inlet doing communications work.i also spent some time on a drill ship in the Chukchi Sea in the early 1990s.

Everything is as complete as on the mainland ☺️☺️😁😁😁😁😁🤗🤗

I miss my time out there. Never forget my brother's and sisters

You gotta love how he says that the rig owners are " supposed" to provide for safety.....

Thanks for sharing.

Bravo PT Chevron

VERY ASTONISHING!

Just came home from Ekofisk in the North Sea, its almost like a city in the middle of the ocean with 6 rigs connected with bridges. And its more than 1km to walk across the whole complex.

If everybody loves this work so much why does everyone leave the work in less than a year? Is there anyone out there that's made a career of this? I wish I knew about this when I was younger because I'm sure I would've loved it.

Fantastico!

"safety which is a prime concern of the industry" only if the media cares!

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Keren

It has always been my dream to work at sea not infront computer screens..I hope some how I get to expirience this..even its for a month..Applied couple of times at Stena bulk

Gargantuan achievements in engineering: personally i don't have the gumption to work on these mammoth technological platforms and advances in oil extraction , but it takes hundreds of skilled people to make it happen. Fascinating.

I spent more than 25 yrs working offshore, and NEVER came across facilities like this, and I can say I visited 100s of platforms!!

Omg super genius Architecture and mechanics

If only I can turn back time , would be awesome to work out there , am fascinated ..

I passed my younghood on rigs both work over and drilling. Convencional at that time. Now there are top drive

안녕하세요! 반갑습니다! 좋습니다!!! 고맙습니다!!! GREAT!!! GOOD!!! THANKS!!!

A round of applause for men I couldn’t do this job for nobody 🌹💕

I used to work on a rig in the gulf of Mexico. They would transport us to and from by helicopter.

Wouldn't you think it mandatory to have those damn life boats ON ALL SIDES of the rigs !? I mean what if you can't get across!

12 hours shifts??? OMG

👏👏💐 good one

Looks much better, firmer and more confortable than "Principality of Sealand".

Everything looks like huge spaceship or deep space station.

Most of these shots could have been taken anywhere. You can't get an idea how big these platforms are by looking at four guys sitting at a table...

all depends on oil reserves all straight down drilling then this was in the sixty's then they brought in directional drilling i worked on all the rigs then the Glomar 3 -Sedco - and ocean digger

Keren 👍👍

Very good 👍

Those smiling worker at the beginning must be 2 weeks on-2 weeks off basis. Imagine 6 month at rig caused by Covid lockdown back in 2020 😅

I wonder if there's a holding cell incase someone goes mental