Working an oil rig job is fast becoming a popular career choice around the world. This article is aimed at promoting a basic understanding of a rig job and at analyzing the various rig jobs around the world.
Oil rig jobs basically consist of drilling out crude oil from the ocean floor. Crude oil is a very important source of energy today and more than half of the world is dependent on it for energy. At first, only land oil wells were used for oil extraction. As the demands increased, man ventured on to drill oil from under the seas. Off shore oil wells became increasingly popular. The first oil well in open sea was opened in the Gulf of Mexico. A large gas field was found in Netherlands in 1959. It was also discovered that gas was found under the North Sea basin in the UK.
Oil rig jobs are much more sophisticated these days than they were earlier. Oil fields have expanded into deeper waters. Safety is an important concern in oil rig jobs and this is another aspect of rig jobs that has improved over the ages; with proper training being given to those working on rig jobs, by the employers themselves.
The oil rig jobs in the world are spread all over countries like Nigeria, Kuwait, North America, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates. The daily wages at an oil rig job can range from £225 at the beginning to £450 for the more skilled and experienced.
Today there are many rig jobs in this sector which are in need of personnel. One such oil project in progress is the Diana or Hoover fields in the Gulf of Mexico controlled by the oil company Exxon which generates hundreds of rig jobs. Their oil wells have a good output of 4800 barrels a day at a maximum. The largest oil field in North America is the North Slope Operations in Alaska by the Oil Company BP and generates 3% of all the oil consumed in America. Their 150,000 acre field is situated in Prudhoe
Bay. Terra Nova is an oil company which generates a lot of offshore oil rig jobs and it has an oil field situated in Newfoundland producing approximately 370 million barrels. Hibernia is another oil and gas drilling company which has a large number of oil rig jobs to offer every year. Their oil field can make 135,000 and up to 150,000 barrels every year.
