A Rig Worker's Daily Routine An offshore oil rig worker's typical day is based around 12-hour shifts, seven days a week. This is often organized as two weeks on and three weeks off.

Any offshore oil rig that extends past 1500 meters is considered to be an ultra-deepwater production facility. However, that's still nowhere close to the deepest man has explored in the ocean.

Offshore oil rigs are like small towns out on the water. Here's how many people you can expect to find out there, and how long they stay before a break.

Long before offshore oil rigs are put together, much less sent out into the open ocean, they're expertly designed. Schematics are drawn up, and in many cases, engineers will take these plans and ...

I work on an oil rig. It has lonely moments, but every rig I've been on is like a family. As told to Claire Turrell Oil and Gas Drilling Rig over Offshore Platform Getty Oct 10, 2024, 4:58 AM PT ...

Man Says People 'Don't Realize How Difficult' His Unusual Job Is: 'Didn't Get a Single Day Off in 4 Weeks' (Exclusive) Kevin O'Connor spends four weeks at a time working on an offshore oil rig.

Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), which oversees offshore oil leasing, previously estimated that the 2024 rule — the first such overhaul in the past 20 years — would raise ...

An oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Holly Beach, Louisiana. The Gulf is one of the richest deposits of offshore oil and gas in the world, and almost 600 unused rigs have been left ...