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Offshore jobs on oil platforms pay well, often up to two times the salary of an equivalent job in the manufacturing and construction sectors. These high salaries earned by workers without college degrees for doing physical work. An entry level roustabout could take home upwards of $45,000 every year for doing 6 to 8 months of work a year. A Geology major with a specialty in oil exploration could easily take home double or triple that, fresh out of school.
Of course, these salaries are fair compensation for the dangers and privations faced by those doing offshore oil rig jobs. Despite all the hue and cry over the recent Deepwater Horizon accident (with 11 dead), there were only two other major offshore oil rig accidents in the 2000-s - the Mumbai High North in 2005 with 22 dead, and the Usumacinta in 2007, also with 22 dead. These are rather small numbers, considering that over 400,000 Americans die of tobacco-use every year (according to the American Cancer Society).
But if workers in oil gas jobs offshore are not being paid for facing the danger of fatal accidents, why the sky-high salaries then? It is mainly the combination of two reasons - the large amount of profits being made by oil companies, and the lack of experienced workers willing to stay on. The simple fact is that there is a high rate of attrition among front line workers in the offshore oil drilling industry. Many offshore oil workers cannot endure the physical hardships they face - the 12-hour shifts of hard physical work in a dangerous environment, the need to do this work non-stop for two to three weeks without a break (there are no weekends on board an oil rig and operations run 24x7), and having to work night-shifts. Although accommodations are provided for free and fairly comfortable, many are also unable to deal with the noise which goes on day and night.
Getting back to the high salaries of drilling jobs, at one point of time, these workers receive additional tax relief, i.e. under certain circumstances, e.g. when the oil rig is in international waters, an oil rig worker who does not need to pay any income tax. Not only that, he may also be able to claim relief for his transportation costs, for example driving to and from the heliport for work, as well as driving to and from training. It is even possible to claim for personally-bought work gear like steel toe boots and slicker suits. On top of these, he may also be able to claim relief from state taxes, e.g. when he is paying taxes for both his state of residence and his state of work. Obviously, it is necessary to consult a proper accountant or tax lawyer for advice.
Of course, jobseekers who have visited Shell's website or BP's website to look for offshore vacancies may be wondering how they can find this kind of work. After all, the only jobs advertised on the websites of these large oil companies are for high level management positions like Regional Account Manager, etc. Unfortunately, the way modern oil drilling works is that the large oil companies outsource the operation of their oil rigs to large oil service contractors like Transocean and Halliburton, and then these intermediate level companies further outsource the real work and hiring of front line workers to much smaller firms. These outsourced workers may or may not be placed under the headcount of the parent contractor, depending on circumstances. For example, they may count these outsourced workers when laying off staff to boost their stock prices, but not when they are expanding their operations.
Given these facts, the best way to conduct an offshore job search is by finding and shooting off job applications to the small oil drilling service companies and recruiters. They will not always have an opening, and rarely have a proper database to track job applications. Once such a company is found, put its details in an Excel spreadsheet and send off the resume. Repeat for each company every three to six months until an offshore job is found. Note that this is also how mass resume submissions services work.
If you are looking for offshore drilling jobs, learn more by visiting http://oilrigjobs.calvinmarketing.com/blog/.
Why Consider Oil And Gas Investing
Investors always want to know what the odds of losing their capital will be. Investors want to know when they will begin making money after sending funds to participate in any investment offering. This is the development time risk. Three, Investors want to know how good the profit structure is, or more specifically, how much money will they make during the life of the investment? I would add a fourth and fifth concern which would be what tax write-offs are there, and finally, what liquidity is there going to be in the investment, or in other words...what's the exit strategy, if any?
Risk is of primary concern to anyone who is expecting to make money, and the deciding of who with, and where to invest hard earned money are the key questions. Upside, downside, and everything else in between are all factors when an intelligent investor analyses any investment, and determines how much, or little to choose to invest. There are many types of risk...I would like to list some of them based on my own experience, considerable research done during the past 24 years, and based on some failures I've also had over the years.
There is a people risk...finding the right people is absolutely essential, in fact I believe this to be the single most important requirement before doing any business with anyone...bad people screw-up great deals. Finding trained, experienced, and highly motivated professionals who don't quit until the job is done right, and in a reasonable period of time can be difficult. People who can work together while finding the crews, and equipment you need to develop the leases, and fields you have so carefully selected, is not easy. It can make or break-you. Relationships based on years of working together is your best insurance of getting the necessary, and correctly accomplished development work you need done in timely fashion.
Track records are important, but hard to quantify in oil & gas, simply because like the movies, you are only as good as your last picture show. Well meaning, and extremely competent professional people, working with great teams, and putting a great deal together can lose, or not succeed with every endeavor, irregardless of their desire to do well, or regardless of their wonderful technical abilities and experience. It's always really important to keep this in mind...however, working with incompetent people, or people who don't know how to get the job done right, or regularly finish what they start isn't an acceptable outcome. You need to avoid these often fairly confident sounding people when you first begin talking with them, and there are some excellant clues to look for when trying to decide who to avoid.
The deal is of paramount importance of course, but how it's structured to provide you with upside, while minimizing downside, providing diversificiation, and being achievable at the same time, and in a reasonable period of time is still a significant challenge...the premise of any oil & gas deal has to be supportable with good history, logic, geology, engineering, and just plain has to make good sense, for both area and the time.
Some oil & gas drilling, and developmental areas in the US are intrinsically very risky for example...the Gulf Coast is one such area, and it's where the faint of heart should not venture...costs are extremely high, as are the technical risks of failure, of which there are many. The statistical track record for most participants in the Gulf Coast area is less than a 50% hit rate of completing commercial wells, even when finding recoverable reserves. Competition in the Gulf Coast areas is brutal, and the big boys control the lay of the land...you've all heard of the expression, 'my way, or the hi-way'?
Previously drilled and developed older areas which have historically produced many millions of barrels of oil in the past, and are still doing so right now. These areas are being re-visited by large independents, and the majors, because they often have much less risk than new exploratory offshore areas. Wells can be placed into production for far less money, and much quicker than the big new fields being discovered elsewhere. Many of these older fields may not have such exciting upside, however higher prices in oil and gas now support the return to some of these areas even though they have been depleted of their primary recoverable reserves of oil & gas. Secondary drilling and recovery methods can rival, and exceed the outcomes relative to both rates of return, and upside you might get in the Gulf Coast states, or with offshore drilling programs. Actually, since the late 70's most of the middle east oil fields are in secondary recovery, and are being water flooded, which is the principal means of recovering the last remaining reserves in place in an oil field.
Finally, there is the price risk, or volatility risk...oil & gas prices are high, particularly oil prices, which are going-up in the foreseeable future, or within the time lines we are investing, and developing new oil & gas projects being planned during the next ten years...there will be alternate energy sources, and conservation efforts, but demand will be greater than supply capabilities based on my research.
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New Saucepans, Line with Oil? Do I HAVE to?
Hello, I have bought some new saucepans today, they are expensive ones. However, the care instructions state that before use to wash (obviously) then rub the inside with some corn or vegetable oil, heat until it smokes a film becomes apparent.. Also states to repeat as necessary to build up an ideal cooking surface.
This seems like a lot of hard work since I bought quite a few pans. Do I really HAVE to do all this? Will I damage them or they have a shorter life if I don't do this and finally, I will use a dishwasher to clean, won't this remove the film anyway and I'd have to keep repeating the steps above? Thanks in advance.
They are Arc 42 pans. Although not £60 per pan they ranged from £20-£30 per pan. They have a lifetime guarantee and were highly recommended.
That's called "Seasoning the Pans" - Do you HAVE to? No, it won't damage the pans. What it will do however is make them not cook at their best and your food can stick/burn much easier.
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