Typical progression on a mobile offshore drilling unit (jack-up, semi, or drillship): start as Roustabout and climb the drilling, crane/logistics, or maintenance track as you log competencies, pass ...

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 ...

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, ...