Can oil rig engineers be on a oil rig for a month at a time?

While many of the offshore oil rig jobs are physical in nature, many of the rig companies go out of their way to make sure your time spent onboard is an ... read more

Oh yeah, they can. It’s not customary for an oil engineer to stay at an oil rig longer than the statutory term (in Brazil that would be 21 days) but I’ve had some friends that stayed for over 40 days - even up to 90 days! This is quite rare, though. It normally only happens on offshore oil rigs where some kind of upgrade or emergency is happening. read more

I work on a rig and I currently do a 28/28 rotation which means I work for 28 days (12 hrs per day) and go for field break for another 28 days. It can be tiring and fun at the same time. Many expatriates working on rigs do either 28/28 or 35/35 while in many places, locals do mostly 14/14. read more

Starting salary for a MechE in a normal job, from what I gather, is somewhere around $60k, but starting salary for an oil rig engineering job is around $80k. That's only a 30% increase in pay for what seems like a much greater than 30% increase in hardship, which means that there must be some other incentive that I'm missing. read more