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| | Re: drillship vs drilling barge, dayrate?
« Reply #1 on Jul 19, 2012, 2:03pm » | |
"not to mention the cramped space one has for privacy.
A 4 room set up for crew is also somehow in the order of sleeping hotsheets"
numberone,
And this is on a 6th generation rig? Sounds like (as in many things in this world) things are devolving, rather than getting better. I'm used to working with older rigs, and on a typical nineteen- eighties jackup unit, an average accommodation size would be 95 people. Sometimes possible to augment this to 105 or so, using a retrofit outside accommodation 'container'. The trouble is, drilling a well these days takes a lot more people than it used to, especially in terms of the size of service hand crews. But 'hot-bedding' is an anachronism which shouldn't be allowed.
It can be a logistical nightmare juggling the schedules so that you've never got more people on board than the bed-space available, but that's just part of the job for the people responsible.
If you're an 'aggrieved party' suffering such hardship, you've got every right to lodge a complaint, via either the OIM or the Company Man. Keep your base office informed that you've done this. If no changes are made, make it more formal, requesting your base office in town to take it to a management level (while informing the OIM / Co-Man that you've done this). If there are still no changes, maybe you can get a transfer to a rig with better conditions, anyway!
The most important part of any drilling operation anywhere is the people. Obviously they're (in most cases) reasonably well paid, because it goes without saying that our business involves certain hardships. But if the hardships become overwhelming, the people become unhappy, and as a result the performance of the operation overall will suffer, as well.
One other thing, if the operation is being so badly organised that hot-bedding is in place, try to establish whether the number of persons on board is exceeding the capacity of the lifeboats. If that is the case, you have grounds for getting very serious about the whole issue. Of course, in such a circumstance you may get worried that complaining may put your job on the line: but it's your life at stake, so decision time.
AK
PS Office space being 'unimaginitive' is maybe nit-picking, though. Again, on older rigs built before the information age, there may not have been any 'office-space' for the service hands, other than their operational unit, the recreation room, or simply their bunk. Now, it's frequent to see a retrofit outdoor container, with wifi access, and desk space for six-to-eight laptops. Sure, it might be like being in a crowded newspaper journalists' space, but it's better then nothing. And usually it's guaranteed to find that when the place is full, at least two of the people there are simply looking at ebay or something like that, rather than doing proper work. Plus that container takes up deck-space, and reduces (albeit marginally) the variable deck-load!
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