|
|
Joined: Mar 2007
Posts: 2,950 Likes: 8
10 point
|
|
10 point
Joined: Mar 2007
Posts: 2,950 Likes: 8 |
H2S gas, Caustic acid, potential blow-outs………on a week and off a week, but it took 13 hours one way trip. I started dreading going back after 3 days home.1982 Dual Drilling Company, rig 27. Hard work, but we sure ate well. A couple of folks here have mentioned eating well. I have an acquaintance who is a chef on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. From what I understand, he goes above and beyond to make sure his guys have meals that are top notch: quality ingredients and meats, lots of real cheese & cream, rotation of menu so they aren't eating the same thing all the time, etc. He says it's a lot of planning and work, but the workers who are facing real danger every day really appreciate a quality cook who goes the extra mile for them.
Last edited by Vernon Tull; 02/06/23 01:39 PM.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 2008
Posts: 10,753 Likes: 5
Booner
|
|
Booner
Joined: Nov 2008
Posts: 10,753 Likes: 5 |
Somewhere out there a blue haired bull dyke will insist she could do it.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2018
Posts: 1,703 Likes: 2
8 point
|
|
8 point
Joined: Dec 2018
Posts: 1,703 Likes: 2 |
^^^^^^^^^ You ain’t Wrong. ^^^^^^^^^^^
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 2011
Posts: 2,260
8 point
|
|
8 point
Joined: Nov 2011
Posts: 2,260 |
The guy in this video is what they call a "lead thong" or that's what we called in West Texas. That's what my dad did, as a boy, during the summer he would take me to the rig on slow days and I would stand by the driller and watch him make a connection. He passed several years ago. My dad worked 7 days a week, the rig only closed on Christmas or he may get some time off when the rig was moving. If you wanted a day off.. you had to work a double for another guy and he had to work a double for you.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Oct 2001
Posts: 28,047 Likes: 92
Freak of Nature
|
|
Freak of Nature
Joined: Oct 2001
Posts: 28,047 Likes: 92 |
Where are the feminist that should be screaming to do this job.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jul 2001
Posts: 8,432 Likes: 7
14 point
|
|
14 point
Joined: Jul 2001
Posts: 8,432 Likes: 7 |
�Because a well regulated Militia is necessary to
the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep
and bear Arms shall not be infringed.�
-Justice Scalia, June 26, 2008
NRA Life Member
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2015
Posts: 4,885 Likes: 5
12 point
|
|
12 point
Joined: Mar 2015
Posts: 4,885 Likes: 5 |
H2S gas, Caustic acid, potential blow-outs………on a week and off a week, but it took 13 hours one way trip. I started dreading going back after 3 days home.1982 Dual Drilling Company, rig 27. Hard work, but we sure ate well. A couple of folks here have mentioned eating well. I have an acquaintance who is a chef on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. From what I understand, he goes above and beyond to make sure his guys have meals that are top notch: quality ingredients and meats, lots of real cheese & cream, rotation of menu so they aren't eating the same thing all the time, etc. He says it's a lot of planning and work, but the workers who are facing real danger every day really appreciate a quality cook who goes the extra mile for them. You are correct here. Most cooks out on the rigs were top notch. The food was the only good thing about working out there. If the food sucked everybody was pissed off and the cook was looking for a new Job
Last edited by johndeere5036; 02/06/23 05:31 PM.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2016
Posts: 4,341 Likes: 34
10 point
|
|
10 point
Joined: Mar 2016
Posts: 4,341 Likes: 34 |
H2S gas, Caustic acid, potential blow-outs………on a week and off a week, but it took 13 hours one way trip. I started dreading going back after 3 days home.1982 Dual Drilling Company, rig 27. Hard work, but we sure ate well. A couple of folks here have mentioned eating well. I have an acquaintance who is a chef on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. From what I understand, he goes above and beyond to make sure his guys have meals that are top notch: quality ingredients and meats, lots of real cheese & cream, rotation of menu so they aren't eating the same thing all the time, etc. He says it's a lot of planning and work, but the workers who are facing real danger every day really appreciate a quality cook who goes the extra mile for them. You are correct here. Most cooks out on the rigs were top notch. The food was the only good thing about working out there. If the food sucked everybody was pissed off and the cook was looking for a new Job For every good cook off shore there are two bad ones. At least, that’s been my experience.
Micah 6:8
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2021
Posts: 59
spike
|
|
spike
Joined: Dec 2021
Posts: 59 |
H2S gas, Caustic acid, potential blow-outs………on a week and off a week, but it took 13 hours one way trip. I started dreading going back after 3 days home.1982 Dual Drilling Company, rig 27. Hard work, but we sure ate well. A couple of folks here have mentioned eating well. I have an acquaintance who is a chef on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. From what I understand, he goes above and beyond to make sure his guys have meals that are top notch: quality ingredients and meats, lots of real cheese & cream, rotation of menu so they aren't eating the same thing all the time, etc. He says it's a lot of planning and work, but the workers who are facing real danger every day really appreciate a quality cook who goes the extra mile for them. You are correct here. Most cooks out on the rigs were top notch. The food was the only good thing about working out there. If the food sucked everybody was pissed off and the cook was looking for a new Job For every good cook off shore there are two bad ones. At least, that’s been my experience.
“Give me liberty or give me death!”
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2022
Posts: 691
4 point
|
|
4 point
Joined: Jan 2022
Posts: 691 |
|
|
|
|
|
