£15/hour

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I work a 4 week available/4 week unavailable rotation. In my 4 week available period I wait at home till I’m booked out on a job. If it’s on a floater the work is very weather dependant. A week or more waiting on weather is usual this time of year. So it could be 2-3 weeks into my available working period before I travel to Norway. Any further delays and they’ll get someone else as I’m to close to my 4 weeks off period. If this happens then I’ll be home for 3 months. Off-period/work period/off-period again. You’re only allowed to work 3 weeks anyway, so the best thing for me is 4 weeks off, work 3 weeks, which included 1weeks over time, last week in my work period “rest period” then my 4 weeks off. 

 

I can volunteer to work my off-period, or a portion of it. They are always happy for this and the money for this over time is unreal. 

 

Covid has meant I’ve done a lot of quarantine so it’s really messed with my work pattern. But so far this year I’ve done 60 days actual work, 21 of these days in over time. I’m on sick leave just now though as I’ve just had neck surgery. Full pay and they even give me 10 days off-shore bonus a month till I’m work fit again.  Read more  

Interesting and also confusing. What's your job title and what qualifies you to do it?

I’m a Service Leader in Intelligent Completions. It’s still quite a niche market but massively expanding now. Halliburton (the company I work for) is the biggest provider of Intelligent Completion Products in Norway by a massive margins and there is only 8 of us fully qualified to install them.

 

Im the only certified instructor and was initially the only rater of competencies in Norway.   

 

I’ve been with the company since I was 20 (42 now) and started my second apprenticeship in Mechanical Engineering. Worked my way up from there.  

 

 

 

Guess which one is me. 🤣

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Hopping over to Norway a few times a year is hardly a mass polluter. I’d have to run the figures but since I don’t commute to work each day I do wonder how my carbon footprint would compare to someone who drive 30-40 miles a day each way? 

 

I don’t imagine living in a van and driving that around all the time is very green either 

Interesting thought.

Fag paper calculation. Glasgow to oslo. Economy return.. 0.4 tonnes co2

Equivalent to about 1000 miles in a medium to large petrol car.

So one trip equivalent to about 6 weeks 30 mile commute.

 

My average commute is probably 4 or 5 miles a day.

Just had to do 25 miles to find some diesel for the next 2 weeks though. 🤷🏼‍♂️

 

Would depend on how you think about living in a van. Drive somewhere. Park up next to your work for the next few weeks. No commute.

Move on somewhere down the road and do the same.

 

 

 

 

 

[muttley9050]

Interesting and also confusing. What's your job title and what qualifies you to do it? I’m a Service Leader in Intelligent Completions. It’s still quite a niche market but massively expanding now. Halliburton (the company I work for) is the biggest provider of Intelligent Completion Products in Norway by a massive margins and there is only 8 of us fully qualified to install them.
 
Im the only certified instructor and was initially the only rater of competencies in Norway.   
 
I’ve been with the company since I was 20 (42 now) and started my second apprenticeship in Mechanical Engineering. Worked my way up from there.  
 
 

 
Guess which one is me. 🤣

The grumpy one at the back.
So it's totally on the job qualified?

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6 minutes ago, muttley9050 said:

Interesting thought.

Fag paper calculation. Glasgow to oslo. Economy return.. 0.4 tonnes co2

Equivalent to about 1000 miles in a medium to large petrol car.

So one trip equivalent to about 6 weeks 30 mile commute.

 

My average commute is probably 4 or 5 miles a day.

Just had to do 25 miles to find some diesel for the next 2 weeks though. 🤷🏼‍♂️

 

Would depend on how you think about living in a van. Drive somewhere. Park up next to your work for the next few weeks. No commute.

Move on somewhere down the road and do the same.

 

 

 

 

 

I fly from Aberdeen to Stavanger. That comes up as .3t.

 

So in reality my footprint to get to Norway to work is no greater than a good portion of the commuting population in the U.K. In fact my carbon footprint is going to be the same If not lower than a lot of Norwegians traveling from Northern Norway or the East of Norway to come down to Stavanger to work. 

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Redfield sounds an interesting place, I've got the book on compost toilets which was written by a former resident. I think I'm too antisocial to live somewhere like that though 

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13 minutes ago, muttley9050 said:

The grumpy one at the back.
So it's totally on the job qualified?

I think you could be right! 🤣

 

On the job qualified is 90% of the oil and gas industry to be fair. It’s changing rapidly now though. But I’ve done a significant amount of training in Houston and Singapore to get to the level I am now. 

[muttley9050]

Redfield sounds an interesting place, I've got the book on compost toilets which was written by a former resident. I think I'm too antisocial to live somewhere like that though 

Was it dave Darby published by lili?

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2 minutes ago, muttley9050 said:

14 minutes ago, scbk said:

Redfield sounds an interesting place, I've got the book on compost toilets which was written by a former resident. I think I'm too antisocial to live somewhere like that though 

Was it dave Darby published by lili?

Yes, useful book!

Years ago I also had their book on firewood, but don't know where that went.

I built a single chamber compost toilet down the bottom of the garden for about £50 this summer. The chamber is an old concrete coal bunker buried in to the slope

[muttley9050]

I fly from Aberdeen to Stavanger. That comes up as .3t.
 
So in reality my footprint to get to Norway to work is no greater than a good portion of the commuting population in the U.K. In fact my carbon footprint is going to be the same If not lower than a lot of Norwegians traveling from Northern Norway or the East of Norway to come down to Stavanger to work. 

That would be ignoring the helicopter but yes.

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15 minutes ago, muttley9050 said:

45 minutes ago, trigger_andy said:

I fly from Aberdeen to Stavanger. That comes up as .3t.
 
So in reality my footprint to get to Norway to work is no greater than a good portion of the commuting population in the U.K. In fact my carbon footprint is going to be the same If not lower than a lot of Norwegians traveling from Northern Norway or the East of Norway to come down to Stavanger to work. 

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That would be ignoring the helicopter but yes.

Well obviously ignoring the essential travel required to get to the Installation. 
 

Your point was that in your opinion my commute to Norway was unsustainable but we’ve now learned it’s comparable with a fairly normal office commute. It’s also on a par with many Norwegians who don’t live on the west coast. 
 

Aberdeen to Stavanger = 1 hour

Aberdeen to Bergen = 1 hour

Oslo to Stavanger = 1 hour. 
 

But Norway is a very long country. The flight time alone from Hammerfest to Stavanger is over 4 hours. We have many employees dotted around the remote parts of Norway. 
 

Seems like Im quite the green Employee being just an hour away from hop off point. 😁