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Hi welcome to drillfloor.com,
(formally www,workover,co,uk written in 1998) this website is
akin to the drilling club forum that was designed back in 1996
for drilling people to help each other with the related drilling
problems, since the time of creation the forum has graduated
from the original 6 members to over 5000, during its history the
club forum has been wiped out twice, but has always found its
feet again, the strength of the club lies in its members and the
support it now gets from some of the major companies that have
used the club to post and look for information that is not
available elsewhere,
However drillfloor.com (that is this site)
remains a standalone site and is used as a basic education site
for the oil and drilling industry, after reading the information
stored here and should you have any questions or would you like
to contribute you are more than welcome to join the club, using
the club link that is attaché to each group.
Unfortunately you will have to register, this
take a few seconds and allows you to use any name you wish.
Registration allows the club to control some of the unsavory
types (mainly the porno) that like to post their links.
For people that were in the industry before
the late 70’s early 80’s rig boom (often classed as the bad old
days) would have seen a lot of changes, unfortunately not all
have benefitted the industry, one such change was the laying off
or retiring of the older generation (by this I mean age 50+/-),
the main lay off started in the late 80’s) Most companies both
oil and drilling believed that the older people would have
problems with computers and that the younger generation would
learn their trade from computer, the downside to this thinking
was we now have a lot of desk bound drilling people, by laying
of the older generation the industry also lost the experience,
unfortunately we now have a situation on our hands where new
rigs are being constructed, with very few people to run them,
companies from both side are asking people to stay or attempting
to get back some of the old school.
The drilling industry is
now in bad shape, the lack of experience people has already
began to show (2007) and has been for the past 5 years, The New
builds started not with the main drilling contractor but with
the speculators that later saw an opportunity to make big money,
not by selling the rigs on but forming their own drilling
companies or having the rigs manned by body-shops, if there was
any slack in people they have taken it up, they have also
started to take
what
little talent is left form the majors,
Many of the new rigs leaving the yards over
the next 2 years will be without crews. However even at this
point we see many companies with their head in the sand thinking
the problem will go away, it won’t go away, why spend between
175,000,000 and 400,000,000 building a new rig only to sit and
watch it rust away due to the lack of trained people.
Experience takes time,
training needs time, companies have to make the time and find
the people to do it, these fly by night on hand schools that
have popped up are meaningless, they start the day a person walk
into the class room and stop the day they leave, what is needed
is on hands training not for 10 days but for some month, by
people that can be there when needed, one or two experienced
people on a rig that are free to do their thing,
can
achieve more than 20 student sitting in a class playing with
calculators and filling out test papers, the day will come when
contracts will be won not on who has the best and biggest rig,
but on who has the most effective crew
that have been trained not to
waste
time, effort or expense,
The industry face a lot
of challenges in the future but until we start to solve this
issue we cannot move forward unfortunately the people the
industry need do not have that much time left,
you need to make the most of them
now,
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