Some people asked me about the days off/vacation for those people in the oilfield services. Generally this system is applicable to most services company and each of them should understand it as most oilfield worker are jumping from one services company to another. I 'll tell you about the Field Engineer (FE)' (IM) rotation( well mostly FEs will be given field breaks and FSs will get rotation).. it depends on your assigned country, your position, your status, business needs..etc..etc...even some countries has few operation bases but there are a lot of differences in few things for each respective base, except the basic salary which will be the same...here are some cases:
1. Fixed rotation---> some get 6 weeks x 3 weeks, some 6x2..depends
2. Field break----> some get 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 field breaks in a year and plus with 1 month annual vacation. For each field break (+/- 2 weeks), they will pay you USD 400 and USD 2K ++(nice if you have family coz u will get more) for your annual vacation.
3. Annual vacations only---> 1 month annual vacation only.
For the case 2 n 3, you can divide and arrange your allotted vacation accordingly every year. If you didn't take any field break for whatever reason within this year for example, company will automatically burn it but on the other hand your annual vacation still can be carry forward to the next year if it is unused.
But as I said just now, it depends on your assigned country, your position, your status, business needs..etc..etc...even because of the economic turndown, it will ruin your field break or rotation.
To share with all of you one story, happened to my senior, on his first day of vacation when he just landed at KLIA while approaching his family who were waited him for a few months,suddenly one stranger came to him showing something and said," Chief, this is your ticket for you to go back to your location right now as we received an emergency call from your boss for something went wrong in the field". Man...can you guys imagine that? How miserable? So..prepare yourself..mind, body and soul..!
Offshore work is a very unhealthy working life. When went to offshore or platform for work, we are basically disconnected from onshore. For me, i totally disconnected or out date from my friends, families, events, whatever things happening onshore. I missed out most of my friends wedding. I stayed at barge, only can talk through the public phone, internet only for office use. I find that offshore work will screw up my life in every aspect, mentally and spiritually and not to mention slow working environment.
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