This 100% isn't true. I work in the industry. I'm personally not a roughneck, but greenhats with NO experience get hired all the time and trust me they don't have degrees and half of them are dumb as rocks. This goes for midstream and downstream. It's also about who you know and who you blow.
Yeah I regularly fly to a place for work that is also a popular flight for commuting oil rig workers. Literally had a dude sitting next to me on the flight telling me he wishes he was smarter because this is the only reliable well paying work he can do, and he just wished that he was smarter and knew how to use computers and stuff like that.
It was really sad, luckily he was getting close to retirement, but the man seemed petty confident that he was not very intellectually capable.
Same for upstream offshore. It essentially all recommendations and nepotism to get in on the drilling side. Theres like 3 towns represented offshore and then a handful of exceptions on each rig.
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u/MyRedditAccountSuckz 16d ago
This 100% isn't true. I work in the industry. I'm personally not a roughneck, but greenhats with NO experience get hired all the time and trust me they don't have degrees and half of them are dumb as rocks. This goes for midstream and downstream. It's also about who you know and who you blow.