offshore worker
Sea-based laborer
An offshore worker is someone employed at a location away from land, typically on oil rigs, gas platforms, or wind farms in the ocean.
The work usually involves rotating schedules—weeks on the platform followed by weeks onshore: Offshore workers often do two weeks on, two weeks off.
The term sometimes extends to employees working in foreign countries for tax or regulatory purposes, though this sense more commonly attaches to the work itself rather than the worker.
- rigEquipment arrangement or vehicle
- platformRaised flat structure
- oil fieldUnderground crude deposit area
- drillingHole-making by rotation
- oilSlippery viscous fluid
gas · roughneck · derrick · helicopter · North Sea · rotation · hardhat · crane · waves · isolation · barge · pipeline · welder · diver · shift · crew · living quarters · galley
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