Any body a mudlogger in the oilfield?
11-10-2013, 09:05 PM
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Any body a mudlogger in the oilfield? I have been looking at getting out of the plant and doing something different. I have an interview with a mudlogging company. Is any here a mudlogger? What is the pay starting at? Something that can can be caught on quickly if ur a fast learner? Etc,etc..
11-10-2013, 09:28 PM
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Never worked as a mud logger but I worked with a bunch of them in my 13 years offshore. Depending on what your used to pay isn't going to be great. Job is pretty easy. I would try to get on with a drilling company. There is more room for growth in drilling. I would check out Diamond, Noble, Transocean, Seadrill, Atwood, Rowan or another big company like that. Another option would be to try to get a job on a production platform.
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I am a process operator right now. but my job is outside lol...so im used to working.
It hard to get a decent job without having somebody on the inside in the oilfield.
It hard to get a decent job without having somebody on the inside in the oilfield.
11-11-2013, 12:29 AM
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OP: Check out this company - http://www.noblecorp.com/ I worked for them as an electrician and then a mud logger for another company. Now I am a Pipeline Controller and love my job even more. Working offshore can be fun and the pay is very good. A mud logger on on shore has a lot more travel, IMO, for off shore you just fly to the rig. Good Luck!
11-12-2013, 05:52 AM
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You start off as a sample catcher, the bigger ones like Halliburton seem to have better opportunity for advancement. I imagine it would be a sizeable pay cut from where you're at now. For that I would strongly second looking at a drilling contractor, in deep water they have room for rapid advancement right now.
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You start off as a sample catcher, the bigger ones like Halliburton seem to have better opportunity for advancement. I imagine it would be a sizeable pay cut from where you're at now. For that I would strongly second looking at a drilling contractor, in deep water they have room for rapid advancement right now.
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11-12-2013, 10:34 PM
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Every company seems different, I have been on jobs where they had loggers and assigned sample catchers to the rig, Petrolog was like that. I have also seen it where they bounce around until they can start training as a logger. The guys out here use it to judge some ones work ethic and adaptability to working off shore but that seems to be the starting point. Right now working for the contractors seems a lot better of a deal for some one just starting out, in Deep Water they're starting out making as much as a lot of what Service Hands start off at but they work even rotations. The service hands that pull in the big money, DD, Tool Hands, Reamer etc, tend to work a ton far as days off shore.
