Top-paid oil rig operaters earn more than $89K. June 16, 2010 — -- The oil industry may be a magnet for controversy in the U.S. right now, with crude continuing to gush from BP's ruined deep ...

Operates and safeguards topsides process and utility systems to deliver oil, gas, and water to specification, safely and reliably.

Operates and monitors refinery process units (e.g., crude/vacuum, hydrotreating, reforming, FCC, alkylation, isomerization, utilities, tank farm) to meet production ...

There's no denying just what a time commitment working on an oil rig can be, nor how isolated one might feel while doing so. The latter in particular comes with the territory at times: The Perdido oil ...