Alaska, Gulf and Gossip

Not long now until we all have a wee break over Christmas time (those of us who are lucky enough to be onshore that is). As one of my clients put it, there are plenty of candidates who "like their Turkey at home" so there may be a few short term vacancies coming up. I have one now, see end of the post.

News wise, the really big news is that it looks like drilling is going ahead for Alaska. The interweb has only started really getting stuck into it now (links here and here), but the owners of the drillship, Frontier drilling, were advertising for crew for their drillship some time ago.

Go and apply, but if you get the position, please remember that you got the hint from me, Frontier won't deal with us just now, so please put in a good word.

Anyway, Alaska is obviously a contentious environmental issue, so the usual arguments have all come out. In my opinion, (ill informed as I am) at the end of the day, they are going to drill there eventually, and given the state of the US's finances at the moment, I think they'd be well served to get moving on it. And yes, I know the UK's finances are just as bad, if not worse.

In other news, there's still plenty of oil in the Gulf of Mexico, according to this article.

Gossip wise, it looks like Dolphin are going to have their contract terminated, and for some reason, Sevan are trying to terminate their contract with ONGC. Interesting developments, couldn't possibly speculate as to the reasons for Sevan's actions in particular.

Jobs:

Still looking for a DPO for a Semi in the US.
Subsea Engineer for a Drillship in the US.
Ops manager for Macae.
Master Mariner who can speak Norwegian for Norway
Process Engineer for Aberdeen (need to be chartered and live in UK)
and a 6 week contract for a MAster with unlimited DP licence for a DSV/Construction vessel for Oman.

Any takers? get in touch here