Oil ships and whathave you thread. (moved)

But is it just in the US?

From what I've read, it's much harder to process than your usual petroleum.

So is it just a matter of investing in more drilling and refineries? And better economies of scale?

Please do enlighten me.

Exactly

Much more of an interesting thread than religion especially for those of us that have been involved in the oil and gas industry.

What I liked about the seismic vessels it that they are small and have a tight knit crew, I suppose that could also be a downside too if you don't get on with one of your colleagues.

The same seismic survey technique is used on land too, but holes are drilled in the ground and the high pressure air is released down the hole. Instead of a ship there is a little containerized village housing the same equipment as they use on the seismic survey vessels. They operate worldwide in some really remote areas as you can imagine. I think some of the big players in this game are Schlumberger and Halliburton.

Timmers, I believe most onshore seismic uses vibrators as the source. These are large trucks that basically whack the ground and the wave is then picked up by geophones (hydrophones are used in water) along the line. The shotpoints are usually put in by surveyors using GPS. The vibrators move down the line at an offset.

That is one of the options I believe, I used to work for Bauer Compressors who's main business in the UK is supplying containerised compressor packages worldwide for the gas exploration market including onshore seismic surveys.

Hahahahah... I didn't know what FIFO meant too before. I thought I misheard my mate before and he meant 'FIFA.'

FIFO/Fly-In and Fly-Out in mining lingo, are those who fly in at sites during work days, sleep at company barracks, then fly out after, when there's no more work. Then they come back in again and repeat the process. Hence the term.

They get paid a lot. I MEAN A LOT.

There is a link Jim as there are so many computers on Seismic vessels. We often used to say SISO when booboos were made by users.
Sh&tIN=Sh&tOUT. Unix was the Operating Systems for heavy workloads when I used to go up and down in lines.

A FIFO Computer Programmer will get paid A LOT,LOT, LOT, LOT... Hahahahhahaha....

Vibrator used by CGG (French Co.) and made by Sercel (French Co.)

Offshore

Fly-in/Fly-Out programmers. That's what I meant.

I saw the average salary for Data Analyst, Computer Programmers, etc. (FIFO)

100K plus easy not counting the super and other benefits.

Dollars mate. lol.

Then you must be a really good talker, and really good programmer.

Yeah the Y2K. I remember that funny event.

I was still in grade school back then. I was a member of Computer Club in our school.

It was funny that we discussed about contingencies and all that, but nothing happened. Hahhahahahahahaha....

You can still make it big. Create a virus, that is much, much harder to crack than the I Love You/Love bug. Then have an anti-virus for it. Sell the algorithm to Norton and all those companies for millions. PROFIT!

Good to see you're always looking for ways to make money knight