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Working conditions for oil field jobs

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Depending on the occupation, the conditions will change slightly. For construction and extraction oil field jobs, the working conditions would generally be in all outdoor weather that requires stamina and physically able bodied. These sorts of jobs are spent climbing, standing for long hours, working with oily tools and equipment, and lifting heavy objects.

The executives in an oil company will be based in rather different conditions than the ones mentioned above. They generally work in office settings where the clerical and administrative workers do also. Engineers, geologists and managers with oil field jobs split up their time between the office and the job site, especially while working in exploration areas.

Because of the type of work and locations there is hardly part time workers with above 90% of staff in the oil industry employed full time. Some other interesting facts include:

- In 2003 there was 1.8 per 100 full time workers with oil field jobs that suffered from a work-related illness or injury. The improvements in drilling technologies have lowered this rate.
- On onshore installations workers work for 8 hours a day for 6 days in a row. On offshore installations they work 12-hour days for 14 days in a row and then have 14 days off.
- Offshore workers will be evacuated if there is possibility of a serious storm.
- In 2004 there was 316,00 salary and wageworkers employed in the gas and oil extraction industry.
- There are about 56% of workers in this industry that are aged between 35 and 54 years old.

There is a great need for varied skills when it comes to oil field jobs. The different types of jobs can be divided up into groups that include extraction and construction, production, transportation, industry employment and lastly the management, financial and business group. 37% of employees on an oilrig have jobs involved in extraction and construction, 14 % of workers account for the industry employment group, 12% of employees are involved in business and finance. 10% of employees are in the material moving and transportation group with the last 9% making up the production workers.

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