Supervisor $750/day Nigeria

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March 17, 2011 at 6:29 pm #4145

Todd Sparkes
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ROV Supervisor rate on Bourbon Trieste offered at $750 US/day in Nigeria.
Is it only me or is this a pretty low rate especially considering the location?

March 17, 2011 at 8:01 pm #30574

senior
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Hi canman172,

I was offered $713 to go out as a senior pilot tech, this did include a 10% uplift to work in Nigeria, and a 10 % "loyalty bonus"……..I think thats the new way of spelling "at risk".
This offer was on Monday this week.

Cheers,

Senior.

All for one and one for all.

March 17, 2011 at 10:56 pm #30575

Member Deactivated
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hi,
i was going to take this job, but from reading this web link i dont know if i should?
http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_928.html
its very interesting, does anyone have any insite on the well being of a white american right now over there?

March 18, 2011 at 1:37 am #30576

Scott Beveridge
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ROV Supervisor rate on Bourbon Trieste offered at $750 US/day in Nigeria.
Is it only me or is this a pretty low rate especially considering the location?

Far too low….

March 18, 2011 at 8:58 am #30577

Peter Measures
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Agreed, too low considering where it is.

March 18, 2011 at 12:31 pm #30578

effinreps
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http://www.worldtravelguide.net/nigeria/travel-advice

http://www.ebusinessconsultant.co.uk/foreign-travel-advice/index.php?country=nigeria

Do you still want work there after reading the above?????

$750 a day?????? Do me a favour

I’d rather tell a mafia boss his mama was fu***d by a n****r (Yon know the film, you know what happens) 😆 😆 😆

March 19, 2011 at 6:01 am #30579

Benny Edelman
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As far as security goes, Saipem for example runs their crewchanges from Douala (Cameroon) by fast surfer boat and their crews never get to Nigeria.
Security of the working vessels on the Saipem project is good, including Nigerian navy patrol boats escorts.

March 19, 2011 at 8:39 am #30580

rovnumpty
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See the Siapem ‘brainwash’ still works.

Benny, No it isn’t.

What about the Surfer that was shot at?

Or the fact they are sailing you past the worst part of the Niger Delta for 10-12 hours?

Safest option in Niegria is flight to Lagos, then helicopter direct from the airport, and vice versa on the way home. Everything else is a cost cutting measure

Then you just have to get through your trip on a Saipem vessel without being killed. I beleive the Castoro 8 managed to pull it’s anchor handler under with the loss of 14 lives in Nigeria several years ago.

March 19, 2011 at 10:08 pm #30581

Benny Edelman
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The surfers used on this project (322 class) can cuise at 35 kts, takes around 5 hours from Douala.
You can shoot at anything but it is hard to hit a fast moving target with a low(ish) profile, using hand held automatic firearms from a fast moving and unstable small speedboat (which is what the pirates are using).
As I work for Exxon on this project, my personal crewchange is via Lagos and Port Harcourt. Our vehicle is escorted by 2 police cars with armed policemen while travelling between airports, hotels and heliport .
Due to the safety measures taken by Exxon and by Saipem, at great expense, I personally feel quite safe during crewchanges and while offshore.
Big difference from what I felt during my previous trip to Nigeria in 2004.
I must also say that no-one at immigration or customs tried to get any money off me this time either . 😀

March 20, 2011 at 11:00 am #30582

Andy Shiers
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Hmmm 🙄
Safe aye , And you need that amount of security to go to work…………….
Just in case 😯
Does not the safety measures to garantee your safety give you an inclination of how unsafe that part of the world is 😆

March 20, 2011 at 10:12 pm #30583

Benny Edelman
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Safer than other places I’ve been to when I was young, here they only want financial gain rather than damage me 🙂 😈

This time at least I’m not the one carrying the hardware. 😀

I still agree regarding the dayrate issue though, the higher the better, regardless where we are 8)

March 25, 2011 at 8:42 pm #30584

Coreluber
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Not sure why members are still mentioning Seipem in the thread as Sonsub are no longer on the Bourbon Trieste, Bourbon have installed 2 x Schilling vehicles onboard. The ROV crew mobilise out from Port Harcourt either via the FPSO or one of the rigs on the AKPO project.

March 26, 2011 at 12:27 am #30585

Des_b
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yes, not very safe compared to 95% of the rest of the world:

:Since January 2006, 36 British nationals, (including one child), and more than 180 other foreign nationals have been kidnapped in the Niger Delta area, with one British national being killed. On 10 August 2007, a British national was abducted from his car when driving to work in Port Harcourt. On 21 October 2007, in a violent armed attack on an offshore support vessel, three expatriates were abducted. On 27 September 2007, an oil company compound outside Port Harcourt was attacked. One Colombian oil worker was killed and two other expatriates kidnapped.

Read more: http://www.worldtravelguide.net/nigeria/travel-advice#ixzz1Hf07WJOW

As for bouncing around firing small arms? actually most of them now weld firing platforms on the from for 7.62mm and .5 machine guns so its stable…

Still if the money is right (which in this topic it obviously wasnt!!!) 😯 😯

March 26, 2011 at 4:58 am #30586

Scott Beveridge
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The simple term, "stuff it" comes to mind….

March 26, 2011 at 7:42 am #30587

Andy Shiers
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And we are talking of an area where they drill into pipelines with Fags hanging out of their mouths 🙂
They certainly know how to have a party 😀
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