There are no red carpets to the rig floor

摘要

You 've never seen the likes of James Dean, Bruce Willis or Daniel Day-Lewis working on a rig floor, but Hollywood does rely on drillers and roughnecks to provide interesting characters for cinematic storytelling. For those who attended the IADC/SPE Drilling Conference in Orlando, Fla., during the first week in March, there were no red carpets leading to the entrance. The paparazzi were nowhere to be found, and the rest of world didn't have long conversations about "what the attendees were wearing." According to Schlumberger's Oilfield Glossary, a "driller" is defined as, "the supervisor of the rig crew. The driller is responsible for the efficient operation of the rig site as well as the safety of the crew and typically has many years of rig site experience. Most drillers have worked their way up from other rig site jobs. While the driller must know how to perform each of the jobs on the rig, his or her role is to supervise the work and control the major rig systems."