Recommend me a small portable inverter tig/stick welder

[daleyd]

Some are not actually making money, depending where the oil is being produced, for example lifting costs in the north sea average around 50 dollars a barrel, saudi down as low as 9. So at these prices really only land based stuff or really shallow water where costs are low will be making money.

As for drilling new or re rilling older stuff......there will be huge cuts here. It costs about 45 million dollars to complete a new deep water oil well. Thats without the infastructure to get the stuff to surface. Anything deep water is not viable at less than about 85 bucks per barrel. And most of the big finds left are all deep water. Total cost to develop a new deep water field with all its associated issues, topsides kit, subsea infastructure etc would be in the 20 billion bracket these days.






There was money to be made like this contracting, but what they dont tell you is to make it they are not working your normal equal time.....theyll be doing 6 or 8 weeks on maybe 2 off. Or office based working 5 days but paying their own costs.

In reality there are tossers in every industry just the contract oil game seems to attract more than usual.

As for boat owners there are plenty well off tossers in that world too. The man in charge of a rig is called the OIM, salaries are high but they have a lot of responsibility, place i used to work for had 160 folks on board, and produced 225000 barrels a day. I know exactly how much he was on too, as i saw his promotion letter, in one of our closed door, help how do i motivate these beep beep people with no fathers.

Note, i have 25 years offshore experiece in oil and gas, and 45 years sailing experience. On the boating front i should add based on experience " if it flys, floats, or has sex, it should be rented"

Yes I appreciate that was a sweeping generalisation though taken as a whole I'm sure the industry is still making money which was kind of my point.

 

[Kent]

Is that the buddy tig 160 you have Kent. I think your right that one is Hf.

no mine is the buddy arc 180 it lacks HF. The buddy TIG has HF and is 140 amp the difference besides the HF is do you get a stinger or a TIG torch
I haven't a great need of TIG and its likely to get less rather than more business wise anyhow. Private gun smithing jobs and the ali boat i fancy building and such I quite fancy a good one

 

[Richard.]

So it would be more of a private tool rather than a business asset then I guess. Lots of good ones about. I saw a caddytig 2200i with pedal and the lot on fleabay. Looks in brilliant Nick too.

 

[Kent]

So it would be more of a private tool rather than a business asset then I guess. Lots of good ones about. I saw a caddytig 2200i with pedal and the lot on fleabay. Looks in brilliant Nick too.

Perhaps but between that and another trip to Cape cod cod fishing or alaska it's not going to be a fine cut thing

 

[Richard.]

Ooooooooooh.
Difficult one. I think if it was me the Tig would be made to wait.

 

[NickyEng]

Some are not actually making money, depending where the oil is being produced, for example lifting costs in the north sea average around 50 dollars a barrel, saudi down as low as 9. So at these prices really only land based stuff or really shallow water where costs are low will be making money.

As for drilling new or re rilling older stuff......there will be huge cuts here. It costs about 45 million dollars to complete a new deep water oil well. Thats without the infastructure to get the stuff to surface. Anything deep water is not viable at less than about 85 bucks per barrel. And most of the big finds left are all deep water. Total cost to develop a new deep water field with all its associated issues, topsides kit, subsea infastructure etc would be in the 20 billion bracket these days.






There was money to be made like this contracting, but what they dont tell you is to make it they are not working your normal equal time.....theyll be doing 6 or 8 weeks on maybe 2 off. Or office based working 5 days but paying their own costs.

In reality there are tossers in every industry just the contract oil game seems to attract more than usual.

As for boat owners there are plenty well off tossers in that world too. The man in charge of a rig is called the OIM, salaries are high but they have a lot of responsibility, place i used to work for had 160 folks on board, and produced 225000 barrels a day. I know exactly how much he was on too, as i saw his promotion letter, in one of our closed door, help how do i motivate these beep beep people with no fathers.

Note, i have 25 years offshore experiece in oil and gas, and 45 years sailing experience. On the boating front i should add based on experience " if it flys, floats, or has sex, it should be rented"

You obviously know both the oil and boat industries very well. So imagine my situation where I had to deal with a "contracted oil tosser" and the guys got a boat so he then becomes a double tosser because give a nice guy a boat and he can become a tosser so imagine wot happens when you give a tosser a boat
I am very reluctant to deal with oil guys now unless I know them as I just don't have the patience to deal with them..

 

[addjunkie]

You obviously know both the oil and boat industries very well. So imagine my situation where I had to deal with a "contracted oil tosser" and the guys got a boat so he then becomes a double tosser because give a nice guy a boat and he can become a tosser so imagine wot happens when you give a tosser a boat
I am very reluctant to deal with oil guys now unless I know them as I just don't have the patience to deal with them..

Dont think its just the oil industry employs tossers. Many normal people come into a bit of wealth and autimatically become tossers. Not just the boat industry either. Harley davidsons, shooting and horses also spring to mind.

I played more eith cloth engined boats, seems big gin palaces are more tosser driven.

You just have the misfortune to earn a crust in an area with more oil folks than normal.

 

[CornishPete]

Total cost to develop a new deep water field with all its associated issues, topsides kit, subsea infastructure etc would be in the 20 billion bracket these days.

I reckon between us we could knock something up for £19.5bn, we could all buy a fronious with the profits!

 

[premmington]

Just wait till the Iranians come on stream full pelt...only thing stopping fuel dropping way below £1 a litre will be the occupant of #11 Downing Street...

This is so true! I believe when Iran starts pumping, the whole oil industry will change forever

 

[addjunkie]

Interesting point, probably true......but energy supply equals control....

Do you want your future, your energy supplies controlled by shall we say less stable governments again, kill off the small producers your left with juice from the middle east doing their own refining.

In the 70s iran were very westernised, women showing their faces, under recent regimes they have receded towards the dark ages. Saudi is on the last of its family line in control hes in his 70s, when his toes go up, there will be a power struggle there. Venezuala has probably the largest reserves in the world, but is an economic shambles. Russia another big player, has its wobbles depending on the wind direction, then your african nations, ive spent enough time down there to know not to rely on them. And then our american friends.whos huge reserves are mostly in very deep water 2000m +++..enough said.

Quite worrying really.


But its quite an interesting tangent from recomend me an inverter set?