Companies along the gulf coast whos primary business is offshore drilling or service for drilling activites offshore are not giving a clear picture to the american public
Drilling and Offshore drilling is not a 52 week a year activity for anyone
Typically between contracts its most common for a drilling crew to experience a time of inactivity where the rig is looking for a new contract
The drilling rig contractors are the 1st to lay off their employees , seldome do rig employees work a steady yearly routine without some period of unemployment
Drilling contractor employees have lived this life since first hiring on with the driling contractor and the majority of these crew members from Mississippi , Alabama , Texas and Louisiana welcome it as long at its in time for deer hunting season or hog hunting season
Typically the winter months are the hardest for offshore driling an experience the most INACTIVE rig time , its not uncommon for a oil company to wait until spring or summer to move a rig onto location to start drilling activities
Down time and unemployment for a few weeks to a few months on a yearly basis in the life of a rig and its crew is a NORMAL activity experienced EVERY YEAR as a course of NORMAL WORK CYCLE of the rig and the crew
These COMPLAINING drilling contractors and driling service contractors are no more than taking advantage of spreading false propoganda to keep the government from taking the appropriate actions to ensure the safety of the personnel and the environment
Business actually expects the government to allow them to go back to conducting BUSINESS AS USUAL and keep endangering people and environment so business can keep the REVENU STREAM GOING AT FULL STEAM
This has always been the expectation of business , to thrive and profit at the expense of people and the environment
One day the people will be gone and the environment damaged beyond repair , where will business be then ?
DEAD along with the rest of us only business will have had a much more comfortable ride to the death
