When Things Fall Apart
Reporting from the Gulf, an offshore oil rig worker finds mundanity, a complacent obsession with safety, and the doom beneath it all
Link sends you to a well written retrospective of what it is like to work on an oil rig, some thoughts on the Deepwater Horizon project, and some of the common problems faced in the industry. Includes a comparison to working in Africa to working on platforms in the US and the UK.