Training, simulators and a profile recruiters can see.
Jack up, spud the 36" hole and work through each section the way it's done on a real rig: crane lifts, running and cementing casing, nippling up and testing the BOP, FITs, directional drilling and tripping.
Jack-ups, semisubs, drillships, tender, platform and land rigs on a world map, each with its contractor, operator, field and status. Land activity is shown as rig counts by country and US basin.
You're not the only one. Our preparation explains it the way it works on the rig, works every kill sheet step by step, and lets you practise under exam conditions at home until you're ready.
For roustabouts, floorhands and derrickmen. Eight sessions: pressure, kicks, trips, shut-in and the equipment, with a full review behind every wrong answer, then a 25-question mock.
Fourteen sessions with drills, step-by-step calculator workings and a full review for every wrong answer, then two mock exams and a simulator assessment.
For toolpushers, drilling supervisors and company men. Barriers, kick tolerance, gas behaviour, deviated kill sheets, choosing the method, volumetric control, stripping and bullheading, diagnosing problems and the equipment you sign for. Then a 30-question mock.
For land crews moving offshore. Nine short modules from the heliport to the drill floor: the helicopter crew change on BB17, induction and alarms, living on the rig, a guided rig tour, safety, a role track for your job, well control offshore and emergencies. Pass the final check for the Offshore Ready badge.
For anyone who wants to work on a drilling rig. Eight short modules: what a rig does, the jobs and how you move up, life on the rig, safety, the equipment, your first days on the floor and how to get hired. Pass the final check for the Rig Ready badge.
Stop chasing every job ad. Build your crew profile once from your CV and tickets, and recruiters, labour hire, drilling contractors and operators find you. They see your rigs, your years and which tickets are in date, then ask for an introduction.
You choose whether you're in the search, and your name stays hidden until you say yes. Land or offshore, roustabout to drilling supervisor.
Hiring? Search crew who are ready to go, by position, rig type and valid tickets.
Open the career centre →Walk through every operation on BB17, or take the driller's chair and run the rig yourself. Free to use: register once and everything on RigVoyage opens.
A 3D model of the BB17 jack-up you can orbit, then step through every operation from the floor and down the hole: jacking and skidding the cantilever, crane lifts, spudding the 36" hole, running and cementing each casing string, nippling up and testing the BOP, directional drilling, tripping, a gas kick killed with the Driller's method and the 7" liner.
Sit in the cyber chair and drill. Drawworks joystick in your right hand, top drive, pumps and slips on the left, a driller's trace screen, alarms and a weight indicator in the middle. Drill the stand down, work it, make the connection with the derrickman and floor crew, then get back to drilling. When you're ready, drill on into a kick and shut the well in on the BOP panel. Or trip in the hole on elevators and keep the trip sheet.
Every session is hands-on. You move the sliders and watch a well kick, read the driller's screen and decide what to do, sort barriers, work the kill sheet box by box with the calculator steps shown, then see it happen on the BB17 rig simulator. Nothing to memorise blind: you find out why it works, then you check yourself.
It's made for the hands who find it hardest.
No one is watching and nothing is timed unless you want it to be. Go over a session as many times as you need.
Rig crew · 8 sessionsFor roustabouts, floormen and derrickmen. What holds the well back, the warning signs, your job when the alarm goes and how the BOP works, in pictures and plain words.
US$25 for the level · Session 1 free · 12 months' access
Assistant driller · driller · 14 sessionsThe driller's course: kick detection, shut-ins, SIDPP and SICP, the BOP and accumulator, the Driller's method, the kill sheet and two full mock exams, plus a rehearsal on the simulator.
US$25 for the level · Session 1 free · 12 months' access
Toolpusher · supervisor · 10 sessionsFor the people who run the well: barrier envelopes, kick tolerance, kill methods and their complications, well control equipment and the decisions behind them, with a 30-question mock.
US$25 for the level · Session 1 free · 12 months' access
Moving from land to offshore? See Rig training. These are preparation courses with our own practice questions. They help you get ready for an accredited well control course and assessment; they don't replace it.
Crew build one profile, read in a minute, and choose who sees it. Companies search the crew who have opted in. Free to use: register once and everything on RigVoyage opens.
Roustabout to drilling supervisor, land or offshore.
Upload your CV and tickets, tell us the rigs you've worked, and Claude lays it out in the RigVoyage crew format: units, rig types, years, and every ticket with its expiry date.
Answer a short set of questions for your position on camera, once, on your phone. About 20 to 30 minutes. Recruiters watch it instead of calling you for a first-round chat.
Start with Rig Launch. Module 7 covers tickets, a rig CV, the interview and how to apply.
Rig Launch →Recruiters, labour hire, drilling contractors, operators and service companies.
Search by position, rig type, years and valid tickets, and see straight away who is ready to mobilise and who will step down to get on a rig.
Every profile is in the same format: units worked, rig types, years in drilling, and a ready-to-work check of every ticket. RigVoyage course badges and first-interview videos are shown on the profile.
See where the rigs are working: offshore rigs by type on a world map, and land rigs by country and basin. Crew can see where to apply; companies can see where the activity is.
Two free, interactive courses. Rig Launch is for people who have never worked on a rig and want to get a start. Land to offshore is for land crews making the move offshore.
Written for school leavers, tradespeople and career changers who want a job on a drilling rig and don't know the words yet. It explains what a rig does, the jobs and how people move up, what life on a roster is really like, the safety rules that keep you alive, the equipment, what a new start does in the first days, and how to get hired. Plain English, every rig word explained the first time it comes up.
It gets you ready to start. It doesn't replace the safety tickets, medicals and inductions your region and employer require.
This course was built for land drilling crews making the move offshore. You already know the job: tripping pipe, making connections, mixing mud, working the floor. What's new is everything around it. You fly or sail to work, you live on the rig for weeks, every joint and sack arrives by boat and crane, the BOP and the emergency plan are different, and if it goes wrong there is nowhere to drive away. The course takes what you already know from land and shows you what changes offshore, so your first hitch isn't a shock.
Every module starts from a situation a land hand recognises, then shows the offshore difference: driving to the rig against flying out on a helicopter, a land BOP against one that may sit on the seabed, running to the muster point against waiting for the lifeboat. It covers the things that catch land hands out on their first hitch.
For roustabouts up to drillers with land experience and no offshore time, crews who have a first offshore job lined up, and supervisors and recruiters who want to prepare new starts before they fly. It works on a phone, so it can be done at home before the hitch.
It prepares you for your first offshore hitch. It doesn't replace the mandatory offshore safety and survival training (such as BOSIET or the equivalent for your region), which you still need before you fly.