Transwomen in the petroleum industry

[jessiegirl]

I am currently in school to become a field service technician in the petroleum industry and have yet to transition.  Are there transwomen who work in this field and how successful have they been?

[JessicaH]

I'm in the petro industry and working temporarily in Russia but I'm not "OUT" yet. I know a few that have transitioned though and work in the industry .

[ImagineKate]

There was a thread here about trans rights on offshore platforms and someone's fight for them.

[ImagineKate]

Found it

https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,172910.0.html

[Lyric]

Well, I once worked at the Texas offices of the nation's largest petroleum company and we had at least one TG woman working there who I was acquainted with. She was an accountant and had long since transitioned when I came there, but being TG had not seemed to be any issue there. Of course, accounting and other office work is an occupational area traditionally done by both genders. If you want to work in the more "macho" occupations like drilling rig operation you might run into some discrimination among individuals, but probably not with big company policies.

[jessiegirl]

Ty all for replying,  that takes a load off my mind well partially any ways lol.

[♥︎ SarahD ♥︎]

You know that's a really good point that hadn't even crossed my mind - what are the rights when you're working off-shore / in international waters etc?  That must be a legal minefield, especially if you end up in waters controlled by a country that doesn't have any trans* rights, or worse still is actively anti-trans*.. any discrimination claims could get real messy real quickly from a legal standpoint, yikes

I guess if you're part of a big company though, you should be ok, but I'd definitely ask you to be extra cautious about things hun, and try to avoid any situations where you don't have a legal safety net to fall back on if you run into trouble <3

[Jess42]

I sold all my oilfield trucks, bought two newer Peterbilts and running them for a specialized company that does shows, slots, concerts and so on. The only thing good about the oilfield is the pay and you end up paying a price for that with long hours, on call, never knowing when you will see home again and so on. Unless you are working for a service company with an office job. Yard jobs they will work the crap out of you even. But the rigs, 28 days on and 28 (example. they are all different) off which usually ends up ( according to a lot of people I know that work on the rigs) 28 days on and then maybe 2 or 3 off maybe a week. Then they call you because someone quit or got sick or just failed to show up. Really good pay though. But a lot of people get fed up with it for a lot of different reasons. In the oilfield, my truck would pass a DOT inspection either roadside or in the scales, nothing extra. With this new company my truck passes an inspection, I get 75 dollars and the driver gets 50.

Office jobs would be OK but I would stay away from the rigs, the trucks, the service companies, the docks and so on. But that's me and only my opinion. Some love it, some hate it.