Service hands....

Service hands....
By the way everyone in the 'oilfield' is called a hand...you are a good hand etc, which in itself is ironic as many of the drilling personnel have bits missing from some of their real hands...usually tips of fingers that were trapped somewhere they should not have been located!
Service hands are personnel that work for 3rd party companies that provide equipment and services to the drilling contractor.
Service hands I have worked with in the middle east were generally given the worst room/cabin on the rig! They generally have lots of idle time, so they are usually very profficient at downloading porn on the rig system and there by using an entire months download allowance in 2 hours and then having the gall to deny it!
Service hands generally are not based on the same rig, so travel from rig to rig and do not have a 28/28 schedule, so life on the rig can be long and boring...which generally suits them as they are incredibly boring people on the whole:-)