Can anyone help!!!!

[The Stewarts]

Hi everyone

Hope somebody out there can help!!

My hubby works in Angola on a 4 week rota and has just found out that he can keep his job with the oil co. he works for at the moment and can actually have his home base anywhere he wants, so the OZ dream looks to be happening a lot sooner than we thought. The only thing is which is the best/quickest way to go about getting into OZ??? Has anyone been in the same position and if so how did they go about moving to OZ, any info will be very greatfully appreciated as we are planing to get the ball rolling when he gets home in November.

P.S. Great site - very additive


Lorna

[ErmintrudeMcMoo]

My friends hubby works in Angola on the rigs and is based here in Perth, so it is do-able, but may depend on actual job description/ skills list I can check with her as to what route they went if you like

[The Stewarts]

That would be great

Thanks
Lorna

[Bobcat]

Originally Posted by The Stewarts

Hi everyone

Hope somebody out there can help!!

My hubby works in Angola on a 4 week rota and has just found out that he can keep his job with the oil co. he works for at the moment and can actually have his home base anywhere he wants, so the OZ dream looks to be happening a lot sooner than we thought. The only thing is which is the best/quickest way to go about getting into OZ??? Has anyone been in the same position and if so how did they go about moving to OZ, any info will be very greatfully appreciated as we are planing to get the ball rolling when he gets home in November.

P.S. Great site - very additive

Lorna

It's a mighty long haul from Angola to Oz.......... traveling time alone will take up a fair whack of his R & R?

Once you get here he may want to pick up work more local. They do 4 weeks on 4 weeks off based from Perth or the eastern seaboard. Lots of offshore work up round the South China Sea........... up in the Timor Sea.............. and both areas are only a hop....skip......and a jump away from this land down-under.

I used to work the rigs doing 4 weeks on 4 weeks off from Singapore which was a good gig......... relatively short flight back here. Plenty of local work too where they do 2 weeks on 2 weeks off.............. Barrow Island is a good base. Couple of hours flight from Perth........ then a couple of hours flight max by chopper to the rigs in the Timor Sea. Avoid Bass Strait at all times........... definitely not for the feint hearted.............. but....... if hubby is a north sea tiger................ Bass Strait should be a piece of cake to him.

[The Stewarts]

Hi Bobcat

Thanks for that info, will pass it on to hubby.

He is aware of the travel time as one of his fellow workmates in Angola is from/lives in Brisbane and travels on the same 4 week rota and he has spoken to him about flights etc. He has always had to travel long distances with his job and he just sees it as part of it, and he dosnt seem to mind the travell. But I can see its not for everyone.
Cheers
Lorna

[SCOTSNAUSSIE]

Hi Lorna
I see your online just now, think we may have some things in common. My OH and I livied in Angola for a year and prior to that Scotland, we now live in Qld. My OH is an aussie so moving here was pretty straight forward for us. He now works for a company in Western Australia and works out of Australia. My hubby was always used to travelling also but eventually got for sick of that as it was taking hm at least three days to get home, now only one day which is so much easier. I would like to catch up, we have been here three years this Christmas and settled well. I am sure your hubby would be able to get a job here in Australia, I know we were happy to get out of Angola. Hope to hear back from you.

Good Luck
Kirsteen

[Gollywobbler]

Hi Lorna

A friend of mine now has his visas for Oz. He works in Algeria (dismantling a derelict gas-field or something, it sounds like. If he gets it wrong, an entire town called Arzew will go "woof" I am told.) ) They are planning to move to NSW/QLD and he is also planning to do FIFO from there.

He has been investigating the logistics involved.

If you would like me to ask him to make direct contact with you and OH, please PM me with your e-mail address.

I reckon that Bobcat is right and that a lot of these plans probably change once the couple start living in Oz. It is a HECK of a trek from Algeria to Brissie or Sydney as far as I can see from a vague look at the flight schedules.

Cheers

Gill

[ErmintrudeMcMoo]

I spoke to my friend and she reckons at the minute there is not much differance in travelling from Angola to Perth than it was getting back to Scotland, he travels Angola to J`burg , then on from J`burg to Perth, at the minute the stopover in SA isn`t too long but that will change in December for some reason (I think the flight times change over the Christmas period possibly). He does 3 wks on 3 off and finds it no bother.

[Sexy Welsh Aussie Bird]

Sorry guys excuse my ignorance - where is Angola? Sounds as if it shud be off Scotland somewhere!

Sian xxx

[mandy1970]

We are emigrating hopefully next year and my other half is a North Sea Tiger!!

I am an Oz(brought up in Fife) and he was told that even if he arrived without a job he could have one before the end of the day. He has been in touch with a few companies and agencies based in Perth (where we are going - friends and family there) to get the ball rolling. They are all confident that getting a job was no problem when he gets there.