As we all know, Christmas is a time of giving, and this week we will be looking at how charities can give to offshore oil rig workers. Oil rig workers spend many hours a day and night digging for oil in remote locations worldwide. All distant oil rig workers are required to work away from home for weeks at a time doing long, labour intensive shifts. However, not all workers are diggers, some work inside such as geologists. 

So, what use could a charity for seaward oil rig workers make of a container? The most obvious reason would be using it for
storage, to ship the Christmas presents that are being delivered and then use the containers to store tools and equipment. But there are other uses such as worker accommodation, and not just a bedroom either; but a shower room or a changing room. There was a
news report last year about a charity in the Netherlands donating custom built studio flats to the homeless, everyone thought it was an internet joke spread around, but it was a genuine contribution. The oil rig workers could use this type of accommodation since they live at sea for such a long time during their work.  

Lion Containers Ltd provide specialist offshore containers, which have been designed and manufactured to conform to DNV 2.7-1, they are suitable to take the strain of working in harsh offshore environments safely. An offshore container is a portable unit with a max gross mass not exceeding 25,000kg for transporting goods in open seas to/from/between fixed or floating installations or ships. You can read more about our 
DNV containers here >>