# Ensco vs Maersk employment **URL:** \ **Category:** Offshore\ **Created:** [September 5, 2013, 5:17am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/ensco-vs-maersk-employment/11039 "2013-09-05T05:17:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TedTed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@TedTed](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/TedTed)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2013, 5:17am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/ensco-vs-maersk-employment/11039/1 "2013-09-05T05:17:16Z")
What would you do?Which is the better offer to accept?Both positions offer roughly the same pay.\*1) _DPO with Maersk (newbuild drillship)_ \* \* \* \* \* \* \* \* \* \* \* \* \* \* \*OR2) Chief Mate with Ensco (newbuild drillship) ---
**Author:** ![c.captain](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/c.captain/32/807_2.png) [@c.captain](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/c.captain)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2013, 6:01am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/ensco-vs-maersk-employment/11039/2 "2013-09-05T06:01:18Z")
[QUOTE=TedTed;119479]What would you do?Which is the better offer to accept?Both positions offer roughly the same pay.\*1) _DPO with Maersk (newbuild drillship)_ \* \* \* \* \* \* \* \* \* \* \* \* \* \* \*OR2) Chief Mate with Ensco (newbuild drillship)[/QUOTE] for Christ’s sake, take the ENSCO job. Always take the higher position…ALWAYS! ---
**Author:** ![Orniphobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Orniphobe](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Orniphobe)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2013, 7:45am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/ensco-vs-maersk-employment/11039/3 "2013-09-05T07:45:30Z")
[QUOTE=TedTed;119479]What would you do?Which is the better offer to accept?Both positions offer roughly the same pay.\*1) _DPO with Maersk (newbuild drillship)_ \* \* \* \* \* \* \* \* \* \* \* \* \* \* \*OR2) Chief Mate with Ensco (newbuild drillship)[/QUOTE] Depends on your goals. Do you need time for a Master’s upgrade? Where are the ship’s going? Can you live with horrible baby blue paint? Do you want to be a Master later working for an OIM or be the OIM? If a DPO, two paygrades less than Ch Mate, is making the same at Maersk as an Ensco Mate, that’s a red flag for me about Ensco. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Canal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Canal](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Johnny_Canal)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2013, 2:04pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/ensco-vs-maersk-employment/11039/4 "2013-09-05T14:04:58Z")
[QUOTE=Orniphobe;119498]Depends on your goals. Do you need time for a Master’s upgrade? Where are the ship’s going? Can you live with horrible baby blue paint? Do you want to be a Master later working for an OIM or be the OIM? If a DPO, two paygrades less than Ch Mate, is making the same at Maersk as an Ensco Mate, that’s a red flag for me about Ensco.[/QUOTE] i was wondering the same thing? did he mean Sr DPO? have a hard time believing that DPO Maersk pays same as Ensco C/M, but then again i have hard time believing that Transocean C/M only makes $5 grand or so more than Sr. DPO. but it’s true. ---
**Author:** ![Capt\_Lee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Capt\_Lee](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Capt_Lee)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2013, 9:10pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/ensco-vs-maersk-employment/11039/5 "2013-09-05T21:10:36Z")
I would give Ensco a wide berth if I had a choice. ---
**Author:** ![PDCMATE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/2acd7d/32.png) [@PDCMATE](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/PDCMATE)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2013, 11:05pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/ensco-vs-maersk-employment/11039/6 "2013-09-06T23:05:19Z")
At ensco your license may be on the same level as toilet paper. Unless a driller was using that toilet paper, then your license would be less. ---
**Author:** ![TedTed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@TedTed](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/TedTed)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2013, 12:32am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/ensco-vs-maersk-employment/11039/7 "2013-09-07T00:32:03Z")
[QUOTE=Johnny Canal;119556]i was wondering the same thing? did he mean Sr DPO? have a hard time believing that DPO Maersk pays same as Ensco C/M, but then again i have hard time believing that Transocean C/M only makes $5 grand or so more than Sr. DPO. but it’s true.[/QUOTE] Actually it is about 10k more at ensco but that amount of money is not going to be a factor in my decision. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Commodore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4af34b/32.png) [@The\_Commodore](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/The_Commodore)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2013, 11:34am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/ensco-vs-maersk-employment/11039/8 "2013-09-07T11:34:28Z")
Come on, Ted. What’s the driving factor than if it isn’t money? Sea time towards your Master’s License? What else could there be aside from those two if you are looking to leave your cushy DP job at Noble? Take the CM job and as soon as the ink is wet on your New license, shank the old man in the back and try to promote yourself. You’ll probably have about 5 years experience by then, maybe 6 so why not ---
**Author:** ![Capt\_Lee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Capt\_Lee](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Capt_Lee)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2013, 5:01pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/ensco-vs-maersk-employment/11039/9 "2013-09-07T17:01:27Z")
[QUOTE=The Commodore;119699] Take the CM job and as soon as the ink is wet on your New license, [B]shank the old man in the back and try to promote yourself.[/B] [/QUOTE] This “Old Man” has his own shank and eyes in the back of his head!!! So come get it…but it won’t be easy! ---
**Author:** ![t.mcg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@t.mcg](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/t.mcg)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2013, 11:49pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/ensco-vs-maersk-employment/11039/10 "2013-09-07T23:49:58Z")
Not sure about this maybe someone could clarify but is ensco part of anadarko some how? ---
**Author:** ![c.captain](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/c.captain/32/807_2.png) [@c.captain](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/c.captain)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2013, 7:25am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/ensco-vs-maersk-employment/11039/11 "2013-09-08T07:25:56Z")
[QUOTE=t.mcg;119734]Not sure about this maybe someone could clarify but is ensco part of anadarko some how?[/QUOTE] why would you think that?..it is only that Anadrako has a close business relationship with ENSCO and charters lots of their rigs just as Noble having a close relationship with Shell (although me thinks that one is strained hence why Shell is going to TO nowdays for new drillships)