Genesis is a good, solid company. They own a pretty diversified set of oil related businesses. They have onshore and offshore pipelines, refineries, storage facilities, an oil trading group, a railroad line, a tank truck business, an inland tug/barge fleet that has an active new build program, an offshore tug/barge business which was purchased last year from Hornbeck and that I hear will be building ATB’s in the near future, and just in the past week or so purchased a Jones Act Tanker named M/T American Phoenix. I think, at least before the ship purchase, that their holdings were in the neighborhood of somewhere around 5.2 billion.
Here is the link to the ship purchase article.
The website is http://www.genesisenergy.com
They have had ads in the back of workboat for their inland fleet for wheelmen and deckhands and separate ads in there for engineers for their offshore tugs. I hear that the offshore tug guys get paid pretty well, not sure about the inland fleet. According to what I have read about the ship is that it was crewed by Seabulk under a union contract and will continue that way under Genesis ownership. The rest of the company to my knowledge is non-union.
Hope that helps!
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Genesis Energy is the parent company that owns an offshore and onshore pipeline network, an oil trading group, refineries, storage facilities, a truck (tanker) company, a railroad line, an inland tug and barge fleet with an active new build program, an offshore tug and barge fleet (recently purchased from Hornbeck and rumored to be starting to build some ATB’s), and just in the last week or so purchased the Jones Act Tanker M/T American Phoenix.
I know a couple of guys that work for the offshore tug and barge fleet and they made out like bandits when Genesis bought them from Hornbeck. Nice raise and bonuses. Really good insurance and benefits package. Paid travel and paid for their travel day. 21/21 schedule. I know from seeing in workboat that they are hiring on the inland side for wheelman and deckhands and that the offshore side they are looking for engineers. From what I’ve read about the Jones Act tanker it is going to continue to be crewed by Seabulk under the union contract that they were already on. Its a pretty big company but I had never heard of it until my friends were on the tugs and got bought out. Its a somewhere in the neighborhood of a 5.5 billion dollar company. The guys I know there seem pretty happy other than the normal too much paper work gripe but other than that I think they got a pretty sweet deal. The paid travel is nice and getting paid a full days pay for the days you travel home is nice too. I’ve alway gotten either paid the day you come in or the day you go home, not both. Heres the link to the ship purchase-
http://worldmaritimenews.com/archives/140684/genesis-buys-jones-act-tanker/
and here is their website-
If they were hiring wheelmen on the offshore side I would give them a shot. I’ve never worked inland so I’m not sure I would do that myself… Hope that helps!
