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The data set is taken from “Occupational Record of Petroleum Workers” as Rogalandsforskning conducted in 1987. The project's purpose was to obtain knowledge on the individual level the relationship between the oil workers' background and professional career. The question was about the oil business stand out from other activities in terms of income and career opportunities for different groups. To answer this, the 731 people interviewed. Compared with other activities characterized the oil business by: Great salary and career benefits; large internal wage differentiation; in the offshore business is little formal education compensated with house training and experience that provide good wages and career opportunities; very large gender inequalities - both onshore and offshore; particularly good opportunities for the operators attract workers from other parts - especially from engineering, but also from the drilling and services companies; negligible mobility out of the oil business, and small transition from offshore to onshore; very little geographic mobility among offshore employees.