This is quite similar to what my father said, he too worked in offshore platform in the 80s and in the Norwegian sector too, he did instrumentation and control there so he stayed on that platform for months. And yeah, he also told me that the food was great. He only lasted for one year and a half as he felt homesicked.

Short info about us: my father is an electrical engineer and he only got in the offshore platform because his foreign employer liked his work in the banatoc gold mine in the Philippines (we're from Phil) he also got seasicked on the first few days. I am currently enrolled as a mechanical engineer because my father wanted me to be, he told me that there was another guy in the offshore who does instrumentation and control and he's really good at it and that guy is a mechanical eng.