Geoff
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Post by Geoff on Dec 23, 2013 14:49:48 GMT -5
Made it out yesterday and am back home today. What a trip. Just my transportation yesterday was outrageous. A 20 minute cab ride to the heliport, a 4 hour boat ride to the platform, and6 a one minute crane ride on to the platform. I spent 5 hours on the platform, 15 minutes of which was to accomplish what I was sent to do. Then a 30 minute helicopter ride, a 25 minute cab ride, a 20 minute plane ride, and finally a 10 minute cab ride to my house. Getting craned onto the boat  This was our first stop  Not much scenery  Monopod  Home for the day. Anna Platform  The Frog crew basket  Later, boat.     |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2013 14:53:13 GMT -5
Looks like you got new boots.
How cold was it? The camera does not seem to be shivering!!?!??!
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Geoff
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Post by Geoff on Dec 23, 2013 14:55:03 GMT -5
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Post by Geoff on Dec 23, 2013 14:59:38 GMT -5
Yeah, I don't keep a set of gear at my house (800 miles from where I work) so they had to get me a purchase order to get some in town on Friday. By a happy coincidence I had a set of coveralls at home so Ray could fix the zipper. She fixed it Friday night for me. I was able to steal a hard hat from one of the managers in the Anchorage office and used my rock saw safety glasses. It was balmy, almost 40 degrees. The trip out was a mix of slush and rain, then on the rig it cleared up and started cooling down.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2013 15:06:55 GMT -5
Yeah, I don't keep a set of gear at my house (800 miles from where I work) so they had to get me a purchase order to get some in town on Friday. By a happy coincidence I had a set of coveralls at home so Ray could fix the zipper. She fixed it Friday night for me. I was able to steal a hard hat from one of the managers in the Anchorage office and used my rock saw safety glasses. It was balmy, almost 40 degrees. The trip out was a mix of slush and rain, then on the rig it cleared up and started cooling down. What a complete mess. Why didn't alternate fix his own mess? Oh, prolly because he was on shift and bizzy somewhere else. Therefore they had to trouble you and ur family and spend $20K in fixing the issue. Plus down time aint cheap. |
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Geoff
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Post by Geoff on Dec 23, 2013 15:19:18 GMT -5
Because of the holidays there are no seats on any of the 4 carriers that fly out of Pbay until Tuesday. Amazingly, they weren't able to pull out of hole before I got there. Kept getting stuck. So We dodged the $20,000 an hour fee for them waiting on us.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2013 15:26:42 GMT -5
That in itself seems odd. They weren't drilling (making money) due to the error. The pullout was due to the error, I woulda thunk your company would be on the hook anyway. I guess that's not the way it works.
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Post by Geoff on Dec 23, 2013 15:33:11 GMT -5
No, It was a back up tool that they were going to pick up as soon as they were out. They should have been out Friday, but thanks to shitty formation, they're still stuck.
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Geoff
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Post by Geoff on Dec 23, 2013 15:33:50 GMT -5
That actually makes it more annoying... He got one out configured right, but completely messed up the back up.
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Dec 23, 2013 17:02:57 GMT -5
Great pics, thanks for posting! I didn't realize you had platforms up there. We dive on ours down here, and when I used to work for oil companies, I visited one, that was cool. The basket was a little scary at first. That just looks coooooold though!
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Dec 23, 2013 21:58:07 GMT -5
Brrrrr!Maaaaaan that looks cold!.....Mel
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Dec 25, 2013 22:29:18 GMT -5
Ice on steel grates up high looks slick and nerve racking.
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panamark
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Post by panamark on Dec 26, 2013 6:18:26 GMT -5
That is some cold, lonely country. But I bet in the 12 days of summer it is spectacular!
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jollyrockhound
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Post by jollyrockhound on Dec 26, 2013 22:35:26 GMT -5
cool picts looks cold burr
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Post by ash on Dec 27, 2013 7:51:48 GMT -5
Thanks for giving us "Some" of the sense of what it takes to get to your job. Sounds like an adventure just getting there. Very interesting.
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GeorgeStoneStore
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Post by GeorgeStoneStore on Dec 27, 2013 9:00:38 GMT -5
thank you sharing . All photo interesting to me. I have not seen anything like it
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Post by pghram on Jan 5, 2014 15:13:15 GMT -5
Thanks for taking us along.
Rich
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Post by 1dave on Jan 6, 2014 11:08:40 GMT -5
And I thought what I did for a living was tough!
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