Busy at Work

It has become my responsibility to prepare an updated version of the rig-up instruction manual for this rig. This document will hopefully be used by field engineers on future jobs out here, since they seem to enjoy having us do a full rig-up and rig-down of our equipment every 4 months or so on this rig. When I was working on rigging everything up back in September, they told me we probably wouldn't have to rig it down for 5 years if everything went well. But a different oil company will be leasing this rig on it's next well, and we have to clear on out.

The (very small) silver lining to this (enormous) cloud was that I got to take my camera around the rig and take lots of pictures that might otherwise be frowned upon in the "pursuit of service quality". In between snapping views of our cable wiring and sensor configurations, I got a few scenic shots as well.



First on the to-do list: ride the elevator up the derrick to check on our sensor WAAYYYY UP HIGGHHH.


It's hard to catch the perspective, but I'm reeeeallly high up.


See that drill pipe I'm looking down at? Those are each about 95 feet long. And the rig floor itself is about 85 feet above the water.


It makes for a great view!


But also a bit scary when looking down. Do you see that white box a little lower than left of center? That's the logging unit I spend 12 hours of my day in. It fits about three people and a good dozen computers relatively comfortably.


Between blogging and sleeping, I actually do have to work sometimes.


This is the kind of wiring that I get to document and record! Looks like fun, doesn't it?

In this blog I've written a few thousand words or so describing my life in the oilfield and the sort of work I perform. So I hope you enjoyed a few-thousand more condensed into picture form here, since there are some things about my job that words cannot begin to describe.