Me in Qatar

Salam w.b.t and hi all.

 

How are you guys doing? I am doing great here. Time flies really, really fast. I did not get time to update anything since end of last year although I had nearly four weeks holiday in Malaysia.

 

So, I will make a quick update now.

 

I had a good time in Malaysia. Spent time with my mother and sisters, visit my grandparents in hometown. Although several conflicts occur, but nothing much I can do. Typical family issues.

I am with my mother before departure to Qatar

My not-so-little sister with my mother.

My little sister and I did the car boot sale.

During holiday, I met dentist to do teeth crowning. I did not realise I had severe buxism or teeth grinding during sleep. Well, my mom ever told me ages ago, but I thought she was talking about my youngest sister. In the end, I had to do crowning. When I get the opportunity, I will need to see a dentist again to make a mouth guard where you put it in your mouth during sleeping for protection.

I arrived in Qatar on Jan 28. Then, the company sent me straight for H2S training and MK50 Life Jacket. It was additional training on top of the offshore survival training I had back in Aberdeen. Then, did my medical for offshore and Qatar residency.

Sunset from the base.

Third day, went out with some Malaysian and Indonesian guys to the Souq Waqaf. It is a market in the Doha city. There are a winter festival going on for one month. So, people from Saudi will come and shopping there. Also shows, foods, camels, lights, traffics, and a lot of people. I spent around 2 hours there with them before going back to the hotel as I will depart to the rig early in the morning next day

GDI-4 at night

I went to the rig, GDI-4, around 1.5 hour drive from Doha. The rig is in a desert, located in Dukhan field. A lot of land rigs here, which I believed own by Qatar Petroleum. It was easy task once I arrived at GDI-4, since the crews were already there and they were just continue drilling. I did a night shift with another trainee, Areej, a Saudi lady

On third day, I was informed that I will be going to another rig, GDI-2 for rig up and drilling job. This GDI-2 is about 20 minutes from the first rig.

Sunrise from GDI-2, before crew cange

On the fourth day, I departed to the rig with another 2 crews. The rig up was 8 hours of sweat, blood, and swearing. It was so physically demanding, but it went alright. When we are at the rig, we are all working back to back, non-stop.

I am freaking trainee, but I take day shift. For the first three days, I had to troubleshoot and deal with all these people at the rig. Now is day 5, it is quite relaxing as things are going well so far. I hope it will go well and we will reach TD. I estimate around 1 week from now.

My skin is burned. Trust me, this is the only time I can relax since DD is busy.

We are drilling and I have a space to breath for now, that’s why I am writing this to update my blog.

 

I will update it again from time to time.

 

Take care and Salam w.b.t guys.

 

P/S: I think I overslept last night, so I feel so sleepy at the moment. I will go make coffee after this.