Nice work place ever!

Salam w.b.t and hi all,

How are you guys doing? I miss updating my blog with useful contents. Hehehehehe…

For the last couple of months, most of the contents are about me whining my life. Hahahahaha….

I am doing very well here. Look forward to the adventure coming up in the next couple of weeks. Actually, it will be in two weeks. Jajajaja…

I am at the rig at the moment, called GDI-2. It is a land rig. I worked at this rig before, so I know the crew here. To be honest, the current location of this rig is the best so far. I love it so much, it is right opposite to the beach.

Yes!!! You read it right, BEACH!

When I was assigned to this rig, I did not know about the location of the rig as per usual. Actually, no one knows until we physically arrived here. We were like, this is the best place ever.

My cabin door is opposite to the beach. See the pictures below. My colleagues after finish their shift, they went for swimming. Most of the rig crew were also jumped into the sea and swimming while we are drilling.

See the beach here. Lets name it Dukhan beach. Lol!

I walked along the beach few days back. I want to jump into the water so much, but I don’t find it appropriate. On top of that, I don’t bring a proper long and loose shirt, as well as many eyes will see me. All here are males ya, FYI. Other reason is I work from 6PM to 6AM, but most of the time I will finish at 7 or 8AM.

It is summer here, so from 7AM up to 6.00PM, you will never want to swim in the sea. You will be like a boiling egg. Hehehehehe….

It is really good here. Well so far you are reading a good part.

When I arrived here at the rig, I was working like crazy. I did not sleep nearly ~36hours. Rig up, prepare the tools, BHA pick up, and run in hole, start drilling.

Normally they will send 4 crews, two MWD and two DD. Since the Remote Operation (RO) will cover day shift, so it will me the MWD doing night. Luckily, the other two crews were really smart and helpful. We did all the physical works you can imagine, and it was a worse situation.

Tired, at the same time still need to work like you are fully capable giving 100% of yourself.

I cannot describe the feeling I felt at that time, but I was so ready to walk away with the RO keep complaining, shouting, critize at me. Nothing good I have done to his eyes. One time, when we finished drilling the 12-1/4" section, lay down the BHA, backloaded the tools, and prepare pick up the 8-1/2" BHA at the same time. Mind you, this happened at the same time.

I was so tired, and senior scold me for the stupid thing. I know if it is serious, I will admit my mistake and learn from it. BUT! For the little stupid thing about removing the wooden pallet to put the tools on it, I won't take it easy. I have many other things that is much, much more important than this stupid thing. At that time, I finished the tools programming and that’s it! I dropped everything and off I went to sleep. Mind you again, I haven't sleep nearly ~20 hours this time.

It was so exhausted. I left without saying anything. Then of course in the evening, it gets back to me. I admit my mistake, but my patience was over. Totally over.

Anyway, we were all good after that and he advised me. Not shouting at me, which I accept it. We all know each of us was working more than we should, so tolerance is there.

I am not scare to walk away really, when things are out of control. I have nothing to lose. I have nothing to scare off. I am sure if it is not here, I will find a better place. I know this is not good behaviour, but I will do this when things are too much. If you are in my shoes, you will understand me. :)

We are 3-4 days away before finish the drilling. Rig down, and leave the wellsite off to Doha. All the crew does not feel like leaving, so DDs were trying to slow down the drilling. This place is too good to leave. Hehehe… It is great here.

I love it here.

I need to properly organised my stuff, my mind, my life and all. It has been all over the places lately. For the last couple of weeks, I am struggling to focus.

Hopefully by going for a vacation will give me a break and time to refocus and think the forward plan.

That’s it guys. I will write again soon.

Take care and Salam wbt.

P/S - Hello readers. I love it when you guys just randomly dropped me an email, message, and comments. I appreciate it if you find this blog is useful for you guys. Thank you very much!

Art of communication

Salam w.b.t and hi all.

 

How are you guys doing?

 

There is no particular topic I want to write this time. I am on the job but on the standby mode as the drillstring got stuck downhole. Basically, we are not being productive since three days ago.

 

I want to do something productive, like study. But I don’t have the motivation to do it. Therefore, I write this.

 

So far, working in the field is exciting and also frustrating. I will not sugarcoat this by saying, "Yeah, I love challenges, bla bla bla". In reality, you have to deal with everything and everyone.

 

As you know, I am a beginner and absolutely green on my job. Many things I don’t know, thus I will do and react slower in any situation as I don’t know. Thus, my judgments, my decisions, and observation would be off or wrong. I cannot pretend that I know everything and "act" smart. So, when the senior become cynical or scoff at my stupidity, it kills my motivation honestly.

 

 In this case, it is up to my mentality whether I can take it or not. So far, I take it and learn from my mistake although it can be so harsh.

 

Whenever I managed to do something right or close to right, no one really bother. Most of the time, it just me giving a pat on my back as a small reward.

 

Basically, this all comes down to the art of communication.

 

Remember this, if you criticise others for their mistake, you should also praise them for their efforts as well. It is unfair to just do one side - being negative, but not being supportive. This is crucial especially when you are a leader or supervisor, as you don’t want your team turn their backs at you.

 

That's all I want to write at the moment.

 

Take care and Salam w.b.t.

 

P/S - Another 5 hours to go before I can go to sleep.

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.