So I have been in the office now for 2 full months and finally got my rigpass to go offshore. That means that any day now I could be in the middle of nowhere in the Gulf of Mexico. Who would have ever thought I would be doing something like this . . . I didn't!!
My base is located at the port in Carmen so when you go outside to the patio there are a lot of boats of all types and of course water. Mostly there are fishing boats and of course barges that carry all the equipment and personnel to the wells. The patio is so different than the other bases too. There is not much space though there are 18 units because the units are most of the time on platforms. Also there does not need to be room for for trucks to move around because everything is lifted with a crane. It is already so different I can not imagine how different it will be when I do finally get to go offshore.
The office has been pretty tough but fun at the same time. I have gotten to know a lot of the engineers better and learn the ropes on how to be in-charge of coiled tubing units. I have had to talk on the phone all the time (those that know me this is not my favorite thing to do at all), check reports, send tickets and logistic information to different people, and of course know the operation of my units so if they have a question I can help out (all of this in spanish). Most of the time it is complete chaos though there are those few days of things being easy. I have had quite a few crazy ones because my units tend to have all the problems and incidents!! Below is a picture of one of my bosses with the other "gringos". He specifically wanted to take a picture with all the gringos (John, Nicolai, and myself) of Coiled Tubing and wanted me to stand next to him to show people how tall I am!!
Normally, I start work at 7:30, then have 3 short meetings, work until lunch which is from 2-4 pm, work more until the long meeting at 6 pm, and lastly maybe go home around 8:00 or 9 on a good day (bad days more like 11 or in my case 12:30). From the schedule you can tell that I do not have too much of a life but right now I am loving it! Once in a while I go to a movie or eat with my roommates (picture below of myself with Karina and Qarnain . . . just like old times in Reynosa) or other engineers. Somedays I just go straight to bed and then do it all over again!
Other days in the office it is a little more relaxed like one weekend there was not a ton to do at work so during our lunch break most of the engineers in the office went to a paintball facility and played for 2 hours. This was my first time I have ever done paintball before and it was really fun! We were all joking that it looked like we lived in Reynosa with the vests and guns!! I got hit only twice . . . once on each arm but they both left nasty bruises. The next day at work I was the talk of the town because I did pretty well picking people off and of course they wanted me to show off my battle wounds!! Below are pictures of that day including one of the beginning stage of the bruise . . . it does not give it justice at all!!
Next post will hopefully be of an adventure offshore!!
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