Tuesday, May 09, 2006
night person
I am chronically a night person. I like staying up late doing whatever it is I do around here. This is why I usually post late at night. It is also why I don't get enough sleep. However, this job is not necessarily conducive to being a night person. It's more that I need to be an anytime person, though anytime is often early in the morning and I am not a morning person.
Monday, May 08, 2006
major exposures
I think that this article on big oil's vulnerabilities highlights the problems the majors will be facing in the future. Interestingly enough, as I mentioned on January 3, oilfield service companies are not AS exposed to those problems to the same degree. Service companies service national companies just as much, if not more than many than public majors.
Friday, May 05, 2006
Thursday, May 04, 2006
unintentionally funny line (to me)
Unintentionally funny line from work: "Is that really necessary?"
I uttered that a couple weeks ago out on location to a company man. We weren't going to finish the first day so we were discussing when and where to meet the next day. We had met at their field office the first day, but now we knew where the location was so we could go straight there. Apparently not. When the company man told us that we had to go back to the field office to sit through their rather pointless morning meeting again I uttered my line and one of the guys on the crew just busted out laughing.
I'm not sure why he laughed. Perhaps it was the incredulous way in which I said what I said. Or the sheer audacity that I would basically imply through the way I asked my question that I thought it was a poor idea (since it would require them to pay for more overtime). Either way, we still had to go back to the field office early to sit in their morning meeting. I probably should have come up with a more persuasive argument for not going to the meeting.
I uttered that a couple weeks ago out on location to a company man. We weren't going to finish the first day so we were discussing when and where to meet the next day. We had met at their field office the first day, but now we knew where the location was so we could go straight there. Apparently not. When the company man told us that we had to go back to the field office to sit through their rather pointless morning meeting again I uttered my line and one of the guys on the crew just busted out laughing.
I'm not sure why he laughed. Perhaps it was the incredulous way in which I said what I said. Or the sheer audacity that I would basically imply through the way I asked my question that I thought it was a poor idea (since it would require them to pay for more overtime). Either way, we still had to go back to the field office early to sit in their morning meeting. I probably should have come up with a more persuasive argument for not going to the meeting.
Wednesday, May 03, 2006
another store to not go to
Oh boy! The second Wal-Mart opened on the other side of town today! Is everyone as excited as I am? It can be another store that I don't go to.
Tuesday, May 02, 2006
week 18: sort of
Oh!
The places you'll go!
Cuba, NM. Aneth, UT. Monticello, UT. Dove Creek, CO.
Hooray! I just love going to places that are more than 100 miles away from the yard. You know, since nearly three hour drives are so much fun and all. By the way, that would be three hours one way. As luck, or the lack thereof, would have we have managed to draw the short (or perhaps long) straw on several recent jobs. By the way, that isn't the royal we either. It's the crew I've been rolling with since one of the supervisors has been out of town.
While the cities I named are all outside the San Juan Basin there is still oil and gas work to be done around them. They are certainly far, but Farmington is still the closest city with the sufficient oil and gas service companies to work on those wells.
The worst part about going far from the district is the going part. The drives are boring. There's only so much sweeping scenic majesty that you can look at and still watch the road. Then again, that's also one of the better things about going far form the district. It's like taking a mini road trip with a little bit of work in the middle. Plus, working in those places usually means working for clients we don't normally work with. That makes for an educational experience to see how some companies go about their operations. It also means that we sometimes do some ridiculously stupid things at clients' requests.
The best part about going far from the district is that these are relatively new places to go. Dove Creek and Monticello are reasonably scenic in their own ways though we received some suspiciously bad service in Monticello at one restaurant we tried to eat at. So we ate at a very good burger place in Dove Creek since that's where our motel rooms were. Cuba isn't so bad either. It has a McDonald's and is a good stopping place when going to Albuqueque. Aneth is, well, it pretty much sucks. The one place there is to eat other than the gas station closes at 3 PM. Plus, since there's sulfur in the oil produced there the whole town and field next to it smell like hydrogen sulfide. The one good thing about Aneth is that it produced the classic line (well, classic to me) of "Is that really necessary?" I'll explain it one day.
The places you'll go!
Cuba, NM. Aneth, UT. Monticello, UT. Dove Creek, CO.
Hooray! I just love going to places that are more than 100 miles away from the yard. You know, since nearly three hour drives are so much fun and all. By the way, that would be three hours one way. As luck, or the lack thereof, would have we have managed to draw the short (or perhaps long) straw on several recent jobs. By the way, that isn't the royal we either. It's the crew I've been rolling with since one of the supervisors has been out of town.
While the cities I named are all outside the San Juan Basin there is still oil and gas work to be done around them. They are certainly far, but Farmington is still the closest city with the sufficient oil and gas service companies to work on those wells.
The worst part about going far from the district is the going part. The drives are boring. There's only so much sweeping scenic majesty that you can look at and still watch the road. Then again, that's also one of the better things about going far form the district. It's like taking a mini road trip with a little bit of work in the middle. Plus, working in those places usually means working for clients we don't normally work with. That makes for an educational experience to see how some companies go about their operations. It also means that we sometimes do some ridiculously stupid things at clients' requests.
The best part about going far from the district is that these are relatively new places to go. Dove Creek and Monticello are reasonably scenic in their own ways though we received some suspiciously bad service in Monticello at one restaurant we tried to eat at. So we ate at a very good burger place in Dove Creek since that's where our motel rooms were. Cuba isn't so bad either. It has a McDonald's and is a good stopping place when going to Albuqueque. Aneth is, well, it pretty much sucks. The one place there is to eat other than the gas station closes at 3 PM. Plus, since there's sulfur in the oil produced there the whole town and field next to it smell like hydrogen sulfide. The one good thing about Aneth is that it produced the classic line (well, classic to me) of "Is that really necessary?" I'll explain it one day.
Monday, May 01, 2006
week 18: tapped out
I'm pretty tapped out right now from running around all over the basin and beyond. I'll write about my last couple days as soon as I can and perhaps spin it into some rambling commentary on the places this job takes me.
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