[BITList] OILFIELD !!!

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Hugh,
I spent a few weeks standing by on the Lancer in 86 she was owned and 
operated by Ben Line by this time with ex chiefs as drillers and Rig 
super the crew made up of mostly ex MN personnel She was in a sorry 
state by then, we were due to sail for Brunei, when I got the offer of a 
job in Spain which I took thinking Spain beat Brunei, but as usual I 
made the wrong choice as my job in Spain came to an end in a year and 
the Lancer Drilled one hole in Brunei then went to the Aegean for three 
years. Story of my life given a choice in hindsight I always jumped the 
wrong way. Santa Fe also wanted to send me to Scotland when she was 
being built and I wanted to go but the local manager wouldn't give the 
OK or I might have met you there
frank
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On 11/23/2012 8:17 PM, HUGH wrote:
> Frank,
> The roughneck's solution to the 3 ball problem I can well understand.  
> The architect's is elegant, if a wee bit hard to achieve without 
> practice.  The engineer's has a certain metaphysical quality 
> - creating a pyramid with 3 balls is quite something.
> One of the drillships I worked on while with Scotts, Ben Ocean 
> Lancer, was flooded with Yanks who spoke an arcane language, as did 
> the suppliers approved by them. Their electrical equipment arrived 
> festooned with redundant advice such as "MUST BE INSTALLED BY 
> COMPETENT ELECTRICIANS". Few items had such luxuries as holes for HD 
> bolts - they had never seen anything that wasn't welded down. "It 
> ain't oilfield", was a conversation.  They operated on the assumption 
> that Scotts had never built a ship before, so rows were frequent.  
> Despite specifying and approving the BOP handling winches, they 
> uprooted them and dumped them over the side while still in the Clyde 
> after delivery.
> Hugh.
>
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