Here's about a guy who's living his dream. Great going FilmMaker Kisku.
Monday, March 27, 2006
Friday, March 10, 2006
Life on the Oil Patch
During the last three weeks I've been on seventeen different wells across Southern Alberta right up to the border with Saskatchewan border. Actually on one rig exactly on the border line. You cross the sign which says you are leaving one state and just before u see the sign saying you're in the next state you're on a rig. It been hard hard work, little sleep and some food whenever possible. The weather has ranged from cold, to 
really really cold to bright and sunny. I've seen white-outs and beautiful sun-rises and sunsets, sometimes on the same day. And now that I have some time to sit down and breathe the unstressed air for a while, and listen to the relative silence of not having a truck generator blare out the dull drone, there's one thing I'll say. Life on the Oil Patch is hard.
So here I am hoping to spend my last few weeks in Canada in relative comfort as I prepare to finish my training phase and start life as a Field Engineer without the "Jr." tag attached before it. So my cold Canadian adventure shall end and a new chapter will begin.
I think I've written this post in about five different sittings.. so I wouldnt be surprised if it were disjointed. But guess what, that reflects exactly how life has been. You know things are not normal when you need to decide whether you want to sleep OR you want to eat. Either. Or.
And weirdly when you think you are too tired to work, you "time-out". Thats how busy work is out here in the winter. Thats when all the drilling occurs and hence all the logging as well. It because a lot of land becomes accesible by large trucks only when the ground freezes over. Otherwise its too soft.
Which is why the winter is busy.
Anyway so after a few weeks of messing around out here, I go back to airdrie for a couple of days and then back home for a short visit before I leave for China. Never ever imagined in my wildest dreams that I would actually go to China. But thats exactly where im headed.
Here are some pics from my hitch in the oil patch. That rhymes now. Doesnt it? And dont let the pics fool you. It was as cold as hell...
really really cold to bright and sunny. I've seen white-outs and beautiful sun-rises and sunsets, sometimes on the same day. And now that I have some time to sit down and breathe the unstressed air for a while, and listen to the relative silence of not having a truck generator blare out the dull drone, there's one thing I'll say. Life on the Oil Patch is hard.
So here I am hoping to spend my last few weeks in Canada in relative comfort as I prepare to finish my training phase and start life as a Field Engineer without the "Jr." tag attached before it. So my cold Canadian adventure shall end and a new chapter will begin.
I think I've written this post in about five different sittings.. so I wouldnt be surprised if it were disjointed. But guess what, that reflects exactly how life has been. You know things are not normal when you need to decide whether you want to sleep OR you want to eat. Either. Or.
And weirdly when you think you are too tired to work, you "time-out". Thats how busy work is out here in the winter. Thats when all the drilling occurs and hence all the logging as well. It because a lot of land becomes accesible by large trucks only when the ground freezes over. Otherwise its too soft.
Which is why the winter is busy.
Anyway so after a few weeks of messing around out here, I go back to airdrie for a couple of days and then back home for a short visit before I leave for China. Never ever imagined in my wildest dreams that I would actually go to China. But thats exactly where im headed.
Here are some pics from my hitch in the oil patch. That rhymes now. Doesnt it? And dont let the pics fool you. It was as cold as hell...
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