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21 Days North of the Arctic Circle
- Thread starter Lyndon
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When you get off the Shared Services 737 at Kuparuk there is no Air Terminal, you walk down stairs to 4 waiting Busses and one small (Twin Otter) aircraft, get on the approiate bus or plane to take you to your camp. We'll get on the Milne Point Bus. It's about a 30 minute ride to Milne.
We go by S-pad on the way to Milne, and "Texaco" pad, which has 3 temporary Mobile Rig Camps on it. We will be replacing one of our underground pipelines with a new above ground pipeline. The camps will house the pieline construction crew. Our permanent camp at Milne is full to capacity, 300 People.
In answer to your question Bob S, the Man Camps are completely Mobile. They have generators to keep them warm while traveling so that they don't have to drain the pipes, then there is a seperate unit that is the Power House and Water Treatment Plant that hooks up to it. More Pictures to come!
During the remaining 19 days of my three week hitch you should ge the "Play by play" on the new pipeline. Just finished lunch, and it's finally light out, but I have to hurry, for in another hour and a half it will be dark.
During the remaining 19 days of my three week hitch you should ge the "Play by play" on the new pipeline. Just finished lunch, and it's finally light out, but I have to hurry, for in another hour and a half it will be dark.
This is Doyan's Mobil Rig Camp for Rig#14. It's Delux! I stayed in it some 10 years ago when it was new, for about 10 days.
It splits in half down that black line about where the row of pick-up's ends. they can move it in a day and have it ready to live in the same day.
It splits in half down that black line about where the row of pick-up's ends. they can move it in a day and have it ready to live in the same day.
It even has 2 Microwave dishes, one for communications, and one for sattellite TV.
This One-Story unit off to the right of the camp, but roughly center of this picture is the Power House and Water Treatment Plant, and weighs in around 500,000 Lbs+. You can see that they are only running one generator from the plume off the exhaust. The other unit is the standby in case they need to work on the other generator.
This One-Story unit off to the right of the camp, but roughly center of this picture is the Power House and Water Treatment Plant, and weighs in around 500,000 Lbs+. You can see that they are only running one generator from the plume off the exhaust. The other unit is the standby in case they need to work on the other generator.
They are just starting the Ice Road Construction. First it gets stomped on and graded by dozers and loaders. A survey crew has already put up a system of markers along the entire 5 mile route. Very shortly, like this evening or tomorrow huge water trucks will start "laying down Ice".
Here some of my electricians are trenching in a new power cable. this requires a Hot Water truck and a 'VAC' truck, normally reffered to as a: "SUPER SUCKER". one guy blows hot water into the ground while the other vacumes up the debris. It's nasty work, real noisy and wet!
Here's My camp, with 'Flags Flying', U.S., Alaska, BP.
In answer to Pixies Question: Yes, I generally get the same room. It's a double occupancy room that has built in cabinets and beds, it's own phone and Sattellite cabe TV. The Camp is rigged for WIFI, so lots of the workers have wireless laptops. My computer in my office is Hi Speed fiber-Optic.
I wish I could post pictures of the Process areas, but taking pictures there is a big hassel. Amazingly the areas of the plant where we process the oil are as clean as a hospital! All Painted up and well lit even the air is good. But there are these multi-million dollar fire protection/Detection/Supperssion systems that don't respond well to flash cameras. This can shut down a facility and dump millions of dollars worth of firefighting foam. The Detection systems incorperate Heat Detectors, Smoke Detectors, 5 kinds of Gas Detectors, and Infra Red and Ultra Violet camera type detectors. It's the "UV's" (Ultro-Violet) that don't like cameras. Understandably the Operators are 'Nervious' about picture taking. Some operators will let you take pictures, but they have to first Defeat or Bypass the UV Detectors. Considering that we process some 30,000 barrells of oil and some additional millions of cubic feet of Gas a day, we don't like running with the fire system bypassed. I was a Fire & Gas Tech for some years here on the "Slope".
In answer to Pixies Question: Yes, I generally get the same room. It's a double occupancy room that has built in cabinets and beds, it's own phone and Sattellite cabe TV. The Camp is rigged for WIFI, so lots of the workers have wireless laptops. My computer in my office is Hi Speed fiber-Optic.
I wish I could post pictures of the Process areas, but taking pictures there is a big hassel. Amazingly the areas of the plant where we process the oil are as clean as a hospital! All Painted up and well lit even the air is good. But there are these multi-million dollar fire protection/Detection/Supperssion systems that don't respond well to flash cameras. This can shut down a facility and dump millions of dollars worth of firefighting foam. The Detection systems incorperate Heat Detectors, Smoke Detectors, 5 kinds of Gas Detectors, and Infra Red and Ultra Violet camera type detectors. It's the "UV's" (Ultro-Violet) that don't like cameras. Understandably the Operators are 'Nervious' about picture taking. Some operators will let you take pictures, but they have to first Defeat or Bypass the UV Detectors. Considering that we process some 30,000 barrells of oil and some additional millions of cubic feet of Gas a day, we don't like running with the fire system bypassed. I was a Fire & Gas Tech for some years here on the "Slope".
All Camps have a Chow hall, almost every camp has a Pool Hall, and seperate TV Rooms for the Smokers and Non Smokers. The larger camps have Rooms with fitness equipment, we have one of these with exercise machines, and another with Weight machines. We also have a Gym, where there are nightly basketball games, and sometimes volley ball. At the bigger camps they have more of the same. One camp has 2 Gyms, an Olympic size Pool, a full sized Theatre, and a large glass Atrium full of plants that is several stories tall.
Great pictures Lyndon. I never worked the North Slope although I had lots of friends who did for BP in the early days. Those pictures started me thinking about some of the stories that they used to tell. It must have been "fun" back then when the derricks were made of wood and it was the men who were made of steel. Keep 'em coming.