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21 Days North of the Arctic Circle
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What happens when the polar bear gets to close............Polar Bear Attack in the High Arctic
This is from up in the NWT, this chap is lucky to be alive. The guy survived the bear attack. The bear jumped on him while he was sleeping in his tent and he managed to get it off of him and shoot it
One tough camper!
This is unbelievable. It hurts just to look at it.
This is call a see-through foot. Polar bears are the top predator in the North American continent.
KINDA MAKES YA WANT TO STAY AT HOME AND HIDE UNDER THE BED, EH?
This is from up in the NWT, this chap is lucky to be alive. The guy survived the bear attack. The bear jumped on him while he was sleeping in his tent and he managed to get it off of him and shoot it
One tough camper!
This is unbelievable. It hurts just to look at it.
This is call a see-through foot. Polar bears are the top predator in the North American continent.
KINDA MAKES YA WANT TO STAY AT HOME AND HIDE UNDER THE BED, EH?
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Good Morning, Day 7, only 2 weeks left 'till "R&R"! it's -35 and NO Wind.
We get very little for "BEAR PROBLEMS" here. 1) we don't live in tents, 2) about a third of both the Polar Bears and more than half the Grizzley's are tagged with radio collars. Usually some guy from DNR (Dept oof Nat. Resources) or NWS(National Wildlife Service) shows up in a Suburban with some funny looking antenna's BEFORE the Bear does and tips off security. Almost all the rest are spotted visually by the huge mass of workers up here. They get a leisurly escort from area to area by security. Bears, both types are real 'travelers' often covering 50 miles a day. We do have some Resident Brown Bears (Grizzly's) that hybornate in the winter and wander around in the Nice part of the year. They are all tagged, and we know where they all live. There's not much for places for a Bear to hide what with there being no trees. Since everybody knows where they hybornate, you find yourself making up excuses to be in their area in the spring in hopes of getting a glimpse of them. Feeding the wildlife is grounds for imediate termination. They pretty much keep to themselves. The locations that get Polar Bears most frequently are right along the coast which are Endicott, North Star Island, Point Macintire, both Sea Water Treatment Plants, and Here, at MIlne Point. They rarely if ever wander inland. The caribou seem to sense that it is "safe" here(No hunting allowed on the 1000 to 1500 Square Mile Prudhoe Bay Oil Lease). We have a heard of about Half a Million that pass thru 2 times a year and another heard of about 100,000 that also passes thru twice a year. They wander right up under the camp to get away from the mosquetoes and pretty much ignore us. If a polar bear does pass thru and you stop work to go take pictures that is also grounds for termination so we don't really see that much of them.
We get very little for "BEAR PROBLEMS" here. 1) we don't live in tents, 2) about a third of both the Polar Bears and more than half the Grizzley's are tagged with radio collars. Usually some guy from DNR (Dept oof Nat. Resources) or NWS(National Wildlife Service) shows up in a Suburban with some funny looking antenna's BEFORE the Bear does and tips off security. Almost all the rest are spotted visually by the huge mass of workers up here. They get a leisurly escort from area to area by security. Bears, both types are real 'travelers' often covering 50 miles a day. We do have some Resident Brown Bears (Grizzly's) that hybornate in the winter and wander around in the Nice part of the year. They are all tagged, and we know where they all live. There's not much for places for a Bear to hide what with there being no trees. Since everybody knows where they hybornate, you find yourself making up excuses to be in their area in the spring in hopes of getting a glimpse of them. Feeding the wildlife is grounds for imediate termination. They pretty much keep to themselves. The locations that get Polar Bears most frequently are right along the coast which are Endicott, North Star Island, Point Macintire, both Sea Water Treatment Plants, and Here, at MIlne Point. They rarely if ever wander inland. The caribou seem to sense that it is "safe" here(No hunting allowed on the 1000 to 1500 Square Mile Prudhoe Bay Oil Lease). We have a heard of about Half a Million that pass thru 2 times a year and another heard of about 100,000 that also passes thru twice a year. They wander right up under the camp to get away from the mosquetoes and pretty much ignore us. If a polar bear does pass thru and you stop work to go take pictures that is also grounds for termination so we don't really see that much of them.
It's pretty close to -40 right now. One of the sort of 'right's of passage' when one starts working on the North Slope is to experience throwing a cup of coffey or water up when it's below about 30 below. If one tosses a cup of cold water up in the air it does roughly the same thing that it would in the Lower 48 at normal temperatures, go splat on the ground. But if one uses hot water or coffee, it freezes within a foot of your hand and blows away as a cloud. Photographing it with a still camera is difficult, not so hard with a movie camera or video cam. I scrounged this picture eslewhere off the net.
This is a Water Tanker "Laying down Ice", constructing the Ice Roads that will enable the workers to build the Above Ground pipeline on the Tundra. Tomorrow they will start booring holes and setting the VSM's which stands for Verticle Support Members. These they will freeze into the Perma-frost with a slurry of sand and water.
The water freezes as it hits the ground and on ocassion I have followed behind one of these while it was spraying water and even though I was only 50 feet behind, by the time I got there it was frozen and my tires didn't even get wet!
The water freezes as it hits the ground and on ocassion I have followed behind one of these while it was spraying water and even though I was only 50 feet behind, by the time I got there it was frozen and my tires didn't even get wet!
One of several Snow Blowers we have. They carry their own engine and esentially 'Clip' on the the front of a 988 Cat Loader. We have had workers drive into these while operating. It really messes up the truck! We've had about one of these accidents a year. No fatalaties, except for the truck.
An OilField Truck with tandem Steering tires. Called a "Roll-Back" it has a big winch and literally drags the load up on to the deck across a massive roller on the rear. this one is rated around 250 Ton, or 500,000 Lb. carring capacity. a little over what 2 1/2 tractor trailers would normally carry. Needless to say there are no weight restrictions on the roads up here. In fact there isn't even a Scale house within 500 miles, that being in Fairbanks.
I asked the operator, and this "Older" truck was only rated 160 Ton, or 320,000 Lbs. State and Federal laws usually limit trucks to between 80,000 and 120,000 on the highway systems in the lower 48. Anything more than that requires a special Heavy Load Permit and lots of extra axels.
This Tank is built into a "Containment" so that it will contain any possible leaks. It probally weighs around 150,000 lbs, or half the trucks capacity. It was impressive in that the truck operator loaded this by himself in about 15 minutes, and was on his way without anyone helping him.
My Electricians installing Heat trace on some Oil Production Lines in the warmth of a "Hooch", the slang/trade name for a temporary shelter.
This is all stuff from yesterday and I have 3 meetings to attend that will keep me pretty busy today. It remains to be seen when I can get back to the FF.
This is all stuff from yesterday and I have 3 meetings to attend that will keep me pretty busy today. It remains to be seen when I can get back to the FF.
Boy, -39 is cold! When I went out to start up my truck the seat was as hard as a Concrete Park Bench. An Hour later it was still below freezing in the cab. It took an additional hour of driving it for the steering wheel to warm up enough that you didn't need gloves. >
This is "Pig-Pad" where 2 pipelines meet, and there are Pig Recievers and Pig Launchers here.
This is "Pig-Pad" where 2 pipelines meet, and there are Pig Recievers and Pig Launchers here.
And This is what it's all about. This well is the single most productive well at Milne Pt. It produces about 5000 Barrells a day, more than 20,000 equivalent gallons of OIl and Gasoline. This single well could provide all the fuel for all the members of the Fourm's Snow Cat's, Trucks, to light and power their homes, as well as all the spin-off plastic products and synthetics. That even includes Ice Queens fuel hungry military vehicle collection and Pixie's J5!
The last picture was of a "Well-House" that encloses the well and it's associated Power, controls, and instrumentation. There are several different types of wells:1) Producers that depend on the oil field being pressurized that Push the oil up to the surface.2) "WAG's", which is short for Water And Gas injection, that are well that Inject Water and/or Gas to keep the field pressurized, and 3) & 4) two types of wells that are dependant on some type of pump. The Electric ones, have a Deep-well submersable pump that range between 100 and 800 HP. These Submersable pumps are only about 8" in diameter and can be as long as 55 Feet. They operate at several thousand volts and may have some super haevi duty metal encased Heat Tape running a couple thousand feet down the well that heats the oil up to reduce it's viscosity. The other variety has high pressure water going down the well that powers a "JET" pump, the exhausted water being injected into the formation at a lower lever, then the water powered pump pushes the oil from a higher level back up. It's a sort of 'Pipe inside a Pipe' araingement. As Oil floats on water, one can essentially "float" the oil back up and out, while displacing it. The water usually comes from one of two STP's or Sea Water Treatment Plant's. These take sea water and completely distill it. It is normal to find water in with the oil in any formation, even one that has not been drilled previously. In order not to contaminate the formation, the water being processed out of the oil is analyzed, and the water being injected has all the minerals and chemicals added to it make it JUST LIKE THE WATER THEY WERE GETTING OUT.>
The Well houses sit on big 12 by 12 timbers and get lifted off by a small crane so that a Drill Rig can back on to the well and service it. Inside the well house are: Lights, a special 'Explosion Proof' Heater, guages, instuments, and some elaborate valves. Some of the valves are electric, some are Hydrolic powered. All the wiring and associated controls and instruments are Explosion Proof. Everything that is hapening at the well can be controlled and monitored from the control room at MPU. Wells often read up to 3000PSI on some of the guages. This would not be a good place to "Light-up". At some of the more remote sites, periodically the Opertors found Natives on Snow Mobiles sitting inside a well house smoking! Not a good idea when there might be 3000 PSI of Natural gas passing thru 4 inch pipes.
The Well houses sit on big 12 by 12 timbers and get lifted off by a small crane so that a Drill Rig can back on to the well and service it. Inside the well house are: Lights, a special 'Explosion Proof' Heater, guages, instuments, and some elaborate valves. Some of the valves are electric, some are Hydrolic powered. All the wiring and associated controls and instruments are Explosion Proof. Everything that is hapening at the well can be controlled and monitored from the control room at MPU. Wells often read up to 3000PSI on some of the guages. This would not be a good place to "Light-up". At some of the more remote sites, periodically the Opertors found Natives on Snow Mobiles sitting inside a well house smoking! Not a good idea when there might be 3000 PSI of Natural gas passing thru 4 inch pipes.
Everything is permanent except the Well House. The one, two, or three "laterals"( pipes connecting the well to the main header) have "Double Block & Bleed" valves and a removable segment connecting to the well. One Lateral is the Production Lateral and is Crude oil out of the well to the Production Header. the Second lateral is the "TEST" lateral and is also Crude Out to the TEST Header, and the third pipe is Water IN for Injection wells. The Christmas Tree is what is on top of the well, and is a bunch of very high pressure valves stacked on on top of the other. I'll try and get a series of pictures of this.
