Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[tikay]

Mere,

Is it ok for me to transfer £178 now ?

Thanks

Absolutely, if you have Mr. Kendall's bank details.
He may even favour you with an answer to your question one of these years.

Sent.

Good luck.

Thank you Lisa - £178 received.

PAID

[tikay]

Hi Mick,

Not sure how much 1% is, probably about £100, but £50 works fine for me, so I'll put you down for that, OK?

Appreciated, thank you.

What rig are you on, where is it, is it oil or gas? How do you get to & from it - by helicopter I guess? If so, do you have to undergo that emergency evacuation test thing, where they dunk you fully clothed in a swimming pool inside a mock up of a helicopter? Think I'd brick it if I had to do that.

Did you know that Bristow, who seem to make their living ferrying workers to & from oil & gas rigs, have 90 helicopters? Must be the largest helicopter fleet in the world, aside from the US military I'd think.



Mr Tikay

in reply to your questions:

1) i am on the Sedco 712 rig, the current client is Talisman Sinopec, the rig is run by Transocean, and i work for Fugro Subsea Services LTD as an ROV Pilot/Technician

2) We are currently on the Shaw Oilfield, about 120 miles east of Aberdeen

3) The rig can drill for oil or gas, it is not tied to a specific hydrocarbon type

4) transport to and from the rigs is usually by helicopter, however, due to another fatal incident, this time with an EC225 (known as the super puma), that happened ;ate last week in the Norweigan sector, there are calls for the fleet of 225s to be banned from being used as a transportation platform in the civilian world (the puma family of helis are still used in the RAF) and currently the CAA (Civilian Aviation Authority) have decked the fleet to carry out checks on all aircraft as to why the incident happened this time. This means that the other types of heli are now going to be used, causing those airframes to rewuire more frequent maintenence etc etc. This could turn into a long thread all on it's own

5) Yes indeed we have to pass a heli ditching simulation course to be allowed to work offshore. the initial course lasts 3 days, with a refresher required every 4 years. And we do indeed have to strap into a pretend heli, get lowered into a pool, the heli then flips upside down, and at that point we are supposed to undo our harnesses, and escape from the adjacent window.
the initial dunking drill is done without going upside down, and with no windows fitted, so it's into the water, unclip, and swim out the hole. At the end of the drills we are expected to go intothe water, force a window out of the frame, unclip our harnesses and then swim out.
During this time we wear a survivalsuit, life preservation jacket that currently has a built in mini air tank, inflatable life jacket, and locator beacon. However during training, and due to rules involving breathing high preasure air supplies, we practice with a slightly different rebreathing system that relies on the user putting a lung full of air into a bag, and using that for the minute or so that the drill can take (in the live version of these rebreathers, not the practice ones, there is a small cannister of pure oxygen inside the rebreather that is supposed to open when the jacket gets wet, giving the user up to 3-4 minutes of breathable air.
I
ve never had to use either type in anger, and hope i never have to in the future!!!

6) See above in answer 4. But on a side note, there are 3 main contractors in the UK for oil and gas transport, Bristows, Bond and CHC, all of them run the EC225 aircraft type, and if the aircraft type is no longer an option, there may be a lot of pilots who need to quickly get retrained on another type if they dont have it in their log books, or they will be out of a job.


hope this answers any questions, feel free to ask more and i'll answer if i can

Mick

Morning Mick, I'm utterly fascinated by all that.

We fill up our cars without a seconds thought at to how & where oil (& gas) is produced. 

Is this your baby?

Proper big bugger, eh?

[tikay]

Over on 2+2 there is a "Chip Stack" thread, which is a sort of chirping thread.

I always look a little sideways at guys who take photos of their chip stacks to show off to their mates, it all seems a little coarse to me.

Anyway, this is a fairly typical Limit O8 rack-stack.....

[tikay]

The 2+2 "Chip Stack" thread is a thing of wonder, & psychologists would have a field day with it.

Here, have a look.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/27/live-casino-poker/chipstack-thread-1132304/

There are 60 (SIXTY) pages of this sort of stuff, "look how big my todger is" sorta thing.

H1:
I am dealt 99 in EP, a station limps, I limp, a couple more limps and LP raises to $7, all limpers call and five to the flop of AK9r. It checks to me, I bet $25, a drunk calls, a nit calls, pre folds, and the station calls. Turn A, I bet $100, everyone calls! River J, I ship, drunk folds, nit folds AQ face up with $150 behind for the $800 in the pot (???), station calls for his last $5 with A7. Ship it!




60 pages of that. Yikes.

Does anyone, ever, read that sort of stuff, or find it in the least bit interesting, or is it totally self-serving?

[tikay]

Note it includes that bloody ridiculous thing which yanks my chain far more than it should, the old triple question mark thing......


$800 in the pot (???),

Someone will need to explain to my why he uses 3, when, quite clearly, 1 would suffice.

It's like he is trying to explain his own joke.

The tactic is seen a lot Next Door, when folks get angry, & we see thread titles along the lines of....

joke!!!???

It requires a herculean amount of self-control not to tell them what I think of such ill-used punctuation.

[Jac]

My wife was until recently a Beaver group leader.
A little while ago she was really struggling with her legs due to her illness and couldn't walk. I said I'd take her in the wheelchair and help out.
No good. I've never had reason to get CRB checked and so wasn't  able to do it.
No Beavers that week!!!!!
(Normally a next door poster 😊)

[tikay]

My wife was until recently a Beaver group leader.
A little while ago she was really struggling with her legs due to her illness and couldn't walk. I said I'd take her in the wheelchair and help out.
No good. I've never had reason to get CRB checked and so was able to do it.
No Beavers that week!!!!!
(Normally a next door poster 😊)

Pretty sad stuff, Paul.

How is Penny, these days, as to her health?

With young Harry, (how old is he now?), it must be quite a strain on you one way & another.

Swerve answering if it is a little too near the knuckle.

[Jac]

She's about 10 years since first diagnosis. Fortunately still classed as relapsing remitting.
She's plateaued for a good while now which is great. Fatigue is the biggest issue.
Still manages 3 full time days as a sonographer a week but she's proper knackered when she gets home.

It means I have to do a little more now but that's fine.
Harry is just over 2 now and is my world. Vocabulary is really coming on and he's great fun. I'll whisper this, to be honest, they're a bit boring as babies

We're also lucky with the Grandparents who at more than happy to have him whenever needed.

Life's good

[Doobs]

Tal will be along soon to explain why it is sometimes OK to use question marks and exclamation marks together

I sometimes do it myself, and am pretty sure it comes from reading chess moves in my youth (see below)


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_annotation_symbols

I have always assumed that it meant dubious, but it turns out I have been putting them the wrong way round!?

[teamonkey]

Hi Mick,

Not sure how much 1% is, probably about £100, but £50 works fine for me, so I'll put you down for that, OK?

Appreciated, thank you.

What rig are you on, where is it, is it oil or gas? How do you get to & from it - by helicopter I guess? If so, do you have to undergo that emergency evacuation test thing, where they dunk you fully clothed in a swimming pool inside a mock up of a helicopter? Think I'd brick it if I had to do that.

Did you know that Bristow, who seem to make their living ferrying workers to & from oil & gas rigs, have 90 helicopters? Must be the largest helicopter fleet in the world, aside from the US military I'd think.



Mr Tikay

in reply to your questions:

1) i am on the Sedco 712 rig, the current client is Talisman Sinopec, the rig is run by Transocean, and i work for Fugro Subsea Services LTD as an ROV Pilot/Technician

2) We are currently on the Shaw Oilfield, about 120 miles east of Aberdeen

3) The rig can drill for oil or gas, it is not tied to a specific hydrocarbon type

4) transport to and from the rigs is usually by helicopter, however, due to another fatal incident, this time with an EC225 (known as the super puma), that happened ;ate last week in the Norweigan sector, there are calls for the fleet of 225s to be banned from being used as a transportation platform in the civilian world (the puma family of helis are still used in the RAF) and currently the CAA (Civilian Aviation Authority) have decked the fleet to carry out checks on all aircraft as to why the incident happened this time. This means that the other types of heli are now going to be used, causing those airframes to rewuire more frequent maintenence etc etc. This could turn into a long thread all on it's own

5) Yes indeed we have to pass a heli ditching simulation course to be allowed to work offshore. the initial course lasts 3 days, with a refresher required every 4 years. And we do indeed have to strap into a pretend heli, get lowered into a pool, the heli then flips upside down, and at that point we are supposed to undo our harnesses, and escape from the adjacent window.
the initial dunking drill is done without going upside down, and with no windows fitted, so it's into the water, unclip, and swim out the hole. At the end of the drills we are expected to go intothe water, force a window out of the frame, unclip our harnesses and then swim out.
During this time we wear a survivalsuit, life preservation jacket that currently has a built in mini air tank, inflatable life jacket, and locator beacon. However during training, and due to rules involving breathing high preasure air supplies, we practice with a slightly different rebreathing system that relies on the user putting a lung full of air into a bag, and using that for the minute or so that the drill can take (in the live version of these rebreathers, not the practice ones, there is a small cannister of pure oxygen inside the rebreather that is supposed to open when the jacket gets wet, giving the user up to 3-4 minutes of breathable air.
I
ve never had to use either type in anger, and hope i never have to in the future!!!

6) See above in answer 4. But on a side note, there are 3 main contractors in the UK for oil and gas transport, Bristows, Bond and CHC, all of them run the EC225 aircraft type, and if the aircraft type is no longer an option, there may be a lot of pilots who need to quickly get retrained on another type if they dont have it in their log books, or they will be out of a job.


hope this answers any questions, feel free to ask more and i'll answer if i can

Mick

Morning Mick, I'm utterly fascinated by all that.

We fill up our cars without a seconds thought at to how & where oil (& gas) is produced. 

Is this your baby?

Proper big bugger, eh?

Mr T,

yes, the second photo is indeed the one i'm on for the next 6 months or so, 3 weeks on, 3 weeks at home.

big, well, yes, lot of steel, but the footprint isnt that large, less than half a rugby pitch (thats like half a football pitch, but with men on it)  and if you take into account the number of out of bounds areas then it is a small place indeed

i'm onboard for the next 10 days, home thursday 12th, and will be able to transfer money from then

Mick

[Simon Galloway]

I bought in for the Max 1 day - $400 - & the cash desk gave me FOUR racks of chips. It's awesome.

You should have gone to the next window and cashed them straight out... four racks of $2's are worth $800

[tikay]

Tal will be along soon to explain why it is sometimes OK to use question marks and exclamation marks together

I sometimes do it myself, and am pretty sure it comes from reading chess moves in my youth (see below)


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_annotation_symbols

I have always assumed that it meant dubious, but it turns out I have been putting them the wrong way round!?

I completely accept that is it the convention in chess annotation - no problem with that, it is a recognized & fine system.

There are also rare &, I would think, perfectly good & correct reasons why a question mark & exclamation point may be used in conjunction.

It's the improper multi-use that is so bad. 

Terry Pratchett wrote......


“Multiple exclamation marks,' he went on, shaking his head, 'are a sure sign of a diseased mind.”


More generally, what we see too much of is over-use of exclamation points generally. This is called "bangorrea". I'd best not discuss that one too much, as it's a bit close to home, or work........

bangorrhea

 1) Overusing exclamation points in a vain and failing attempt to make your writing sound more exciting. Trying to put more "bang" in your prose, but looking instead like you have exclamation point diarrhea.

Of course, using too many of them has the EXACT reverse effect from that intended. 

[Doobs]

I bought in for the Max 1 day - $400 - & the cash desk gave me FOUR racks of chips. It's awesome.

You should have gone to the next window and cashed them straight out... four racks of $2's are worth $800

Or $400 in Tikay's hands?!

[tikay]

Hi Mick,

Not sure how much 1% is, probably about £100, but £50 works fine for me, so I'll put you down for that, OK?

Appreciated, thank you.

What rig are you on, where is it, is it oil or gas? How do you get to & from it - by helicopter I guess? If so, do you have to undergo that emergency evacuation test thing, where they dunk you fully clothed in a swimming pool inside a mock up of a helicopter? Think I'd brick it if I had to do that.

Did you know that Bristow, who seem to make their living ferrying workers to & from oil & gas rigs, have 90 helicopters? Must be the largest helicopter fleet in the world, aside from the US military I'd think.



Mr Tikay

in reply to your questions:

1) i am on the Sedco 712 rig, the current client is Talisman Sinopec, the rig is run by Transocean, and i work for Fugro Subsea Services LTD as an ROV Pilot/Technician

2) We are currently on the Shaw Oilfield, about 120 miles east of Aberdeen

3) The rig can drill for oil or gas, it is not tied to a specific hydrocarbon type

4) transport to and from the rigs is usually by helicopter, however, due to another fatal incident, this time with an EC225 (known as the super puma), that happened ;ate last week in the Norweigan sector, there are calls for the fleet of 225s to be banned from being used as a transportation platform in the civilian world (the puma family of helis are still used in the RAF) and currently the CAA (Civilian Aviation Authority) have decked the fleet to carry out checks on all aircraft as to why the incident happened this time. This means that the other types of heli are now going to be used, causing those airframes to rewuire more frequent maintenence etc etc. This could turn into a long thread all on it's own

5) Yes indeed we have to pass a heli ditching simulation course to be allowed to work offshore. the initial course lasts 3 days, with a refresher required every 4 years. And we do indeed have to strap into a pretend heli, get lowered into a pool, the heli then flips upside down, and at that point we are supposed to undo our harnesses, and escape from the adjacent window.
the initial dunking drill is done without going upside down, and with no windows fitted, so it's into the water, unclip, and swim out the hole. At the end of the drills we are expected to go intothe water, force a window out of the frame, unclip our harnesses and then swim out.
During this time we wear a survivalsuit, life preservation jacket that currently has a built in mini air tank, inflatable life jacket, and locator beacon. However during training, and due to rules involving breathing high preasure air supplies, we practice with a slightly different rebreathing system that relies on the user putting a lung full of air into a bag, and using that for the minute or so that the drill can take (in the live version of these rebreathers, not the practice ones, there is a small cannister of pure oxygen inside the rebreather that is supposed to open when the jacket gets wet, giving the user up to 3-4 minutes of breathable air.
I
ve never had to use either type in anger, and hope i never have to in the future!!!

6) See above in answer 4. But on a side note, there are 3 main contractors in the UK for oil and gas transport, Bristows, Bond and CHC, all of them run the EC225 aircraft type, and if the aircraft type is no longer an option, there may be a lot of pilots who need to quickly get retrained on another type if they dont have it in their log books, or they will be out of a job.


hope this answers any questions, feel free to ask more and i'll answer if i can

Mick

Morning Mick, I'm utterly fascinated by all that.

We fill up our cars without a seconds thought at to how & where oil (& gas) is produced. 

Is this your baby?

Proper big bugger, eh?

Mr T,

yes, the second photo is indeed the one i'm on for the next 6 months or so, 3 weeks on, 3 weeks at home.

big, well, yes, lot of steel, but the footprint isnt that large, less than half a rugby pitch (thats like half a football pitch, but with men on it)[/b][/i]  and if you take into account the number of out of bounds areas then it is a small place indeed

i'm onboard for the next 10 days, home thursday 12th, and will be able to transfer money from then

Mick

Ha, A+ for that, very good Mick.

No rush for the cash yet, 12th will be plenty soon enough.

[tikay]

I bought in for the Max 1 day - $400 - & the cash desk gave me FOUR racks of chips. It's awesome.

You should have gone to the next window and cashed them straight out... four racks of $2's are worth $800

Or $400 in Tikay's hands?!

Optimistic.