Hidden Light

Anyone see the red light hidden behind the tree? 

Tall Buildings

The beautiful mosque looks so tiny compared to the towering buildings behind it. 

Fishing

Back in July, my buddy, Edgar, and I went fishing at Pasirmukti.  We caught quite a few bawal hitam and ate a couple of them for lunch at the onsite restaurant.  Good times.

 

 

 

Doss

Duri, Sumatra

Over the last couple of weeks, I have made a couple trips to Sumatra for work.  There are several Chevron camps there, and I took a couple pictures in Duri while I was there.

 

Duri is a small city three hours by car north of Pekanbaru.  It is actually a bit bigger than I expected, but has no traffic.  :)

 

Here is a shot from the Chevron camp.  Nice empty roads and everything is well manicured.

 

 

 

 

This the Schlumberger base.  It is basically a metal building with a small office area (surprising nice inside), vehicle shop, and tool repair shop with company trucks parked all around.  There is also a small cantina serving Indonesian food for lunch. 

 

I found it interesting how some of the trucks are clearly marked with the company name and others aren't.  Also the last truck here says Sugarland, Texas on the door.  I assume that is where the truck was modified before being sent to Indonesia.  The truck is a 6x6 Peterbilt that appears to have a large pump on the back.  Maybe it used for frac jobs or some other field activities. 

 

I have to admit that since I work in the office, I don't know my field trucks too well.  I haven't done field work since my previous job with an environmental consulting company, but we didn't even get 4x4 trucks; much less something cool like a wireline truck or the other high tech tools the field engineers use. 

 

I did get to go to the field while they were drilling and to a frac job once a couple years ago, as an observer.  I actually got to wear the blue Nomex coveralls that the company gave me when I first hired.  Not sure why they gave them to me as I support software...  Maybe I'll get to relocate to a remote location like this where field trucks are a normal site in the parking lot.  Then I'll have a field engineer or FSM (field service manager) explain all the trucks to me.  ;)

 

Doss