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