Re: German Navy Set
Its 5 weeks on duty. This can involve visits to customers, assistance with designs, logistics, training junior technicians, etc. Can't remember the last time I was on an actual offshore rig apart from France in May (? might have been May), But that was out on a lake in Bordeaux on a barge with a landrig stuck on it. I'll try and attach a photo. I suppose the last time I was on an offshore rig was October last year in Nigeria. Then again, that was a production platform not a drilling rig. I'm rambling......trying to get ready to go out.
I can't really say where I am most of the time. Since January I've been to France, Germany, Lithuania, Saudi, Bharain, Kuwait, Libya, Egypt (some of these several times) and of course various quick maintenance jobs at our facility in Dubai. The nature of my job also changes depending on where I am. In France its purely installation of production equipment into oil/water wells. Mostly though, I'm involved in the Electrical/Electronic/Mechanical aspects of control equipment that's installed on surface either on a skid in the desert, or some kind of platform offshore.
Can't attach an image - will try again tomorrow.
Ron,
At last, finally got rid of that popup blocker that was preventing me posting photos.
Below are a couple of snaps of the barge on that lake in Bordeaux. They move it by tugboat over whichever production platform contains the well which needs maintenance. The French keep asking for me to come back, so either I do a good enough job, or I keep them entertained. Its the latter I suspect.
Finally, I'm attaching one from Yemen that was taken a couple of years ago. Emmm....I'm the one in the red coveralls.
There's a story behind this one, but we're getting further away from the German Navy here,
, so I guess I'll leave that story for some other time.
PS.
Brad, there's some South African Jazz outfit on the TV at the moment. No idea who they are - but sound okay. Two drummers, keyboards, hot guitarist, double bass, sax & clarinet. Amazing what you see on TV over here.
Can you please remove my previous post which is quoted above. I messed up last night trying to post photos and I might be slowing down everyone's loadup of this thread.
PPS.
R.E.Lee, You're quite correct, its completely different from USA BBQ. Korean BBQ in Dalian consists of a small 4-people table with a BBQ pit in the middle of it and an extractor system for the fumes. You get very thinly sliced, mutton, pork, etc. and cook it over the coals right there at the table. Garlic and other vegetables is especially good when done this way.
You also have various dipping sauces and something that's also really good - fermented chilli cabbage - much better than it sounds.
