Shell drilling camp notes
Day 1- we learned health, safety and emergency procedures when off shore. Such as how to get out of a sinking helicopter, how to properly swim once floating in the water, team techniques to increase our chance of survival, and use lifesaving equipment if need to abandon ship/platform. Then we learned why it is important to follow safety regulations and why certain procedures are done and how it is everyone's responsibility to prevent it. As well as how the Piper drill rig explosion could have been avoided by fixable mistakes, how fire extinguishers and how different fires such as a kitchen fire should be properly put out, why it is important to be aware of just others but ourselves for mistakes. When bad things happen, …show more content…
Government regulations, the difference between what pipelines and flow line instructions are.
Day 4- Drilling, we learned how a rig offshore, onshore, conventional and unconventional. We also learned why it is important to follow proper procedures, instructions and to communicate with one another or else we could cause what would have been an easily preventable mistake. Along with that we also learned how to properly run a drilling rig through a high tech simulation replicating the real …show more content…
Next thing was how they monitor Well Logs with huge screens to determine where oil is and how they use 3D seismographics to determine where to drill new wells. Lastly there is how they monitor pressures in all the wells as well as how they keep track of production rates of water, oil and natural gas of a rig in real time to where they can even calculate the cash flow of the rig by the minute. A lot of it did seem like it was monitoring, only it was looking at complicated stuff. Lastly they treat us to lunch and have a panel of 9 of their recently hired engineers to answer any of our questions. Overall it was a pretty eye opening experience. No disrespect, but running around that camp for as many times as I did, I do not want to go back there unless we get significant free time before breakfast and
Day 1- we learned health, safety and emergency procedures when off shore. Such as how to get out of a sinking helicopter, how to properly swim once floating in the water, team techniques to increase our chance of survival, and use lifesaving equipment if need to abandon ship/platform. Then we learned why it is important to follow safety regulations and why certain procedures are done and how it is everyone's responsibility to prevent it. As well as how the Piper drill rig explosion could have been avoided by fixable mistakes, how fire extinguishers and how different fires such as a kitchen fire should be properly put out, why it is important to be aware of just others but ourselves for mistakes. When bad things happen, …show more content…
Government regulations, the difference between what pipelines and flow line instructions are.
Day 4- Drilling, we learned how a rig offshore, onshore, conventional and unconventional. We also learned why it is important to follow proper procedures, instructions and to communicate with one another or else we could cause what would have been an easily preventable mistake. Along with that we also learned how to properly run a drilling rig through a high tech simulation replicating the real …show more content…
Next thing was how they monitor Well Logs with huge screens to determine where oil is and how they use 3D seismographics to determine where to drill new wells. Lastly there is how they monitor pressures in all the wells as well as how they keep track of production rates of water, oil and natural gas of a rig in real time to where they can even calculate the cash flow of the rig by the minute. A lot of it did seem like it was monitoring, only it was looking at complicated stuff. Lastly they treat us to lunch and have a panel of 9 of their recently hired engineers to answer any of our questions. Overall it was a pretty eye opening experience. No disrespect, but running around that camp for as many times as I did, I do not want to go back there unless we get significant free time before breakfast and