creoleLSUfan

re: Help me out with this pic for a b-day party please...

Posted by creoleLSUfan on 7/29/10 at 11:35 am to sawfiddle

Thanks a ton sawfiddle. I appreciate it.
:cheers:

re: Help me out with this pic for a b-day party please...

Posted by creoleLSUfan on 7/29/10 at 9:42 am to timdallinger

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You need better source images.

I had a feeling that would be a problem. My buddy is in Saudi right now so I couldn't get anything better than those short notice. I'm going to see if I can dig any better ones up.
Thanks for the tip.
:cheers:

re: Help me out with this pic for a b-day party please...

Posted by creoleLSUfan on 7/28/10 at 7:56 pm to creoleLSUfan

Bump. Hopefully the third time will be the charm. :lol:

re: Help me out with this pic for a b-day party please...

Posted by creoleLSUfan on 7/28/10 at 6:04 am to creoleLSUfan

Bump.

Help me out with this pic for a b-day party please...

Posted by creoleLSUfan on 7/27/10 at 8:33 am

Hello farkers,
You've helped me out with great work in the past and was wondering if you could do me a favor. Please take this guys face:

Guy in the middle.

And put it on this image:

Thanks in advance and feel free to have some fun with his pic if you'd like.

re: Anyone here work for BP...

Posted by creoleLSUfan on 6/15/10 at 12:48 pm to Bussemer

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So we'd dump after the sun went down.
Bussemer

There were some arrogant a-holes out there in the field back in the day. They felt the could make their own rules or that the rules in place didn't apply to them. A significant number have been weeded out.

re: Anyone here work for BP...

Posted by creoleLSUfan on 6/15/10 at 12:45 pm to BROffshoreTigerFan

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We've drilled some very high pressure gas wells in the south marsh island area, and on one especially rough well came in over $20 million over budget, and 6 months over time line. We fought loss returns, kicks, etc, but we also knew that once online, the well would take about 45 to pay for itself.

We babied the well, did what we had to control it, and we weren't on the news. But safety was pushed hard from the top down, and from the bottom up.

Same thing could/should have been done there. Human safety just wasn't as much as a high priority as capping BP's biggest find with several higher BP officials on board.

I agree 100%. I've changed a lot since my younger days offshore. Safety should always be the #1 priority. And for a lot of operators this is the case and will be the case moving forward. We are about to do the first D/W completion since the moratorium was put in place and I'm already seeing some significant changes involving both the Operator and the Drilling Company.

re: Anyone here work for BP...

Posted by creoleLSUfan on 6/15/10 at 10:40 am to LSUGradATL

I think it had more to do with the fact the well was a serious problem well. Drilling hadn't gone well, towards the end they were fighting lost returns before TD. It was getting expensive and they were trying to cut cost and save money by trying to save rig time.

re: Anyone here work for BP...

Posted by creoleLSUfan on 6/15/10 at 10:24 am to BROffshoreTigerFan

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Having said that, each company has their set of assholes that can do exactly what happened on the horizon

Exactly. I remember back in the day right around the BP Amoco aquisition I was on a location with them and the company man was crazy and wasn't really big on safety. One night they had to wake him up to come down on the rig floor and he showed up in shorts with this hard hat and was smoking a cig while looking down the hole checking for flow. LOL
Every company had some co men that just don't care and want to get it done. I had one with Mobil once that always told us "there ain't now sheen at night". So we'd dump after the sun went down.

re: Does anyone have insider numbers as to oil company layoffs?

Posted by creoleLSUfan on 6/4/10 at 11:20 am to afinewagoneer

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KL is a very cool city.

My best friend lived in South Asia for many years and he speaks very highly of KL. Next to Thailand, Malaysia was his favorite country. I am strongly considering. I have a couple of weeks before they'll approach me with the actual offer.

re: Does anyone have insider numbers as to oil company layoffs?

Posted by creoleLSUfan on 6/4/10 at 10:12 am to MSTiger33

As long as it's not a rotational position they do. The job that was mentioned to me will include a housing allowance, an allowance for private school for the kids, cost of living allowance, etc.

re: Does anyone have insider numbers as to oil company layoffs?

Posted by creoleLSUfan on 6/4/10 at 10:04 am to MrLSU

A large number of my co-workers got told to get your passports up to date. I got a call yesterday asking if I want to move to Kuala Lumpur. Companies are gearing up for the worst but they are going to try to retain as many people as possible by moving them around before layoffs. I lot of the offers are going to be pretty much take it or leave types though.

re: Update on Moratorium

Posted by creoleLSUfan on 6/3/10 at 9:40 am to BROffshoreTigerFan

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Asked my boss if I needed to start handing out resumes

I got a call yesterday asking if my passport was up to date. Looks like we're going to be sent where the work is.

re: Update on Moratorium

Posted by creoleLSUfan on 6/3/10 at 9:08 am to BROffshoreTigerFan

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Shelf also.

We were still under the impression that it was only DW and not Shelf.
Hopefully they'll send out an official clarification this afternoon.

re: Update on Moratorium

Posted by creoleLSUfan on 6/3/10 at 9:07 am to tgrbaitn08

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They just approved a permit for Brandon Offhore to start drilling yesterday.

I'm not sure if this is the same but it was mentioned this AM that a small operator had been granted a permit to drill. Even though it was considered shelf they were going to be drilling into about 750' of water. The media and gov freaked out that MMS granted the permit and they were told to shut it down.

Update on Moratorium

Posted by creoleLSUfan on 6/3/10 at 8:49 am

Got a verbal from MMS today at the office. The MMS is changing the memo released on Sunday. They are now going to be shutting down all deepwater activity including workovers and completions at the behest of the federal government. According to the MMS guy we were talking to the Feds didn't feel as though the moratorium went far enough. What was already a bad situation for our industry may have just gotten a hell of a lot worse. As soon as we get the official memo I'll post the details. I'm hoping that what he told us was very wrong but it's not looking like it.

re: Can someone explain the "6-month Drilling Moratorium"?

Posted by creoleLSUfan on 5/28/10 at 10:46 am to Taxing Authority

I didn't mean to make it sound like it wasn't a big deal. I meant "only" as in not including the shelf. And the rig count we were referencing yesterday actually showed 35 active in the GOM. Active as in either drilling, completeling, or workover. Trust me I see how big of a deal it is.

re: Can someone explain the "6-month Drilling Moratorium"?

Posted by creoleLSUfan on 5/28/10 at 10:12 am to TammanyMan02

Here is a good article explaining what is currently known about it. There are still some issues that need to be cleared up.

LINK

The moratorium is only going to affect 33 rigs working deep water GOM that are not involved with the bp well kill. The two rigs involved with the bp job will not be affected.

The shelf and land will still keep working so a lot of your smaller independents will still be okay.

But don't get me wrong, this is really f'd up and will devestate a large portion of the oilfield. Personally I think service companies will be the hardest hit. Most operators will have to warm stack the rigs working for them to insure they will still be there when the moratorium is lifted. If they don't and cancel their contracts the rigs will go work where they can make money.

re: Most rigs will be fine

Posted by creoleLSUfan on 5/28/10 at 8:20 am to BROffshoreTigerFan

It's not a done deal at all. We are hoping for better clarification today.

re: Obama stops drilling on 33 deepwater projects

Posted by creoleLSUfan on 5/27/10 at 6:15 pm to Scarface

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It's not just affecting drilling.

That's what we're distressed about at work. Two weeks ago MMS told us we'd still be able to do sidetracks and completions (basically we could still work on any well where intermidiate casing had been set). So we moved three completions up on the schedule. Now it's looking like we won't be able to do anything for awhile.