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The Blog of Raffik : field engineer in Muscat Oman: Airport
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The Blog of Raffik : field engineer in Muscat Oman. The Schlumberger life of a french guy in Oman. Monday, August 11, 2008. 20:51, Monday 11th of August : I am presently in the muscat airport lounge, awaiting for my flight to Amsterdam. fortunately I should be in Marseille tomorrow morning at 11:20. Lets move in the past few days after the " last shift". My supervisor " forgot" that we are in an offshore rig. It is not like we just go out from the rig, take a taxi and go wherever we want. In Tehran, I ju...
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The Blog of Raffik : field engineer in Muscat Oman: my first time offshore
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The Blog of Raffik : field engineer in Muscat Oman. The Schlumberger life of a french guy in Oman. Monday, July 7, 2008. My first time offshore. It was my first time offshore. The rig was a jack-up. for those who don't know what is it, try to imagine a triangle with 40 meters side length suspended by 3 legs which are put on the sea bed. The first contact ever with such a work environment was full of action. If you have to go offshore, take only the minimum of the minimum , of the minimum. I was dreaming ...
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The Blog of Raffik : field engineer in Muscat Oman: offshore survival practical
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The Blog of Raffik : field engineer in Muscat Oman. The Schlumberger life of a french guy in Oman. Tuesday, July 1, 2008. The offshore survival practical is the second part of the so called course. It needs to be done as well if you want to have the certification and then be able to enter any offshore rig. I did it yesterday morning. The place was the swimming pool of one of the best hotel in Kish. The eram hotel. Hmmm whats up " I was thinking. Into a life raft, how to properly approach a rescue boat.
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The Blog of Raffik : field engineer in Muscat Oman: The last shift
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The Blog of Raffik : field engineer in Muscat Oman. The Schlumberger life of a french guy in Oman. Sunday, August 3, 2008. One week and few days ago I was narrated the second episode of the trainee life. I was complaining that this job was too flat.Well, I guess you noticed that each time I say that the. Not able to swim. What will happen in case of real emergency? Said " I will try to.". We all know that " I will try " is definitely not equal to " I will do". So lets see. The plane / boat / car / chopper.
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The Blog of Raffik : field engineer in Muscat Oman: anniversary
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The Blog of Raffik : field engineer in Muscat Oman. The Schlumberger life of a french guy in Oman. Thursday, September 25, 2008. It has been once year I joined SLB. Time goes very fast. it's like it has been yesterday I joined. we use to say : we always remember our debut.that's the case (thanks to this blog also ;-) ). What can I say about being a Field engineer for one year? To express my feeing, I would rather use this image :. Less ingredient, it can affect the whole meal. I just escape for a non-pai...
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The Blog of Raffik : field engineer in Muscat Oman: vacation mode
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The Blog of Raffik : field engineer in Muscat Oman. The Schlumberger life of a french guy in Oman. Sunday, August 24, 2008. I am on the second half of my vacations time in France. This is a good occasion to introduce something I found out. the field engineer / vacation mode. It is easily understandable that there is nothing that can allow you to be one day a field engineer and the day after back home: the son/husband/brother/friend you were before.There is a kind of transition lets say. PS: someone said ...
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The Blog of Raffik : field engineer in Muscat Oman: Fish, chemicals and polish sweets
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The Blog of Raffik : field engineer in Muscat Oman. The Schlumberger life of a french guy in Oman. Sunday, July 13, 2008. Fish, chemicals and polish sweets. Thats was a joke! It starts to be the routine for me here. already one week, working from 19h to 7 in the morning. The job is getting smooth so. Not much to do. I take the initiative to divert this blog from his serious contents for this post. Should definitely not eat them. As a japanese speaker will say. A good excuse to go to Poland I guess.
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The Blog of Raffik : field engineer in Muscat Oman: news!
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The Blog of Raffik : field engineer in Muscat Oman. The Schlumberger life of a french guy in Oman. Thursday, May 21, 2009. Many many apologizes for giving up my blogging activities so long. My life took a 180º turn and many new things occured in the last couple of months :. I am not anymore in Oman. I am not anymore working for SLB. I am about to get married in 3 weeks from now. Within a couple of days, I passed from the rig in the omani desert to the trees of northern holland. You re, I guess , probably...
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The Blog of Raffik : field engineer in Muscat Oman: offshore survival : life bouy and vomit bag
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The Blog of Raffik : field engineer in Muscat Oman. The Schlumberger life of a french guy in Oman. Monday, June 30, 2008. Offshore survival : life bouy and vomit bag. I am officially an offshore survivor. I mean, now I am able to surive in offshore environment in case of accident. Well this is what the certificate I got means. Offshore survival is a mandatory one day course you have to take before going to an offshore rig.It is composed by 2 parts : the theory and the practical. View my complete profile.
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The Travelling International: First Night in Rio
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First Night in Rio. Well I made it! I am in Rio de Janeiro! I just woke up this morning after a LONG flight but I am here. It does feel slightly surreal. All the travel guides said that almost no one speaks English and they werent exaggerating. After landing at the airport, on the way through to the formalities, I dont know if subconsciously I was expecting the passport control officer to greet me with a crisp "and how do you do today, sir? But I didn´t expect her to know absolutely no English at all.
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