1stTimeCaller
6/8/2007, 11:04 PM
The contract that my company signs with the company going for natural gas has some fairly easy to read items in it. One being that we ( directional drillers and MWD specialists) are to be provided with one generator that is for our use only and that we are not to hook up to rig power. That's fairly simple.
I get here today and when I see the other three trailers hooked up to a 110v duplex outlets on the back of the tool pusher's office I wondered where our generator was.
I go ask the company man about our generator. Long story short he tells me that we can hook up to rig power or use what we have.
I very politely informed him that the power situation was not adequate and that the four of us will need a generator.
He cusses me up one side and down the other and tells me that I can hook up to rig power.
I told him that not one of us was going to do that and he needed to get a generator out here or he needed to find me another source of power as my trailer running off an extension cord was not enough power to run my trailer and the computers I have to run. If he wanted the MWD tool to transmit information he would find me another source of power.
I got cussed again.
I then calmly told him that he had three options; find me another source of power, get a generator out here or I could call my office and they would call his office and his office would call him and he would get a generator out here.
I got cussed again.
I then told him that I really did not care but the situation he was forcing upon me would lead to my trailer tripping breakers and we could lose a thousand feet or so of MWD data and when that happened my company was not going to be responsible for the time it took to re-log that section of the hole and it would be in his best financial interest to get me reliable power to prevent that from happening. I told him my office knew of the situation but they are waiting on me to resolve this issue in the filed with him.
He found me a reliable power source. Well, it fried my ceiling fan and light until I went and rewired it but it works fine right now.
That's a lot of words to say that people suck and this guy might get his *** whipped for trying to save $200/day on a generator that is in their contract to provide.
I get here today and when I see the other three trailers hooked up to a 110v duplex outlets on the back of the tool pusher's office I wondered where our generator was.
I go ask the company man about our generator. Long story short he tells me that we can hook up to rig power or use what we have.
I very politely informed him that the power situation was not adequate and that the four of us will need a generator.
He cusses me up one side and down the other and tells me that I can hook up to rig power.
I told him that not one of us was going to do that and he needed to get a generator out here or he needed to find me another source of power as my trailer running off an extension cord was not enough power to run my trailer and the computers I have to run. If he wanted the MWD tool to transmit information he would find me another source of power.
I got cussed again.
I then calmly told him that he had three options; find me another source of power, get a generator out here or I could call my office and they would call his office and his office would call him and he would get a generator out here.
I got cussed again.
I then told him that I really did not care but the situation he was forcing upon me would lead to my trailer tripping breakers and we could lose a thousand feet or so of MWD data and when that happened my company was not going to be responsible for the time it took to re-log that section of the hole and it would be in his best financial interest to get me reliable power to prevent that from happening. I told him my office knew of the situation but they are waiting on me to resolve this issue in the filed with him.
He found me a reliable power source. Well, it fried my ceiling fan and light until I went and rewired it but it works fine right now.
That's a lot of words to say that people suck and this guy might get his *** whipped for trying to save $200/day on a generator that is in their contract to provide.