End of Rotation 8

All rotations have gone by quite quickly, but this one has just flown by. It seem like I just arrived a week ago, and already I am heading home for another two week break. Picture from Friday evening was yet another BBQ, this time to say goodbyed to two more leavers, Andie Green (grenn t-shirt), who is heading back home - wherever that is, and Marcus Bauer (gray t-shirt) who is heading back to Calgary, Canada, back to the Calgary Honeywell office. Good luck from all at the 5o5 Club. Well, time for me to go. See you in two weeks.

Office Relocation

Well, week five over and we have just moved to a new office location on the site. We are now closer to the process areas of the site, but the office is much bigger and far less crowded, as there were thousands of contractors, mainly from India in the old building, and the toilets and kitchens were over crowded. The new office is ok but we will now have to get a bus to go to the Control Room and to lunch. Picture on the left shows part of Honeywell office, the right hand picture is part of the panoramic view of the desert, from the office balcony. In the middle, Dynaneshwar, Vipul and me, relaxing in the new office.

Three weeks gone aready

It seems like I just arrived back here iin Qatar and three weeks have aready gone by. Perhaps because I have been kept pretty busy. We have had quite a few issues to investigate, as well as the usual short technical questions from the DCS team and Shell staff. I now have help. Tom Evitts has joined us from Honeywell Atlanta US - actually, three engineers from the same office joined us. This has made a lot of difference, because when I retuned from leave, lots of issues needed investigating. Tom has now gone on leave for two week, so I am alone again for the moment, but we now have most things under control. I missed last weeks Iftar meal, because I was totally shattered, after too long in the gym and by the pool. There is another Iftar tonight, so I shall try to attend this one, after a slightly easier session at the gym. I am about to go to lunch, on camp. I shall watch a movie after lunch, then go over to the Iftar later, after a rest.

Another Week, Another Leaver

This week Vish, IPS Safety support engineer from Pune, India, and part of our Technical Expertise group, has just left, to go back to Honeywell Pune. Vish had been on site about one year. He took the photos from my blog from last week, and has been travelling to work and back in the truck, with myself, Jan and Joe, for several months. Vish will be replaced by Darren Brown, from New Zealand, but based in the Bracknell office, and shown with Vish in the photo on the right. Over done it at the gym again today, after lunch I shall rest my legs and watch a movie, before going to an Iftar (end of day,s fasting) BBQ at the 505 Bar. We will be in Ramadan during the whole of August, so the bar will open after sunset.