I finally have a chance to at least upload a couple of pictures from the weeks events.
As mentioned previously I was away at a coal seam gas field for the week, which was interesting. I learnt a bit about coal seam gas, and a bit about the procedures etc that come attached with that.
Not a bad drive out there, about 5.5 one way it turned out, but mostly long straight roads so the cruise control came in most handy. I knew there was a reason for taking the Falcon. Arrived to the place I was supposed to meet an "engineer" from Brisbane, and he was still on the plane... ended up having to wait 2 hours for him to show up in a rental 4WD for us to use. We also had a guy from the pipeline crowd with us to drive, as you are only allowed to drive on site if you have a current authorised "4WD certificate" saying you can handle 4WDs.
I had a bit of bad luck with my lunch while I was waiting, ordered two sausage rolls and they turned out to be spinach. Not only were they not sausage, but they cost me about $9 in the process. However, I will know for next time.
Finally this engineer fellow showed up, and we drove another 20 KM out to the camp. I did an onsite induction as is the norm over here, and then the nice office girl tells me that we picked a bad time to come as they were all sick. However, the engineers schedule was at stake and he was not going to fall behind, bugs or no bugs.
So, to somewhat condense the next few days, I pretty much spent my time bouncing around in the back of a hilux pushing the occasional button on my radio and telling the engineer the results. We went to around 200 gas wells, once you have seen one they are all the same let me tell you. I'll attach a pic of the only exciting one, it was broken so they were flaring the gas off. Apparently with coal seam gas if you don't keep the gas flowing then the well fills with water and you have to pump it out and start again. So they figure it's easier just to burn the gas for a while.
They pipe the low pressure gas from the ground wells to a couple of compressors around the place, and these bump the pressure up a heck of a lot and push it down the main trunk gas pipeline to the consumers.
All was going well until Wednesday night when the bugs that were running rampant in the camp decided to introduce themselves to me, and I ended up spending Thursday in bed crook. Friday the engineer decided that was all he needed and we packed it in and I drove home again.
Spent most of the weekend working on my model railway layout, finally have managed to get some track laid, although this weekend seems to have disappeared rather quickly compared to normal. I have also invested in a video camera so I can get some more of Aus on record, once I work out how to drive it no doubt I can post some more video footage from time to time.
Right, I better go back to track laying... one more week in town then I'm off to the mine for a week, there's no rest for the wicked let me tell you.
TTFN.
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