Jimbo Red
Retired on Vancouver Island, BC, Canada after spending 30 years overseas in Engineering, Procurement and Construction. involved in Oil and Gas, Pulp and Paper, Civil, Pipeline, Protective Coatings, Refinery and Chemical as well as participation "onsite" during the firefighting efforts in Kuwait after the war with Iraq. Married 5 children, 4 grandchildren and a boat.
UNDER ATTACK BY A “COKE” PILE
It all happened about mid morning, while everyone was busy. Unbeknownst to us, the Kuwaitis had rolled in, one of their tanks. They moved it up close to our offices. Then drew bead on a pile of coke that had…
THE BOREDOM OF WORK IN A WORLD ON FIRE.
We were broken into groups. Each one charged with securing materials, equipment and services. Anything and everything, that would be required to put out the fires and return the oilfield to normal operations. An unbelievably mind staggering task. We were…
BITE DOWN AND OFF YOU GO TO WORK
Once taken to the worksite offices, the full magnitude of what we were dealing with became a shocking reality. We were in a trailer type office complex, in the middle of 600 wild wells (fires) and about 250 wells that…
YOU WEREN’T SCARED WERE YA – KUWAIT 1991
On my arrived in Kuwait I had no idea of what to expect. Other than the MEMORY. That at each stage of the way. Someone was trying to scare the crap outta me. It worked very well I might add.…
I’M OFF TO A WAR ZONE – KUWAIT – JUNE 1991
As I did throughout my career, once I was focused on and committed to an assignment. I pretty much lost sight of everything else around me. To say I developed tunnel vision was, perhaps, an understatement. My whole life became…
AND ONE DAY THE PHONE RINGS AND THE HOLIDAY ENDS
Oh how much fun can a man have before there is a price to pay? Well I was about to find out. The days were flowing by in a haze of water, food, touring and other fun pastimes. I had…
ANOTHER READER ARTICLE AND ANOTHER HOME RUN
My opinion that we have a family of closet writers has once again been demonstrated. It seems we have another Article Post by one of my myriad of readers and another one parked out in right field. Where in hell…
AROUND THE BEACH IN PICTURES – HONOLULU JUNE 1991
Once again I am going to let some of our photos describe the action around this phase of our return trip home. We spent days exploring the city of Honolulu looking for places to spend our money. Now with Auntie…
LITTLE SISTER COMES TO VISIT IN HONOLULU – 1991
Shortly after our arrival in Hawaii, we were joined by one of Deysi’s younger sisters (Lalitas). She had been travelling with us since we met in the late 70’s in Peru. At this time she was living in Edmonton so…
ANGE AND RON CLEAR OUT THE POOL AT THE SHERATON, WAIKIKI
Ange and Ron always seem to provide us with memorable times during our holidays. They were always excited and looking for adventure. This story happened one day during one of their interminable swimming sessions. We were all lounging around one…
