THE LARGEST PLANE IN THE WORLD LANDS TO BRING US SOME HEAVY EQUIPMENT.
This next little post I am writing as an opinion piece. It deals with an incident that helped form my opinion of this place over the time, I remained on this assignment in Kuwait. At one point we managed to…
MY FIRST TURN AROUND COMES AND I’M GOING HOME
Part of the deal when accepting this assignment was that we would work 30 days in. Followed by, a two week break to our point of origin all paid for. Our hours were unlimited but we were paid during our…
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…
THE DAY THAT D2 BEAT OLD IRON GUT AT AN EATING CONTEST
Alright time to take a stab at this…. I would hate for the Heald family archives to be filled before I have my say. So as most people already know I didn’t get to live with my dad, but as…
