Major Announcement. Extremely! Important! Information!

[Kim]

Folks,

I am proud to bring to you a link to the single most important web site ever host on the net for Australians.

http://www.boozle.com.au/beer

This is truly break-thru stuff and is a must for addition to your favorites.

Cheers, your hero, Kim

[kiwigeo]

Disclaimer: Although Boozle takes utmost care in ensuring all prices published on the site are current and correct, we take no responsibility for incorrect or out of date pricing data. Stores may be out of stock or human error may occur. We encourage users to contact the store to confirm the price if necessary.

[Kim]

Lighten up Martin, it would be commercial suicide for a website which compiles so much 3rd party pricing as the core of it's function to not have such a disclaimer in place.

This does not indicate in any way that the information is not current and accurate. Rather it is simply a statement that boozle.com.au cannot not be held liable should the information they publish prove to be incorrect at point of purchase.

For what it is worth i checked pricing in the local rag against the information on the boozle website and it proved to be 100% current and accurate.

Cheers

Kim

[sebastiaan56]

I dont know why the government spent millions with Choice to do one for groceries when Boozle has being doing it for free for years. Maybe its the fact that Boozle only represents a few retailers, namely WWorths, Coles Myer and a few independents, still a good site and usually reliable.

[kiwigeo]

Its not the bldi link thats annoying me its you posting up the bldi thing when you know Imstuck on a dry drilling rig 300km off the coast of WA....

[Kim]

Sorry M8,

I'll knock the top off an extra one tonight just for you

[kiwigeo]

Would almost be worth it to shell out $8000 and fly down to Perth in a chopper and drop down into your backyard for a beer.

[Nick]

What!! No bottle store on the rig Martin? Suppose the only thing 'wet' allowed on the rig is oil.........or sewerage. You back out on the rig again?

[Bob Connor]

Pity there's no comparisons with Dan Murphy's in that website.

It's usually cheaper than anywhere else.

[kiwigeo]

Yeah back out on the rig Nick. Got out here on tuesday after a 5 hour wait at Perth airport while Skywest found a plane.....they are the crappiest airline Ive ever come across. I rocked up to the counter at 6am for the 715 flight and they casually informed me that the flight would be delayed and shoved an $8 meal voucher in my hand. 8 ^^^^^^^ng dollars?? I mean come on.....breakfast for $8??? As for the flight being delayed...it just got cancelled......it was pretty obvious because if the flight had been delayed the flight number on my ticket would not have changed. Anyway we finally got off the ground at midday and got into Exmouth 1 1/2 hours later. Chopper base was in a shambles with only half the staff on duty.....security guys were running around like chooks with their heads chopped off trying to handle incoming choppers and put us through security screening at the same time. My offer to check myself in and do my own breath test didnt get any laughs from the security people..no sense of humour at all.

Got on board the rig and have been flat out since.....I reckon Ive had 4 hours sleep since getting here.

[Nick]

Yeah back out on the rig Nick. Got out here on tuesday after a 5 hour wait at Perth airport while Skywest found a plane.....they are the crappiest airline Ive ever come across. I rocked up to the counter at 6am for the 715 flight and they casually informed me that the flight would be delayed and shoved an $8 meal voucher in my hand. 8 ^^^^^^^ng dollars?? I mean come on.....breakfast for $8??? As for the flight being delayed...it just got cancelled......it was pretty obvious because if the flight had been delayed the flight number on my ticket would not have changed. Anyway we finally got off the ground at midday and got into Exmouth 1 1/2 hours later. Chopper base was in a shambles with only half the staff on duty.....security guys were running around like chooks with their heads chopped off trying to handle incoming choppers and put us through security screening at the same time. My offer to check myself in and do my own breath test didnt get any laughs from the security people..no sense of humour at all.

Got on board the rig and have been flat out since.....I reckon Ive had 4 hours sleep since getting here.

Bastard Dude. Looking forward to buying you a beer for that alone!

[sebastiaan56]

Have you plugged the leak?

If it helps I'll make sure I have a hangover in sympathy tomorrow,

[Allen]

Pity there's no comparisons with Dan Murphy's in that website.

It's usually cheaper than anywhere else.

I just did a search in Cairns and they include Dan Murphy's Bob. And they are always cheaper up here. No point looking anywhere else.

[kiwigeo]

No leaks on this rig apart from the ones in the hot water system. Im on a floater further down the WA coast.

The Atlas saga continues up north in the Timor Sea. Attempt no four to intersect the Montara well with the relief hole failed the other day. Some wanker MP in the WA govt (one of Tuckeys mates no doubt) suggested that the federal govt take over the operation and move in with huge water cannons and flood the Atlas's decks while crews jump on board the Atlas and kill the well.

If the dickhead read the papers he'd soon note that the blowout is happening 2km down the wellbore and that a relief well is the only way to control the blowout. He should also note that if anybody as much as thinks of turning on a light bulb on the Atlas the cloud of gas and condensate will erupt into a huge fireball and then theyll have a really big disaster on their hands.

Cheers Martin

Have you plugged the leak?

If it helps I'll make sure I have a hangover in sympathy tomorrow,

[Allen]

So in short you're saying that there's not a snowballs chance in hell that we'll get a Tamil people smuggling boat tying up to the platform and having a bit of a tea party? Someone should probably inform Tuckey.

[kiwigeo]

No living thing could survive in the cloud of condensate and gas enveloping the Atlas without full BA gear. I've run DST's on land rigs where weve flowed gas and condensate on a hot day...and the stuff gives me the absolute shits. Volatile fumey and highly inflammable.

[Kim]

Volatile fumey and highly inflammable.

Being the 'Red Adair' kind of guy that i am, i like to keep myself in training so i am always ready to troubleshoot these tricky and dangerous situations should the need arise. This is why i make a point of immersing myself in just such an environment for a short period each day, sometime even twice should curry have been on the menu.

Cheers

Kim

[John Steele]

Sounds like a whole bunch of serious chit goin on. Haven't found much on the net. Not showing up on:
[url]http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php ... z&lang=eng[/url

[Kim]

Sounds like a whole bunch of serious chit goin on. Haven't found much on the net. Not showing up on:
[url]http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php ... z&lang=eng[/url

Try typing "disaster in Timor sea" into googlr.

[kiwigeo]

Here's a series of photos taken shortly after the blowout and shows evacuation of the rig crew in the two lifeboats. You can see the gas and condensate pissing out from the wellhead just under the helipad level on the platform. Pics were taken from the workboat waiting to pick up the crews from the lifeboats. By the time these photos were taken all power had been cut on the rig to reduce chances of a huge explosion. The guys who were in bed when the accident happened would have only had time to drag on a pair of overalls before hitting the lifeboats...

Any suggestion that crew can just wander back on board and start a rig based intervention operation is sheer stupidity. The only way to kill the well from the rig end would be to run in hole with drill pipe and bullnose heavy kill mud into the well. That would require powering up the rig and crew working on the drill floor. Note in pic 6 the drilling package totally engulfed in a cloud of gas and condensate....can you imagine people working in the middle of same??

http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/gallery ... -1,00.html

[kiwigeo]

Apologies for the thread hijack Kim.

For those interested heres the technology being used to enable them to locate the well bore thats blowing out with the relief well. The Vector ranging tool is run as part of the drilling assembly while theyre drilling the relief well and the tool allows them to detect how close they are to the target wellbore.

http://www.vectormagnetics.com/ActiveOil&Gas.html

This tool has alot of R and D behind it and its the bees knees when it comes to steering a relief well so the day rate for the tool and people to run it is steep. That said leaving the well to continue flowing hydrocarbons out into the Timor Sea just isnt an option.

[John Steele]

For those interested heres the technology being used to enable them to locate the well bore thats blowing out with the relief well.

Hope it works and hope it works fast.

[Matt_W]

.....as the cloud of gas and condensate will erupt into a huge fireball and then theyll have a really big disaster on their hands.

Cheers Martin

Have you plugged the leak?

If it helps I'll make sure I have a hangover in sympathy tomorrow,

So its over the LEL then...

[Dennis Leahy]

What's the going price at Boozle for a bottle of 1937 Lowenbrau from the wreckage of the Hindenburg? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8352032.stm

Yum! Fire brewed! And, aged!

Dennis