Johnny Chimpo

The crushing. They have some pretty solid food and a very well equipped self serve bar. Other than that I could take or leave dfw as a whole. I’m in Frankfurt now, trying to rustle up another lounge to marinate in.

Currently crushing the self serve bar in the AA flagship lounge at DFW. Highly recommended.

Hahahaha POO RAGGY

I wonder if they will bring the Partitioned zone fields back online.

Yea man. That makes sense. I was just thinking of all the cables, instruments, JBs, actuators, etc that got toasted in that fire. The major equipment is just one piece then you have to install it and actually hook everything else up, commission it, etc.

Reuter’s is reporting they destroyed five crude stabilization towers. You can’t just replace those in a week or two. Those are long lead items that would take months to fab I figure.

I read on Reuter’s that they knocked out five crude stabilization towers. Those are massive pressure vessels and even though I’ve never specced out installing them I am in the industry. Lead time on something like that would be like 2-3 months minimum if you could get a fab shop to dedicate itself directly to you and toss all other orders aside.

This was most likely an Iranian organized and executed attack with the Houthis acting as the useful idiot to take the blame. Recent similar attacks on Saudi oil infrastructure claimed by the Houthis were found to have originated from Iranian backed militias in Iraq.

Now that I travel exclusively international business class (also oilfield trash) I specialize in doing just this sort of shenanigan.

Hahaha I lived in university towers my freshman year what a fuck show that was. So many ceiling tiles got knocked out they must have bought those things in bulk.

Exxon sucks talk not going away

I have a nice set of Globals that I love. Sharp as razors and easy to maintain. Just definitely no dishwasher.

Both these guys are right on the money and know what they’re talking about.

This is the correct answer. This is the correct answer.

I would third and second these recommendations. 395 is the bomb and I always used to hang out in the eastern Sierra / Mammoth area. If I wasn’t there I was on the central coast crushing the 1 and hanging out in Big Sur.

I stick with wired because I’m a budding audio snob 😇. I also like earbuds. I’m currently listening to some shure 535s.

I’m doing facilities engineering work on the commissioning team for a big production expansion project over there. Pretty good work, I like it.

I am currently rotating to Kazakhstan on 28/28 and I fuckin love it. Holy hell is it ever painful getting anything done over there but fuck it. Like someone said, the money is green.

Oil. It’s a blessing and a curse. Pays good. Most locations suck ass. The lean times are dog shit. The good times are great.

Can’t see shit Captain

Damn I was just at Notre Dame four hours ago. I saw they had scaffolding erected all around where the fire is. I’m guessing it was flammable solvents or a short circuit or something along those lines. That is very bad news. I feel lucky to have seen it just before it burned.

I’ve got a UT Mech E BS (2010 grad) and a USC Petroleum E MS. I work for a well known integrated oil and gas company, and have since 2012. They also paid for my MS (75% reimbursed). In 2016 I got pretty sick of the layoffs and applied for five full time MBA programs (top 10 schools only). I didn’t get in to a single one of them, man what a slap in the face that was. It’s been a blessing though, honestly. I’ve been able to go expat and doubled my salary while working half the year. I currently make significantly more than the average starting pay for MBA grads. I have several friends who quit the oil and gas business and both ended up getting their MBAs. One from USC and the other from Rice. They were both engineers and they have both said the schoolwork is not exactly hard but it is a very heavy load, enough to keep you very busy. Then you add in the social commitments, recruiting dinners, etc. It’s pretty full on. One of these guys ended up working VC in biotech / medical devices. The other one is in consulting in the O&G space. If you’re looking to make a career change don’t underestimate how tough it is to escape your past industry. Both of them had to work very hard to change career paths. It’s very competitive right now in the MBA space.

I can see that you’re on a high horse here, but I’ll respond to you anyways. Current temp in mammoth lakes (town) is 14 F. Its likely 10 to 20 F colder on the mountain, so I anticipate it would be pretty fluffy snow. Usually the Sierra cement comes in on storms in the high 20s / low 30s. Given that I’m not there and this is all pretty hypothetical I guess the bottom line is it don’t make a shit but I’ve boarded there enough to know that when this storm is over and they dig out the lifts enough to run them, there will be some sick face shots to be had.

Yea they just got a ten foot storm in mammoth. I’m pissed I’m in Colorado now and not California anymore. Those pineapple expresses really come through.

I used to smoke weed with his kid back when we were in school together in Austin 😂