a half-day lesson

It's been a great pleasure to converse with Mr. Raja today..
a 3rd party inspector from VAM..at 1st i thought he's a serious guy..but when i started it, wow..i've gained lots of things from him..especially how it looks like working at offshore..he told me everything, & i never expect to get to know all these things in detail..huhu...i was very thankful to him..he has been in this field for 8 years, onshore & offshore, & he told me the story how he can get into O&G industry, & I was shocked to know that he's from timber industry earlier, but only for few months..1st, he told me how the industry is look like generally, n then he explained to me all the processes to take out the oil & gases, how people normally setup a well, from drilling, cementing, coiled tubing..bla2..until the completion & well-testing..what is drilling, how it's being performed, what is LWD (Logging While Drilling), what is MWD (Measurement While Drilling), what are they doing for each stage, what is directional drilling, what is mud, what is drill pipe, what is drill bit, what kind of bit, n what is power tong, what they do if there's leakage, what comes first and what comes then...he also explained how the business is running, how's the practise, from opening the tender until getting the jobs, who's the one to select which product & service to use, as well as the common problems they normally face in this industry..he did show me some photos at the rig, and explained to me every each occasion of that photos in his camera (until the battery is exhausted..haha)..n according to him, there was once when they were performing the drilling, it was very surprising to find out that the drill pipe happened to appear at the other side of the sea surface, instead of going down..haha..for a first timer like me, it's quite funny to hear that..but then, this answers me why directional drilling is important...for the whole half day i was doing nothing but spoken to him & learn a lot of things..Thank you Mr. Raja..I was very satisfied!