I guess they call this progress.
Appears high tech is gaining ground in the patch down south. Has this tech started to be used up here? Looks like it won't help much with improving the job situation in the patch.
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Darn I guess people will need more than 2 legs and heart beat to make $100,000!
If it's not up here already it will be soon. Big Oil is always looking for cost breaks. If they could hire a team of $20/hr workers to do the jobs of those making $45+ like red seal certified and cgsb certified workers they would. Quality be damned! Who needs quality when you can save money. |
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I told you so....
I remember back in the early 70''s...I was only 20 years old...they started saying how computers would do a lot of the mundane work done by people and how great this would be because we would have all this leisure time. I kept asking my friends who were in computing science and such..."who is going to pay us to do nothing so we can enjoy all this leisure time?" Guess what...NO ONE!! |
Just a matter of time for select type of work. This has been occurring in other industries for sometime why not the patch?
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Sorry if you didn't get my sarcasm in my first post but at the end of the day the bean counters decide how much quality is needed. |
Like to see a computer pull slips and throw tongs
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Look at it this way, now the US will have lots of people available to fill those jobs the people that can't get across the border used to do.
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Possibly the engineering team figured it passed spec? |
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The last big mega project in AB....NWR refinery. And the current one I'm keeping hush hush because it has just begun. It's a pain in the butt to post cause I have to enter thus captcha letter number combo every time but I'd be happy to post some photos. Give me a few minutes. |
"Passed spec" "irregularity" etc etc whatever you wanna call it the truth of the matter is all of these but one (and this is just a sample) are in service. The 18" valve was tossed(3rd pic). The rest were ground down on the surface. Even though destructive testing showed cracking internally.
https://i.imgur.com/3lluQzK.jpg https://i.imgur.com/vK2TTJW.jpg https://i.imgur.com/Uz0kGT4.jpg https://i.imgur.com/Xxlrala.jpg https://i.imgur.com/gDTAmTP.jpg I guess this is trolling. Don't get me wrong at first there were some cutouts but after so many delays "engineering" took over despite what code says. |
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The thing I can't stand is dealing with the reps from the companies that produce the fittings. Anything to get around having to back charge or replace their products. All about cost as I outlined earlier. Even on shutdowns in our local coal fired power plants, tubes that should have been chopped due to wall loss have shielding welded on and left for the next 6 months before it eventually leaks.
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They also look at the service of the valve. Is it easy to isolate later on, LP
steam service? Or sour service? |
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I keep joking that some day I'm going to be replaced with a PowerShell script. :o
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So they will toss a 18” valve but won’t replace a 3/4” socket weld valve and some 1” socket weld fittings? Something is not making sense.
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Inspections guy think he’s management.
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Some guys think they can't be replaced. They can, air slips, hydrualic slips, iron roughnecks can all be computer controlled. All with just a Driller controlling/ monitoring the computers work. Damn they can run a rig from Houston with no input from the driller. (Hope lag time isnt to bad, or a solar flare doesnt happen). |
Even with these advancements there always going to need people to maintain the equipment. What it tells me is it would be a good idea to get in with Pason.
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To say the last I'm not overly impressed right now when somebody tells me that they're Red Seal anything. :mad0100: |
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