Word from the wireline and oil industry street is that a RA source was lost/ left on site in Saudi. Company man found it put it in his in desk for days (romour us it was 5 to 45 days!)
Baker in scramble mode. Major sh#$ has hit the fan. Hmmm, wonder why the layoffs are kicking in....
Yeah, that’s right. It was a dual source from wireline. Both sources were stored together, and the engineer checked one but assumed both were there. Turns out, the gamma source was left on the rig floor. The rig crew found this shiny piece of metal, thought it was part of the tool, and handed it to the company man. The company man put it in his office drawer and left it there for two or three months. During that time, there were several crew changes, and everyone who came through got exposed.
Hard to believe it's wireline.... Maybe with the combination of MWD/DD, it could happen where the DD sc--wed up!!! Their RPS designation is a joke!
Is dog eat dog in oil service and blaming everybody else is normal. I always blame my buddies I did not care jack.
I asked Baker through X.com for clarification. Zero reply of course.
the only procedure for radiation work is don't get nuked
same old philosophy in this business, blame someone else and hope you get away with it
When you pay peanuts for monkeys, you make monkey business.
Purely engineer's fault. System is there in place and engineer was not following the procedure.
Baker LWD used to have a procedure for radiation work. Included in that procedure was rig floor survey and dispatch survey. Baker also have (should have) the RSO in the office responsible for tracking the radioactive sources.
how about making a checklist system. you take 2 sources to the rig site so you need to check in 2 sources when you leave the rig. Is this too much to ask?
You are looking at this the wrong way around.
Transporting things to and from sites is 2x the carbon footprint of just bringing them to the site. Get with the times. Baker is a forward thinking company and as such we are breaking the paradigm.
This is not the first time this has happened which means there’s something wrong with the system. That means something has to change. Your manager should come up with some ideas and if he can’t then he needs to be replaced.
Asking as a former RPS, how was this even possible? Your first job is to know where the sources are at all times. You scan the rig floor to make sure there is no radioactivity there, scan the source transport boxes and make sure the sources are in there. How did the AMO not notice a source not returning with the wireline tools
you folks know what you're doing??
Radiation sauce handling should be taken seriously it’s not a 2 minute online course followed by three questions. Unblievable.
Was this an aberdeen management problem again ffs
who's taking responsibility for this major sc--w-up