New Years Eve- How Late?

[slcraiders]

Just curious about how many of you actually stayed up until midnight in your local time zone last night. I fell an hour short and conked out at 11. Getting old I guess.

[drew_goring]

I started back at work on New Years eve. Found out we had to go out and perforate drill pipe on a blown out well either late that night, or early the next morning. Got a call and left at 6pm. The rig camp was full, so me and my crew grabbed a room in a nearby town. Got a call at 11pm that they were ready for us, so we headed out...about an hour away. On the logging road we stopped and chained up one of the trucks. I got to spend my new year's chaining up a logging truck (no, not tree logging...well logging). Got out there and found out they actually weren't ready for us...the company man was just assuming their testing would go according to plan. We headed back to our hotel, arrived at 230am and I got some sleep, expecting a call at 5am or so to come back out and do our job. Call never came and I woke up at 9am sort of confused. Made a call and apparently they don't need us now until this afternoon at the earliest.

Gotta love the oil biz.

[basil]

I started back at work on New Years eve. Found out we had to go out and perforate drill pipe on a blown out well either late that night, or early the next morning. Got a call and left at 6pm. The rig camp was full, so me and my crew grabbed a room in a nearby town. Got a call at 11pm that they were ready for us, so we headed out...about an hour away. On the logging road we stopped and chained up one of the trucks. I got to spend my new year's chaining up a logging truck (no, not tree logging...well logging). Got out there and found out they actually weren't ready for us...the company man was just assuming their testing would go according to plan. We headed back to our hotel, arrived at 230am and I got some sleep, expecting a call at 5am or so to come back out and do our job. Call never came and I woke up at 9am sort of confused. Made a call and apparently they don't need us now until this afternoon at the earliest.

Gotta love the oil biz.

lol - pretty typical. I'm in safety for a drilling company. Largest in the the lower 48 - Patterson-UTI? And, spent several years roughnecking as well. Where is this well - what field?

[JFellows]

Despite the best efforts of a bottle of single malt, I managed to stay awake long enough to party with my friends and babysit the Wench, who had had a bit too much champagne earlier in the night.

[logan37]

My wife and I stayed in, but stayed up to about 2am Eastern time. HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!

[drew_goring]

lol - pretty typical. I'm in safety for a drilling company. Largest in the the lower 48 - Patterson-UTI? And, spent several years roughnecking as well. Where is this well - what field?

It is near Dawson Creek, Alberta in the Brassey field. They took a sour kick at 4000m and burned the rig down. I am sure some heads rolled after that. Now what I think they are doing is abandoning the 1000m horizontal section and possibly are going to kick off in a different direction. I am a field specialist for one of the largest oilfield service companies...Schlum...

What is the rig forecast looking like down there? We are supposed to be a bit down for the winter, but most of the drilling here is for gas, so we aren't affected as much as if it was oil.

[cigarsarge]

I made it to midnight with my grandaughter...Everyone else crashed early. We toasted with Mello Yello and she went to bed. I then had a sip of Zaya and went to bed.

[slcraiders]

Well shit. I started the poll thingy to make myself feel better for being such a tired soul. Looks like I am the minority here. Happy New Year all!

[cinda]

I started back at work on New Years eve. Found out we had to go out and perforate drill pipe on a blown out well either late that night, or early the next morning. Got a call and left at PM. The rig camp was full, so me and my crew grabbed a room in a nearby town. Got a call at PM that they were ready for us, so we headed out...about an hour away. On the logging road we stopped and chained up one of the trucks. I got to spend my new year's chaining up a logging truck (no, not tree logging...well logging). Got out there and found out they actually weren't ready for us...the company man was just assuming their testing would go according to plan. We headed back to our hotel, arrived at 230am and I got some sleep, expecting a call at 5am or so to come back out and do our job. Call never came and I woke up at 9am sort of confused. Made a call and apparently they don't need us now until this afternoon at the earliest.

Gotta love the oil biz.

Anytime you can get paid for sleeping is a good way to celebrate! We had a bad snow storm that day I worked a 1/2 of day then we ate in and I went to play on the PC. I looked up from reading stuff on the PC and noticed it was 2 am so I was up but I missed it anyhow! Happy New Year.

[Cabaiguan Juan]

After the ball dropped, the wife and I headed home, it was past our bedtime. There is something about 11PM that makes it hard to get past.

[Diesel Grinch]

Wife got bored and tired and went to bed around 11:15 when the dvd ended. I stayed up until 12:30. Yahoo!


DG

[FactoredReality]

I had a group of friends over, we broke in my newly constructed kegerator, the guys went out for a smoke (CAO LX2 ) at about 1:30 and the ladies all passed out. we stayed up till about 4am playin cards. I spent the next day holding down the couch w/ a bottle of asprin.

[basil]

Definitely stayed up - I spend the day doing what I think is important, things I want to carry on through the year. So, took my date (pretty important) home at around 1, played guitar til 2, slept, gym at 10 am, getting ready to clean house, cook, time with daughter, time with last night's date, and what ever else I can pack in.