So in a case of be very careful of what you wish for…. I’ve had the worst 4 days of my time out here.kiwikrasher wrote: ↑11 Nov 2023, 00:49 We are a step closer to being done here
We are at a export rate that we can't maintain enough feed to onshore, so they shut down to us for good at 9pm last night. next time they start up again will be from feed form a different field that is getting developed, approx. 2 yrs from happening.
Unfortunately the company secured a domestic gas contract so we ares till trickling gas to that and running for the meantime. If we have a plant upset and trip, it's highly unlikely we could start the place again at these rates. I have everything crossed
Not only did we trip, we had a total black out. A FSC system fried (Fire Safety Control) and defaulted to fire indication on EVERYTHING! So in particular the 5 turbine power generators I look after all emergency shut down. 3 days of running on the emergency generator, both fire pumps running 24 hours a day because we couldn't reset the FSC, and we were living in a cloud of diesel exhaust as there is literally not wind out here atm. Also existing on emergency HVAC, and accommodation temps were 30+ deg for 3 days. I tell you that’s a hard way to sleep.
Not that I got much sleep. Day we tripped I worked till midnight (18hrs) and 3 hours later we had an emergency platform alarm. A UPS had run down and we went to a deeper level shutdown and had more false fire indications. So as Fire Team Leader I was out after 2 hrs sleep managing my team as we physically checked every inch of the platform for concerns.
We are finally back to normal power and HVAC but the plant is a long way off. Still touch and go if it will come back. Plus we might get the DomGas contract cancelled on us for non-supply.
The diesel exhaust cloud has disappeared too thankfully
Though it was satisfying getting through some technical issues and re-establishing normal power, and then also being the person that brought on the main HVAC again (Utilities Tech was busy bunkering diesel to keep the place running) 
