Title:Shell Perdido- Buster Stewart,Noble Clyde Boudreaux drilling foreman
Duration: 2:37 minutes
Description:
Buster Stewart, drilling foreman on the Noble Clyde Boudreaux oil rigtalking about working at Shell and the people.
Shell Perdido- Buster Stewart,Noble Clyde Boudreaux drilling foreman Transcript.
[Background music plays]
Upbeat guitar music.
[Animated sequence]
Shell oil tanker driving by and then a flashing montage of people who work at shell which multiplies until the whole screen is made up of tiny shots of different workers.
[Text displays]
Shell People.
[Buster Stewart]
Drilling Foreman, Shell Upstream Americas
[Buster Stewart]
My job is a drilling foreman, I work for Shell and we’re on the Clyde Boudreaux. This rig is kind of unique, it has some super large mud pumps, has a lot of deck space, tremendous deck load. It has two derricks so we run a concurrent activity. We can do simultaneous operations. We’re able to actually run casing with our aft one while we’re drilling the whole with the forward one. So we’re drilling a hole over here that we’re running casing for over here, we run it and weseam [?] in it, and that’s done, then we start over again. It’s pretty impressive, the dual activity that cuts our time in half. We’re never in a hurry, we work safe. If we have to stop we stop, that’s not a big deal but we want to keep moving, make every second count. And everybody wants to see the ROV when they come that’s probably the neatest thing on the rig.
[Video Footage]
Buster Stewart wearing protective clothing and headgear with Shell logo talking face on to camera in interior of oil rig. Various shots of interior of oil rig. Shots of derricks at night. Shots of lots of pipes stacked up. Pipes moving along. Men sitting in office seen from outside. Shots of dials and monitors. Worker checking monitors and dials. Buster talking face on to camera. Shots of different parts of oil rig. Men in hard hats walking towards and examining some machinery.
[Buster Stewart]
And you’ve seen it on Discovery Channel and History channel, you know they go look at the Titanic and all, we use them every day. We’re drilling in about you know 9/10,000 foot of water. We can’t see what’s going on down there so the ROV does it for us. It has manipulator arms that can retrieve tools and adjust things for us; it’s really a wonderful piece of equipment. And the guys that operate it are phenomenal, overgrown Nintendo players. It has a 200 man living quarter which is probably right up there with the largest. There may be some bigger, I’ve never been on one bigger. We have an 82 person cinema, 82 person galley, there’s a weight room, a gym, it’s really nice. It’s got all the comforts of a hotel I guess you could say.
[Video Footage]
Underwater shot of ROV in use. Buster in protective clothing and hard hat talking face on to camera. Various views of different machinery. Computer generated view of ROV showing how the arms can be manipulated and adjustments can be made. Man sitting in front of monitor operating the ROV. Aerial view showing scope of rig. Shot of scaffolding with Noble sign on it. Different shots of rig. Shot of men standing on high platform against night sky.
[Buster Stewart]
I’ve actually rode a hurricane out, rode it out on a rig one time. It really wasn’t that bad, believe it or not, and I’ve been involved in two rigs that blew and that’s kind of a scary feeling. There was so much destruction with Katrina they actually went back to the drawing board after this rig had started being built and added eight more mooring lines, so there’s 16 winches on here so we should be able to withstand anything out there. It will be interesting to see out it fares, so I think it will do real good. The most important thing about any drilling rig and I guess any company, any organization is the people and you’ll never, ever find a closer knit group of people than you will on a drilling rig; it’s 24 hours a day you’re right here with these people. And that’s what’s makes… the earn is wonderful but it’s nothing without the people.
[Video Footage]
Computer monitor showing weather conditions. Man points to the screen where hurricane took place. Exterior shot of oil rig. Buster in protective clothing and headgear with Shell logo talking face on to camera. Misty faraway shot of rig, zooming in to much closer shot. Buster in protective clothing and headgear with Shell logo talking face on to camera. Workers, some in protective clothing and headgear sit in front of monitors and dials. One point to something. Exterior shot of group of workers in protective clothing and headgear. Derricks in background. Buster talking face on to camera. Fades to illegible writing on black background.
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