Schlumberger in Alaska

It's time to start posting on the blog again now that I am a long ways away in Alaska. I'm interning with Schlumberger from May 29th to August 9th. My first week was spent in Houston training with about 100 other interns destined for a variety of locations. I also had to do a water survival and HUET (Helicopter Underwater Egress Training) for those of us going to Alaska or offshore. After that I spent three days in Anchorage getting proper identification and training to work on the North Slope. It was mostly about safety and environmental impact. Now I am in Deadhorse, Alaska near Prudhoe Bay at the Northern coast of Alaska. This is a picture of me in my work clothes, my Schlumberger blue coveralls, hardhat, and safety glasses. This is pretty much my outfit everyday for twelve hours while I'm working. Pretty damn good looking!
This is my room at the Schlumberger camp. It gets the job done, but it's not fancy. It's smaller than any of my college dorms, and I have a large snoring roommate. The room also comes complete with pictures of the family of the man who usually lives in this spot. As a summer intern I don't qualify for my own permanent room so I just find an empty space when people leave for their two weeks off after they have worked two weeks.
This is another angle of my room. This is my side still. On the bottom is the thousand dollars worth of arctic gear Schlumberger had to buy for me even though the temperature probably won't dip low enough to use it the whole summer. Oh well, free stuff for me! These two pictures show my entire side of the room. It's the same on the other side, not very big.
This is the Schlumberger camp. The left side is the drilling and measurements shop where I have been working. The right side is the cafeteria and lounge and other amenities. My room and all the others is behind all the equipment. All the equipment is there to construct more Schlumberger buildings so more people can work up here. At 75 dollars a barrel they can't pump the oil fast enough! They're hiring people like crazy.

This is the view from camp. There is melting tundra, other oil field related buildings, flat ground, and big skies as far as the eye can see. Not terribly exciting, but I'm hoping to see some caribou or polar bears before I leave. That's about it for now. I hope to post some pictures of me at an actual drilling location next time. You'll probably get to see some of me a lot dirtier too; those coveralls didn't stay looking that new for long.