Off to the Desert: from Dubai to
This is a little trip I made for NOI while I was in Dubai. They had an
electrical warranty issue with the NDC (National Drilling Company, THE drillers
in the UAE) Rig ND 25 and sent me to see if I could fix it. I went with a
NOI Mechanical Engineer who was to work on some repairs to the jacking system.
They had been complaining for a year about Foot Throttle problems. When
I got there, after getting stuck in the sand, I found their problem was really
the rig going in the dark when they floored it with an empty hook with less than
3 Cats on line.