This year (2009) will be the year of what I called as "how to keep our job saved" coz so many cut cost and cut people has been done by major company to survive in this crisis era.
After finishing one well in Chevron operation, finally my Manager sent me to vacation, and, it’s not just a usual vacation man, it’s a whole month VACATION, Whoa.. that's something!. I always hold a firm belief that we must have some balance in our lives; some sort of yin and yang in equal measure. For sure, I will use this opportunity as far as I can to balance my lives, both mentally and physically, worldly and heavenly.
As for my life, now, I am not a lonely ranger anymore….I have a wife with me, a future family to raise, a “tonto” (my damn cute motorcycle) to ride, and a lot of family planning that I need to do.
Now, the question is: Why the hell I got this whole month vacation opportunity? The answer was quite simple; basically it was one of the impacts due to the Global Crisis that we are facing at the moment.
As we know, since USA, as the biggest oil consumer, had a major financial Crisis, the effects were enormous to all of the sectors, including for me who works basically to drill oil reservoirs.
When we had an oil price boom in June 2008, i.e: US$ 147/ barrel, Oil companies around the globe were partying hard. With this huge boom on oil price, the manufacturers have to increase their production cost at the same time, thus resulting the high price of the products. Now, when USA, as the biggest consumer of that products having recession, then who will buy all of that high price products? Nobody, so as long as US purchasing power still in bad condition, then we can’t have such high expectation in the increasing of oil price.
To Be Continued…..
Lesson#2: Pipes and Components
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