The Busiest Week in My Life

The busiest week in my life? Or this is just the beginning part? Yucksss, this whole week was damn busy and terrible!

I was assigned to be the coordinator for Mod 7 CI shutdown for 3 Plant Changes (PCs). 1 mechanical PC, 2 instrument PCs. As usual, followed up schedule, attended meetings, answered to the people why we are not meeting the schedule as per planned, monitored contractors CLOSELY, communicated with work supervisors ALL the times… Owh, and many more…

Ya, now I know it’s not that easy to monitor a project especially to ensure everything is on schedule. There will be something happened in between to delay the work like no transportation, equipment are not inspected, contractors started work late, weather, ALARMsss to stop work and etc.

Among the highlights throughout the whole Mod 7 CI were;

Tuesday:
Project started. Contractor reached late on site due to transportation problem. Called up the boss and finally they started work at 9.00 AM (supposed to be 7 AM). Site preparation not ready yet. That’s terrible. Our work supervisor had to help them run around MLNG to get permits and prepare everything. That’s for the sake of meeting schedule or else …

Wednesday:
Second day, everything seemed to be better today. The worst thing is the electrical tools inspection dates were found to be expired. Work supervisors had to bring the tools to our workshop to re-inspect again. For today, we were quite lucky as only removing gratings and some cutting jobs to be carried out.

Thursday:
Today we started the welding job. Early in the morning, (not a very good day) we heard ALARM! Owh gosh, fire happened at Module 5 vessel stack. I heard it was about leaking of regen gas that caused the fire. All work stopped until 10.15AM. Then when contractors were just about to start work, we heard another ALARM again at 11.30AM until lunch time. Basically the whole morning, did nothing, nothing, nothing. Tadaaa.. here comes the schedule! Planned completed job: 45%, actual completed job: 32%. The answer was rather simple; mainly due to ALARM! And mitigation plan? To ask contractors to work during silence hour, meaning to work on extended hours until the welding job completed. Wuuuuu, x-Ray was carried out at night about 12AM! Luckily! Thursday, I had to rush to Parkcity for our 1PDD dinner. I was the emcee! Again! But luckily, there’s one work supervisor who can help to monitor the work closely on site.

Friday:
Pray for the result to pass!!! Tadaaa, at 8AM, my work supervisor told me that the RT results all 3 welding joints passed! Fuhh, that’s a great achievement! Prepared work permit and requested TES/3 for MPI in the morning and all passed. Then, I went for morning meeting to inform them that pneumatic test will be carried out later in the afternoon. Guess what!! Asset owner disagreed on pneumatic test and asked us to carryout hydrotest! WHAT??!@#$%^&*()_ We prepared JSA, permits and everything for pneumatic and now you told us HYDROTEST? Shit! I had to explain to asset owner all the reasons (hopefully I got them right haha). Even after the meeting, called up my work supervisor to explain in details. BUT to our disappointment, NO! We must carry out hydrotest for safety reason. 

GOSH! Contractor had prepared all pneumatic test equipment and now we asked them to change in 2 hours?? Haihhh… It’s a bad day. Then, after 15 minutes, I got a call from HUN PIN. He told us that Asset owner agreed to let us carry out pneumatic test (after his visit to that line) but only during silence hour. AGAIN!! >.< Had to call up contractor again and let them know. We felt like being fooled!@#$%^&*()_ hmmmmm…

Pneumatic test at 4.30PM. All equipment are prepared and the test started at 5.00PM. The pressure was increasing until 12 barg and it stopped. It remained constant at 12 barg for 1 hour!! Not a good indication again! And our N2 supply for the test is running low. (contractor prepared only 2 bottles!) Mitigation plan: I called up Warehouse rep. who was on standby duty, requested for N2 supply. Luckily she was in a good mood and willing to help us. Our work supervisor went to mechanical workshop to borrow a new pressure regulator. We suspected the regulator prepared by contractor was spoilt. Hahaha… after worked hard to help contractor to prepare all the necessary equipment and supply, we continued the test, the pressure gone up!! Thank God! Waited until about 9.15 PM to reach 74 barg. Fuh… Let the pressure maintained for 30minutes. Yeah, pressure test completed at 9.45 PM. Finally, I can go back and sleep!

I missed Douglas open house. *sad* Had dinner at 10PM @ KFC… Haha

Saturday:
Final day! I planned to finish up everything today to make sure we handover back to OPS by today (then we are ahead of 1 day). Pushed hard for contractor to finish up the job. Keke… If we didn’t monitor them, they will work lazily. So, I had to stay at site at all times to make sure all work were completed. My wish came true! Work completed at 5.10PM. Carried out joint site visit with OPS and signed off Permits at 5.20PM! Yeah, tonight can have a great sleep! Huhu… Sunday is only for major housekeeping and demob activities.

OPS given schedule:
Tuesday 7AM – Sunday 6PM

Our work:
Tuesday 9AM – Saturday 5.20PM Woooohooooooooooooooooo!!!

Really appreciate my work supervisors for their dedication and hard work! Of course busiest doesn’t mean only because of this s/d. In between I had to present QC Tender Plan paper, meeting for other PCs and etc… whole body felt pain ady now >.<