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Here are a couple of photos of outside now here on Easter Monday, looks like it will be a beatiful day.

Inflyttningsfest

Hello All,

I have been very lazy lately with the blog and have many entries to make including Windwarior Australia Tour, Skiing in Åre Sweden, Ice Hotel in Lillehammer etc. For now I will put up a couple of Photos from my house warming party that was held a few weeks back (called a Inflyttningsfest). Had a bout 30 people over for the evening and turned out to be a great night ending around 0400 am. I will let the phoos tell the rest of the story.

A few of the part guests when they were looking sober at the start of the evening
A well stocked fridge at the start of the evening

Air Guitar on the dance floor

The Dance Floor
A few of the Guests (Kjetil and Lars) even prepared some food during the night

The Aftermath

France

Hi There, here is some photos from the France trip, will post more soon,




















Here is a picture of that Tower thing that they have in Paris...... I have forgotten the name of it.















And here is a photo of Joel , Em, Sal and myself under the tower

A picture of joel near the bus that was going to L'Alpe D'Huez, an Iconical cycling mountain

Lots of Excitement on the bus on the way to the Alps.

And some very 'Average' weather upon our arrival

The View from the window of the apartment.

The all important Jagermeister important for any Ski trip

Amazing Mountains

And More Mountains

To the top for a beer

View from the top AGAIN

Enjoying the beer

Words from a poor man

Hello all,

Well an exciting morning and I have bought a house in Stavanger. The suburd is called Våland and I will be living just around the corner from Emma and Joel, which will be great for the occasional dinner. Finding it a little hard to work today feeling a combination between sick and excited. Here is a grand tour of the house.

This is the lounge room, door opens to the deck in the bottom right corner

Viewing from the yard back up to the house, I am the first floor and the cellar

Here is the mamoth kitchen that you could cook up a storm for a whole cricket team (or more appropriatly a Ice Hockey Team)

The Bedroom which is pretty small but the living spaces are huge.

The entrance hall, the left is the lounge and the right is the kitchen

The entrance again looking towards the bedroom and bathroom

The Bath room which is very new.

Another shot of the kitchen

From the lounge looking onto the living and kitchen space, The door leads onto the deck.

The living space, looking from the kitchen.

The living space again and the kitchen to the right.

And to enjoy the sun when it is out is the deck

And looking back up towards the house from the yard.

I also have the cellar which is approximately the size of the house again below for bikes etc. Move in on the 1st of febuary so looking forward to then for the house warming.

Cheers
Ryan

Australia!

As some of ou may or may not be aware I had a quick surprise visit down under over the last 2 weeks. Sorry to those of you in OZ that I did not get a chance to catch up with but it was a very quick visit. I will opst some photos early next week of the trip which included Perth, Karratha and Geraldton for the Wind Warrior tour 2007. Now I am back home in Stavanger and tonight will be atending the company christmas party.

Cheers
Ryan

Still Offshore

Hello Hello, Still bouncing around offshore in the North sea. Have had some pretty bad weather lately so the whole crew has been struggling to sleep a little. We transitted into port yesterday as the weather was not that good and one of the girls on the Marine crew's father was sick so we went to port to let her off the boat. The transit to port took about 18 hrs as we had VERY bad weather, at the start we had 55 knots of wind and it was gusting to 65 Kts, thats pretty windy and the boat was only going about 3 knots. Needless to say we had some good waves aswell so no one got any sleep during that time. We stayed in a fjord last night so that atleast one shift (day shift) could get some sleep, luckily that was my shift so I am now fully recharged.

We have just left for transit again out to field and the Nav screen in front of me reads 11hrs to go and we are currently moving along at 8.5 Kts. I dont think the night shift will be getting much sleep again as it is still pretty rough outside and this boat moves around ALOT.

Have just completed the standard morning routine of a coffee with a couple of freshly made croissants’ (who really knows how to spell that word anyway) and a quick read of the morning paper. It looks like when we get back to field that we will have the chance to get some work done for quite a long period, unless the weather forcast changes. Unfortunately it is getting late in the year and we are loosing alot of time to weather.

Anyway thats it for now, still have a couple of weeks left out here I would say until the project is complete.

Until then Ha det bra.

Ryan

Kristiansund

Hello all, well we have had a couple of days waiting on weather in Kristiansund. Have been keeping ourselves amused with a bit of poker of an evening, and some coffee and croissants during the day. Here are a few photos of the "horrible" weather we have been experiencing in a fjord near Kristiansund.






















This is a photo from earlier in the campaign of sunset out on the North sea.






























Full moon on a fjord near Kristiansund



































Snow capped mountians in the distance.






























Full moon again on a perfectly still evening










































An amazing Sunset



























Could not stop taking photos of this sunset.

Thats it for now, hopefully get back out to sea within the next day or so.

Cheers
Ryan

Well Nothing new to report just thought I would post a photo of Aasgard B Platform at night. Still waiting on weather here and looks like we will get some good waves on Friday (up to 12m).

Offshore

Hello all,

Well I am back out bobbing around on the North Sea at the moment. The vessel got a bit of work done over the last couple of days, we installed a spool and tied it in to a manifold, it then was tied into the flowline at the other side by another company Technip and is now ready to transport oil to a platform near by so al,l you people out there can drive your cars etc. Though I am not sure if it all the way to OZ.

We now have some more work to do at another template, we have to change out a subsea manifold (43 tonnes) and a few other things like cutting and retrieving some pipe from the sea bed. At the moment we are waiting on weather and cannot do any work, it could be like this for a few days. So it is a nice easy shift tonight, just eating food and drinking beer (alcohol free of course).

I have also included a plot of the weather forecast over the next few days. At this stage I will be on board till the 3rd of October (although this will definitely change) and will come back on board again for the final week of operation in Mid to late October, but that all depends on when the project is finished.




Alcohol free beer on board the vessel. (actually does not taste too bad but will revert to the real deal when back on land)



Aasgard B Platform in the North Sea



An Ugly Technip Vessel doing the other end of the spool tie in.

The weather forecast for the next few days.

West Coast of Norway

We are currently steaming up the West Coast of Norway to Kristiansund where I will depart the Skandi Bergen. Here are some photos of the sunrise on the Norwegian west coast on a perfectly calm day in the North Sea.

Ha det bra.

Ryan