- ∑ D@ily H@pp€nings of ChiaHong™ -: My Laptop is BACK!

People may wonder what my display name on msn (laptop kena makan by bugs) means . It meant what it meant, literally because my laptop was infected with viruses and i was forced to sent it to the OSU IT service center. To my surprise they didnt charge me anything because it is one of the services Resident Life in OSU offers. So was kinda cool except that i was required to buy windows XP professional CD for them to reformat my laptop and the disk only costed 7.50 dollars!! :P Good deal. My laptop is now being BAPTIZED and REBORN!! wahahahaha....

Anyway went to Duncan Oklahoma Halliburton technology and manufacturing site last friday as was stated in my previous post and it was a blast! Get exposed to a lot of really cool engineer's stuffs. Feeling proud to be part of them.

The journey was slightly over 2 hours and i was the co-driver for Dr Thompson and so was required to look at the map and show the route to take. The journey was like one that never ends. The road is straight and the sight around?? I will show you... and you shall experience it yourself. haha.. Furthermore i pretty much needed to be awake all the time to ensure that we are on the right track. Fortunately and unfortunately(to some extent) Dr Thompson is a GREAT SPEAKER. When i asked him about some little thing that i saw on the way, he would explain the entire US history to me and my friend behind asked me secretly after the trip :" HOW THE HELL CAN YOU GUYS KEEP TALKING TALKING TALKING NON-STOP?"

Answer: You think i want meh? What to do?

Anyway here are the photos of our journey to Halliburton:

After 10 minutes of drive

After another 10 minutes

Another 10 minutes

1 hour passed.....

2 hour passed....

After another 10 minutes

then 10 more minutes passed

walao.....

where got end oh like that???

However, we manage to survive the drive and got to Halliburton successfully! yay! lolx.

The technology center

The manufacturing center..

Halliburton is mainly an upstream oil drilling company. They have roughly 55000 employess around the world with one of them located in Johor Bahru. What they do is they supply the equipments and workmanship to companies like Petronas, Shell and other multinational petroleum company to extract the crude oil from thousands of feet under the ground.

Imagine, they drill holes with a 1 feet diameter high technology pipe and cement the surrounding while they drill. Just like that, they are able to drill it thousands of feet under the earth. The deepest they ever drill is 35000 feet below the earth. Imagine, when i came to US, the plane was flying around 30000 feet about sea level and thinking about going that deep into the earth? Only Halliburton and Exxon Mobil can do that. and of course, they need ENGINEERRSSSS!! wahahaha...

We were not allowed to bring any cameras into their manufacturing and technology center because it is like their TOP SECRET stuffs. But it is a good experience there. There's two very cool stuffs that we saw them perform in the technology area. The first is the way they resolve the water that they suck out from the underground from being contaminated with sands.

First, they let us see the sand mixed with water in which the water were kinda contaminated with all the small dust of the sand. Then they mix a chemical and after they shake it, the water is clear. All the sands sink without making the water looks contaminated. Then to further enhance it, they mix another chemical, and shake it, the sand and water went to form a gummy ball. They stick all together and the water is like a rubber ball with all the sand inside of it. What the hell man. They said they engineered the polymers and structure of the water and sand to make it like that. ENGINEERSS.....Impressive. hahaha

It is like the picture above but the difference is, it is translucent with sands literally inside of it. How cool is it.

The next impressive thing is on the cement. How they make the cement to work like how they want it to be when it is underground. First, it is just a normal mixture of cement that is viscous and resisted to flow. Once a chemical were added, the cement became just like the pipe water, seriously. This is to allow the cement to flow faster as it flows down the pipe. Then, add another chemicaL? The cement harden in 2 seconds and he could not open the container anymore because it is fully cement-ed. Crazy engineerss...

We were then treated to a lunch at their canteen and then were brought to the manufacturing department. Btw, did i say how big is the whole site? It is like 3 or 4 golf courses size tentatively.

In the manufacturing part, it is where mechanical engineers (me) will be more interested in. We were introduced to all the history of Halliburton and then the real amazement began. As the door opened, we were required to get our safety glasses on all the time and WOW! is all we can grasp upon.

There are all kinds of machineries inside and all the big trucks that they uses for the drilling. I could not forget how huge one of the truck is. Imagine, looking two storey high, 2 car size wide and probably 50 feet long truck in front of you. WOW WOW WOW!! ...

There is one stop where we visited the device they used to cut small tolerance parts by using LASER! like the one in the star war LASER! They can make all kinda of things just by programming the computer and press the start button and it will do its job all by its own.

Lasers that we saw except that it was computer operating..

Imagine, technology will one day takes over the human world. deng deng deng deng.... :P

It was too much to be blogged during our 6 hours visit there so i am not going to elaborate every single detail about it but we managed to take a photo with out coordinator that brought us around when we were there and they also gave us a bag of Halliburton's souvenir.