26/3 – Last day of lectures

Yup, the end is getting awfully near. The last week has started, and Monday is the last day of classes. It’s a familiar subject for me, economics. Petroleum economics to be precise. NPV calculations mostly, and project performance indicators. It’s my turn to sit back and hear the ruckus in the class; this stuff is as hard for most people here as well logging is to me.

The work on petroleum economics continues all day. I had asked Edwanee airtime to show the GLT video, and the DVD was standing by, but it’s hard to get airtime in this course; all lecturers have 25% more material then they can squeeze into their time slot. The GLT video would have fitted quite nicely with the gas processing, as well as the economics, but Edwanee has to make the calls. It’s going to be GLT or a doco on the Piper Alpha disaster, and he opts for the latter. I can concur with the decision; the doco is a dramatized version of what happened on the platform, on which 168 lost their lives in a terrible chain of events. The lessons learnt from it are still relevant. It’s a horrifying story though.

After classes we play football for the last time this course, and then Chia, his girlfriend and me join up with Simon, Frank, Severine and Tan to have some seafood. Another day has passed, just four more to go…