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Date:      Fri, 7 Aug 1998 20:39:41 +1000 (EST)
From:      John Birrell  <jb@cimlogic.com.au>
To:        dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=)
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/conf GENERIC
Message-ID:  <199808071039.UAA04668@cimlogic.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <xzpvho5nl07.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no> from =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag=2DErling_Coidan_Sm=F8rgrav?= at "Aug 7, 98 12:28:56 pm"

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Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav wrote:
> They're still pretty rabid about accidents (they have other QHSE
> posters all over the place with photographs and schematics of
> accidents involving Schlumberger employees) but I don't think they
> actually fire people for that (unless it's a case of drunk driving or
> something). And I can understand the part about wells; you don't get a
> second chance with those things. If you blow your charges to high up
> in the well, you're pretty likely to flood the reservoir and lose a
> couple of hundred billion dollars' worth of oil or gas, not to mention
> waste the entire exploration and drilling costs.
> 
> Then again, I've been told the European region is more lax with these
> things (and discipline in general) than the American region, so YMMV.

This was in South-East Asia (Japan, China, Phillipines, Malaysia).

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John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/
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