Today was my last day in QCS Project.
I joined the project, before the bidding, in June 2005. I remember that time, I was in a construction site in Indonesian jungle in Sumatra, my boss called me from Japan, instructed me to return to home office soon to join the newly started project, our company third large LNG project in Qatar.
End of 2005, we were awarded the project to build 2 of the 6 largest LNG plants in the world. After working at engineering stage in Yokohama, my boss took me with him to construction site in Qatar. Since then I had been working with my boss, till his demobilization on 10 January 2011, then I earned the manager title for the first time.
In 2005, there were only papers, then early 2006, excavation was started. Building of foundations, erection of large equipments, then installation of piping and instrumentation. After lots of struggle with many things, including our subcontractors and our client, finally we managed to hand over the plants in 2010. Now the plants are running, producing LNG, being exported to several countries, contributing million of dollars to our client and to Qatari people.
Since it was a joint venture between Japanese and French companies, I worked with a lot of Japanese and French people. It was said that more than 60 nationalities were involved, and during peak times, there were more than 30,000 employee involved in the project.
Thanks to this project, besides technical experiences, I got experience to interact with so many different people from different background.
Living in Qatar for 4 years 7 months already!
Living in a camp in the industrial area, far from the city!
As I described in previous blog about camp life, it was really not bad.
Good Japanese and Western food is provided, there are cleaning and laundry service.
Sports facilities such as gym, swimming pool, tennis court, pingpong etc.
Thanks to company policy, allowing us to take 3 times 2 weeks holiday in a year. And thanks to the policy to provide the flight ticket budget, I managed to go to many countries in Africa, Middle East, Europe, North and South America, increased the number of countries I visited to 63 countries.
2 weeks ago, my boss came to site, and requested me to go to other project in the same area in Ras Laffan. Though I heard a lot of ugly things about that project, I decided to go, in order to get other site experience. I requested my boss to give me 1 month vacation before joining the project.
Here I am, waiting for my flight in several hours, starting my first 1 month travel, the longest traveling I have ever started. Going to the west, started in south Italy to visit a friend and to see the blue cave in Capri Island. Then crossing the Atlantic, stop over in Chicago to watch Usher concert, then fly to Las Vegas, to see my brother and sister, and watch Glee and Kylie concerts. Then will go south to Mexico. From there, I will also go to Cuba. Then will stop a few day to visit Krakow in Poland before returning to Qatar.
Here I go...
I joined the project, before the bidding, in June 2005. I remember that time, I was in a construction site in Indonesian jungle in Sumatra, my boss called me from Japan, instructed me to return to home office soon to join the newly started project, our company third large LNG project in Qatar.
End of 2005, we were awarded the project to build 2 of the 6 largest LNG plants in the world. After working at engineering stage in Yokohama, my boss took me with him to construction site in Qatar. Since then I had been working with my boss, till his demobilization on 10 January 2011, then I earned the manager title for the first time.
In 2005, there were only papers, then early 2006, excavation was started. Building of foundations, erection of large equipments, then installation of piping and instrumentation. After lots of struggle with many things, including our subcontractors and our client, finally we managed to hand over the plants in 2010. Now the plants are running, producing LNG, being exported to several countries, contributing million of dollars to our client and to Qatari people.
Since it was a joint venture between Japanese and French companies, I worked with a lot of Japanese and French people. It was said that more than 60 nationalities were involved, and during peak times, there were more than 30,000 employee involved in the project.
Thanks to this project, besides technical experiences, I got experience to interact with so many different people from different background.
Living in Qatar for 4 years 7 months already!
Living in a camp in the industrial area, far from the city!
As I described in previous blog about camp life, it was really not bad.
Good Japanese and Western food is provided, there are cleaning and laundry service.
Sports facilities such as gym, swimming pool, tennis court, pingpong etc.
Thanks to company policy, allowing us to take 3 times 2 weeks holiday in a year. And thanks to the policy to provide the flight ticket budget, I managed to go to many countries in Africa, Middle East, Europe, North and South America, increased the number of countries I visited to 63 countries.
2 weeks ago, my boss came to site, and requested me to go to other project in the same area in Ras Laffan. Though I heard a lot of ugly things about that project, I decided to go, in order to get other site experience. I requested my boss to give me 1 month vacation before joining the project.
Here I am, waiting for my flight in several hours, starting my first 1 month travel, the longest traveling I have ever started. Going to the west, started in south Italy to visit a friend and to see the blue cave in Capri Island. Then crossing the Atlantic, stop over in Chicago to watch Usher concert, then fly to Las Vegas, to see my brother and sister, and watch Glee and Kylie concerts. Then will go south to Mexico. From there, I will also go to Cuba. Then will stop a few day to visit Krakow in Poland before returning to Qatar.
Here I go...
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