Check out this entertaining post by Tim Newman, who is currently spending a month working on an offshore platform near Russia’s Sakhalin Island. Apparently the food is quite amazing. Who knew?
I always find posts like this interesting because, while I also work in the oil & gas industry, it’s from a comfortable, climate-controlled office in downtown Washington, DC. Much respect for the guys out in the field who make it all possible.
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