We were amongst the first to go back in in 1994. We knew it was precarious and it was worse than we thought. Our only luck in the deal is that we were so far out on the edges we didn’t get much attention.
In a quarterly meeting I was asked why we could not get better pricing and more timely attention from service companies....I said: To get to our job you need to drive your trucks and crews past at least 20 bread and butter PDVSA jobs, load up on a barge at a dock nearly in Trinidad, be moved by barge nearly 60 miles, do the job and get back to your base at Maturin. Meanwhile you have turned down multiple jobs because your equipment is tied up. Typical suits, still didn’t get it.
When I was working on a RCCL cruise ship back in 2005, we visited Curacao and I noted lots of oil infrastruture there. Refinieries with flame towers, etc; “Curacao” has always sounded so exotic to me. The reality is, most of these Caribbean islands are dumps.