# Watch out for Turkmen food! **URL:** \ **Category:** Canada Nissan Automotive\ **Created:** [May 5, 2007, 8:50am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watch-out-for-turkmen-food/146647 "2007-05-05T08:50:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Smokebaby](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/smokebaby/32/5817_2.png) [@Smokebaby](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Smokebaby)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2007, 8:50am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watch-out-for-turkmen-food/146647/1 "2007-05-05T08:50:43Z")
Greetings from Turkmenistan! ![http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n85/keych/Turkmenistan/TurkmenFood.jpg](http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n85/keych/Turkmenistan/TurkmenFood.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Garret\_Volden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@Garret\_Volden](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Garret_Volden)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 2:00pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watch-out-for-turkmen-food/146647/2 "2007-05-06T14:00:43Z")
lol wtf ? ---
**Author:** ![Smokebaby](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/smokebaby/32/5817_2.png) [@Smokebaby](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Smokebaby)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 11:38pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watch-out-for-turkmen-food/146647/3 "2007-05-06T23:38:00Z")
Out here starting up a gas processing plant. Went out to one of their wellheads when they started flaring, so took some pics, some got silly. Its all in the positioning. ---
**Author:** ![Last\_Fuse](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/last_fuse/32/5847_2.png) [@Last\_Fuse](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Last_Fuse)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 12:39am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watch-out-for-turkmen-food/146647/4 "2007-05-07T00:39:28Z")
I hope those flares are intentional… ---
**Author:** ![Smokebaby](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/smokebaby/32/5817_2.png) [@Smokebaby](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Smokebaby)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 5:52pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watch-out-for-turkmen-food/146647/5 "2007-05-07T17:52:02Z")
Most of the time, yes, but I have been around for a couple of unintentional ones… ---
**Author:** ![Last\_Fuse](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/last_fuse/32/5847_2.png) [@Last\_Fuse](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Last_Fuse)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 11:05pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watch-out-for-turkmen-food/146647/6 "2007-05-07T23:05:29Z")
> [@Smokebaby](#): > > Most of the time, yes, but I have been around for a couple of unintentional ones… I always love flares… I means they have money to burn or somethings broken. ---
**Author:** ![Doozer](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/doozer/32/5818_2.png) [@Doozer](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Doozer)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2007, 8:03am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watch-out-for-turkmen-food/146647/7 "2007-05-08T08:03:58Z")
> [@Fallen](#): > > I always love flares… I means they have money to burn or somethings broken. Actualy, controlled flaring is a big part of the oil patch. There’s often times when you’re producing oil that you will produce a side amount of natural gas. If there’s no gas processing facility nearby, it’s usually more expensive to pipe the gas to the nearest facility than it is to flare some of it, and use the rest in your own process. Hehehe … I’m a computer geek, but in Calgary, a large part of the software industry is based on the oil & gas industry. You can’t work in one without learning some of the other. ---
**Author:** ![Last\_Fuse](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/last_fuse/32/5847_2.png) [@Last\_Fuse](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Last_Fuse)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 10:31am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watch-out-for-turkmen-food/146647/8 "2007-05-09T10:31:30Z")
It’s a joke that my dad and I came up with (He works at the Imperial Oil here in Edmonton) and we always joked that if it flares then they either have money to burn or somethings busted. Kinda a stupid joke but meh. ---
**Author:** ![Doozer](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/doozer/32/5818_2.png) [@Doozer](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Doozer)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 12:08pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watch-out-for-turkmen-food/146647/9 "2007-05-09T12:08:42Z")
Well, if Colin’s doing work there, I’d say there’s probably at least a 50/50 chance something actually IS broken. 😉 PS - I have absolutely nothing to base that on, but it just felt like the right thing to say. :lol: ---
**Author:** ![Last\_Fuse](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/last_fuse/32/5847_2.png) [@Last\_Fuse](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Last_Fuse)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 6:16pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watch-out-for-turkmen-food/146647/10 "2007-05-09T18:16:32Z")
> [@Doozer](#): > > Well, if Colin’s doing work there, I’d say there’s probably at least a 50/50 chance something actually IS broken. 😉 > > PS - I have absolutely nothing to base that on, but it just felt like the right thing to say. :lol: No worries, it is a bad joke… ---
**Author:** ![Smokebaby](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/smokebaby/32/5817_2.png) [@Smokebaby](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Smokebaby)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 7:44am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watch-out-for-turkmen-food/146647/11 "2007-05-10T07:44:10Z")
Bit of both. We get them to blow down their wells to flare for 24 hrs before we bring them on-line to the plant, gets the crud out of the lines. We learned the hard way about that. When this one lit off, I can honestly say it is the first time EVER I have seen chunks flying out of a flare! Just today we had an ESD at the plant, our flare stack is 175’ tall. The flame was taller than that. It was funny watching all the guards bolt.