Daily Routine
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@SimCoug: Thank you! In fact, I'm populating the coasts bit by bit as I take pictures of them. Ploping everything in a single streak would be a quite long and repetitive task...
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@Mithrik: If Al Qurayyah makes you think in the RL emirates, then I'm doing my work fine.
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Feels good to update again after such a long hiatus! The Winter Simlympics bid has got me a bit SC4-busy lately, but decided to exchange the snow for sand for a while.
Several days had gone since I started working in PetroQurayyah. There were many things to learn, but my colleagues were all very nice to me and I was learning really fast to do my job. I soon learnt that my job as an engineer wouldn't consist of being stuck at my desk during 8 hours, but also to go solving problems around all facilities throughout the emirate.
As every day, the alarm clock rang, woke up, had a shower, had my breakfast while staring at the Persian Sea from my apartment. I let Moby music play on the iHome during the morning routine.
Got on the car and went to the PetroQurayyah building, traffic was always fluid in Al-Qurayyah. Got to my workplace and had a coffee from a nearby Nespresso machine. One week later, the sights from my office kept impressing me. Nobody working at Al Burj, the tower where PetroQurayyah's HQ is placed, would ever complain about the sights.
I was doing my regular job for about three or four hours, until I recieved a call from one of our refineries, from the largest one. They were having problems with a cracking tower and the presence of an engineer was required. It wasn't my first field trip to an oil rig or a refinery, but this one would the the first time I wouldn't be with a colleague. I was quite nervous when exited the underground parking lot and got again into Sheikh Rahim bin Al Attiyah Road again, but this time, I headed south.
I was leaving Al Qurayyah Convention Center while my music was playing, I wasn't much in a hurry to get to South Beach refinery, so decided to enjoy the sights a little bit while driving at low speed.
Al-Qurayyah's South District isn't as skyscraper crowded as Center District, but there are still many impressive (and quite ugly) structures here and there. That green building is definately an eyesore, as many others in this emirate.
The peninsula where the city is placed ends once you cross the bridge (it has no name as far as I know). Below this bridge, it's not uncommon to see massive container ships trying to reach the harbour. This narrow strait is the only way to reach Al-Qurayyah's harbour, and thus, it has an intense ship traffic 24/7. A nearby control tower is responsible of handling all that traffic.
South Beach refinery wasn't far from here, I only had to keep on the highway and exiting when I was in front of a huge and dirty structure. There are only two structures in southern Al-Qurayyah to be seen from virtually everywhere. One of them is the Reservoir Dome, and the other one is South Beach refinery.
It is curious to see that the compound isn't even fenced. There's only a control gate at the access road, but anything else. Nobody in Al-Qurayya feels the need of breaking into a refining facility. If you have money, you don't want to be in trouble with the cops or, even worse, PetroQurayyah, if you are poor, you don't want to be kicked out to your country of origin.
Parked the car in a nearby parking lot, placed the sun hood at the windshield and got my stuff, wishing there was only a control failure at the cracking tower.
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