I often hear and read about Babylon in music and literature and I know it is referring to modern day Iraq but not sure what it is such a metaphor for different things. I think modern civilication is believed to have begun where the Tigris and Euphrates meet.
So I decided to go and check it out for myself. I am very excited to go over and work there on a 28/28 day rotation so very similar to what I did in Yemen. It is start up oil company based out of Abu Dhabi that just purchased a new block in the semi autonomous region of Kurdistan and I will be working in a city called Irbil.
Link to Erbil
Erbil
As with many Middle Eastern Cities they claim to be the oldest inhabited cities on earth. If there is a safe part of Iraq this would be it. Ebril claims to be the new Dubai and from what I have seen on the internet they have Dubai prices (expensive). Lots of modern hotels going up, new shopping centers, and rebuilding the infrastructure and of course with 45 billion barrels of proven reserves lots of oil and gas investment.
As indicated by the countdown that I can't be bothered to buy I start September 15th so it all happened pretty quickly. My first hitch will be for 6 weeks and then I will go back to Houston to sell what I own and will call Nicaragua home again (yippee).
My new boss is my old boss from Yemen so it will be nice to work for Darin again and be part of another start up. I think for my first hitch I will be staying in Abu Dhabi for a bit and then Iraq. I think it will be a hotel until they get their facilities built. And as the geoscientist say, hopefully there will be "good rocks" and a successful start up with great production.
So I decided to go and check it out for myself. I am very excited to go over and work there on a 28/28 day rotation so very similar to what I did in Yemen. It is start up oil company based out of Abu Dhabi that just purchased a new block in the semi autonomous region of Kurdistan and I will be working in a city called Irbil.
Link to Erbil
Erbil
As with many Middle Eastern Cities they claim to be the oldest inhabited cities on earth. If there is a safe part of Iraq this would be it. Ebril claims to be the new Dubai and from what I have seen on the internet they have Dubai prices (expensive). Lots of modern hotels going up, new shopping centers, and rebuilding the infrastructure and of course with 45 billion barrels of proven reserves lots of oil and gas investment.
As indicated by the countdown that I can't be bothered to buy I start September 15th so it all happened pretty quickly. My first hitch will be for 6 weeks and then I will go back to Houston to sell what I own and will call Nicaragua home again (yippee).
My new boss is my old boss from Yemen so it will be nice to work for Darin again and be part of another start up. I think for my first hitch I will be staying in Abu Dhabi for a bit and then Iraq. I think it will be a hotel until they get their facilities built. And as the geoscientist say, hopefully there will be "good rocks" and a successful start up with great production.
Very nice blog and thanks for sharing the information with us.The places are very nice to see and looks different to see.
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