Crystals
Chapter Two
Chief Engineer Habul Shrek arriving inside the control room of the oil drill. There was some confusion by some of the employees wanting to ask him as to why the pressure was building up in pump number one.
"I just came from there Jake. The pressure inside the pump showed normal. Here are the numbers I wrote on the computer pad." He replies to his engineer looking at the gauges in front of him. While everyone else inside went back to there work before getting themselves into trouble.
They don't need any problems right now with only starting up the pumps a few months back and costing the Texaco company a fortune to start it up. Shrek walked around the entire control room. He was able to sense the tension with everyone. And right now they didn't need the problems with corporate headquarters.
He needed to take one last look before going to the mess hall on the fifth level. He was staving and tired having been on duty ten hours, while everyone else just started only a few hours earlier. He had to place his weather gear with the local squall still around with the heavy rains and winds making it difficult with the shifts working around the pumps and dumping the oil and other minerals into the holding containers.
There was even one man injured hurting his right leg with one of the steam pipes blowing to burn him. He was taken to the medical unit to be taken care by the medical doctors and nurses. Doctor Marin on board since the start up had to ask for an helicopter to take his patient to the nearest burn center in the Canary Islands. They weren't able to do anything further for him accept keep an eye out on him from further infection.
Habul taking the elevator to his quarters down below. Felt a tremor for some odd reason thinking that it just might all be in his mind. When in fact it was real as the elevator buckled. Holding on thinking that it might crash to the very bottom of the dwell. The elevator started to move once again and he had to head back to the control room to find out what is going on.
He was hearing all kinds of sirens going off inside asking Jake what the hell happened.
"Number one pump lost pressure with picking up something from the core with some type of new crystal/mineral. The computer wasn't able to understand what the mineral was at the time the pump started to bring it up at 15 miles down." Jake replied with giving him the report off the computer terminal.
"If this happens again. We might be force to shut it down and start up pump number five. And have the employees working this shift to keep a close watch on the build up of pressure. Call me in my quarters if and when there are any further issues Jake." Habul places the report back down onto the computer terminal with walking out with taking the elevator once again to his quarters. Hopefully this time he's going to be successful trying to sleep.
