Authors’ Corner

No matter if you’re a published author or are working on your first book, Kidela is looking for you. Contact us to have your work featured in Author’s Corner. Below are some recent entries from some of our featured authors.

While we were waiting for the project to begin…

May 16, 2012 | By: Rick Ranson

The refinery had an explosion and fire last summer. A crew of my fellow Boilermakers were hired to de-construct the melted pipes, heat exchangers, furnaces and fin fan heat exchangers. The whole place looks like a black Salvador Dali painting. Today the guys who were the...

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Walk fast and look worried

May 15, 2012 | By: Rick Ranson

“Is that it?” Said the crew when we first saw where the refinery fire had been. The deceptively small burnt area was a rusted twisted blackened negative of what once was there, but it wasn’t massive like the media inferred. The ruined area is the size of a four apartment block,...

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I want to borrow a truck

May 14, 2012 | By: Rick Ranson

My new apprentice asked whether I still had my truck because he wanted to move his stuff out of his girlfriend’s apartment. Her husband is getting out of prison. ...

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I got her job

May 12, 2012 | By: Rick Ranson

The instructor was droning on and on about the importance of staying at your post. “At last year’s Shutdown, when the low air alarm went off the young girl that was Bottle-watch panicked. She ran away leaving three workers with no air.” I piped up. “Yeah I know,...

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There’s dangerous… And then there’s “Ohhh Shooooot!”

May 10, 2012 | By: Rick Ranson

The fire in the refinery stopped any slow controlled shutdown. There was no running steam through the pipes for days. There’s no blanking off of spools and heat exchangers isolating potential hot spots. That block of the refinery just stopped. When they had the fire, the decision...

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