Petrotrin

PETROTRIN

We went to Petrotin at 8:AM, we started with Mr. Patrick Vincent talking about […]

A. A.

Durant notre visite à Petrotrin , nous avons assisté à une présentation par certains superviseurs de différents quartiers de la compagnie de pétrole. Cette présentation a duré plus d'une heure et ensuite on a posé des questions dont certaines sont restées sans réponses claires.

F. D.

Tuesday, October 30th

Today we went to Petrotrin at 8:00 am. We had to dress with covered dresses. When we arrived they warned us that we must not take photos. There were some confidential things on the site. People greeted it us well. They presented us the Petrotrin company which is the fusion of the companies : Trintoc and companies as British Petroleum, Tesoro and Trintopec.

During the presentation I asked Patrick Vincent, a strategy specialist in Petrotrin, a question. Because more and more there are rumors saying oil will finish in the few years to come so I wondered « what they will do when the oil market falls into the water? » .

He answered that people had said that for many years and it's not yet the case so for him there are no reasons to be afraid. On the other hand their presentation seemed to me not quite objective because they showed only the good sides.

M. K.

We woke up early today for a one hour and thirty minutes ride to the reason for our trip and we finally arrived… in front of a resort, well not really it's a sort of private club where the worker can relax, with the swimming pool and golf field (of course it's just one part of their property), and the
many other facilities the group has, even the restroom was luxurious.

After that, we were welcomed in a room and stayed in there for two hours, where six people came presenting Petrotrin, what they do, where they export and how they render noxious gases and acids, harmless to some extent.

We then, had a tour around the place where we could find reservoirs,coloured pipes and buildings, the blue ones are control room, and each of the pipes has a different purpose, and a flare. The guide also made a quizz to see if we actually listened to what she said. The only negative point is that we couldn't take any pictures or film during it.

In our schedule, we planned to visit San Fernando but it seems that it wasn't for our driver, and because of the traffic, we went back to the guest house.

T. C.

I remember that the guide explained to us the different functions of each demijohn, there are :

a green one, a blue one and a red one which possess a specific function.

Some place was burnt a little bit because the pipes were very warm, that's why they immerse those pipes in water so as to cool them.

We were not authorized to walk around because it's a protected site.

There is a room building to honor the queen of England but she never used it then they transformed it into a reception premises.

L. B.

Gasparee Caves

GASPAREE CAVE

Notre journée a débuté à 8h30, après le petit-déjeuné , nous avons pris le bus en direction de la mer . Notre lieu de séjour étant éloigné de  la mer, le trajet a été très long, arrivés sur place on a pris un bateau pour aller sur l'île Gaspar Grande. S'est alors ensuivi un long moment de marche

pour  rejoindre notre lieu de repos, où l'on a laissé notre nourriture et nos sacs. On a ensuite descendudans la grotte qui est un lieu peu sombre, on descendant on avait l'impression de s'enfoncer dans la terre , plus on avançait plus on remarquait que la grotte était beaucoup plus grande.

Notre guide nous a expliqué que les roches de la grotte se formaient à partir d'une réaction chimique où figurait l'acide carboxylique. Il nous a également fait savoir que les formations de roches supérieures sont des stalactites et que celles du bas sont des stalagmites. On pouvait difficilement se cramponner aux barres car elles étaient un peu sales. La grotte est peuplée de chauves-souris que l'on pouvait facilement voir en levant la tête.

Monday, October 30th

                                         Gasparee Caves

Hello,

We took the road on 8h30 am and we took maybe 30 minutes to arrive to the meeting place which was at the sea side. We had to take the boat to get the island and Gasparee Caves,

 

It was a short travel but the view from the boat was wonderful and the island even more again. The particularity of Gasparee Caves is that it's a natural system of limestone caverns. So when we arrived , the guide told us that the rocks in the caves formed from a chemical reaction called carboxylic acid reaction. We walked a few kilometers and after that we went down at the bottom of the Blue Grotto (100 feet underground) and found a mysterious clear tidal pool. It was one of most beautiful things I saw in this world. The cave contained interesting stalagmite and stalactite formations as « the buddha », « the lovers » or « Virgin Mary ». But the silhouette that looks like Michael Jackson which is doing the moonwalk had really marked me. The visit was just awesome.