Collecting Beer Labels, brewerania, & Oilfield Memorabilia. Also buys & sells these items. Other interests include writing, golf, & visiting the 19th hole. Also runs an online shop at cafepress selling t-shirts, sweatshirts, mugs, mousemats, caps, & some prints. This shop is at
Themes include the international oilfield working lifestyle, drinking humour, adult humour, blue collar workers, political. Some oriental interest, & a few military. There are about 450 designs to choose from. This shop is still under construction, as is its portal site ..
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True life, adventure,travel & humour. Such as "Don't Tell Mum I Work On The Rigs, She Thinks I'm A Piano Player In A Whorehouse". This best selling book by Australian oilman Paul Carter tells of the author's humorous adventures while working in the oilfields of the world.
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The late Red Adair, legendary American oilfield firefighter & oil well blow out control expert. A brief biography & photos & videos of oilfield fires, ie: Kuwait,& other instances, all part of Red Adair's amazing achievements can be seen at his website:
http://www.redair.com
Boozykelly was created to celebrate the tough working lifestyle & achievements of Oilmen around the globe.
Boozykelly's shop owner, who is semi-retired, has so far spent more than 25 years working in The International Oilfield World, all around the globe in fierce storms in freezing seas, steamy jungles & in roasting hot deserts amidst choking sandstorms. Such countries & places included The Western Desert in Egypt, The Sahara Desert, The Searing Hot Deserts of The Sultanate of Oman, The Turkmenistan Desert, Saudi Arabia, Offshore Egypt, Russia, Spain, Tunisia, Qatar, The Rain Forests & Jungles of Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, The Mountains & Deserts of Pakistan, The Inhospitable North Sea in Scotland & Denmark, The Southern North Sea, Holland, War Ravaged Angola & The Congo.
"Boozykelly" has had many hair-raising adventures during his long oilfield career. Among them fighting a fire on an oil rig, & being arrested at gunpoint & detained by armed Saudi, Egyptian, & Gabonnaise police, & by the Egyptian Army. And on other occasions was robbed by "officers" of all these police forces; but you can't argue with a gun pointing at you menacingly. And while in Angola worked in minefields to the tune of gunfire with the corpses of dead soldiers laying nearby, and escaped a bizarre kidnap attempt in Egypt in an unlikely setting, to name but a few.
Working in the Oil Industry is a tough lifestyle. And is dangerous, & can be stressful. And this takes a toll. A few of my colleagues have perished in a helicopter crash, an airplane crash, & in offshore accidents. Others survived similar accidents. Others have committed suicide. Others drank themselves to death. And two committed atrocious murders. Some died of skin cancer caused by working in hot deserts. But that's the oil game, & part & parcel of bringing the consumer their oil derived products.
So after reading this introduction, & viewing my t-shirt website with designs that reflect oilfield life, when you fill up your vehicle's fuel tank, or oil a squeaky door hinge, you'll just have a small inkling of what oil exploration, drilling, well completion, & production is like for the oilmen who make these everyday tasks possible.
Oil is a contentious issue at present in respect of the Iraq War & Global Warming. But whatever people's opinions & views are, the fact remains that the world needs oil, & will do for decades to come. As there's no viable alternative at present. Nuclear power of course would solve some energy issues, but environmentalists are against expansion of this energy source.
In the near future there are fantastic plans to retrieve Helium-3 from the Moon, & ferry it to the Earth via space shuttles; this substance will provide great energy, but will not solve all energy needs.
Many people just associate oil with fuel for vehicles, or aircraft or ships. But if a vehicle engine that ran on water was made available tomorrow, along with meaningful methods of harnessing solar energy for economic everyday use, oil would still be required to manufacture & produce a host of essential everyday products such as paint, natural gas, domestic heating oil, industrial fuel oil, nail polish, synthetic rubbers & plastics, fertilizers, herbicides, insect repellents, asphalt for road surfacing, roofing, guitar strings, synthetic fibres such as nylon, wax, petroleum jelly, vitamin capsule casings, detergents, shoe polish, perfume, panty-hose, & toothpaste. These are just a few oil derived products. There's also the matter of electricity.
Many power stations are fired by oil or gas to produce electric power. So a world without oil would plunge back to pre-Victorian times, & with the huge population of the globe today, chaos would result. Just think, no ships, no vehicles, no planes, no trains, no everyday products, no electricity for hospitals, schools, industrial or domestic use. The infirm would suffer. Factories would close. Jobs would be lost. Things would just about come to a standstill. Yes, a real big problem a world without oil. And don't forget gas is produced as a by product of oil production, & on its own & is as essential to modern life as is oil.
Oilmen don't start wars, politicians do. Oilmen are neutral, motivated, dedicated professionals with a difficult, demanding, dynamic & dangerous job to do. And they just go & get on with it, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, regardless of danger, inclement weather, war, toxic gas, love or anything else. To provide for supply & demand.
A suitable motto for oilmen might be "Make Hole Not War" as they would not be sympathetic to a policy of "Blood for Oil".
As for global warming there are as many or more scientists disagreeing with the cause, as apart from the fact that overactivity by the sun may be causing it, the earth has survived many such severe periods of climate upheaval over the eons of its existence.
As mentioned above, & as indicated further here, working in the oil industry is a dangerous activity. The Piper Alpha was an offshore oil production platform standing in deep water in the North Sea, about 100 miles off the North East Coast of Scotland. After a serious mishap aboard the giant facility on the night of 6th July 1988 which resulted in massive, catastrophic explosions which killed 167 oilmen, most of the giant structure collapsed & sank to the bottom of the North Sea hundreds of feet below. The impressive memorial to these oilmen is in Hazlehead Park, Aberdeen. Working in the oilfields of the world is a hazardous occupation, as indicated elsewhere on this website, but fortunately large scale disasters resulting in huge loss of life are rare, but they do occur. Other examples are:-
In 1982, The Ocean Ranger, a semi-submersible drilling rig which capsized & sank in Canadian waters, resulting in the deaths of 84 oilmen, the entire crew. In 1980 the Alexander Kiellund, a former semi-submersible drilling rig which had been converted into a flotel, or floating accommodation vessel for oilmen in the North Sea, suffered a structural failure, partially sank & almost capsized, killing 123 oilmen. In 2001, a Petrobras offshore oil production platform sank offshore Brazil after several explosions. 11 oilmen perished in this accident. Another oil drilling rig sank in the South China Sea, apparently due to a typhoon, resulting in a large number of deaths. In another oil rig accident in the Middle East many oilmen perished when toxic gas from a blow out escaped into their immediate atmosphere. Apart from large scale disasters, many other accidents occur causing individual fatality, or severe injury such as the loss of a limb. Getting to a rig or well site is also hazardous, helicopters & planes crash in bad weather. Oil industry divers have a particularly hazardous occupation & also occasionally suffer fatalities.
Oilmen are professionals, & take risks as part of their job, & although they take their work seriously, oilmen retain their sense of humour, & are prone to let off steam back on the beach, or civilisation, after a long tough job in some remote offshore or land location. And since oilmen retain their sense of humour in difficult circumstances, many of the designs on the t-shirt site were created to reflect this & to celebrate this tough working lifestyle & their achievements.
As for so-called "Big Oil", businessmen are businessmen, & are profit motivated, no matter what activity they are in.
The Oriental Designs were featured as I have a great interest in Oriental things having lived in the Far East for many years & have a Chinese stepmother.
As for the military interest, this stems from the fact the armed forces deserve all great support & respect for their dangerous duties & sacrifices.
As for politics, & politicians, they are a pain in the ass, but that's democracy. They exist & have to be voted for.
A popular oil field sticker design frequently sold at htt'://www.cafepress.com/boozykelly. More than 1200 other oilfield sticker designs are also available.
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