Tag: Helicopter

This bucket list item was completed on 14th March 2014 in New Plymouth, New Zealand. Once I settled in New Plymouth, the first big boy engineering job I landed was as a project engineer for a company called Core Group Limited. Core Group offer project management and pipeline integrity services to the oil and gas industry in the Taranaki region.  Part of Core Group’s services include conducting helicopter flights along the easements where their clients have pipelines laid. This is to ensure that that are no threats to the pipelines such as civil earth works or farmers digging up their paddock overtop of the pipelines.  I knew that our company conducted these pipeline flights every month and I thought that this might be my chance to cross another item off…