I was assigned to the NAR Rig....I think it was....crew changed out of Shiraz and located in the mountains kinda near Lavan Island. French rig...good food very isolated location...two days of crew changes plus maybe a third day for other reasons but mostly standby.
Also remember an Earthquake that killed almost twenty thousand folks if I remember correctly....near the low camp on the BICC if my alcohol ravaged brain is right. We flew over the village that was worst hit for days and saw Backhoes digging trenches to bury the dead.
Best Contract was theh SAIPEM pipeline....not much flying...and excellent chow....and drink!