Logging soon

Well I went to bed at midnight last night after deciding that it wasn't worth waiting up for TD, as no-one had been supervising the reservoir section anyway. I got up at 5.30 this morning to prepare the geo-report as well as the rest of the paperwork and data for the PEX and XPT runs. Things have taken a bit longer with the drillers so we are going to start logging with Slb in about 1 hour.

Sergey Ryzhkov is here to help me-we have a rule that there should always be 2 geologists for the XPT logging. This is going to be my third one (first one where I am in charge), and after the general panic and problems with the last two, I am hoping this one will go smoothly, especially as I am the one who revised the procedure etc...I would prefer to be fresh and chirpy, which is not the case (already!) but then there's nothing like being thrown straight back in there to keep the mind focussed.

The Slb engineer is going to be Irina-not feeling very happy about that; in fact it rather took the wind out of my sails when Pasha-the-DSV told me that. He is also not looking forward to the occasion, although he will only be popping iin occasionally. She did a PEX last night with Sergey and he told me that she is overtired. With her natural sweet disposition, this will be interesting, especially as this is her first XPT...

Sergey arrived an hour ago and we had lunch. He is already looking completely knackered and it's only day 0.75...he has gone to get some sleep and I said I would keep guard, as I have had the luxury of 5 hours' sleep! Oh dear.

The weather here is cold (-25) and sunny :-) so I am happy. Still fighting the urge to go out for a walk in the sun, which is my body's natural reaction to what it thinks is nice warm or at least bracing weather. The sun is really low now, sunrise lasted about 3 hours, and now at midday it looks like about 5 pm on a normal winter's day (whatever that is). I am looking forward to a long and beautiful sunset...

I cannot resist the bed in the work unit any longer so am going to have a quick snooze as lunch is having its effect!