Round trip

Yesterday mid-morning, Sergey, Michal and I went to the wellsite.
I was the designated driver, so it was back to the Niva-another one, with an interesting transmission...I could hear rattling sounds if I took my foot off the accelerator; the steering wheel was very hard to turn; the car generally pulled to the left...and those were just the obvious ones. Let's not mention trying to reverse down a road with no reverse lights...









Anyway, we went to pad 7, where things started to look like a geologist convention as all geologists and technicians seemed to appear at the same time...9 of us +Michal! I got a hug from my friend Irina in the kitchen, which was nice, though I had to tell her I was not coming back till next shift.
We left Radik and Simon to it, and drove on...we went to visit pad 5 and then took the winter road to pad 16 :-) this time I took lots of photos but they are on someone else's camera so I will post them tomorrow. Then on to pad 20 (the first one built here!) then pad 1, pad 9 and finally pad 26, where we dropped off Michal. He will be staying in the field for a couple of days to see what it's like.








Sergey and I then drove to pad 54 which was the original reason for driving out: we wanted to see a VSP-Vertical Seismic Profiling- log. It is basically a way of seismically imaging the borehole, which would have been really interesting to see. Except...yes, this is Operations, and things just don't turn out as we want them to. So we just joined the other Sergey and double Sasha for dinner.
Apparently in Russia, if you stand between 2 people with the same name, you can make a wish. So loads of things should happen to me now!!
Got back around 9pm and had an early night, but I still feel the need for a/many lie-in(s). 2 days to go...