Still here

That's it, I am officially the worst blogger in the world...sorry about the long silence.

After arriving in Basecamp I thought I would take a couple of days to settle in and find my bearings. Like in every office-even when it is just a caravan-there is a work pattern, which I like to understand before creating my own space.

I spent Wednesday working on my first end-of-well report, trying to bring together all information from the drilling part (ie what I have been collecting in the field, but in this case for wells drilled a year or two ago) as well as for the completion part (ie what the PTs do to the well after we leave it cemented; mostly perforation, which involves shooting holes into the cement/casing at the height of the reservoir, in order to produce the oil).

Wednesday was also shift change day and saw the arrival of Simon from Rijswijk, on his first rotation. He is here to look at the exploration wells but while we wait for the new rig he will be trained on the production wells. He stayed here on Wednesday night and went out to pad 7 yesterday evening, so he is now in the good care of Radik.

Yesterday was a rather busy day-I was hoping to finish my first report but after an internet-less morning some people from Rijswijk and Tyumen were visiting so a lot of the day was spent helping them get organised to go in the field, and then attending a training course from Paul vdH on reservoir fracturing. I didn't know anything on the topic so it was very interesting for me.
After that I went to a well completion meeting with the PTs to see how that goes, which was nice because all but one well discussed were wells I had just drilled on pad 5 and pad 7.
So here we are today, and I am just proudly finishing up my report...before starting a new one. Gilles will be here till Sunday and it is fun being in the office with Sergey as we can properly catch up, and Anna (TA) who is efficient as ever.








Here is a photo of some of us in the office: Sasha, new Sasha, Sergey, Anna and me.