Ramping up

Well, yesterday was quite an easy-going day, just drilling down from the conductor section. We finished off the Winlog for the previous well so it's nice to have that out of the way, and started making the current one as complete as possible.
This well is interesting and quite exciting as it goes a lot deeper than the usual wells. It is going through another reservoir, below the normal one. So it will be fun to see new rock samples, and try and see if there is enough oil down there to take it further. It is quite a delicate operation as a mistake with depth could mean a blow-out, which is the worst thing that can happen here (basically the whole thing explodes in this situation-see here for an example)
Anyway, to prevent this we need to be a bit intelligent about the geology; luckily, we have some help from the drillers here (yes, it happens ;-) as we are measuring gamma ray while drilling, which means that we can see what rocks are there as we go.
Apart from that we had a visit from our PT friends yesterday-Alex brought Luke up for his first visit of the rig, so we took him up to the drill floor and around the rest of the rig. They also went to see the older wells (the ones below the Christmas Trees) (did I post something on that or just intend to? Let me check) and Alex explained to me how to see the difference between an injector and a producer. Here is a pic of me with Alex and a Christmas Tree.