Another week in the Hague...

Last week seemed to fly past quite quickly, getting stuck in to some Tunisia work then spending most afternoons following the well in Pakistan...several of us became completely addicted to Insite Anywhere, the tool that allows you to see how drilling is going, which was a bit of a problem because they were drilling so slowly, and of course, things keep going wrong!

Monday night salsa (halfway through the course now, and enjoying it!), Tuesday night Russian lesson (yes, I started again :-) then dinner with Radik, Florian and a few others, Wednesday was a quiet evening and Thursday went round to Allison's to get briefed on Gracie's stay with us this week...ended up taking the dog home! So Gracie came to stay on Thursday night and will be with us till next Sunday.




















Friday was a bit of a mad day - or supposed to be, at any rate. I found out on Thursday evening that I had to do the ops on the Pakistan well as Hermann was going to be in London for a business meeting! Just as we were about to go into reservoir...so I was a little scared but pretty excited and decided to come in early on Friday to play around with Hermann's workstation-nothing scarier than having to make decisions with tools you don't know well.

So, Friday morning early, logged into Insite Anywhere...to find that they had pulled out of hole! (to change the drill bit-this was because they wanted to put a steerable assembly on, as they had been deviating instead of drilling straight down. Never mind the fact that we had asked to keep going...) Pretty disappointing, as I didn't have much left to do on that.


However, this meant that I could go in the afternoon to help with a Business Continuity exercise-basically testing out emergency response systems in case something happened to our office in Rijswijk. The idea is that business critical people are moved to another main office and here we were testing out the set-up in the Hague. It was a pretty interesting experience, and meant I could also walk straight home at the end of it.

















Matthew arrived on Saturday morning so we went to wait for him at the station. Had a nice relaxing weekend and even managed a nice long walk in the woods yesterday as it was sunny (but freezing!). The dog fell asleep in the afternoon and hardly woke up till this morning! (we weren't far off either-although I still managed to bake a pineapple cake and make a risotto for dinner :-)