K7 to K26

Back here with Radik we waited for the reservoir section to be drilled, took and described cuttings (I’m starting to be a pro at this ;-) then waited for SLB to arrive-I went to bed at 8 and Radik picked me up at 12.30am! We did a standard PEX job, with a different crew; the engineer is a Russian girl, Irina, and is definitely less friendly and communicative than Marc. She has had attitude problems and warnings before, but she was OK with us.

We finished the job around 7 am and Radik went to bed (he hadn’t had time to sleep the night before) while I had a sleep in the work unit waiting for SLB results-never mind the beeping batteries and mudloggers computer, I was out like a light! At lunch I woke up Radik and we signed off the logging job. We then went to the CPF and Sergey and Sasha kidnapped me ;-)
The next day I started working with them in pad 26, as it was Sergey’s last few days and he wanted to make sure Sash and I new all the basics. We had a fun few days-Sergey sat me down and made me learn my Russian vocab, and I taught him some English back (although his was quite good already). We went through the motions-reservoir section was planned overnight but actually was delayed due to wash-outs in the drillpipe (this is when a piece of the formation comes off the edges of the hole). So I went to bed at 7pm with the CB and my mobile switched on, ready to go when they called me, and woke up at 7am! (although I kept dreaming I heard the phone ring) Again, we did cuttings etc then I went back that afternoon to get some sleep-I got about 3 hours before they phoned me to say SLB had arrived.
Here is a photo I found on the computer of someone taking a sample from the shale shaker (the technicians do it for us):