Snow :-)

After a whole week of beautiful clear skies it is now snowing again. Over the last few days I had noticed that the snow had actually worn off the ground, rather than turned into slippery ice., just as if it were dust. Interesting effect. Here is a photo of what my work unit looks like on a day like today-mine is the white one with the stripes/SPD logo; the white&blue one is Petroservices, and anything red is Halliburton/Sperry Sun

On Wednesday afternoon, about an hour after responding to UR's post about safety glasses, I went to learn to catch samples at the shale-shaker. For this, you need your full safety kit-luckily I managed to fit the glasses over mine, although going into the building was a bit of a problem due to double-steaming-up. Unfortunately I do not have any photos of me catching the samples as the camera's battery decided to give in just then.

As I was all kitted out safely I decided to go take a look at the drill floor while they were actually drilling, which was rather fun. They just clipped on another piece of drill pipe when I was there, and then started drilling-really interesting to see the pipe going down into the hole! The motor is very high up towards the top of the rig as this is top-down drilling, and slides down as it drills.

I recognised the driller from the canteen and he seemed pretty pleased that I wanted to see how it all worked. Later at dinner-time, I also noticed friendl(ier) body language from the drilling table!