Yesterday was a thoroughly miserable day weather-wise. Getting up early was made harder by the sound of rain gushing off the roof of the wagonchik into our private lake...and the walk to the work caravan took a good 10 minutes.
Roy was very tired so we let him sleep in and I showed Robert Jan how to do the geo-report. There hadn't been any drilling the day before so it was pretty straightforward and we headed over to the morning meeting in good time. Beforehand I decided to drop by the DSV's office as I did not know him (he is new and our only contact so far had been an email I sent). I knew he didn't speak much English so I introduced myself and Robert in Russian. Picture this " Hello, my name is Florence, I am the geologist here, nice to meet you" "You?!" "Err yes..!...and this is Robert, who is learning about what geologists do" "ah OK, thanks". Hmm. Interesting way to start.
During the day, we worked on finishing up a lot of the documents that needed doing and I ran Roy through a few procedures etc. In the late afternoon, Roy wanted to go to the gym at the CPF so I agreed to drive him there while sneakily timing it just right for...hockey later ;-) Robert Jan came too and we decided to go on to pad 26 where he wanted to collect some of his smart wells data.
After dropping Roy off we headed off down the muddy but still acceptable road to pad 26. I really enjoyed the tougher bits as I am starting to master driving in the mud a bit...but the road to pad 10, which is currently closed (with people stuck on pad 10!!) did look rather daunting...
It was interesting to see Robert's work on pad 26 - he downloaded the data collected on a PCMCIA card to his laptop, and checked the results there and then. Last week, he had explained to me all about the work he does on Smart Wells so it was great to see how this translates in the field.
Once this was done we headed back to CPF just in time for the hockey semi-final...where Russia lost in extra time to Finland :-(( ah well, it all had to end some time...saw Tom the SLB engineer there and caught up a bit which was nice though I think I scared him a little when explaining hockey rules and players to him...
After dinner (my first at CPF would you believe it) we headed back to the rig and started wading through some (mud and) work. We were all getting rather tired and thinking about bedtime when the trainee DSV burst in announcing that CBL logs were being run in slots 1 and 2 and did we need anything from them? Well guys, thanks for the warning! A minor panic and super-fast timebreakdown generation later I gave him some papers to take over and explained what we needed (new CBL crew) - that, unfortunately, was after having had to check with Ravil to find out if they were doing a conductor CBL only to realise that they had already been done...DSV had given us the wrong slots.
At 1am we got the logs and finally went to bed...
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