Slightly mad day

yesterday, but I ended up getting stuff done somehow.
I finished up all my AAR and XPT documents as well as my penultimate Performance Review draft before lunch, which I was quite happy about as these things seem to take ages to do.
After lunch Marc and Marina arrived from SLB-Marina will be replacing Marc as he moves on to a different position and this was the start of their handover.
I was really happy to see Marc again as I had come to the conclusion that this would not happen, especially as he has not been in the field out here for a while. We had a good chat about the XPT procedure which I have been working on, and which I am now final-finalising before Gilles leaves tonight.
I was also a little sad because it meant yet another goodbye to someone who has been a big influence during my time here. It is such a nice luxury to work with someone so enthusiastic about their work, who is willing to give you so much despite having a hard job to do-when working with Marc I always had the feeling I could understand anything, explanations were there to be taken and he would be happy to explain things in detail until I (finally) ran out of questions...and now I have him to blame for my XPT obsession ;-)
In the evening I had a really good session with Ravil where he spent 2 hours explaining in depth the way PT work fits into the bigger picture and the different aspects of production technology, especially completion, which is what happens straight after drilling. It has really helped make a lot of things clear and brought together a lot of information I have been picking up here and there. And of course all the time I have spent with the other PTs seeing what they are doing. I am looking forward to my next lesson with such a helpful and thorough teacher.
Back to polishing off these docs then (and some PT stuff in between)...only 4 hours left with Gilles...I will try to catch up properly with blogging tomorrow.