Happy Friday the 13th! I woke up this morning, dashed of to the safety meeting for which I was late for, and when questioned about operations I said "Things look good; drilling ahead!" cheerfully and full of optimisim.
What I did not know, was that an hour before, we had lost communication with one of our tools downhole. Another tool failure. Sigh.
The odd part is, that we haven't lost communication with the tool below it. You see we have 3 tools all connected. The one at the top sends the data uphole. The one in the middle measures the characteristics of the formation. And the one at the bottom, under the aegis of the directional drillers, steers the well. Strangely enough we can still see the data from the tool at the bottom of the stack, even though we've lost all communication with the tool in the middle. This contradicts the very laws of our tools!
The oil company running the rig has decided they wanted to keep drilling ahead anyway. There's a fair chance that our tool is still taking measurements and recording them in its memory, so we'll probably have good data once we pull out of the hole and download its memory. But in the meantime we are drilling ahead sooooooooo slowwwwwwly, that since I have only one tool to monitor now, my responsibilities are now close to nothing.
Time to pick up a new book to read...
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Might I recommend "American Lion" by Jon Meacham. Great biography of Andrew Jackson.
What do you mean, no one cares about Andrew Jackson?! His nickname was "Old Hickory"! That alone is worth reading about.
Hmmm.... it seems like it is available in ebook format. (otherwise I'd probably never get around to reading it). Thanks for the tip!
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