It's been just about four weeks that I've been on this rig for this hitch, with nary a reprieve. Luckily I have a vacation coming up soon, so I should be heading home within the next six or so days. And boy, do I ever want to not be here right now. A flu-epidemic swept our rig. I caught it, and while it's not so bad, I still have to deal with phlegmy coughs, a runny nose, and a big fat pile of fatigue. Not so much fun when I'm working 12+hour shifts.
In other news, haha! I spoke too soon! Less than 24 hours after coming back to life, our OTHER tool failed, so we had no more data at all. Then the drill bit gave out, so we pulled out of the hole. Today is the first day we've been back to drilling since then. In the meantime, well, I've been sick.
We also have an auditor out here today. She's a former field engineer who essentially got roped into the position of "rig auditor", and now that they're actually expecting business to really, truly, surely start slowing down ... any day now! the office is starting to focus a lot more on Service Quality. We were on top of the list because of all our tool failures. The audit is now about 90% done, and things look good for me (I did a self-audit last week, so I was very well prepared), and hopefully the office will get a lot of warm fuzzy feelings when reading my review.
The directional drillers went home. They're expensive, so now that we're in a section of the well where the direction we're going in isn't alllllll that important, the company decided to quit paying for them.
Now hopefully I'll get a replacement for me sent out here before Mardi Gras so I can hit up some of the local festivities. They have something like 10 parades in the city of Lafayette over the course of the past week or so!
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Hope you made it to Mardi Gras. Reading this almost a month later, it sounds like oil prices are going up a bit again.
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