My first 10.5 months in the oilfield saw me on nothing but land-based rigs. My next 5 months saw me entirely offshore. Now I'm finally back on a land rig, except that it's not really a land rig. It's a test facility run by my company to test out new technologies while drilling before they get marketed to clients.
So in other words, the tools don't work very well yet. In the week that we've been here, we have only been drilling for about 15 hours so far. There were significant delays in the beginning when the experimental tool was stuck in customs longer than expected. Then when we finally got to drilling, the test engineers started to see something they didn't like after about six hours, so they pulled out and spent the next day fixing it. Then we went back to drilling and the same thing happened six hours after that.
The tool was then sent to Oklahoma City and has spent the past 3 days being worked on in the shop there. We've been drilling now for about two hours, and we'll see how long it lasts this time.
I've been staying in a hotel my entire time here, so I've been quite comfortable. It's lucky there's a pool and a gym, because there is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO in a one-hour driving radius of where I'm staying. Actually, scratch that. There is a museum in town which was built inside the old jailhouse. I have yet to visit it, though, because it's only open 8am-12pm five days a week, and I am invariably asleep during that time.
Maybe one day I'll stay up late enough to see the museum when it first opens. In the meantime, I'll try to maintain as high a vegetable-intake as possible. Mexican food seems the diet of choice around here, so the main vegetable options available are the condiment-based ones. One cannot live on chips and salsa alone! (No matter how much practice I have doing just that)
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