What a day!!!!
I woke up yesterday with all this energy, motivation, and plans to write this award winning blog post about my samples and my job. Needless to say that didn’t happen.
Part of my new job is helping my night hand get a better handle on this job. Little things here and there mostly. But shortly after we got rigged up here the bosses sent me a trainee to teach too. So for the last few days I have been teaching and explaining stuff left and right. My voice has never gotten such a work out on a rig before! It’s great. I thoroughly enjoy passing on my knowledge to interested underlings. The hardest bit for them to comprehend is a tossup between the learning the software and the right way to write a sample description. Our samples happen to be a very beautiful white limestone. If it was any sandier I could bottle it and sell it as a beach in a bottle. It’s so beautiful! I have never seen a formation like this anywhere else I have worked.
Yesterday happened to be particularly crazy for a few reasons. The first being that the higher ups in town (a job I never what to have) where/are very involved with the operations on this rig and want constant updates. As a result we wind up going back and forth as to what’s right and what’s really happening. Nothing wrong with a little collaboration but no one wants to get micro managed…
In the middle of all that my computer decided to not save any of my data for the last nine hours. This happens periodically but that doesn’t mean it is fun when it happens. Spent a good two hours rebuilding the last several hundred feet of data on my log. Note to self when it doubt save it twice! But the high light of yesterday was by far when my gas trap decided to stop working because of this being stuck in it.
What is it you ask. After fishing it out and spending 20 minutes trying to get my trap up and working again. I went looking for that answer myself. The driller in the dog house didn’t know for sure. So I went to ask the company man. The answer as it turns out is part of the cement plug. When we run casing to keep the whole from collapsing we have to cement it in place. To do that right the cement is pumped down the whole and then a large piece of thick plastic down on top to keep the cement in place. Sometimes pieces of that get stuck on their way back up when we drill thru it. That’s what got stuck in my trap. After all that was fixed and I got my reports sent yesterday calmed right down. Knock on wood today stays like that too.
