So yesterday I woke up to a phone call from the boss. Conversation went something like this:
Boss: “what you doing?”
Me: “sleeping. What’s up?”
Boss: “well George done burned up on location so pack up all your stuff. Your going over to Kingfisher. So pack up your stuff and start heading that way.”
Me: “ok. Who am I working with? … Ok sounds good. Thanks boss.”
Turns out what had happened was another hand had driven to our rig to drop off some samples for the geologist. When he went to leave, his truck wouldn’t start. So the best solution was for him to take my spot and for me to go where he was going to go. 20 minutes after I got the call I was all packed up and ready to head out. Got directions from my new coworker and headed out. Between dead reckoning and Google giving me almost right directions it took me about two hours to find the the new rig.
Fun fact for those of you who aren’t from Oklahoma Kingfisher is the home town of the founder of Walmart. (Yes they put that on the sign at the city limits no I didn’t get a picture yet)
Turns out my new coworker is one of the guys I trained back in the day. We get along great and work well together. The rig was time drilling when I showed up. That means they control the speed of drilling usually moving about a foot or two an hour. The reason they had to do this was to sidetrack. Sidetrack is where there is a problem with the hole and we are forced to drill around it. Sidetracks can happen for a dozen different reasons but what it means for us is a nice, quite, slow night. Just the thing I need to clean the trailer and get all settled in.
So here I am now about a half hour from OKC working on a problem rig. One week here and already been on two rigs.
This is going to be a fun one!