Daily Archives: August 28, 2016
Drilling and Chilling . . .
Well, we’re off and running, or drilling, anyway. They finally spudded in (started actually drilling) sometime after midnight this morning and so far things seem to be going OK.
When I got up at 11 this morning, and after we had our coffee, I headed over to Bryan/College Station to pick up a few things, mainly the plywood squares to cover up the gaps in our pad timbers. Otherwise one of us is going to step off in one and break an ankle and they’ll have to shoot us.
I also picked up a new tarp for our canopy, and I’m really glad I did. A late afternoon rainstorm showed that our old one, left over from last year, leaks like sieve. So I’ll just put the new one on top of the old one and tie it down.
On my way back from B/CS I stopped off at a Whataburger to pick up a late lunch. I got our usual burger/fries/drink combo, but probably not again. Or at least no fries.
They don’t handle the 30 plus minute trip back to the site very well, and just end up cold and chewy.
Next time I’ll try to find a convenient Chicken Express to bring back for lunch, and see how well their Fried Okra travels.
Jamie, our GGS supervisor is supposed to be here tomorrow (Monday) to bring us more water, and me a hardhat, We didn’t start out with a full 500 gallons, only 350, so we’ll need more soon.
And I need a hardhat so I can take our trash onto the pad to put it into the trash bin.
Tomorrow begins our 2nd week on the gate, and so far it’s been pretty nice. We only had 43 vehicles come through the gate today, as opposed to yesterday’s 74. But a lot of that was big trucks hauling off the equipment used to build the rig. So I would expect 40 to 50 vehicles a day will be the norm.
Hope so.
Thought for the Day:
Why do some people think that disarming the sheep makes them safer from the wolves?
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