A quick shower and a shave, dinner in the kitchen, and then the gym or a book until bed time. When it is, it’s the same thing again in reverse order until the bit is back on bottom and we can drill again.Īt 6.30pm, the other crew shows up for their safety meeting, and by 7.15pm we’re usually headed back to camp. It’s a routine of extreme physical exertion followed by brief periods of rest, doing the same thing over and over until all the pipe is out of the hole and the problem can be fixed. A drill bit might need to be changed, or we may need to adjust the setting on the tool that steers the drill bit. ![]() If there’s problems down hole, it means we might have to trip – pull all the pipe out of the hole and fix the problem. If we’re drilling, the days tend to be a bit more relaxed – keep an eye on the motors, the gens, the pumps, and head up to the drill floor whenever another pipe has to be connected to the drill string. Once that’s done we head out onto the rig to find our cross-shifts, get a brief run down on whatever they’re working on and pick up where they left off.ĭaily duties depend entirely on what the rig is doing. ![]() At 6am the crew truck shows up at camp, and we pile in and head off for our 6.30am safety meeting.
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