The waiting game

I finished up work on the Edson Alberta location. It was a good job, little challenging with the large water pit excavation that had to be incorporated onsite. and its going to be a tight fit to get the drilling rig moved on now....found out we are getting Patterson #53 and its a triple...jeez if I had known that....but oh well hindsight is always 20/20. I got the rig plan emailed and with the dimensions given it should fit, but only just. The contractor was good and I think we got all the room we could squeeze out of that hill.

The water pit was something else....Over 10 guys needed to drag and lay the liner (along with the excavator), and its the biggest one I have ever done. The idea is to make sure we have impermeability so the water stays in the pit. The water will be used for drilling activity, but its main function will be at completions time when they frac. An immense amount of water and sand will be pumped downhole all at once to open up the formation and let the gas out. Of course with the way my luck runs, it had to be the last hour of the day and someone gets hurt. One of the field tech hands from the liner company fell from his ladder when the pin supporting it pulled out of the ground. Turns out he suffered a strained ankle and didn't need medical attention, but it generated a lot of paperwork and me having to report and explain everything to many people I don't normally need to communicate with. Thank god he wasn't hurt bad, and I mean that for his sake, not because of the paperwork.

So anyway tomorrow I will be going back to that site to set the conductor with a rathole company and then shortly after that we will need to drill a water well and start filling the pit. In the meantime I have had a few days off but I didn't go back home because the drive is long and I would have had to almost turn around and come right back. Been staying at a local motel and making the calls to start another location in the coming days, hopefully I will have all the paperwork in hand by tomorrow and be able to start the day after.