Rather than the absurd excuses of Covid and long weekend as...

Rather than the absurd excuses of Covid and long weekend as reasons for the wait for wireline, I suggest that a far more likely scenario is that after getting back on the rig, and getting everything operating again, the open hole section below the deepest casing depth required conditioning to clean up the wellbore ; before drilling ahead to the deeper objectives (see text below from Feb 9th announcement**). ….given that the deeper you drill, the slower it gets, this extra 1000 or 1500m will likely take some time before rigging up to run the wireline over the entire open hole section. A week or more would be entirely reasonable for all this, or more if challenging hole conditions and multiple trips in and out of hole are required.

** As expressed in

“After drilling the primary Caley target, the joint venture has the option to drill into deeper stratigraphy including the Lower Archer Formation Dumont Member sands, and the Permian carbonates. Information from these intervals will be highly valuable in assessing the substantial exploration potential north and east of the Pavo prospect.”