palta update, page-3

From what i was told, downtime days or hours are only recorded from external sources such as the cyclone and from equipment breakages and safety incidents. Problems such as hole collapsing, difficulty running casing, drill bit breaking etc is part and parcel of drilling and is not included in the reported downtimes.
From what i have been told they have had their fair share of issues that have slowed them down but the hole is drilled to depth and they have been testing and logging the hole for a few weeks now and are being very particular with the testing.
Have been talking again to a mate and i got it slightly wrong in FMC were supplying and installing the well equipment with another mob (can not remember the name) are doing the testing of the hole and they are scrutinising it very closely.
IMO they would not be so pedantic about this well if it was not showing excellent results.