Randal Randal Randal Your making excuses again. But I'll say, you sure can make them sound good.
Your claim The driller was a seasoned operator capable of running a multi rig program. He was a senior man in our group and more than capable of completing the work within the timeframe. The rig was producing up to 120m per shift but would typically drill an average of 50 or 60 metres due to the difficulty in moving around the area. The issue was not the number of rigs but the number of available days to drill and part of the arbitration proceedings between Cougar and DNI revolve around this issue. Cougar claims that many days were lost due to matters beyond its control, including 42 days when we were told to stand down while DNI negotiated with landholders and 28 days in October when our driller was removed from site by the police following a complaint by DNI, accusing him by name, of illegal conduct.
Now lets check your math.
Given:
Cougar was there 271 days
Ill give you the 55m/day avg you claimed.
You claimed 70 days that you could not work due to stand down and jail time
That still leaves 201 Cougar working days on the property.
201 days x 55m = 11,055 meters
Randal, Things just arn't adding up. Your driller drilled only 1700 meters in the 201 work days you claimed ? Thats less than 9 meters/day. With so much at stake, you should have sent a better driller or another one, run a second shift or somethig. Even more important, it things were going that bad, you should have been on a plane yourself and brought a post hole digger if you had to.
The thing is Randal, you didn't operate very professionally and you took things for granted.
Checkmate28
