Today the team of deep and shallow drillers went out to the PFAS shallow drilling site to recover the stuck DK shallow drill. This endeavor was a highly successful and…
Saturday it was blowing strongly and snow was drifting so outdoor work was limited. In the evening, we had an amazing 4-course French dinner prepared by Sune, HC, Maria and…
Today we had a planned Skier mission with arrival just before noon. The weather forecast showed increasing easterly wind during the day meaning crosswind on our skiway. Not a good…
Today the drillers trained new drillers; Chantal and Anders operated the drill while trying to create an opening in the fiberglass shards downhole. Later, the drillers removed all sensitive parts…
Today the drillers used the so-called GRIPper to grab a medium sized piece of fiberglass from the current bottom of the borehole, at around 56m depth. Proving that with a…
Today the drillers used various lengths of the Covax auger to penetrate the ice plug at 51 m depth in the main borehole and poke beyond. Due to stirred up…
Today the main task for the drilling was to free the stuck drill from the edge at 15m depth. After various attempts, the drill fortunately came free. Later different tools…
Today a first attempt of reaming the borehole casing was made with a concrete cutting bit and two antitorque sections to lower slipping in the casing. The reamer went down…
With new people in camp, new projects are being started up. The drillers received a couple of new tools that they will try out in the troublesome casing in the…
Today was a very special day in many ways! First of all, Skier 52 brought 12 new crew members to camp, and secondly one of these crew members is Steff,…