Rainy season '08

It was still the rainy season in Kome.

I'd spent the spring and summer on Makeri wells, coring, and then the severely delayed K411.

I "finished" working for Esso in Kome.....but there was plenty of future work in to 2009.

Scott Leonard was leaving back to Houston - and that meant that Sonny would be back to his Ops job instead of working opposite me on Rig 341.

Scott had the very realistic understanding that they couldn't just replace me, after I had left at the end of July. That's whay I had 5 weeks off, and a recall from Regis in August.

Here's a picture of Scott with Snr Engineer, Andy Zitterkopf - poker player, investor, and money collector. All fine chaps.

Here's another stout chap P. Michael Claiborne, drilling engineer extraordinary :