I just returned from a week-long sampling trip up in Wyoming. Gillette is boring as hell, and once you’ve been to the best restaurant in town (twice- i recommend the ribeye) there isn’t much reason to stay. Except, that I had to. So I went out to rigs drilling new CBM wells to get coal samples as they drilled through the coal zones. This wasn’t so bad, but then i started filtering from existing wells. This takes all day, and is exceedingly boring. Unfortunately, you have no idea what you’ve got until you get the filter back to the lab, spend weeks working up the sample, then do the math. So it may be that all that time was wasted, or maybe it will be the work we need to finish this particular project and get it published. Here’s hoping!
