Let's Drill the Hole!!

I was in a simulation lab today for my PEGN311, known as drilling class. It was pretty fun. We watched this short documentary about well control. It was to teach us the right way to mantain or control a well. What made it interesting was that they presented the information through a story about a derrickman. The whole thing was funny and the students in my class were laughing at the main character. The guy was always running in the oil rig, acting all reckless and didn't pay attention during briefing. and then he was sent to a well control class, so basically we learn the formulas and stuff thru this guy. During a drilling operation, there was a "kick" in the wellbore (a "kick" is when pressure suddenly increases, your rate of penetration goes waay high bla..bla..bla.. oh well, take a drilling class if u wanna know more. I might give you the wrong information anyway, since I'm much worse than the main character). So this guy detect the "kick" and informed the people on the rig. It was supposed to be a lot of tension in the air since the well might just blow out, but this guy was doing everything slowly, calculated the mud weight and all, and so did the rest of the drilling crew. One of the students then commented, "This is the only time he isn't running, and that's when danger is around the corner. What the heck?".

Anyways, we had the chance to do our own drilling. The simulation I mean. My group was the most successful in the sense that we were able to control the "kick" with the least gas produced in the wellbore, which is a good thing, but that was after I crushed two drill bits in a row..hihihi.. I didn't know what I was supposed to do. The class wanted to see me handled the weight we put on the drill bit. Without knowing what's going on, I just push the big brake handle and the total weight went so high. They students were like "Nik Nik!!", "You just kill the drill bit!", and I was like, "What?" - blanko - so, the instructor had to reprogram the simulation (it's more like changing the drill bit in real situation) and then we continued drilling...and opps! I did it again. Hadn't learnt from my mistake, eh? I was still blurrrrr as to what's going on. Then they started explaining things to me, tell me to look at this and this and I finally understood . oh yeah...I guess we do learn from mistake. the third time, I was doing superb! ;p . thank god it was just a simulation, otherwise I would have wasted two drill bits that gonna cost me thousands of dollars. Fuhh! Better make mistake now than in real life. Whatever it is, making mistakes during learning processes make you remember more than doing it right all the time. At least that's how it is for me. In certain cases, it's more important to know what you should not do than what you should do.