photo - ADEC W. Ghormley

Q2 (Repsol's) drill site on the North Slope sits silently embarrassed and forlorn following it's fart and dribble heard across the nation. Following the rig shut-down, the mud underneath has frozen like concrete. Always erring on the side of safety, we members of the command center team have to monitor every phase of the well control and the clean-up operation. So far ... 7 days.

Update -- in the end, one month plus