Flying down to Peru to talk to someone would be totally useless. I can gaurantee you that the workers on the rig know less than we do. I have drilled many "tight" holes and trust me, all the workers know is how to drill the hole. They probably don't even know the finished depth of the holes until the drilling consultant comes out and says "thats deep enough, lets pull out." They won't know where there next hole will be until rig move day. The roughneck is grabbing shale samples and delivering them to the Geologists shack every 15-20 mins not even knowing what he might be carrying. All he sees when he scoops it into the little baggies is muddy sandy shale. I have worked on a rig overseas, doing a "tight" hole and all my local rig hands were from the local penetentry. They had no clue what was going on, all they knew was what the driller told them to do, totally oblivious to what the finished hole and results could mean. I can also tell you that security on site would be pretty strict. The security guards wouldn't even know why such stringent security, as far as they know, it could be terrorism or "scouts". Scouts are just people like us that want to know what's going on, or hired scouts from other interested companies. and they can gather alot of information from just watching a rig work. they can tell how deep a hole might be by counting drill pipe that goes in and out of the hole, or if they happen to be tripped out of the hole to change the bit or something, then they can simply count pipe in the derrick and know how far down the hole is. I don't know if scouting would go on in Peru, it is usually a oil and gas practice oil companies used to use when drilling in a undicovered area. so. yea, going to Peru and talking to someone would not pan out, but it probably would be a great holiday.

Rosco