If all went without the tiniest hiccup, something that never happens when you are drilling five miles below the surface, and if the drilling proceeded at 150 feet per day as it has been recently, they could drill to the targeted depth in just five more days.
Ascending channels can be bearish if you get a definitive break below the lower trend-line of the pattern, but we never got that break, thus we were never prompted to stop following the upward trend.