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Workovers are the most common expenditure operators need on their oilfields. However, finding a service provider and getting their rates are not readily available in the industry. Operators would benefit from knowing the market average for a workover and gain reassurance they are getting a fair price for their services. This research is based on finding workover rigs for Zapata, Texas. The graph represents four service provider companies and their hourly rate for a workover rig.

It is important to note that due to slower oil development in recent years from the downturn in 2015 to the pandemic and downturn in 2020, smaller workover rig companies in Zapata, Texas have increasingly moved to the Permian Basin or have been acquired by larger service companies in the area. This has caused the workover rig service industry to be dominated by a few major servicers around Zapata. For Zapata, the ideal areas to look for servicers or workover rigs are Alice, Laredo, and Freer in Texas.

Hourly rates for workover rigs vary and there are always competitors for services, especially for services as common as a workover rig. The market average price for a service provider is intended to provide the oil and gas operator better insight on the cost of services around their area.

An operator who wanted bids on a workover for his well requested this vendor list and decided to get connected with Company B to get the work done. He said it was a quick decision because what he was already paying for and what he was going to pay for cost more than the rates on this list.

In order to help oil and gas operators reduce operational expenditure, Petrofly researches the servicing market to provide the most economical options for your oilfield service needs. Petrofly’s platform is the complete upstream solution and leveraging the market average is one of the unique tools operators utilize to ensure lower operational costs.

The commodity price downturn is prompting price reductions among well service contractors in the greater Rockies outside the Williston Basin. In mid-January 2015, service providers report rates down about 10% quarter-to-quarter, similar to reports elsewhere in the oil patch as operators push the service sector for cost reduction. Meanwhile, larger service providers worry about further rate cutting from local, privately-held contractors. Rate reductions have not yet translated to reduction in wages for hands, although expectations are that pricing is going to drop further on the basis of lower commodity prices.

Among Survey Participants:Rig Demand Down QTQ [See Question 1 on Statistical Review]. Seven of the eight respondents said that demand had dropped in 1Q15 vs 4Q14 and all but one blamed lower oil prices for the slowing. One respondent that had seen a slowdown in demand said it was because they had finished all of their completion work. The respondent who had not seen an effect on demand said that their work was steady, but they were hearing of others slowing down.Mid-Tier Well Service Manager: “We are seeing demand slow for rigs and prices are being reduced. Operators are asking for 20% reductions, some are asking for 30% and they may get it. The greater reductions will be from people who are local because they don"t have the overhead expense. The service won’t be as good. On average, operators may get 15% of that 30% they are seeking in reductions.”

Number of Rigs Sufficient [See Question 2 on Statistical Review]. Six of the eight respondents said that the workover rig inventory is excessive for the current demand, while two said that it is sufficient but tipping toward excessive.Mid-Tier Operator: “Operators here are basically focusing on the higher production wells and going to ignore the lower ones. We have heard companies are laying down workover rigs. One company is going from 17 to 13.”

Well Service Work Weighted Toward Standard Workovers and Routine Maintenance [See Question 3 on Statistical Review]. Among all respondents, standard workover work accounts for 34% on average, routine maintenance accounts for 34%, plug and abandonment (P&A) accounts for 16% and completion work accounts for 16%.Mid-Tier Well Service Manager: “Our work slowed because we finished our completion work so the client gave us some production work to keep us steady till we finish this fracking job.”

Hourly Rates Consistent Among HP Series [See Question 5 on Statistical Review]. Most workover rig horsepower falls within the range of the 500 series. The 500 HP hourly rates average $310 to $400/hour depending on what ancillary equipment is contracted. See Table II for Average Hourly Rates.

Hart Energy researchers completed interviews with nine industry participants in the workover/well service segment in areas of the Rocky Mountains outside of the Bakken Shale play. Participants included one oil and gas operator and seven managers with well service companies. Interviews were conducted during January 2015.

3. Looking at your slate of well service work - on a percentage basis - how much of it is workover vs. routine maintenance vs. plug & abandonment (P&A) vs. completion work?

Well work and well servicing is a complicated subject and there are a lot of moving parts. It is potentially so complex that many oil and gas companies seek to avoid it altogether when they can. A thorough understanding of the rank order of the options available, and what they can do is the key to being able to unlock tremendous value. A few ‘simple’ or fortunate’ or ‘clever’ oil and gas operations can be set up where operations are simple – drill a well, complete it, produce it to abandonment pressure and conduct abandonment. For every other situation well servicing is the key to profitable operations. This is a very general way to look at the cost of well servicing, and how it affects operations in the field. The exact details will vary from country to country, field to field, region to region and company to company.

The following general group of services are available for well work. They are listed roughly in order of cheapest to most expensive for land operations.

In shallow waters with fixed platforms or other facilities with direct well access the chain of costs and values are slightly different - the overall costs are generally higher, but the general ‘ladder of values; is different also.

Pumping services tend to get more expensive offshore, because of the degree to which the equipment must be assembled on location. Wire based services still require assembly, but because the parts are smaller can usually be mobilized in larger ‘chunks’ thus requiring less assembly on location. On land, fluid pumping equipment is much more readily portable on trucks or trailers. Workover rigs on land are incredibly cheap in most places as measured on a per diem basis. Part of their advantage is that they arrive to location with most of their key components already assembled in/on one truck. This advantage disappears offshore where the rig must be assembled on site first.

In deep-water with subsea wellheads where there is no permanent facility available to access the well, costs are turned on their heads, and look roughly as follows:

Paying for a drilling rig or intervention vessel is the price of gaining physical access to the well. Everything else must be added to it to get physical access to the general area and then gain access to the well. There is no need for various forms of standalone pumping services because the vessel or rig will already have a cementing unit and/or the mud pumps available for that sort of work.

Performing the same operation over and over again has significant cost savings attached to it. Once the correct housing and supply arrangements are in place, and all the necessary people and equipment have been assembled, continuing to use it altogether ‘as is’ can save an enormous amount of money compared to dispersing it all and starting over again later. For land operations, this is most pronounced in areas where reservoir, surface, and operational practices allow for grouping wells together in relatively small areas, and for clustering well pads. Depending on what work is being done to the wells and how close together they are it may be possible to ‘hop’ from one well to the other without ever moving the equipment on a road or doing a complete rig-down.

This is one area where offshore operations can see tremendous improvements and synergies. Having facilities with multiple wells at a single physical location allows for extremely high levels of flexibility economies of scale if the same sorts of equipment and skills can be utilized on one well after another in succession.

Deepwater operations can benefit from this too, but not as much as ‘traditional’ fixed or surface access facilities, because the overall day rate of the rig or intervention vessel is often much higher, and the process of switching between wells is often much lengthier.

On land, you hire the unit and crew, and a small diem fee is added to the cost of employing them so they can stay in a hotel and get food when they are not working. The crews will transport themselves to and from the well and move the equipment to and from the well also.

Offshore, housing, food, and transportation to and from the wellsite must be arranged as part of the work to be performed. This involves contracting crewboat(s), work boat(s) helicopter flights, catering services, and crew quarters buildings with a galley, laundry, showers, toilets, etc. Extra space must be allocated or created at or near the wellsite facility for the extra quarters. Many of these same factors are also present in remote land locations. The nature of operations in the Sahara Desert, or the North slope of Alaska, or the Congo jungle are more like those offshore with respect to cost and access than they are to more ordinary land operations where ‘normal’ food and housing operations catering to the population of the area in general are accessible.

For deepwater, everything for offshore must be provided, but with the additional difficulty that none of it can be made permanent, because there are no permanent surface facilities. In addition, simply getting to the wellhead once you have a drillship, semi-submersible, light well intervention vessel or other type of access facility floating over the top of the well is a considerable challenge. Depending on the nature of the operations which must be conducted, the access method, and the weather and current conditions it may take a period ranging from a day or two, to several weeks before access to the well is accomplished and the well work itself can start.

The costs of conducting business in each of these 3 areas tend to scale very roughly in factors of 10. 100 wells making 50 bbls of oil each on land is a cash cow. Offshore that is a disaster, because the cost of servicing those wells is prohibitive. A more reasonable scenario is 10 wells making 500 bbls of oil each. In deepwater, a well making 500 bbls of oil a day is an abandonment candidate, if indeed it got that far along before abandonment. One well making 5,000 bbls a day is more. The direct cost of hiring (for example) a snubbing unit do not scale by factors of 10, but the overall cost of employing a snubbing unit do. As a result, different types of well servicing make sense in one area which may not make sense in another. On land in areas with ordinary access to infrastructure (not the Sahara or Alaska) operations like slickline are often so cheap that they are a routine procedure, with preventative or predictive maintenance schedules to scrape away paraffin or remove small amounts of scale. By contrast, it is completely cost prohibitive to try and attempt to perform similar work in deepwater – you either design and operate the well in such a way that paraffin and scale do not build up in the wellbore at appreciable rates, or you P&A the well. The cost of routine mitigation is simply too high. The relative cheapness of most workover rigs on land is another major factor. Many types of operations which could in theory be carried out in some other way are done with a workover rig simply because it is the most cost-effective technique, even if other methods might be faster, or involve fewer people. The relatively high cost of a rig for offshore facilities means that in most cases every effort short of getting a rig is tried first. Then a catalogue or list of operations to be conducted by a rig at a given facility will be gradually built up over time until they reach a critical level. At that point, a rig will be sent out to conduct all the operations which only it can perform, moving from one well another to save costs by making the work repeatable.

OSLO, Sept 14 (Reuters) - Rental rates for offshore oil and gas rigs could rise to $500,000 in the coming months, company executives said on Wednesday.

Daily costs to hire a rig, known as the dayrate, have already more than doubled from two years ago to some $300,000, with some top-end rates reaching close to $400,000, according to Oslo-based brokerage Pareto Securities.

Drilling companies are in a stronger position to demand higher rates to rent their equipment after several lean years led to a wave of mergers and pushed them to scrap older rigs, leaving fewer available now that demand is rebounding. read more

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Oil rig equipment is expensive due to the size and operations carried out by such large machinery. Purchasing a newly constructed drill rig is a huge investment.

As such, you’ll want to be sure you have the right expectations before you begin searching for one to complete your assignment. This article will discuss just what a drill rig does and the estimated costs involved in the drilling process.

When you need a machine powerful enough to bore through the earth’s crust to retrieve minerals, gas, or any other natural resources, a drill rig will get the job done. Each rig is designed for the environment they’re operating in and the product being extracted. Those two factors greatly affect the cost of the rig you’re looking to purchase.

A standard land rig with 1,500 to 1,700 horsepower will cost between $14 million and $25 million to own. An offshore oil rig cost is much higher, starting at $20 million and going as high as $1 billion. Owning your drill rig will save you money in the long run, especially when considering the daily cost of operations.

Your daily rate depends on the rig type, distance from shore, drilling depth, and water depth. Onshore drilling rates range from $200,000 to $310,000 each day. Offshore drilling can cost between $600,000 to $800,000 per day.

Several factors impact the oil rig cost, including construction, including materials, market conditions, equipment prices, and more. We’ll cover the basics, so you have a realistic expectation when searching for a rig price.

Cost and demand go hand-in-hand. When there is a high demand for building new rigs, the cost rises because a limited number of shipyards can provide the service.

For example, in the early 2000s, there wasn’t a demand for new rig construction, so rates were low. In the mid-2000s, demand increased, and prices rose, but after the 2008 recession, demand decreased. But the prices didn’t drop significantly as the recession wasn’t expected to last long.

The materials used in making a drill rig are a key component in construction costs. The material used most, steel, comes in various strengths, and the stronger the steel, the higher it’s priced. When steel prices are low, rigs will be cheaper to produce; when steel prices rise, so do the costs of the rigs.

Concrete is another material that will raise production costs. It’s often used in environments containing salt water as a way of avoiding corrosion and rusting. Concrete usually costs about 7% to 10% more than steel.

The cost of additional services needed for constructing wells will begin to add up. Phone bills and fees for transferring data are part of your communication cost. For those working offshore, rig positioning will be another fee.

There are two types of oil rigs, jackups, and floaters. Floaters aren’t attached to or resting on the seafloor. Jackups have support legs that allow the rig to be raised or lowered. Each type has different equipment to assist with the drilling process.

The engines, generators, cranes, and other oil rig components are purchased from a third party and assembled by the rig builder. Non-drilling related equipment is about 30% to 60% of the total cost.

Since most of the parts used are made from steel, the fluctuations in the steel market will influence the rig’s price. Demand for the additional equipment to fit on the rig will also play a part in costs.

Where your rig is built impacts the labor costs, which affect the price of the drill rig. It’s estimated that labor is 10% to 15% of the total cost of the rig is built internationally. While the U.S. and Korea have similar costs, Singapore charges three times less.

Each dollar spent on labor in the U.S. generates $3 in revenue, while in Singapore and South Korea, every dollar generates $7 to $10 in revenue. Since labor costs are typically lower internationally, the cost of your rig won’t be as high.

Always expect and prepare for the unexpected by setting aside a portion of the budget for allowances. Once you start drilling, you can’t be sure what you’re going to find, and variances in the geological structure could require different equipment and delay the process. Both of these instances will increase the cost of the rig being used.

Preparing an area for drilling can mean building roads to the site. These roads need to support heavy machinery and can take 15 to 20 days to build. Preparation also varies based on the environment.

Marshes, land, and offshore drilling all have their own preparation needs. It can take several weeks before drilling can begin, and each day spent getting the site ready comes with a hefty cost.

The drilling depth and well complexity are primary cost influencers. Once the drill rig is moved into position, it can take a team of 30 to 40 companies to complete the process. Costs can easily top $4 million during the drilling phase and take about three weeks to finish.

Positioning drilling rigs isn’t an easy task. It takes 3 to 5 days to move in and assemble a rig for well digging. Once the job is complete, the rig has to be disassembled and moved again. Rates hover between $100,000 and $350,000 depending on how far the rig is being transported.

The oil industry is very lucrative, and the machines used to drill for the resource are not cheap. Oil rigs are heavy-duty machines needed to reach extreme depths.

The harsh environments they’re in demand that they are built with the best materials available. If you need a drill rig, it’s important to keep in mind all the factors that contribute to the cost of the equipment so you can budget correctly.

Updated monthly, the Offshore Rig Day Rate Trends report tracks competitive mobile offshore drilling fleet day rates and utilization across three representative rig categories. Constructed with information from rig operators and owners worldwide, offshore rig day rate data is the most accurate information of its type available from any source.

Day rates published by IHS Markit are presented in good faith based on our best understanding of the market at the time, and may be subject to adjustment. Day rates are charted as an average of the high and low for each month. Utilization is the percentage of contracted rigs out of the total competitive fleet supply. The data is updated on or about the 15th of each month. The data points used to derive the averages are available to subscribers to Petrodata"s RigBase or RigPoint market intelligence tools.

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When will the market see a resumption of the top-tier rig newbuild programs that flooded the market in 2012–2014—what price point on day rates would trigger same? Platts RigData RADAR notes that day rates have indeed rebounded nicely, and especially for AC rigs.

Its sister publication, the Day Rate Report, noted the average day rate for 1500 hp rigs led the way up for all rig classes in Q1 of this year with a cumulative net day rate gain of +7% to $16,718. The average day rate for a 1,500 hp rig in 2014 was $22,564, and the top rate at peak in October 2014 was $26,000. The larger issue is that too many top tier rigs are still sidelined.

Even with recovery, the active rig count is less than half the average of 2010–2014. There were a little over 1,000 AC rigs of all sizes in the total fleet a year ago. In that year-ago snapshot, about 400 AC Class D rigs of recent vintage were cold-stacked; in the latest snapshot, that group has dwindled to 144. The ratio of all working rigs to stacked rigs has fallen from 5:1, but it remains as high as 2:1. Platts RigData estimates that the overall rig count, still dominated by Class D rigs, will need to reach about 1,200 before demand—and day rates—warrant another robust newbuild program.

The right to enter and drill on the property owner"s land is accomplished by obtaining a lease. The lease is subject to title search and proper recording in much the same way as real estate. Many times the bonus for a mineral lease exceeds the value of the property itself. Between legal cost for title work and lease bonus wells see costs in excess of $1,000,000 for leasing alone. Some leases with multiple mineral and land owners take several months if not years to negotiate and finalize.

Most times, a road must be built to the site. Good roads are a necessity in order for trucks and heavy equipment to reach the well. Once at the site, a level area is cleared about 2/3 the size of a football field. Bulldozers, dump trucks, excavators, and road graders are typically used for this process. General this process takes between 2 and 3 weeks, but if extensive road work is needed it can take much longer Construction of roads and drilling site is a major cost factor which can easily exceed $400,000 per location.

When the site is prepared, the drilling rig can be moved into position. A rotary rig is the modern equipment used. It is capable of drilling over 1,000 feet per day through use of a rotary bit driven by huge engines. Fluid or air if forced under pressure down the center of the drill stem to clean out the hole continuously during drilling. The drilling operation is a very complicated one requiring enormous amounts of planning and teamwork. A modern drilling project can encompass the use of 30-40 different individual companies to fully complete the process. Cost depend on the depth and complexity of the well. Modern horizontal well drilling costs can easily exceed $4,000,000 just in the drilling phase. Without drilling complications these wells generally take about 3 weeks for the drilling phase.

Moving a drilling rig is not a simple task. Every time a well is drilling a drilling rig must be moved in and assembled. The process normally takes 3-5 days. After the well is drilled the rig must be cleaned and disassembled and moved off location. Rig mobilization and assembly expenses vary depending on how far the rig must be transported, but generally run between $100,000 to $350,000..

Costs outlines above are only some of the cost incurred preparing, drilling, completing and producing of an oil or gas well. in total, this complete process will encompass 40-50 different individual contracting companies and hundreds of additional minor expenses.

According to Arizona Geological Survey, Oil drilling in Arizona costs between $400,000 to $1,000,000, depending on the depth of the hole and its location. A rig capable of drilling most exploratory holes typically costs $8,000-15,000 per day. Well then, why is drilling for oil so expensive?

Costs for maintenance: There will be three shifts with personnel employed 24 hours a day, so amenities for the crew like motels, restaurants, transport, water and food.

Well, the drilling rig bores a hole into the earth through which steel pipes are inserted. Pipes or casings like cement would then be put in between for strength as well as for separating different pressure zones- if they exist. The well is then drilled further, and more casings are added. At times, 2-3 layers of casings would be built depending on the geological composition of the zone. The rotator table then passes the drill string onto the hole. The drill string rotating by "top drive" or "power swivel" mechanism extends the drill bit. This extension is done with the help of the derrick (the structure holding the drill string). The drill bit then cuts the rock into pieces.

The drilling works are done by specialized drilling companies like Transocean, Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc and Noble. In general, these drilling companies rent or lease their drilling rigs to oil and gas companies like ExxonMobil, Royal Dutch, BP and Shell. In return, they earn revenue through day rates.

Average well cost in the UK continental shelf in 1998-Northern North Sea £ 8-12 million, West of Shetland £ 5 - 15 million, Southern North Sea £ 7 - 12 million, Irish Sea £ 2 - 3 million. To get a more clear idea of the costs involved let"s take a look at some of the drilling companies:

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The land drilling market worldwide is structured primarily as a rental market, not a sales market, where land drilling companies lease their rigs to E&P companies for an agreed period of time – weeks, months, or years – at a day-rate. The rigs are then used to drill wells and execute the E&P’s drilling programs.

Drilling opportunities are analysed and explored in order, leaving a series of dry holes, until a discovery is made. It is rare for an E&P company to actually own the rigs which they operate, but there are some exceptions such as Chesapeake, who will purchase their own fleet of rigs.

Under these rental contracts, a turnkey cost is paid by an E&P business to a middleman. This includes an insurance premium, which is returned if nothing goes wrong, but may be lost if there are difficulties. Higher specification equipment commands a larger premium.

Investors require a minimum level of return for their investment dollars in drilling operations, and typically equate cost with risk. These turnkey drilling contracts may limit risk by guaranteeing a minimum number of wells that can be drilled with the rig. The contract will also outline how the rig can be used – including the pieces of equipment, when to change pieces, temperature and pressure tolerances and the weight of mud.

Nabors operates the world’s largest land drilling rig fleet, with around 500 rigs operating in over 25 countries – in almost every significant O&G basin on the planet. It also has the largest number of high-specification rigs (including new AC rigs and refurbished SCR rigs) and custom rigs, built to withstand challenging conditions such as extreme cold, desert and many complex shale plays.

Headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma, H&P is a global business with land operations across the US, as well as offshore operations in the Gulf of Mexico. It is engaged primarily in the drilling of O&G wells for E&P companies, and recognised for its innovative FlexRig technology.

Patterson-UTI operates land based drilling rigs, primarily in O&G producing regions of the continental US, and western Canada. The company also provides pressure pumping services to US E&P companies and specialist technology, notably pipe handling components, to drilling contractors globally.

Precision is an oilfield services company and Canada’s largest drilling rig contractor, with over 240 rigs in operation worldwide. The Company has two segments. The Contract Drilling Services segment operates its rigs in Canada, the United States and internationally. The Completion and Production Services segment provides completion and workover services and ancillary services to O&G E&P companies in Canada and the US.

Pioneer operates a modern fleet of more than 24 top performing drilling rigs throughout onshore O&G producing regions of the US and Colombia. The company also offers production services include well servicing, wireline, and coiled tubing services – supported by 100 well-servicing rigs, and more than 100 cased-hole, open-hole and offshore wireline units.

In Texas, generally considered to be the centre of US land drilling, RigData reports that there are currently 678 active rigs – split between Helmerich & Payne (160), Patterson-UTI (85), Nabors (64), Precision Drilling (39) and 77 other drillers (330).

Most new onshore rigs, both drilling and work over rigs, are built by OEMs in China. In the US, the larger vertically integrated land drillers have in-house manufacturing operations, so they will outsource some equipment construction, but assemble the new rigs at their own facilities. The leading provider of US newbuild rigs is National Oilwell Varco.

The secondary market, where existing rigs are sold, is largely auction dominated with mostly older rigs changing hands. As a rule, the big land drillers do not sell their newbuild rigs, as each has their own flagship designs.

The following is a list of seasonal work gear worn by drilling rig workers. Savanna supplies rig employees with coveralls, hard hat, safety glasses & impact gloves (1 pair).

Drilling rig crews are generally made up of six (6) people: Rig Manager, Driller, Derrickhand, Motorhand, Floorhand, and Leasehand. Each crew works 12 hours shifts as the rig operates 24 hours per day, and each position is vital to the operation of the rig.

Work in the oil and gas services industry is seasonal. Because of the weight of rigs and their equipment, and the remote location of wells, these locations are often only accessible when the ground conditions can tolerate heavy loads. Therefore, wells are typically drilled and serviced in the winter when the ground is frozen solid, or in the summer, when the ground has thawed and dried sufficiently. During the spring and fall, when the ground is in a transitional state, it is too soft to move equipment on and easily damaged. For this reason, provincial governments implement “road bans” prohibiting heavy loads from operating in certain areas. During this time, rig work is slower, and many rigs are shut down and their crews sent home. Be prepared to be off for anywhere from 6 to 12 weeks without pay during this time. However, rigs that are shut down are usually in need of maintenance, and there may be opportunities for employees who would like to help in this regard. Employees may be eligible for Employment Insurance benefits during seasonal shutdowns.

To work on a drilling rig, you must be able to get to and from all of your work locations.  As drilling often occurs in remote areas, having reliable transportation is considered mandatory for non-camp locations. Drilling rigs commonly operate 24 hours per day, 7 days per week with either three crews working 8 hour shifts or two crews working 12-hour shifts. Most often day crews and night crews will alternate weekly, so each crew has a chance to work during both the day and night. Most crews will work 14 days straight with 7 days off in-between. The typical living situation while working falls into three categories: Non-Camp, Full Camp and Texas Camp.

Non-Camp: When the rig site is near a town, non-camp conditions normally apply. Crews will stay in hotel rooms and receive a per day living allowance for food and accommodation. The living allowance is paid out on your pay cheque based on days worked, therefore you will need to be able to pay for your food and accommodation out of your own pocket.

Full-Camp: When a rig site is in a remote location, crews may stay in a full camp. In a full-camp all food and full accommodation is provided. Once at the camp, the crew travels to and from the rig in the crew truck. Almost all camp work is available in the winter only.

Texas Camp: These camps are typically located nearby the rig location.  Crews are responsible for supplying their own bedding, cooking supplies, groceries and toiletries.  While staying at a texas camp, a daily allowance is provided for food and toiletries.  The living allowance is paid out on your pay cheque based on days worked, therefore you will need to be able to pay for your food and toiletries out of your own pocket.

Once you have completed your orientation, you will immediately receive any other necessary training. This involves Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS) and Transportation of Dangerous Goods (TDG), along with an in-depth General Safety Orientation. This training is mandatory and provided by Savanna at no cost to the employee. Job-related, hands on training is conducted in the field through Savanna’s Rig Mentoring Program.

Some well locations have sour gas (Hydrogen Sulfide or H2S) present which is extremely dangerous. All employees are required to possess a valid H2S Alive certificate regardless of whether they are working on a sour gas well. This can be obtained by signing up for and completing a one-day (8 hour) course.

Courses are available at various locations across the province. For more information, contact Energy Safety (formerly Enform) at (780) 955-7770 or visit www.enform.ca or Leduc Safety Service at (780) 955 3300 or visit www.leducsafety.com. The cost of the course is usually between $130 and $150 plus tax, and the certification is valid for three years.

While it is not mandatory to have this certification, each service rig crew is required to have two members who are certified in Standard First Aid with CPR level C. Therefore, obtaining a certification beforehand is a great way to improve your chances of being hired.

Offshore drilling contractor Transocean has raked in brand new deals and extensions for its rigs with most of the contracts having increased dayrates.

As for drillships, the Deepwater Invictus drillship won a two-well contract extension with Woodside in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico at $375,000 per day. Data provided by the fleet status report implies that the drillship has been working for Woodside from March 2022 until July under a day rate of $295,000. The dayrate will change though, since from July until October 2022 it will be $305,000 and then rise to $375,000 starting from October until February 2023.

The Dhirubhai Deepwater KG1 has won an estimated 86-day contract extension plus up to four option wells lasting around 270 days with Reliance in India at $330,000 per day. If all options are used it will be busy until April 2024. Its previous day rate with Reliance was $250,000 and before that, it was even lower – $215,000.

The Deepwater Mykonos drillship won a 435-day contract as well as options for 279 days, with an undisclosed client in Brazil for $364,000 per day. The deal will start in August 2023 and end in October 2024. It is currently working for Petrobras in Brazil for $218,000 per day and will wrap up the deal in August of next year.

The Deepwater Skyros drillship has been awarded a 10-well contract with TotalEnergies in Angola at $310,000 per day, starting from December 2022 until May 2024. There has been a significant increase in the rig’s day rate in this latest contract as its current one with TotalEnergies in Angola, which started in December 2021, has a day rate of $195,000.

The semi-subs also got a few deals. The Transocean Spitsbergen, currently working for Equinor in Norway, won a nine-well firm contract at $335,000 per day including two one-well options at $375,000 per day. Equinor also exercised two one-well options in Norway for $305,000 per day.

The final rig that won a contract was the Paul B. Loyd. Jr. It secured a one-well contract plus two one-well options and an eight P&A well option with Harbour Energy in the UK. Both deals are worth $175,000 per day. According to the fleet status report, the deal will start in December 2022 and last until April 2023.

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