RE: Market must be positve about this news6 Aug 2019 09:11
if we are getting ready for a drilling season then we will need to be contracting rigs now, that will cost money.
An informal survey of oil companies active on Alaska’s North Slope asked if they thought there would be shortage of drilling rigs on the North Slope for the next two winters’ off-road exploration seasons and the consensus was no - with one caveat.
Paul Mazzolini, Hilcorp Alaska’s drilling engineering advisor, said best what was reflected in the responses from other firms’ senior managers, most of whom asked not to be identified.
“I believe there will not be a shortage of drilling rigs for the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 winter exploration drilling seasons,” he told Petroleum News in a July 31 email. “Doyon Drilling and Nabors Alaska each have two mobile drilling rigs while Kuukpik Drilling has one rig that would be available.”
And the caveat? Secure a rig early in the process.
“Smaller Independents or any possible new operator to the Slope would need compete with COP (ConocoPhillips) and Oil Search for those rigs, which would require them to be out into the market early in the year to be able to capture a rig for the winter drilling from the established North Slope exploration drilling operators,” Mazzolini said.
sorry about copy an paste :-)