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BigSi, your post more or less sums up the preparation for mobilisation and acquiring the whole diversity of drilling paraphernalia needed to spud in and have continuity throughout the drilling process.
What I am not sure of in this case is who will design the well and who will be calling the shots on day to day drilling progress. Normally a person from the producer i.e. BP, Shell. Mearske etc. called the company man usually with extensive drilling experience will work along side the rig OIM in charge of the rig from the drilling company again with much drilling experience for the operations.
In our case I am not sure we have personnel that can act as a company man or do we. Much of the work and problem solving usually comes from a shore base office with personnel having experience in all aspects of the industry. Will we have this in place?

IK, Regarding Iran,
I think it is a fair analogy to ask you to imagine the UK being run by a strong Labour party and a weak Conservative party at the same time and the Labour party being free to adopt the fairy tale policies on spending put forward at the last election campaign.
Iran is run by a government that tries to apply moderate financial strategy dealing with what's left after the sanctions imposed by the west and the wholesale spending by the Revolutionary Guard. It is also ruled by the Revolutionary Guard who take the lions share of Iran's income a large amount of which is spent stirring up trouble in the Middle East to the detriment of the ordinary Iranian man, woman and child. I am not saying the Labour Party would have used the lions share of the UK budget to stir up trouble in the Middle East they would have just run us into debt like they did last time with the same resulting effect. At least we are able to make changes after five years, generally through fear the Iranians are not.
It is the Revolutionary Guard controlled by the late General Qasem Soleimani that Trump is after.
The Iranian oilfield personnel I have come into contact with over the years I found to be good natured, intelligent, friendly people but who find themselves in awkward situation.
If you don't mind IK I would like to state Sir Winston Churchill's definition of a pacifist when referring to the arrogant predecessor of his Neville Chamberlain. "A pacifist is one who feeds a crocodile hoping it will eat him last"
Much off topic I know but I thought worth mentioning.

I was not making a comparison I was using them as an example. I suppose we would all like to have a Rolex on our wrist but most settle for something a little less.
When I worked in Saudi in the 70's Qatar was little known for hydrocarbon production , bit like the Bahamas now.

Hey bonum I looked at it for forty years before I retired from the industry, right at the sharp end. If you show an interest you don't have to spud in the next day.

Statoil!!

...and where are Satoil now. The have had sight of much more solid information than we have. I would also like to see more involvement by the Bahamas government such as Qatar and Saudi.

brynjon I noted your reference to Greta in your post. It brings me to mention the passing yesterday of a great environmentalist, natural history commentator, biologist and character, David Bellamy. Never off the box some years ago and one of SIR Lenny Henry's take off characters. This until his opposition to global warming scare mongering, then never to be seen again.
I note Clarkson has drawn his horns in, in case the same happens to him.

And you with your spelling.

Stewart, Seadrill-driller. Exxon-producer like Bpc

I googled Muffin the Mule and it sent me to a porn site

Another horrendous event brought about by the deep thinking, arrogant we know better than you, leopard Spot changing,tree huggers. The police did what should have happened to him after his trial. Common sense gone again. If I was a member of the family of the poor souls that have suffered at the hands of this barsteward I would be seeking answers about who let him loose and putting them behind bars as they are more dangerous than the perpetrator of this despicable crime.

In order for BPC to deliver a successful well they will need to employ the industry heavy weights. Haliburton is one of these. Over the years as OIM they have worked on the rigs under my charge and completed their work on cementing and well testing very successfully. They do have some very strong competition though with the likes of Schlumberger e.t.c.

Baker Hughes are a major player in the drilling industry

Baker Hughes are a major player in the drilling industry

Buying the wellhead is a sign of confidence. If they thought they might drill a duster then the wellhead would not be needed. Wellheads are not cheap.

All those super buys and still 1.9

I remember 25 and the formation of the 87 club.

Just spoke with HL. They are in the process of condensing the details and they should be with us tomorrow or the day after. Yhis is usually with an email notifying you that you have a secure message in your inbox on the HL site.

Not heard anything from HL yet. If anyone on here is with them have they heard anything yet?

Nowt to do with climate change. More like I don't want my back garden change never mind the ragged ar**d underclass getting a sprat or two. Heard it all before.