RE: One piece of the jigsaw puzzle4 Mar 2019 07:34
Alan, you seems to know your stuff, so I will defer to your judgment, but are oil / rig people really as starchy as all that?
If I had a spare rig coming up soon, I would jump on the phone to ANGS and make them an offer. Likewise, if I was Tidswell, I would bang out an email to all my contacts. I presume there is an acceptable range for the cost of rig hire, so I would be happy, in the position ANGS finds itself, to have any choice of reputable supplier.
When can you start and how much, per day, roughly? I would have any suppliers give me that on day one, while the tech spec is being written. Yes, the plan has to be sound and approved by regulators, but I cannot imagine that they will wait until the end of the design and approval phases, before shortlisting suppliers.