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How Increased Rig Count Could Affect the Rest of the Energy Sector

a drilling rig does have about 20 peaple but that is just a small fraction on the life of the well. if a well goes to production then you could take that number up to 500 peaple ( drilling crew, testers, wireline, frac, cementers, service rig, snubbers, tool hands, pipeline, welders, battery operators, constuction and so on) at least that is how we do it in Canada
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On Jun 29 09:14 AM toobad41 wrote:

> Rig count changes daily. Even a weekly rig count is just a best guess.
> The reason being is that rigs vary in size and restricted to depths
> they can drill. Some take a week to ten days to drill and complete
> because they drill to shallow objectives. Others may take months
> to drill and complete because they are larger and drill to deep objectives.
> To make a long story short, the rig count is more like a moving average.
> By-the-way, every rig in operation has about 20 people working. When
> the rig count dropped by 1007 that means over 20,000 people unemployed.