Paper: A Solution to Well Servicing Rig Productivity

A changing pattern in the methods of management by the oil producer makes it necessary that the contractor assume new responsibilities in the services he offers. This service must include planning management and well site supervision. The contractor seeks from the producer a basic change in his concept of management responsibilities in connection with well service and workovers. It is apparent that production rig operating cost has increased at a faster rate than rig productivity. This trend, for a healthy operation, must be stopped. To accomplish this, either the producer or the contractor must increase rig productivity. It is the opinion of the author that the contractor is best equipped, best trained and most experienced in the operation of production rigs. The responsibility to accomplish this rests squarely on his shoulders and the contractor's existence depends entirely upon his acceptance of this role of assuming responsibility of well site supervision to increase well site productivity. Providing more and better training for his field supervisors is the approach the contractor has elected to take. The Association of Oil well Servicing Contractors, trade association of well servicing contractors, conducted the first of a continuing series of well site supervisor courses at the University of Oklahoma in October, 1967. The main purpose of such courses is to provide contractors" supervisors with the knowledge necessary to perform workover and well completion work, which are normally the responsibility of the operators" well completion foreman. This paper sets out this and other plans and procedures by which the contractor hopes to change the producers" concept of well service and workover management responsibility.