Originally posted by Dnil
thats who i was referring to crow.....once again, have you ever seen an oil rig in operation, have you ever processed on oil contract....
matter of fact do you have ANY first hand oil experience?
Only from my family's experience...all my family is from Jay, FL. Since you are from Pensacola you may know the area and what lies underground there. Hell, you may have even serviced some of my family's wells.
Have I seen them drill on my grandparents property...yes. Have I watched a christmas tree installed on that same spot...yup. Did I watch them build the refinery on land formerly owned by my uncle...yes. Does that make me an oil expert...NO.
But I do consider myself an expert on governmental contracts since I work in that area and have drafted several contracts, MOUs, RFPs, and then created the methods/systems for contract monitoring. Plus, I've written the competitive bidding and contract monitoring policy&procedure for a governmental agency. I can tell you that in all the contracts I've been associated with, all but one have had strict limitations on the use of subcontractors. In all but one case, primary service providers were forbidden to use subcontractors that provide the primary service outlined in the contract without express permission and then only to augment the service providers own employees.
That one case involved a situation where the Florida Legislature mandated that FL Child Support Enforcement (CSE) contract with a quasi-governmental association to provide a service that the association did not have the technical capability to provide. In that case the association had to subcontract with a private company to perform the work (a vendor that CSE could have easily contracted with directly). The only purpose of the legislation was to funnel money to this association. Dnil...those are your and my Florida tax dollars at work and being wasted.
To me this appears to be the same situation. Middle men in governmental contracting WASTE our money.
Oil contracts sometimes have 100s of companies working on 1 well.
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In this situation we are NOT talking about running a drilling or pumping operation. We are talking about ONE service...extinguishing the fires. How much experience does Halibuton have in that area? Evidently none since they are having to subcontract.
When ExxonMobil drills a well its contracted out to a company, they usually only keep 1 or 2 company men onsite to monitor the contract drilling.
That is an excellent example. So the analogy would be that the US Gov't is akin to ExxonMobil. Would ExxonMobil contract with Heartland Rig/Partech to to drill for them? HRI does not drill themselves but they sure know a lot about building drilling rigs. However HRI could certainly subcontract with Noble Corp to drill though...at an added cost to Exxon of course. This is about the same as saying that Haliburton, since they have so much oil servicing experience, should be hired so they can hire Boots&Coots to put out the fires.
BTW, someone mentioned that there couldn't be a company over there that could possibly do the work...I heard on the news this morning that the 3rd of the nine burning wells in southern Iraq has already been extinguished by a Kuwaiti company.
Chew on those facts Rip...
