Jim Landers, Vice President of Corporate Finance and Clint Walker, President of Cudd Energy, of RPC, Inc. (RES) presented today at EnerCom’s The Oil & Gas Conference® 17. RPC, Inc. is based in Atlanta, Georgia, and it provides oilfield services and equipment to independent oil and gas companies. The firm operates within Eagle Ford, Permian, Oklahoma, Fayetteville, Marcelles, Haynesville and Bakken regions. Company service lines include pressure pumping, thru tubing, coiled tubing and rental tools.
During the company’s breakout session, management was asked the following questions:
- Are you planning to put more equipment in the Bakken?
- You earlier gave six-month projections for production. What are your year-long estimates?
- How is your internal utilization for pressure pumping? Will job complexity maintenance cost come into play for you?
- Can you give us an updated estimate for 2012 CapEx?
- What percentage of your company is cross-linked?
- What is your trajectory for labor cost?
- How is your thru tubing component amidst pricing issues?
- Has the fracking technique changed for locations such as Haynesville? How are you adjusting for this?
- What is the spread between contract and spot prices, and how are they changing? How are you adjusting?
- Compared to other lines of businesses, what are the chances of fatalities among workers with pumping jobs?
- Given your cross-link in the Permian Basin, what has allowed you to slip by guar inflation?
- What prices are you locked in at? Can you put out better cross-linked bids than competitors?
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