Actually, the weather is a very important factor to investors awaiting good news about the tie-ins.
These wells are in the boonies. HTOG has leases on 766,000 acres - that's nearly 1,200 square miles!
Field workers gather at a predesignated place to travel together to the well site. Depending on where they are headed it might take hours of driving through rough terrain, no improved roads just to get to work!
So DavidP, it's not that the rain is an inconvenience for the Roughnecks having to carry an umbrella. It's mens work in the best of conditions, and damned near impossible in wet, muddy conditions.