As far as seismic work is concerned would it be fair to say that for the most part oil companies usually sub contract that kind of work to speciality companies ?
Even the employees on deep water drill rigs are hired through third party employment agencies. A friend of mine, as i believe I've said before, is a ROV operator and was recently hired to work on a rig offshore Nigeria, through an Irish company.
So isn't all this talk of ERHE not having the skills to preform these exploration and actual drilling activities essentially irrelevant and moot?
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