[thackney]

I may not understand your question.

Rigs are not related to shutting down flowing wells.

Drilling rigs are used to drill wells. Drilling rigs are not used to keep wells flowing.

When are drilling rig is taken out of service, the crew is typically laid off, or some moved to another rig and replace other people who get laid off.

There isn’t much in the way of infrastructure related to the rig, at least not infrastructure related to a flowing well.

[shove_it]

OK, a drilling rig looks like this ...

and a producing well looks like this ...

My question has to do with the drilling rig which has extensive infrastructure on dry land including sand, chemicals and water storage, power generators, pumping equipment, etc. When the rig is "stacked" or "shut down" is the infrastructure typically removed from the site and stored somewhere else or left in place at the job-site? The best explanation I can find is as follows which refers to "cold stacking" and "warm stacking" ...

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Is there anything you can add that helps me understand what affects the decision process of what to do when the price of the product goes up or down? Thanks for your patient responses to my dumb questions... Cheers, Otter