 | The drilling process is a highly inefficient process. During drilling operations all of the design power of a specific rig is not needed. Roughly 25% power is needed the majority of the time. Large deepwater offshore rigs being built today need in excess of 40,000 Hp (30 MW). Many are exceeding 50,000 Hp (37.3 MW). To put this into perspective, the average person in the U.S. consumes roughly 13,000 KW-Hrs of energy each year assuming 8,760 hours per year 1.48 KW per person power need equates to approximately 20,000 person community for these large rigs. A land rig operation would be roughly 10-20% of this capacity (4,000 to 8,000 HP) or 3 to 6 MW (about 2,000 to 4,000 person community |