and a drilling rig is in the order of $400,000 a day....
Makes helicopter budget quite small. If we were paid the equivalent of the current North Sea salaries or day rates, then your budget would probably only be around 2-3% of overall spend. No fly, no personnel, no profit for the shareholders which runs into millions even in a poor year at the current barrel rate. Our overtime rate doesn't even compare with a drilling deck chap's delayed flight payment. Time to get real.