IADC subcommittee brings industry together to create best practices for rig moves

Rig moves bring together drilling contractors, operators and a long list of third-party personnel, and that complexity is what makes them so risky, says Jose “Butter” Rodriguez, a member of the IADC Rig Moving Subcommittee, which operates under IADC’s HSET Committee. In this video interview from the IADC Appalachian Basin Technical Forum in Canonsburg, Penn., on 22 October, Mr Rodriguez outlines the biggest challenges with rig moves – notably, preventing serious injuries and fatalities, both on and off location. To address it, the Rig Moving Subcommittee is bringing together operators, drilling contractors and rig move companies to develop a set of shared best practices.