People, pay and safety
207 people · $32.0M a year fully loaded
Headcount
207
122 staff · 85 contract
Labour cost
$2.7M/mo
$32.0M annualised
Cost per barrel
$1.43/BOE
the only fair way to size an organisation
TRIR
0.93
benchmark 0.98
Headcount by function
Staff and contract
Employees 122
Contractors 85
41% contract. A high contract
share is flexible when activity drops and expensive when it does not — which is
why it belongs next to the rig schedule, not in an HR report on its own.
Fully loaded cost by function
Employees carry a 31% burden for
payroll taxes, insurance and retirement, plus overtime actually worked. Contractors
bill a higher rate with no burden. Both are included, because comparing a salary
line to a contractor invoice is how organisations talk themselves into the more
expensive option.
By department
| Function | Staff | Contract | Contract % | Avg base | Overtime | Annual cost | $/BOE | Turnover | Open |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Field Operations | 54 | 41 | 43% | $96,400 | 11.8% | $12.5M | $0.56 | 14.0% | 1 |
| Drilling & Completions | 18 | 27 | 60% | $148,200 | 6.2% | $8.6M | $0.39 | 12.1% | 2 |
| Production Engineering | 14 | 6 | 30% | $139,800 | 2.1% | $3.6M | $0.16 | 6.8% | 3 |
| HSE & Regulatory | 9 | 4 | 31% | $112,600 | 3.4% | $1.9M | $0.09 | 8.9% | 3 |
| Land & Marketing | 11 | 2 | 15% | $127,300 | 0.8% | $2.2M | $0.10 | 13.2% | 1 |
| Finance, IT & Admin | 16 | 5 | 24% | $118,900 | 0.5% | $3.2M | $0.14 | 9.1% | 4 |
| Total | 122 | 85 | 41% | — | — | $32.0M | $1.43 | 12.0% | 14 |
8,989 net barrels per person per month.
Field Operations carries the highest overtime because pumper routes do not stop
for weekends — and overtime, not headcount, is usually the first sign a route
needs splitting.
Safety
TRIR, trailing 12 months
0.93
Days since lost time
64
Against the 0.98 industry benchmark (the
marker). TRIR is recordable incidents times 200,000 divided by hours worked —
200,000 being one hundred people working a forty-hour year. The denominator is a
payroll number, which is why safety reporting needs the HR system and stalls
without it.
| Month | Hours | Recordable | Near miss | Spill (bbl) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26 to date | 6,931 | 0 | 6 | 2.5 |
| Jul 26 | 35,811 | 0 | 6 | — |
| Jun 26 | 35,811 | 0 | 7 | 5.9 |
| May 26 | 35,811 | 0 | 7 | — |
| Apr 26 | 35,811 | 0 | 11 | — |
| Mar 26 | 35,811 | 0 | 11 | — |
| Feb 26 | 35,811 | 0 | 5 | 1.1 |
| Jan 26 | 35,811 | 1 | 10 | — |
| Dec 25 | 35,811 | 1 | 6 | — |
| Nov 25 | 35,811 | 0 | 4 | — |
| Oct 25 | 35,811 | 0 | 4 | — |
| Sep 25 | 35,811 | 0 | 3 | — |
| Aug 25 | 35,811 | 0 | 11 | 9.5 |
Emissions and water
0.76%
of produced gas flared, trailing 12
months · target 0.75%
241 MMcf flared against
31.9 Bcf produced. Flaring is both an
emissions number and a revenue number — every Mcf burned is a Mcf not sold, which
is the argument that actually moves capital toward takeaway infrastructure.
| Field | Flare intensity | vs target |
|---|---|---|
| Rimrock North | 1.89% | over |
| Mesquite Ridge | 0.61% | under |
| Sagebrush Flats | 0.60% | under |
| Antelope Draw | 0.60% | under |
| Cottonwood Bend | 0.59% | under |
61% of produced water is
recycled into completions rather than disposed. Disposal is a cost line on the
Production page; recycling moves it.