Mark S. Siegel
Analyst · RBC Capital Markets
Yes. Let me try, Kurt, to break those into a couple of questions and see if I can answer your questions. First, I think we have tried to indicate both in our press release and in our remarks this morning, how positive we feel in respect of the Drilling business. As you, I think, correctly indicate, it seems as if from looking at our stock prices, if people expect our rig count to have collapsed, we've had conversations with investors for over a long period of time in which they've been very concerned about this, but as you know, our rig count has continued to go up in first quarter, continued to go up in first quarter and looks to be pretty stable right now going forward. So we don't really understand sort of where the investors are coming at this skepticism vis-à-vis the U.S. land rig market. In terms of the Pressure Pumping industry, and Pressure Pumping business, we obviously see the effects of the decrease in activity driven by lower natural gas prices and the effects caused by in effect, the building of new equipment that occurred when people expected to get very quick paybacks. At this point, there's a move in the market for a rationalization. We don't believe that the market is going to remain at a breakeven point for any length of time. We think that those kinds of things can happen from time to time, but we don't see that as a long-term trend. We think, we and others in the business, will be disciplined about our behavior in the business and we'll expect to make good returns from our equipment in that industry. And so fundamentally, we sort of see this as a period of time during which that industry will become rationalized, that is Pressure Pumping, and that it will join our U.S. Drilling industry and be quite strong. Obviously, I've left out Canada because we're expecting the seasonal decline in the second quarter, but we think that bounces back as it usually does, come summer. I guess, last thing I'd say is we're not pricing our Pressure Pumping equipment at breakeven.