Tom Marsh Quotations

We've never experienced the amount of damage to the rig fleet we've experienced from these two storms.

Based on what we have right now, it appears that drilling contractors and rig owners took a big hit from Rita, Rita came to the west where there is a lot of (exploratory) rig activity.

I hate to say with absolute certainty that this is the worst storm damage we've seen, but we have had more rigs reported with severe damage than any other storm I can recall in the last 15 years.

Growth is everywhere, but it does look like there's more attention going that way.

(Developers) are probably going to have to build part of McEwen. There may be some questions from surrounding folks about building McEwen to the interstate, but that may be a little excessive.

You may think that 13 is not significant amount, but this is 10 percent of the contracted fleet out of service for various lengths of time or in some cases permanently.

It'll be a big development. The city is continuing to grow east. Things are already happening out there; it's just a continuation.

It went through the Planning Commission and made it to the board, but on the second reading it got disapproved. The developers met with some aldermen and got further guidance on the changes they should make.

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