During a discussion of the great value that top hole specialists like Transcend Drilling of Odessa, Texas, bring to today’s major oil and gas operators, Transcend’s Vice President Mark Franklin said, “Spudder services used to be the first to get cut when prices dropped, companies hoping to save money by doing it themselves. But we find that larger companies, instead, tend to think of the big picture. It’s about, ‘How many more barrels do I put in the tanks at the end of the day?’”