what about after the acquisition? The two companies are being so similiar having the duplicate services is not the best plan. Positions in management, mid-management, accounting, purchasing always first to mind but products or services. How do those compare? Who may has better? Chemicals, fraking and cementing, you don’t need all those trucks? drilling services and bits? who is better? evaluations? steerable tool? what about downhole measurement? who has better offering? keep the better product mix? sell the rest? make a combination of teams and toss the others oot? asking for thoughts. know one has sure answer but the questions keep coming up. and it will take the rest of year to resolute.
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You mention chemicals. Rest assured BHI has chemical units that offer absolutely no value to HAL. Take for example the Specialty Chemicals business that produces waxes for adhesives, inks, paints, plastics, cosmetic mascaras/lipsticks/shampoos, and other polyethylene polymers for applications that have nothing to do with oilfield services. This unit comprises several hundred people and the business will be sold to the proper resin/polymer company. That will take care of personnel who for years did not offer any value to BHI. Some of these personnel especially in sales, marketing, business development are so incompetent that the new owner will not want to have anything to do with them.