Doug Pferdehirt
Analyst · Jefferies. Please go ahead.
Good afternoon, Mark. So, let's take the first one first. It's a good observation, one that we have obviously also observed. Obviously, there's an economic element of it, but that's not what's driving it. I mean, we've talked about this for some time. The quality of the rock offshore is truly phenomenal. We kind of got away from that a little bit as an industry and we started focusing on other opportunities because these big projects do require a lot of upfront commitment from our clients, and they do carry the execution risk. I believe the reason you're seeing so many of these larger projects or the clients are migrating back towards the highest quality reservoir or the highest quality rock, which is why these projects are the size that they are. And they're also migrating towards back to the offshore and towards our offering, because we have been able to consistently demonstrate that we can deliver these very large projects in not only on time and on budget, but in many cases, we'll get to the second part of your question at a reduced cycle time. So, it's about schedule surety. That's what they're looking at. That's what they expect from us and that's what we have been delivering to them. So, this is really just the quality of the rock, which obviously makes the returns on the projects very attractive, but they want to be confident that they're working with a company, not multiple companies, a company that can deliver these projects for them with a high level of confidence. And that's why we talked earlier, 80% direct awards, that doesn't happen if they don't have the confidence in you. In terms of cycle time in one year, absolutely, Mark. But we're not done yet. We will continue as we are not done with our journey. So, as others continue in the 1.0 world, and we're in the 2.0 world, and we now have the experience, the knowledge, all of our heavy lifting is behind us. We're fully focused on execution. We would expect to continue to shorten the cycle time. And that is absolutely the relentless pursuit of everybody within our company. Every decision we make, every investment we make, we don't invest for scale, we invest to reduce cycle time.