Roddie Mackenzie
Analyst · Clarkson Securities. Please go ahead.
Yeah. Sure. So, I mean, apart from the macro, which we're not gonna touch on too much, but the macro in general is extremely healthy and has been for some time. And will continue to be. So I think I'll leave that up to the other analysts to reference the cases. But if you go look at anybody's case, I think production of oil and gas is gonna be significant going forward. Your deepwater and harsh environment appear to be the most economical places to do that. So thinking about, you know, where we are in terms of 2025 and 2026 and 2027, we think about where we were this time last year or let's say this time in 2023, looking into 2024, we basically had 77% utilization on the book. In 2024, looking at sorry. In 2023, looking at 2024, stood at 88%. Today, looking into 2025 for the year, we're looking at 96% plus. So if you think about where we are in that perspective, 2025 looks extremely healthy. Arguably, healthier than any of the previous years have looked in the past ten years. In addition to that, as we think about entering 2026, our utilization is about 93% entering 2026. And, you know, without tipping our hand to all the different things that we're working on, there's every opportunity that we could with a few fixtures made between now and say the middle of the year, be, again, in the high ninety percentile range for utilization throughout 2026. So as I think about 2025, we are extremely solid. As I think about 2026, we are extremely optimistic that we'll be every bit as good. And you also mentioned 2027. Have to tell you that a lot of the programs that we're working on just now are actually starting in 2027. So, either starting late 2026 or 2027. So again, if you're looking for a barometer on how the operators are thinking about the health of the market, the health of the drilling industry in general, if we're talking about multiyear jobs that start two years from now, I think that's a very healthy position to be in.