It can get pretty crazy the resources consumed by a drill rig during the average week drilling. New bits, roughly 1200 or so liters of fuel every 24 hours, all

It can get pretty crazy the resources consumed by a drill rig during the average week drilling. New bits, roughly 1200 or so liters of fuel every 24 hours, all kinds of sacrificial bits of tube if they are core drilling their holes. Any hundreds of liters of drilling fluids depending on down hole conditions. I was blown away by the consumption when I saw it first hand. The fuel and drilling bits were the craziest. Then all of the maintenance consumables that you go through as a result of running 24/7. I shudder to consider the quantities of hardware consumed to drill 4km+ you would get all kinds of crazy hard rock down there, not to mention the time it would take for rod pulls.