So how are clients reacting to the state of Weatherford? I know that when I was there many were attempting to leverage the difficult times and forecasting a lot of work and agreeing to give it to Weatherford for a lower price in return.
However, in talking to many now that I left, they have confirmed what I felt was going on - they will use the kit they have in the past with the full understanding that WFT may go under, they feel their teams know it well enough to keep it running long enough to span any downtime before someone picks up the pieces or the kit is so standard it does not matter anyway.
Of course there were others that seemed to have drank the same kool-aid and believe they can turn an 8B turd into something resembling a Co.