MTEX Drill Rig V1.4.9

Set up some proper Midland Basin oilfield work in Farming Simulator 25 with the M-Tex Drilling Rig. You place the used M-Tex Oil rig, bring the materials it needs, and let it drill down to a 9,500 ft well. Once that job is finished, the rig makes way for an M-Tex Well Pad with a pump jack and tank battery.

How drilling works

Look for “M-Tex Drilling Rig (drill a well)” in Production > Factories. Players using the M-Tex store category will find it in M-Tex Oil > Production instead. In the game, it works as the “Drill well” production point.

There are four inputs to get on site before the drill can start. Turn the production on, and the rig runs for 36 game hours, which equals 1.5 game days, until it reaches 9,500 ft. The game clock controls the progress, so leaving, sleeping, and skipping time all move the job forward. The current progress is saved and is safe for multiplayer, with the server in charge. Need a break? Switch the production off in the Productions menu, then turn it on later to carry on.

You can watch the top drive and drill string doing their work while the well is drilling. The string spins at 110 rpm for 120 seconds, then stops for 30 seconds while a connection is made, and the top drive moves one 24.66 m stand. You also hear the original drill-pipe connection sound. The Productions menu keeps the useful details together: inputs, fill levels, depth, percent complete, and time left. The placeable info box points out anything that is missing.

Running the production costs a rig day rate of $7,291.67 for every active game hour. That works out to about $25,000 per real day, or about $262,500 for the whole well. On top of that, the site has daily overhead of $21,000.

Inputs

Bring every input to the site first. The four materials are then used during the 36 game hours of drilling:

• Drill pipe (PIPE): 24,000 L, equal to 10 drill-pipe pallets, 2,400 L each.
• Cement (CONCRETE): 9,600 L, equal to 12 bag pallets, 800 L each, or the same amount in bulk.
• Water: 62,500 L of make-up water for the mud system.
• Diesel: 4,000 L for the rig engines and generators.

Water is the mud system’s fill type. You do not need a separate mud input.

Delivery

Use the delivery bay on the south-east side of the pad. Trucks come in through the open south edge, unload, and turn back around on the gravel.

• Pipe pallets, cement-bag pallets, water pallets, and diesel tank pallets may be left anywhere in the bay. They unload automatically, even when strapped. If a pallet enters while it is still on the forks, the rig checks again every second once you put it down.
• For water, diesel, or bulk cement, bring a tanker or tipper to the unload marker on the gravel slab. Its trigger has a standard AI unload node.

There is no AutoDrive-specific setup to deal with here. Scripted hired workers are not included either; the crew you see on the rig is part of the model.

Well pad

The output is drilled well depth (MTEX_WELL_DEPTH), set to 9,500 ft. It cannot be sold and it does not produce a pallet.

Finish the well and the server places the M-Tex Well Pad (FS25_MTex_WellPad) at the rig, with an offset that puts the wellhead on the rig’s well centre. The rig is deleted during the changeover. The new pad does not level the ground again. It stays on the gravel pad the rig already levelled, or on TerraFarm ground when you shaped the site that way. The well pad is already covered by the rig’s shop price. If the Well Pad mod is not loaded, nothing is swapped yet. The rig stays there, and the swap is tried again every 10 seconds once that mod is active.

You can sell the rig while the well is still being drilled, but the normal sell value only applies to the part that has not been drilled. After completion, the sell value becomes $0.

Doghouse

The doghouse gives you a toolpusher / company-man office with a desk, chairs, files, whiteboard, radio, AC, and PPE, plus an indoor area. Its door opening is 0.94 × 2.02 m, the threshold is flush, and the door opens and closes.

There is a live well-monitor screen in the office, and its emissive display works at night. It shows drill percent, depth in feet, time left, a progress bar, and a status word chosen from READY, DRILLING, PIPE, CEMENT, WATER, DIESEL, PAUSED, or DONE (well complete). The 3D monitor text adds “M-TEX RIG 1”, depth, percent, hours left, and a status line. Both screens stay linked to the synced drill state.

Features

• You get the used M-Tex Oil land rig with its 45 m derrick, substructure, doghouse, weathered paint, and full site equipment. That setup includes an iron roughneck, tongs, air tuggers, choke manifold, mud gas separator, BOP accumulator, two mud tanks with shale shakers and a desander, two mud pumps, three generator sets, a diesel tank, pipe racks with casing and 4-1/2 in drill pipe, warning signs, and the M-TEX RIG 1 lease sign.
• Placing the rig levels the pad and paints it as gravel, with dirt and drilling mud underneath the substructure.
• Night lighting covers the derrick, substructure, light poles, monkey board, and doghouse from 18:00 to 07:00.
• The older decoration-only rig is no longer sold in the shop, although rigs already placed in a savegame still load.
• Multiplayer supported.

Specifications

• Price: $8,240,000
• Daily upkeep: $21,000
• Well depth: 9,500 ft
• Drilling duration: 36 game hours, or 1.5 game days
• Rig day rate: $7,291.67 per active game hour
• Drill string speed: 110 rpm
• Connection pause: 30 seconds
• Stand length: 24.66 m
• Derrick height: 45 m
• Multiplayer supported

Requires:

• Petroleum Products, which defines PIPE and CONCRETE, including the drill-pipe and cement-bag pallets.
• MTex Well Pad, which is placed when the well is finished.