RE:Drilling soon If oil prices fail to hold there won't be any rigs deployed. It's customary for BNK to submit their program in advance for approval . Nothing says they have to drill if they can't make money . It's completely up to BNK . They do this so that there's no argument around the CApex and recoverable costs . It's the very same they did in advance of that whole freaking argument they had around expenses that the new government decided to put to the audit committee .