Wellsite and offshore recovery has a logistics problem before it has a pricing problem. Material has to clear a controlled site, get onto a supply run, and land onshore before it can even be sorted, and every one of those steps needs a paper trail if the site runs any kind of access or export control.
Once it’s at our Malaga yard, drilling consumables, tubulars and decommissioning steel get the same treatment as any other alloy: sorted by family, weighed on scale, priced on what it actually is. The difference with offshore work sits upstream of that, in the logistics and the traceability record, and that’s where we put the effort. For a longer look at the logistics side, see the offshore recycling puzzle: how remote platforms turn waste into working capital.
A quote on offshore or wellsite material carries its own expiry, usually 24 or 72 hours depending on what is involved and how the market is moving at the time. That is worth factoring into a decommissioning or turnaround schedule where the logistics window is already tight.
Once material is onshore, sorted and signed off, payment follows by EFT after the final weight and grading are confirmed.
Every batch that leaves site gets weight, grade and destination logged once it reaches Malaga, adding to whatever paperwork already travelled with it rather than replacing it.