FS25 MTEX Drill Rig V1.4.9

FS25 MTEX Drill Rig V1.4.9

Bring Midland Basin oilfield work to Farming Simulator 25 with the M-Tex Drilling Rig. Place the used M-Tex Oil rig, bring all required materials to the site, and drill a 9,500 ft well. After drilling is finished, the rig is replaced with an M-Tex Well Pad that includes a pump jack and tank battery.

How drilling works

Purchase “M-Tex Drilling Rig (drill a well)” from Production > Factories. If the M-Tex store category is enabled, it can instead be found under M-Tex Oil > Production. The placeable functions as a production point called “Drill well”.

Drilling begins after all four inputs have arrived and the production has been activated. The complete process takes 36 game hours, or 1.5 game days, and produces a depth of 9,500 ft. The timer follows the game clock, meaning that time spent away from the site, sleeping, or skipping time is included. Progress made during drilling is saved and works in multiplayer, with the server determining the state. To stop the process temporarily, turn the production off in the Productions menu. Turning it on again resumes the job.

The top drive and drill string operate visually during the job. The string rotates at 110 rpm for 120 seconds, followed by a 30-second connection pause, while the top drive moves through one 24.66 m stand. The original drill-pipe connection sound is used. In the Productions menu, you can view the inputs, their fill levels, the current depth, completion percentage, and remaining time. The placeable information box identifies materials that are missing.

Every active production hour costs a rig day rate of $7,291.67. This is about $25,000 per real day and approximately $262,500 for the complete well. Site overhead adds a daily upkeep charge of $21,000.

Inputs

Drilling cannot start until all four materials are at the site. They are consumed during the 36 game hours:

• 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.

The mud system uses Water as its fill type. A separate mud input is not required.

Delivery

Deliveries use the bay at the south-east side of the pad. Vehicles enter through the open south edge, unload there, and turn around on the gravel.

• Pallets of pipe, cement bags, water, or diesel tank pallets can be placed anywhere inside the bay. They unload automatically, including strapped pallets. When a pallet enters the bay while still on forks, the rig tries again every second after it has been set down.
• Tankers and tippers unload water, diesel, or bulk cement at the unload marker on the gravel slab. The trigger includes a standard AI unload node.

This mod has no AutoDrive-specific setup. It also has no scripted hired workers; the crew visible on the rig belongs to the model.

Well pad

The production output is the drilled well depth (MTEX_WELL_DEPTH), with a value of 9,500 ft. It cannot be sold and does not create a pallet.

After completion, the server places the M-Tex Well Pad (FS25_MTex_WellPad) at the rig. Its offset positions the wellhead over the rig’s well centre, and the rig is then deleted. The well pad does not level the terrain again. It remains on the gravel pad previously levelled by the rig, or on TerraFarm ground if the site was shaped that way. Its cost is included in the rig’s shop price. If the Well Pad mod is not loaded, the rig remains in place until that mod becomes active, with the replacement attempted every 10 seconds.

Selling the rig before drilling is complete returns the normal sell value for the undrilled portion only. After the well has been completed, its sell value is $0.

Doghouse

Inside the doghouse is a toolpusher / company-man office with a desk, chairs, files, whiteboard, radio, AC, and PPE, along with an indoor area. The door opening measures 0.94 × 2.02 m, has a flush threshold, and can be opened and closed.

The office contains a live well-monitor screen. It is emissive and remains usable at night. The display gives the drill percent, depth in feet, time left, a progress bar, and one of these status words: READY, DRILLING, PIPE, CEMENT, WATER, DIESEL, PAUSED, or DONE (well complete). The 3D monitor text also displays “M-TEX RIG 1”, depth, percent, hours left, and a status line. Both displays follow the synced drill state.

Features

• The used M-Tex Oil land rig includes a 45 m derrick, substructure, doghouse, weathered paint, and site equipment. This equipment consists of 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.
• When placed, the pad is levelled and painted as gravel, with dirt and drilling mud beneath the substructure.
• From 18:00 to 07:00, night lighting is active on the derrick, substructure, light poles, monkey board, and doghouse.
• The older decoration-only rig is no longer available for sale in the shop, while rigs already placed in a savegame continue to 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.