Oil companies could use it to let a semiretired engineer, lounging poolside with his laptop, help a roughneck fix a broken valve on a platform in the Gulf of Mexico.
Instead of cutting his teeth in the oilfields like Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson or wildcatting billionaire Harold Hamm, Watson studied agricultural economics and started his oil career as a financial analyst, not a roughneck.
Mr. STEVE SMITH(ph) (Owner, Royale): I'm sure it was a little bit fast and loose, more loose than it had been done, but I'm sure it's actually probably more in the proud tradition of this sort of roughneck River City that we're in.