Longer rental.
Lower cost. Automatic.
StepRate has two phases. Phase 1: prepay 2, 3, or 4 weeks at job start to lock in your entry rate. Phase 2: from day 31, your rate steps down automatically every two weeks — no calls, no renegotiations, no paperwork. The longer you run, the less you pay. StepRate is not a concession. It is a structured rate schedule built into your agreement from day one.
Phase 1 — prepay 2, 3, or 4 weeks at job start to lock in 5%, 7%, or 10% off your standard day rate. Cost is fixed and known before the first truck rolls.
Phase 2 — if the well keeps producing past day 30, StepRate takes over automatically at your 10% rate and steps down another 3% every two weeks, with no calls and no paperwork.
Once you reach a tier, that is your floor for the life of the deployment. Maximum 25% off at day 101+. At month six, NFC covers trucking on the rig-out at no charge.
Well behavior doesn't follow a schedule. Your cost structure can. StepRate is built for the kind of problem nobody budgets for — a declining cost schedule that bends with the well, not against it.
StepRate thresholds are defined in NFC's quote and job documentation before operations begin — not discovered in the billing conversation. Every tier, every trigger day, every exclusion is visible from day one. The rate you see on day one is the worst rate you will ever pay.
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