Repair jobs for Process Gas Compressors: Steep price tag for manpower

Repair jobs for Process Gas Compressors particularly for ONGC's offshore platforms are complicated machines and repaid jobs are expensive.

ONGC recently found that material costs are as expensive as manpower costs to replace items such as control systems
The OEMs, knowing well that ONGC does not have a choice, end up extracting a high service charge.
Sometimes manpower costs are as high as 50% of the cost of engineered spares.

Source : Indian PetroPlus