That's a good question, but it illustrates what I was trying to do in my presentation. There's confusion about the whole hierarchy of accountability and responsibility.
There is no actual handover, as such. The only handover that happens when the well is drilled is that you take it from the drilling team and hand it over to the production team—if your well is a producer and it's hooked up to infrastructure that allows the oil and gas to flow. Typically the operator and the drilling contractor and a number of other subcontractors, such as the cementing people, all work together daily to manage the progress of that well. There is no actual hand-off to the operator as such at the end of the well. What you do is you move locations when the well is finished and you go to another location and you restart the process.
But the operator is accountable for the day-to-day running of that plan to execute that well, day in and day out. The contractors who work for the operator follow the plan, as instructed and as contracted. So that accountability never changes. As I said, the only subtle change is that you turn it from a drilling operation over to a production operation. But still, the operator is accountable in that transition.