Question-and-Answer Session
Thank you. [Operator Instructions]. And our first question comes from Chris Gillespie with Simmons & Company.
Christopher Gillespie - Simmons & Company
Thanks. Good morning.
J. Michael Anderson - Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Good morning.
Stephen A. Snider - President and Chief Executive Officer
Good morning.
Christopher Gillespie - Simmons & Company
First question; looking at 2009 and your preliminary thoughts regarding North America, do you have... given the fact that the NLP market right now is, credit constrained, a dropdown I would assume less than likely, do you have any plans to move some of your North American horsepower into the international sphere or no?
Stephen A. Snider - President and Chief Executive Officer
We are continually moving horsepower to whatever market we can utilize it in. We move North American units and international more frequently than the reverse. It's not a large number however. We do move some of the equipment there when there is a job for particularly with an idle fleet that we have that's ready to go, quite often it helps to secure more projects than international.
Christopher Gillespie - Simmons & Company
Okay. And in terms of looking internationally, can you give us an update in terms of some projects and some markets you're looking for to get into next year and kind of the capital expenditure that will be necessary to go in there, kind of along the lines of, what we saw last quarter? And if you see any projects like down on the horizon?
Stephen A. Snider - President and Chief Executive Officer
Well, we have a continual backlog of projects in the international market that have a very long gestation period. And it's a long book of business, some of which becomes real projects and some of which, of course goes away. And its spread through all the place you would expect it to be that I will kind of doing business, being Asia, Africa, Middle East, Latin America.
We generally tell you what we come up with in the amount of contract value that we had in every quarter, which we did this quarter. But we haven't been disclosing particular projects for a variety of reasons, but we have a pretty full book of opportunities there that we're converting as you can see by the increase in back log.
Christopher Gillespie - Simmons & Company
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