Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
Thank you very much, Steve. (Operator Instructions) Your first question comes from Neal Dingmann.
Neal Dingmann
Say, was wondering, obviously you don’t give official guidance but, you know, as you tended to say as far as a bit more pessimistic view now, maybe not lasting just through mid-year but the longer term out, sounds like you’re cutting some costs but adding sales, etc. Would you give any idea as far as the number of compressors that you potentially could add this year for starters?
Stephen C. Taylor
Well, boy, yes we’ve said in the past, I think last call, that we can add I think it was up to 200 just based on cash flow, cash flows from operations. Now but I’ll also follow that with a quick caveat that we’ll only add what we see the market taking. And right now I don’t see the market taking that many. I’m a little hesitant to say what number because it’s a very fluid situation but right now we’re not on track to do 200. We’re probably on track to do you know less than half of that. And again, we’ll adjust that up or down as far as we see things developing.
And it could pick up towards the last part of the year. Again, if some of the pundits and everybody that I quoted are right, we could see it ramp up a bit in, say, fourth quarter particularly but right now we’re being very, very cautious about what we add.
Neal Dingmann
And then how big – you mentioned the service and maintenance component has recently or I guess in the last year or so been relatively small. How big can that grow in this type of environment and obviously as you mentioned, I don’t like to look at sales on a quarter-to-quarter, but more on an annual going forward, have you seen sales decrease as well demand on that side?
Stephen C. Taylor
Well, the service and maintenance business probably won’t – it’s about 1% of our total revenue right now and I don’t anticipate it growing. I don’t think it’ll double or anything in that respect because it’s – that’s a business you build to some degree slowly, just like you do anything else, and unless this slowdown lasts longer than we anticipate, I don’t think it’s going to be a big, big piece of the pie. But it does provide us some cushion in the field from the point of doing some rebuilds and some field work, field operations, field repairs that I think can help us support us through some of these times where we may see some softening.
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