New leader,CFO and rising oil prices the only way is up Should have faith in Senior Management and HR they got us through difficult times strong leadership and compassion for staff Perhaps this website can be closed down and a new one as a fan club... — read more
SMT at Robertson being laid off?
Just heard that the senior management at Robertson are getting laid off. Anyone heard anything about this?
Great Dividend
Dividend over 11%. Wow! You can't beat that with a stick. Time to load up.
Desparation - flogging the vessel assets
Geowave Voyager Built about 9 years ago at 120million not including acquisition kit costs Sold for 17 million including kit A quite frankly stunning loss that cheaply allows a competitor a stronger market foothold undermining CGGs future... — read more
Interview or just make HR looks busy
Hi CGGer , I went to onsite interview last week, no response yet. Is that a real one or just makes hr looks busy but not hire anyone? How long does the result usually come? Many thanks
Q2 earning report
shock announcement to be made shortly. Source GGR exec.
Chinese acquisition
Hearing more and more chatter about this. Possibly explains the observations in the prior post (lots of connection points between industry and government in Beijing). Premise is the Chinese are assembling one-stop shops for oil & gas exploration and... — read more
When are we looking at more layoffs?
Lately we've seen a few people here and there laid off by CGG, but I was wondering when are we looking at another bigger round of layoffs? There has been very little chatter lately, so if anybody has any info on what's coming down the line, please... — read more
who else on the list?
one manager left today. who else?
What next
What are you hanging on for? Turnaround in fortunes for CGG Redundancy settlement Right opportunity elsewhere A white knight to come to the rescue Cannot get a job elsewhere
Oil prices & CGG...?
Anyone have any thoughts on the current reassurance of oil prices and CGG???? For a long time I didn't thing CGG was going to survive the prolonged downturn. Will the pickup in oil price mean we can survive?
Huge turnover
If you want to truly realize how bad situation is at CGG Veritas, just look at our turnover. We are literally losing people on weekly bases these days, and most of them are our best workers. Frankly, CGG doesn't need layoffs, they just need to stop... — read more
CGG are vulnerable to take over
CGG are vulnerable to take over. Schlumberger want out of seismic - No Shearwater and are too small and have many ex CGG employees - No PGS are struggling and are the last large player - possible tie up to create one mega player and control the... — read more
Merger.....?
I have been hearing rumours of a merger with one of the other remaining players. Anyone heard anything similar?
Now Sophie Zurquiyah is CEO
Who is running GGR?
pay rises
anyone get one? i didn't :-(
GENDER PAY GAP DAY
ANYONE KNOW WHERE THE FIGURES ARE? WHAT'S YOUR GAP?
Let's make CGG great again
Ask not what CGG can do for you - ask what you can do for CGG.
40% Tax Fiasco On Bonus Payments For A Large Number Of Basic Rate UK Employees!!!
Just when you think you've seen it all!! Never mind HR and payroll are helpful. NOT!!!!!!!
New CGG CEO
https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2018/03/23/1449630/0/en/CGG-announces-the-appointment-of-Sophie-Zurquiyah-as-Chief-Executive-Officer-the-cooptation-of-two-new-Board-members.html
More layoffs
Calgary let 7 go today. 2 processors, 4 in office operations, 1 in IT Calgary was hit yesterday, which means that we can definitely expect more layoffs next week. As somebody put it in that other thread, CGG does this in stages. Not sure which... — read more
Any news on layoffs?
I don't buy this "we are now safe" crap.
Career after CGG (share your story)
I thought it would be interesting for those ex-CGG guys here to share how things have gone career-wise since they left. Given the industry situation, most of us had to look outside O&G to opportunities. Also a significant number of us do quite unique... — read more
Any idea why CGG's market cap peaked 1.2 billion
As Yahoo shows
Are we safe now?
CGG is out of the woods now. That means we are finally safe. Am I right? At least no need to worry about layoffs in the near future?
We should sue these guys
I heared we wasted $5 million on this in legal, banker and accountancy fees. https://www.thelayoff.com/neos-geosolutions
CGG finalizes implementation financial restructuring plan
We are delighted to announce that we have now completed our financial restructuring process and emerged from Chapter-11. This is an important milestone in our company’s history as it marks the beginning of an exciting and positive future. This... — read more
Restructuring
CGG has had interest expenses of about $180M per year for the last 4 years. They have incurred losses averaging $961M per year over the same period. How will wiping all but $1.2B their debt and raising $500M help them survive 2018 ?
Instruments to be issued as part of CGG's financial restructuring plan
Can someone who understands this be so kind as to explain what all this means ? https://www.nasdaq.com/press-release/cgg-instruments-to-be-issued-as-part-of-cggs-financial-restructuring-plan-20180212-00025 Also is there a date they plan to "come out"... — read more
Massive destruction of capital
Share price tanking again today. Market cap is now about 46 million Euro. At the end of 2012 CGG had a market cap of almost 4 billion Euro - yes, billion. Shocking! www.cgg.com/en/Investors/Shareholder-Information/Share-Price-Details
Seems CGG has good news
Stock price is doubled in two business days. What happened?
HR in other centres
Why is The HR department in CGG so bad? I have heard that HR in Calgary is one of the worst, apparently she is never in the office and when she is, she is bad at her job. You never hear of bad HR departments in other centres like Perth or in Asia... — read more