#bigoil

Shell discussion in Bangalore. Shell started their office years before ExxonMobil

https://www.thelayoff.com/post/@OP+1m27yw8gc

https://www.thelayoff.com/post/@OP+1m17j5rpc

They are moving to one hub

Heard Suncor to take some stake in the Kearl lake asset IOL?

Any news or updates on that?

Heard CNRL is going to acquire some stake in IOL KEARL LAKE.

any updates or news about this?

Just miss Esso France so much man, cannot bear to consider that EPCO might be on the chopping block too

A group of energy companies is meeting at the White House tomorrow in and effort to develop a plan to lower gasoline prices.
I’m sure Go Go will be there because they’ll need someone to bring coffee and donuts to other executives.

What’s the over-under for when we announce that we’ll “merge” with BP. I’m guessing Q3 2027.

Is there future in Canadian Heavy Oil and Imperial?

Is Venezuela more appealing?

I’ll go first:

Q: Why did Shell exit Guyana?
A: #ThatsAGoodQuestion #ThisIsShell

Refine 360,000 barrels and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt. St. Peter, don't you calI me 'cause I gotta stay, have to give another day for the Chevron Way.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/so-you-want-to-be-chairman-of-exxon/

Eventually top tier locations will be reduced and reserve replacement will become a priority. Probability that Oxy merges with another company in the next 2 years

What company or market will CVX buy into next?
CVX oil finders particularly ex Hess G&G are not developing attractive runways and the companies doing a great job of decommissioning and divesting assets.

I was a contractor at Exxon a few years on a year long contract. When they got rid of me after I got their project done faster than expected they told me I was more than welcome to come back.

I have had at 4 instances where I was the right person for the job and right when things get moving in the right direction i get ghosted. Apparently I am not the right person to play in their dollhouse, which is fine. THEN STOP CALLING ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just because you like wasting your time doesn't mean others like it. And judging by the posts on this site, a lot of others don't like it either.

So instead of prank calling people to come play at your unrewarding shitehole, just grow up and do something productive like seggs work on 45!

Water fountain rumors are that GoGo and Southernland have been meeting with outside legal teams negotiating an acquisition of P66. Anybody have any insight?
Watching the stock trades of the ELT and Board definitely makes one wonder if there might be some validity to the rumors…

Taking into account layoffs as well as your own intentions.

I currently work at bp and was approached by a recruiter with XOM. Would that be a good move right now? I’m not happy with bp, for obvious reasons - poor strategy, poor company performance, poor leadership, limited career growth opportunity, etc. From my perspective ExxonMobil looks leaps and bounds better, but I would love to hear thoughts from y’all.

I think Muse's Dead Inside should be Chevron's new theme song especially these lyrics. The leadership and company has no soul left....they are Dead Inside

You're free to touch the sky
Whilst I am crushed and pulverised
Because you need control
Now I'm the one who's letting go

You like to give an inch
Whilst I am giving infinity
But now I've got nothing left
You have no cares and I'm bereft

There is absolutely nothing we can do to improve our stock price. It will just change in lock step with oil and natural gas prices.

Hope this is not, “Short term gain, at the price of long term gain.”

The gist I took away was we’re centralizing more engineering in the US, using tech centers more and only staffing manufacturing sites with under potential 30 types. I’d expect when the current batch of lower potential 26-29’s get told they’re stuck, the “redundancy” problem takes care of itself.

I saw an armed policeman on the upper floor of the cube. I noticed him still there couple of hours later. I asked some people in my class about what he could be doing there.
One guy said the policeman stops every person that goes to the elevator and checks if there name is on a list.
There was obviously such an important meeting at the top level of the cube that employees were not allowed on the same floor as the meeting.

What are they discussing such that an armed guard is required to keep employees off that whole floor?

For those that have been around a long time, were EOIs offered in the layoffs before competitive edge, do you think the company will offer EOIs in the next round?

Overheard in the hallway that managers are being forced to rank their teams across all the ratings, even the lower ratings.

Has anyone heard this ??

Anyone else see the #Do Better Chevron post it notes on the broken glass in the Houston Sky Ring? Classic.

Apache may get 19 billion dollars of assets for a mere handshake 🤝 they only have $350mm cash…and stock is a dumpster fire. How will this affect employees and jobs?

Let’s convince MW to intervene

Any insight from the water cooler?

Will this breath life into APA?

Please be mindful of colleagues in other groups who have not been notified yet.

Laid off in Canada at 56. This blows.
Going through LinkedIn, it looks like there were a lot of us “of a certain age” that were let go.

I have been in similar shoes and I just want to send my words of encouragement out to everyone experiencing the potential grief this week. I call it grief because that’s what it is—a loss of a life, job, career, leaders, coworkers you once held dear.

Take at least a day or two to just process. Try not to be solutions oriented immediately. I already see some friends posting on LinkedIn. I know the desperation is seeping in, but please, take time to just grieve and process this first.

Then pick yourself up and reach out to friends who have left COP previously and talk to them about what they did to leave. There is a life after. You will be okay. Sending you strength.

"I fault myself for not paying more attention' is what CEO Ryan Lance told us is one of the reasons he has to cut 25% of the workforce. He was too focused on swallowing smaller rivals. Ryan Lance's was paid $23.12 million in 2024. $15.42 was a bonus. Wonder how much he will get in 2025 “for not paying attention”.

An appeals judge has tossed Phillips’s appeal of the $833 million judgment awarded to Propel Fuels.
Heh, Heh, Heh!!!

ConocoPhillips quarterly report was just published. From the highlights a couple things stand out to me... Very high exposure to US shale in L48 and $5 billion more in planned divestitures for 2026 are on track.

What's getting sold next that can generate $5 billion? Underperforming US assets? Someone else speculated Montney?

ConocoPhillips announces third-quarter 2025 results; increases quarterly ordinary dividend by 8% and announces preliminary 2026 guidance
November 6, 2025
https://www.conocophillips.com/news-media/story/conocophillips-announces-third-quarter-2025-results-increases-quarterly-ordinary-dividend-by-8-and-announces-preliminary-2026-guidance

• Delivered total company and Lower 48 production of 2,399 thousand barrels of oil equivalent per day (MBOED) and 1,528 MBOED, respectively.
• Exceeded $3 billion in dispositions in 2025 and on track to meet $5 billion disposition target by year-end 2026.

Whats the story with Amber? Is she really an ace with Refining? Or another looney leg-opener? Sure seems like a very big talker.

See WSJ Story from Oct 31 "How Chevron Got Caught in the Clash Between the U.S. and Venezuela"

Chevron has 3000 employees in harms way, propping up a dictatorship.

The response from Chevron PR is laughable.

“Our top priority is the safety of our personnel, the communities in which we operate, the environment and the integrity of our joint-venture assets,” a Chevron spokesman said. He referred any questions about the security situation in Venezuela to the U.S. government.

Look at his left hand.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/exxonmobil-mozambique_this-week-we-had-the-honor-of-welcoming-activity-7389677374436646912-dF8N?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAAAghr0EBxYrvlW41szMwjPB1N_b7_qJtMYI