Thread regarding BP PLC layoffs

@1ty it doesn’t matter who is responsible - write downs will not be tolerated going forward.

A drilling engineer led the skin study? 😂 😂 😂 wow the delusion

@1tq on behalf of all drillers, I'm so sorry one of us hurt you so much :(

@1tq we lose "at least 1 in 3 wells"?couldn't bother reading the rest of your undoubtedly id--tic post after reading this. And to the other genius that said drillers dont know what skin means- it was a drilling engineer that led the skin study and building the skin database in GoM. Recent wells skin is mostly negative because of all the work that has gone into understanding this subject and improving our fluid strategies, and handing over clean wells to our completions brethren. Just stop saying d-mb sh-t. You're embarrassing yourselves.

@14e just ask a driller the definition of skin, something to be made as high as possible to drill the well is the likely answer. It takes a team effort, end of the day well performance and reliability is what creates value. Not one discipline. It’s not about complex deepwater issues, it’s about how the teams respond to solve it in an innovative, simple and cost effective way!

@14e Drillers are the root cause of losing holes or multiple penetrations at bp, at least 1 in 3 wells. They also cause high skin wells by plugging the reservoir with all kinds of junk including losses across pay. Getting pore pressures during drilling is not subsurface expertise, and completion AFEs are lot more than drilling. Drillers dominate leadership at bp and this narcissistic post certainly explains why. The bridging packages are the same well to well with no regard to mud seeping through the pay and zonal isolation is a mess. The fluids team has an army for checking the service company’s work. Drilling is the most overrated discipline in the industry and bp has its share of underachievers that get promoted to minimize real damage, standard organizational design 101.

@1as haters gonna hate - sorry we make more and deal with more complex issues than paint.

How’s production doing ? The highlights and lowlights?

I love a driller that thinks they keep the company running. Just wait when they all lose their jobs but production keeps the ship afloat.

@s7 if you can’t figure those assets out you’re not intelligent enough to work at an O&G company, even one as poorly run as BP

@16b lol at a person thinking subsurface knows anything about anything underground lol...their job is to give ranges of uncertainty and our job is to navigate it and get to the target, sideways if needed. Please don't come to a battle of wit unarmed, you probably can't even drill a hole in drywall.

lol at drilling thinking they can take credit for subsurface outcomes…. Your job is to drill a hole and stick pipe in the ground.

@zw drilling deals with engineering, subsurface, and mechanical risks, completions gets a finished wellbore and deals with engineering and mechanical risk only. Regardless - we in Wells (D&C) have been kicking a-s lately. Production from NWD is delivering at or above SOR rates consistently, and cost index is around 1 which means overspend on some wells is offset by efficiencies on others. New technology and new applications are delivered every day - Atlantis horizontals across multiple fault blocks, that even the big servco's said they'd never done before, OHGPs etc. Last TH well delivered so much production even XOM was impressed. Most of these messages are silly generic messages from people who probably hate that wells people get paid more than them lol. Keep hatin'!

@k0 where are the compromised completions esp in GoA? Drilling seems to be an issue, but if we get to TD, completions always delivers. There is one wellbore in the last 15 years that completions lost.

@ra I agree. The financial metrics are there!

@nk any clues on the code words?

That’s a lame response. They are expensive and risky which is why we need to stop making the same mistakes.

Wells are expensive and risky. It’s part of the game.

If we look at the percent of wells attempted versus completed, it’s pretty staggering. And then even the ones completed… weeks are often required to get isolation.

@js are you seriously so slow you don’t know the difference between production optimization and capital wastage?

Lightning Donkey alone has crapped away over a quarter of a billion dollars in drilling failures in recent years. Upset puppy and the lost city aren’t far behind either.

How many wells have we had to abandon before completing them, or have compromised completions? How many wells have we blown the budget on? We’ve wasted hundreds of millions the last few years on operational train wrecks.

@f7 where are the train wrecks you are referring to? GoA production is high, cost are going down and we are all treated fairly and do challenging work. Can you be specific than coming up with generalized negative comments that have no basis?

MGal is top 10? Look at wells performance. Trainwreck after trainwreck. Where’s the accountability? He should be bottom

@ey lol, Mike isn’t going to call you dude. He is only where he is because he’s hanging onto his daddy AK’s dongle. The epitome of favoritism.

Speaking of couples that need to go… AK is just a perpetuation of the good ole boys liar club. Make tons of slides saying what you want the truth to be while hiding the real news from your bosses.

Add on top KK literally moving around like something circling the toilet bowl that just won’t flush. Why do we need a Group Leader as a VP of logistics?!?

Send them both packing and save bp a couple mil a year.

@c3 BS

@ey every E & D in P&C, no idea what that leadership does at all decide questions for the pulse ??!! , not really business facing nor visible and if you need help its through an AI bot !!

Let us rate our Senior Managers and above (E) and above who would be in the 10% pool. Please be honest and not let your personal issues get in the way of our leadership ratings. We could also rate the top 10%.
My top 10% MGal as a start.

I know multiple people sacked through the 10% process, with no severance. It’s happening in GoA subsurface commonly, at least.

@ar the fact that the 10% scenario hasn’t been clearly communicated is enough reason to be concerned.

@OP There’s a lot of dramatic language here, but not much substance. We don’t have any evidence of anyone being let go through this process, let alone people with “decades of service” being dumped without severance. That’s speculation dressed up as fact.

And comparing this to some kind of investor‑pleasing purge ignores the reality that every major company runs performance management cycles, it’s not unique, sinister, or new. The difference is whether it’s applied fairly, and we simply don’t have the data yet to claim otherwise.

If we’re going to criticise the process, it should be based on what’s actually happening, not worst‑case hypotheticals. Otherwise we’re just amplifying fear rather than dealing with facts

@OP my only question is what protected activity did you engage in that they decide you were a risk to eliminate. Medical leave? Whistleblowing, using their speak up channel which may as well be - identify yourself as a problem we need to eliminate because we have no ability to self reflect.

There is a class action forming for retaliation PIPs and firings. It’s become their personality at this point