Hearing lots of rumours that Qatari Leadership are sick of XOM Snr Leaders and DWW is no longer ‘winning’ with them. Qatar is in a bad spot with the SoH and appears that XOM is trying to take advantage.
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@js agree. We are firing people via PIP and refusing to provide secondees to them.
The Qataris have been very good partners to us and we just pi$$ it all back on them by our overly aggressive compete to win arrogance. We have ruined the relationship and lost future opportunities because of DWW and the current LCM who is a lapdog of DWW
Executives need to look in the mirror. The Qataris have been great partners and would welcome a return of the old relationship if the executives would treat them like partners and not always push too hard to get more more more
QE has requested secondees many times from EM and EM refuses to supply secondeesbecause EM does not want to have more expats, even if QE pays.
QE now populated with secondees from other operators and the EM influence approaching zero.
DWW think we should get a premium over the likes of Shell and TotalEnergies without realizing that the Qataris can see that DWW is gutting the organization. We don’t deserve a premium.
@b4 the irony that Exxon MC feels they should be favoured as a JV partner due to their operational / technical excellence while simultaneously gutting the people and experience base that got the company that reputation
@a6 A lot of the engineers working in these nationalized Middle East oil companies come from the same places that companies like Exxon send jobs to…not sure I’m following you here.
Warren Doods and Aan Dman do not understand that relationships matter. They can’t make a deal to save themselves. And no wonder the Qataris don’t trust them after the recent comments by Scott of Pioneer.
Pretty sure XOM has been on the outs with Qatar for a while. I heard the last block they bid out, they did not give XOM any preferential access or status which pi---d off the execs. XOM feels they are a better partner than other majors and should be treated as such, even though the MC is gutting the companies technical expertise in favor of offshoring.
This is why XOM switched gears to developing with ADNOC full steam.