You aren’t safe because you are close to the wellhead. So sick of people parroting this. Just look at Guyana.
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I wonder why the operations has not been outsourced yet. Seems like an obvious cost cutting move.
@e3 no one says it is a good idea just that this is what the company is planning to do. Like they did in Guyana.
@k1 have you ever worked outside the Permian? The contractors are expats in rotation flown in from other places.
Wake up dude. The company can easily outsource your job to a third party.
@de Guyana is a 3rd world country and I’m sure working as a contractor for XOM is the best they can hope for. The Permian/Delaware has basically every oil and gas company so there is plenty of competition to get good employees so they can’t replace employees with contractors because you can go work for another good company instead of being a contractor.
Can't say much about the wellhead but I have worked with a lot of di-kheads at EM.
@e3 , that was a said. Incompetent.
You clearly don’t understand what it takes to operate a unit. I’ve had instrumentation broken for months and contractors aren’t loyal.
Best of luck getting the unit back online after the first hurricane or freeze.
“ Combination of automation and outsourcing the remaining work to managed service providers and contractors.”
@cm all of the FPSOs in Guyana are operated by SMB and MODEC. Zero employees turning valves.
@d6 you are living in denial. Just look at Guyana.
When you contract, sorry for the redundancy,, contractors in a company, it is when the engineers become incompetents. Now many EM incompetents thinks that the only thing is better to management than balance management with technical skills. Besides, the experience that engineers get when they work close to a rig is huge than try to get it through teams or one day visit to the firld and post it on the mediia.
@cp everything is already automated in the Permian/Delaware and they still need employees to take care of the field, so I’m not sure they can do away with that many field employees. Also, in the Permian/Delaware they won’t be able to replace everyone with contractors because they wouldn’t be able to find enough willing to stay as contractors since there are plenty of other companies to go work for.
@cp I would rather the company pay someone out in the field that is actually doing work to benefit the company over someone in the office that sits around gossiping all day or thinks they should be able to work from home.
Historically, field ops jobs were safer from downsizing.
Not any more. Combination of automation and outsourcing the remaining work to managed service providers and contractors.
The gravy train of getting paid a hefty salary with a high school diploma and some on-the-job training to watch a control panel is coming to an end at EM.
What are they doing in Guyana with the people close to the wellhead?
No one is safe these days. The annual assessment guarantees that. Our management believes that the best thing is to cycle employees out the door. They do not believe in the long term employee / career employee model anymore.
@OP the risk becomes different. More straight forward and simply driven by your own performance and the level of rig activity. No rig, at risk. Don’t do your job, at risk. Chasing the mighty dollar through headcount reduction, like the office folks are exposed to every other month, is muted and that ops related long hanging fruit was trimmed many cycles below. Only transformational risk remaining is to outsource the whole lot.