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Horizon Challenge warning to senior mgmt

All or almost all proposed projects at this time coming out if EMTEC are bogus. Please ask questions 3-4 layers deep and they will be exposed. The managers are intentionally covering up bad ideas in the guise of next big opportunity to get their bonus and move to their next role, while the future organization suffers with their terrible decisions.

Managers are intentionally spinning the wheel on ‘technologies’ and ideas that no one in the industry will touch or have already made a clear decision to never pursue. Closely look at Upstream research, they will drain the company of $$ shamelesslessly, or just out of incompetence.

Under the threat of unemployment, the Research company is also joining in on these made up technology cases, especially getting a chance to contribute on the Upstream side.

Please look closely, just throwing millions of dollars for projects known to be failures is crazy. It is not innovation.

Don’t burden your technical staff with turning slogans from clueless middle manager into engineering execution, when it is simply not possible.

It is one thing for you to ask someone to become a better basketball player — it is possible. It is another thing to ask someone to grow from 5 ft 10 to 7 ft in a year to then become the best player of NBA. It is is impossible, factually impossible. What these managers are forcefully promoting are IMPOSSIBLE ideas.

only ask is please ask critical questions, these Yes men need to be held accountable.


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Post ID: @OP+1m1ht0thk

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sunflower bias at its best — put a chemicals VP in charge of upstream and insert level 3 managers who are absolute clueless bootlickers and people pleasers ..and viola you get a whole bunch of made up ‘technology’ projects that will go nowhere

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Post ID: @q0+1m1ht0thk

what are SoD wells?

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Post ID: @kr+1m1ht0thk

UNCON SOD wells were a big success for the company! Not. But several people sold it and rode the wave before management finally clued into the reality. The issues with it were obvious to anyone with knowledge.

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Post ID: @cn+1m1ht0thk

@bf it's easy to tell if things work or not, you test again and continue to learn from success or failure. You clearly have a smooth brain, can I offer you a management position?

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Post ID: @bk+1m1ht0thk

haha comparing injecting soap in oil wells with no idea of knowing it worked, with innnovation with nvda?

“somebody get these beggars out of here”

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Post ID: @bf+1m1ht0thk

So we are clear, people are saying we can't spend less than 1% of uncon capex to try new things to improve recovery ....

Have you all seen what the industry is able to achieve with innovation? Look at NVDA .. losers

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Post ID: @b8+1m1ht0thk

EMTEC is a scam

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Post ID: @b5+1m1ht0thk

look no further than deepwater tech ( is there any, what do these guys even do?) and uncon( lets keep buying companies to show we are a tech company) , its crazy the things that are being considered and talked about and the issues that are hidden under the rug in the guise of optimism. one day all of this will catch up and will be brutal.

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Post ID: @b3+1m1ht0thk

Lemming behaviour here is wild haha. Let's not explore or try to improve recovery, we'll just drill our way out of our problems somehow!

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Post ID: @b0+1m1ht0thk

You have to wonder how projects that have been tried multiple times over decades by more experienced people are suddenly economic now

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Post ID: @az+1m1ht0thk

UNCON improving recovery has some serious issues. Need to calculate the OPEX and consider downtime. That will ki-l the idea. Everyone is ignoring it on purpose.

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Post ID: @ay+1m1ht0thk

Which projects are snake oil?

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Post ID: @aq+1m1ht0thk

upstream tech portfolio needs to studied, and audited — a pathetic bunch of losers selling snake oil

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Post ID: @an+1m1ht0thk

EMTEC is famous for solving problems that dont need to be solved. You’ve got this massive org then over in operations and the business they are barely known and certainly not moving the needle.

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Post ID: @ag+1m1ht0thk

I don't agree totally, there are a handful of ideas that are proven, our competitors have already commercialized, and we are only at step 1 because of bad culture and this company moving like molasses. That said I am sick of having to carry our useless reseachers who will inevitably try to take all the credit for any successes that may occur.

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Post ID: @a9+1m1ht0thk

what is DAC?

how come EMTEC gets away with no accountability to actually provide value?

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Post ID: @a8+1m1ht0thk

Do you have any idea how many completely useless people built entire careers off nonsense projects? The number of unjustified promotions handed out for doing performative, zero‑impact work is insane. DAC is just one example. EMTEC people getting rewarded for pretending they’re solving something while contributing nothing.

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