In DWEP, Deep Water Expliration Projects, incompetency is above explanation. In its BOP team, they hired bounch of inexperienced engineeers with ZERO BOP experience to go out and manage the rig contractors, there is this team lead with NO experience and managing skill who leads these kids.
Just remember BP in 2009 and the effect of it to the company since then. It is scary that the only barrier btw gushing well and the environment is in the hands of this group. Very frightening!!!
Oh yeah, Mike Sprawls was the Deepwater NMA GM D&C Manager on that Funiwa well on the KS Endeavor. He's a huge mo--n, he blew up that well real freaking good! Nobody does Like Mike!
Regarding the poster in the thread below who asks if any internal resources would be effective in addressing Chevron's, um, sins..........no, there wouldn't be. Even the VP of Global D&C cannot affect a change in Managing Directors and VP's of business units going forward with plans to drill wells that are overly-risky such as the KS Endeavor well in Nigeria called "Funiwa" or the one in Brazil. If you want to stay at Chevron, play the sick game. Otherwise leave. I am the poster in the thread below called "the truth hurts." Read what I say about Frade and Nigeria in the thread below.
Given the complexity of wells typically drilled by DWEP, 2 drilled and completed wells per rig per year is not far off. Especially so, since one of the drillships just came on within the past year.
I am not a CVX cheer (or yell) leader by any stretch of the imagination.
Who the f*** snubs production CASING?
This is truly common in this company that being said what could we do about this specific event. Call the news? Report it to the paper. No internal resources are effective?
The original poster is right on.
Whoa on the cost of DW well and only hitting two zones! Man this board is a wealth of information.
DWEP is out of control as a MCP. Currently 6 Deepwater rigs at
$1 million/day spread cost (no materials) are on our payroll. A 7th rig is about to be delivered! In the last 3 years only 12 wells have been completed for production. Last year 2 completed wells cost $500 million a piece and are only producing from one of two zones each because the complicated designs failed to open valves to produce the other zones. Now two former DW managers (Jones and French) are being sent back to DWEP to help get things back on track. Good luck. Deep water profitability has always been over sold. It may have looked good for "reserves replacement" but that has to be economical and DW never was or is now. Deep water started like a "gold rush" and like them always go bust!
Re: Anonymous142338
SJV doesn't snub anything either, except coil.
AMBU does not snub wells? I find that remarkable. They are setting tubing with coil? That is crazy!
But it goes much much further up the food chain. For example the fatality at AMBU...the rest of the story..... Jesse Morris a D&C manager who did not want to snub in production casing....why? He was somewhere and some got killed snubbing so the story goes. So Jesse is D&C manager in AMBU and decides no snubbing.....Chevron snubs production casing everywhere else. Everyone snubs in casing....EVERYONE...except AMBU. No snubbing leads to stabbing the live well with coil to place a plug and then leave a frac head on the live well for months. This was the root cause for the PA fatality and Chevron has no clue. My last attempt was talking to the new VP who came from a refinery and had zero upstream experience and a few months later everyone's prediction came true. Inexperience hands working on a live well that was plugged several months before and rocked up close to 5,000 PSI. If Morris was not such a dumb ass we would have snubbed the production casing in and be done with it at least do it with D&C personnel not production personnel that have zero well experience......but the Chevron Way to Get fed in the Ass....Morris gets promoted. F up to move up. His idiotic and blatant negligence kills a young man. This is public knowledge and guess what, as of last month they still don't snub!!!! DISASTER. Chevron should not be allowed to operate.
I believe this is one of the most important posts on this board. Journalists need to see the comments.
Yeah they were going to criminally prosecute the employees. Leadership doesn't care. Think twice before following bad decisions
SWA does not prevail. Business Plan prevails. Case in point: the environmental accident at Frade in Brazil and the burning down of the KS Endeavor rig in Nigeria. These events occurred two months apart. In both cases staff in the office were objecting and using SWA to stop the plans to go forward with those wells. In both cases upper management at the Managing Director level belittled them and said, "You will drill those wells and deliver on the business plan.". Two people were killed on the KS Endeavor. We all know about the oil slick at Frade and staff and management having their passports taken away by the Brazilian feds. I am an insider in Nigeria and I also worked with a geologist on Frade. I know the details and the truth.
Just because a car has dual airbags and state of the art driver safety devices, doesn't mean you don't have to learn to drive before getting behind the wheel. A lesson Chevron has yet to learn. It only takes going into the ditch once (for most companies)
Another example of blind faith believing that processes and SWA will prevail over experience.
I was on the ERT that responded to the well explosion in Pennsylvania last year. The Well Site manager at the time had no well control experience. He was with Chevron only a few month and before that he worked at a fast food restaurant. Chevron does not learn their lesson. INCOMPETENT OVERSIGHT LED TO A DEATH. And again here we are....same tune. BTW Chevron got a scathing write up by the feds for it's total lack of competency and control in a final report. It was buried and then ignored. In fact it was dismissed until the settlement came for the young mans death. Chevron then agreed with everything in the report. The report should be used as a litmus test for every job in the enterprise. As what's happening in DWEP.
It seems like Gorgon