Chesapeakes problem isn’t the staff in the field, it’s the engineers in Oklahoma City and the morons who design the pads. Wanna know why CHK is 10 billion in debt? Because there are $2,500 valves laying in the dirt in the Eagleford. Motor valves and HPG 150’s rotting away on old flare lines from flowback jobs back years ago. Expensive chemical treatments that have done nothing to prolong rod failures. Ridiculous automation and upkeep when other companies use very little and do just fine. Senior management in OKC that hire contractors to “optimize” our field with a one size fits all approach when everything was already tried and tested. Pumping unit weights laying in the dirt wasting away instead of being re-purposed. The cuts and changes shouldn’t be on the ground troops, it should all be in the corporate office. These “brains” listen to no feedback from the field, dig the company into a deeper hole, then blame the field offices when it doesn’t work. I watched a lot of good people get fired, laid off, and the rest are leaving in droves. Other companies are gobbling up the talent that continue to leave, and all were left with are corporate a-- kissers trying to climb the ladder with no experience. Oklahoma will try to run our field from a computer, and the spills and failures will pile up to the roof. I can’t wait until we in the field hear through the grapevine of all the spills and fires that WILL happen while we’re working for other companies who still value a good operator. Maybe the operations manager who knows nothing about production will save y’all. Maybe he’ll bring in more racist Anadarko foreman’s for HR to fire?
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Hey STX, how many folks have left your BU in the last 2 weeks? I heard 8, are they back filling positions or just doubling your workload?
Ain’t nothin’ better than shreddin’ tires with my other side x side cronies and takin’ our fat a$$ brown nose salaries and suping them up so we can cut loopty-loops and whirly-gigs and shotgun barley waters till our faces fall off....Oh the life of a cronie!
At this point it’s pretty well known that everyone in the field will be leaving once another company gives them an offer. If foreman’s and tech’s are up and quitting then that tells me they know something we don’t. Writings on the wall.
Seems like Mr Shareholder/supervisor has his head permanently inserted in a certain dark place because he likes the smell.
Seems like the OP likes the process of eating the hotdog—but doesn’t like the process of watching how the hotdog is made.
Stop whining and do your job. You are not a chemical engineer. The "expensive chemical process" you deride is absolutely essential. You sound like someone I know.
Am at corporate. Can confirm.
As an OKC employee, I have far more respect for the field than most of the pompous d-bags who work here. You guys in the field deserve more respect and more input!! I've had to work with the field quite a bit and I am always impressed. Sad that so many of these college grads who have never had a job elsewhere think they know what they are doing. They don't, and they s---.
Our ops manager in south TX went around to a few companies in the Eagleford bragging about how he was about to “clean house” and bring his buddies in. He’s a coward. Adds no knowledge or value to the company. Just another goon s---ling at the teet of this company while the people who actually make them the money get micro-managed and harassed about time spent in the field.
Hmmm. Sounds like the new super in Woodward that stood up in front of the entire office at the safety meeting and openly admitted to the entire office that he didn’t know how a separator works (talk about instilling confidence).
He replaced a super who had 30+ years experience in the field. Wasn’t a problem with a well he couldn’t diagnose and fix. You know why this super was replaced by a college grad that doesn’t know sh!t about production?
Because the college grad and the ops manager spend weekends riding side by sides together.
All of the ops managers cronies from Waynoka who replaced good experienced personnel in Woodward were overheard at the Mullins disposal bragging and having a p!ss!ng match over who spends more time with the ops manager outside of work.
Even KM from HR spends time with that group riding side by sides. It’s no wonder this ops manager has no trouble getting his way laying off hard working experienced people from one office to save his riding buddies from Waynoka who would otherwise lose their jobs with any other company.