What is going on with this project, can not be that bad?
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"can not be that bad?" Is there a question in there somewhere?
Wouldn't be the first Chevron manager to go to prison courtesy of Chevron.
Some could go straight to jail on this one.
Nobody is looking into it. Swept under the rug.
Lots of rumbling last year about overspend, like $50 million or so, no bid process no CPDEP. it was just given to a vendor and so on. Who knows if there was anything to it. Not sure if it's still being looked into.
Interesting story, @3ndi. This kind of situation has been seen many times. I remember a similar situation at Empire Terminal. Chevron's lease on several parcels sounding the facility was coming to an end. For many years before the lease expired, the original owners had died and left the properties to numerous heirs who were receiving (literally) pennies each month for their share of the lease. As the lease end date approached, attorneys for the heirs made it clear to Chevron their clients would be asking hundreds, and some thousands of Dollars every month for lease payments. What happened? Our lawyers sought eminent domain in court - and won. Chevron paid off each of the heirs a small fraction of what they thought their properties were worth. After all, unpopulated rural marshland is not worth much. The heirs of the Leeville property are the same clan of jackals that think they can hit the lottery with Chevron. That won't happen.
The person who has leased the Leeville property to Chevron since the 60's died and left about 11 heirs. Those heirs saw an oil company with very deep pockets and made unreasonable monetary demands thinking that Chevron had been there too long and had too much invested to refuse their demands. Chevron looked at the long term potential of deep water along with the historical flooding of the Leeville base and decided to move. The Galliano airport was already in place and successful. It seemed a logical, safe choice for location.
"can not be that bad?"
No. Not bad at all. I think that was the question part that you so miserably attempted to write.
Thanks for the link to the story, 1osx. Although it's a story from Nov 2013, the first part of the news article reads;
"Chevron will spend $29 million to relocate its Gulf of Mexico airbase facility to the South Lafourche Leonard Miller Jr. Airport, company officials said.
The new facility will replace the company’s offshore facility in nearby Leeville, which has been in use since the 1960s."
Someone is mad cause they made him wear a first time flyer sticker.
http://www.houmatoday.com/article/20131106/ARTICLES/131109690
I think there's a small town in Louisiana by that name (Galliano). What's the big deal about the airport, I wonder?
In Italy?
Hey OP, tell us about the damn Galliano Airport. What's the big deal about this particular place? Was it built with Chevron money? Is it the best thing since sliced bread? Does it house your favorite toilet? Tell us what it is!
Buttttt, what do we know?
Has been up and running for a while and certainly was last week when I went through.
It is in operation. What is your question?