I really believe this Managers in this company realize that they’re days are numbered. With NOV turning its head further from O&G and more towards renewables, Tuboscope has nothing to offer in this upcoming industry. It’s all old school equipment, machinery and people that really only have a niche in oil and gas. There’s absolutely no future for them in renewables. This goes for Directors, VP’s and higher, not just the senior executives. Every decision here is made on how they can “fluff” their bonuses up and take every dollar they can before Tuboscope is broken up and sold off. When I was a Next Gen, I had to work with different business units throughout Tuboscope as well as other NOV groups, and I have to admit, they were the least impressive. I’ve seen Directors and Managers in various locations there just strictly come in to collect their check and go home. They could not care at all on how their respective units were running. Such a shame.
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So dramatic
What crisis?? What rock have you been hiding under?? How do we tell a customer we’ve been doing business with for years that we no longer have product to sell them?? We try to sell them another product and when they agree, we have to tell them we’re out of that product as well. It’s like Pizza Hut running out of pepperoni and cheese. What really steals the prize though is when said customer learns that we’re coating other customers pipe with the material we told them we ran out of. Just a sliver of leadership here would be somewhat appreciated. It’s hard enough to sell in this environment.
What crisis are you talking about? Business is getting better and better every week
When is the Tuboscope shrimp boil? Always a great time
Where is our Management during this crisis? What are we expected to tell our customers? I’m sure we’ll be expected to provide explanations in our Monday AM meetings.
Hahaha, now we have a random "vendor" for Tuboscope coming to NOV layoff page to give their 2 cents worth. Hahahaha, you guys are a bunch of no good Tower cubicle hands starting sh it.
As a vendor for Tuboscope, I’m appalled at how they treat their vendors. We go out of our way to provide the best service we can. When it comes time to collect payment though, it takes an act of Congress (and about 6 months) to get your invoices paid. If we paid our suppliers like that, they’d all cut us off. I can’t believe our company is still giving them credit. Finances don’t lie, this company is sinking fast.
I concur, it’s time for our Management team to be replaced with a forward thinking management team who actually plan and react for the future. The current team obviously are not looking out for this company’s best intentions. They’re just biding their time until the can retire. When they come out here to Odessa from Houston, it’s like they just come out to eat free meals and drink free drinks. There’s never anything productive done when they come out here.
Definitely not going to happen.
The new engineering director outside hire is a narcissist with zero years oil and gas experience.
His only innovation that he'll be pushing out of that group will be "Slap a Bluetooth module on it and call it the iChek or eChek". Pushing tech buzzwords is much more important than understanding the industry or customer needs.
An example, one of his first big ideas was to try to question the existence of wellchek in general because he just invented and proposed the idea of TaaS. "tubing as a service" and was talking down to us all explaining how from a tech/software industry perspective we should see things: The customer sends the pipe to us, we inspect it and provide replacement as needed and 'all stays in our ecosystem instead of we send a truck to them to inspect their pipe'. Somebody had to pull him aside and explain tubing reclamation services and the whole difference and point of onsite services and basic industry stuff. To nobodies surprise the wellchek guy from California was the first to quit the group shortly after that. Two of the engineers immediately followed after they started outsourcing firmware work to India.
The rest of us just roll our eyes and count the days to retirement or take our paycheck while job searching on LinkedIn. Holmes Road engineering was always a mess, but now it's completely broken.
Like the VP Sales Coach always tells us over here in Houston: "We're not an engineering company, we're an inspection company". The engineering VP has taken that sentiment to heart and made it a self fulfilling prophecy for his group.
These are the people who have been in charge and are still in charge. Don't hold your breath thinking somehow this company will ever be a respectable leader ever again in this industry.
As a Tuboscoper for over 30 years, I hope you are wrong, but it's hard to disagree. Up here in Canada, we have a federal government that seems determined to destroy the O & G industry. A carbon tax and also government regulations that stifle investment. It was however, wage subsidies from the government that helped us survive. What I would like to see for the future is new people in upper management. It's not that the current administration for Canada did a bad job, I just feel its time for a change. The same people running Tubo now have been running it since the 90"s. I fear that once the head guy retires, one of his underlings will take over and nothing will change. I would like to see someone from outside the company with a different way of thinking and ideas to step in. If you think your equipment is outdated, you should come up here! The smaller independent inspection company's are kicking our butts. I want to see us back as leaders in our business, like it was when I first started.
Tubo "engineering", (if it deserves to be called that), has been run so far into the ground by tenure of current VP. His latest outside hire r&d director outsourcing work to India has even the long time Chinese H1B engineers leaving and finding new jobs. At least three engineers, over 50yrs combined experience, straight up quit in the last month or so. Not VERPs, not retirements, just quit decades long careers each to get away, lol.
It's worse than you even know.
Wow, you’re a true tough guy hiding behind your keyboard. I wish one of you people would bring your concerns to senior management instead of hiding behind your keyboard in your mother’s basement