Question: when was the last time any engineer at Exxon did any actual engineering? Excluding trivial case studies, It’s been years since anybody working there has published anything. New designs? Improved processes? Automation? You’ve got nothing::: @1gqa+1hTkjUJg
Is this the bitter truth, that engineers here do very little actual engineering?
@2sqi I almost have to agree with you.
At least with the PPT, the “engineer” putting it together had to look at whatever was going into the slides. Now, they don’t even do that.
I was recently on a call with an engineer at one of the larger plants, and they had to be coached on how to make basic use of industry-standard software that has been in use for decades. Apparently, right-clicking a mouse is a now a marketable skill. What a time to be alive.
@1kab+1hVQzSNn PowerPoint engineers is so yesterday. The trend is social media engineering (of accomplishments!!!!) and how much they love this company. These browsers are identifiable on FB and LinkedIn!
Very job specific.
I have not calculated more than budgets and schedules since 1995.
I lead engineers that do detailed designs, and guide them but not do anything more detailed.
For me, personalty, that would be 2016, the year I retired from EM after many years of setting a total of 38 subsea trees (Cameron) ) by wire from a construction vessel (Maersk Winner & Maersk Nomad) in deepwater (Erha & Janz). Those were that days when real engineers were engineers, ha! - John
We’re all PowerPoint engineers
Petroleum engineers are not real engineers anyways
@OP In most large O&G companies, and engineer is just a glorified business administrator. Exxon is no exception.
The most technical thing engineers do at places like Exxon is interpret graphical data, often incorrectly. Beyond that, they push emails around and sit in Zoom meetings. Nothing special.
I’m a senior engineer at a plant. All the time.
Your definition of engineering: probably not in 20 years
It's a commodity company, silly goose.
Depends on what you consider engineering. Using applied science to solve technical problems? Yes, plant support engineers do a lot of that. Design engineering? Not so much.
The text of the OP looks familiar….