Whst will happen?
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Anonymous103952 - you should renew your subscription to Weekly Reader so you can keep up on current events a little better. ESP projected to grow to $13.7 billion by 2020. Centrilift is the biggest jewel in this HAL crown. Whoever builds the better mousetrap...
Neither as there is a huge surplus and no work in that particular field. Lay offs coming
Thank you pump user your information is much appreciated
If I find out anything, I will say. But probably all will know before me. Either way my brother, i wish you the best. BH AL needs to survive and thrive. HAL is destined for the scrap heap. I hate your sandwiches, but you're a brother nonetheless. ( and work on improving your sandwiches). Okay waste of time. My bad.
Part of the AL is built in the UK suppose what I'm getting at is will my job be safe
Not sure what you mean here, there and everywhere. Maybe repairs? One problem I have with both BHI and HAL thinking is that centralized manufacturing is good for some reason. Probably good for the continental USA but not so good outside. Delivery from the USA is minimum 10 - 12 weeks. Air freight is expensive and high Hp motors will only fit on one very rare Russian airplane. SLB does a better job at regional manufacturing so kudos for them. BHI has a quality ESP. No doubt. Excellent people. Their internal communication on the worldwide level is surprisingly poor. Their training is also bogie for the course. And yes Bill Vaught needs to go. He is truly a Baker Oil complete tool.
So will be all be moved to Houston or will it be manufactured here there and everywhere like it is now?
Sweet wells they are about on par with SLB. No real differentiation. Sour wells they need work. i give them a slight edge on R&D. if a turbo spin cycle can be applied to ESPs, watch out for GE though. Both BHI and SLB, unfortunately, have $1,000,000 lead washers. It all comes down to people. We had over 100 MLEs faulty because a person in Claremore was doing drugs. We spent millions and he got rehab. Good for him. Why has ESP technology not changed much since Artunoff started Bart Manufacturing? I remember when they were built hoping they would last for 366 days. One day past warranty. That dog don't hunt no more. BHI has some talent but needs to use it more. In the 1980's, ESPs became a commodity product. The industry has suffered ever since. Thanks Bob L. Your legacy.
BH has the best artificial lift line on the planet. What do you think
Halliburton AL has already been closed down.
HAL AL division will be diseased and sold to highest bidders. Integrating BHI AL into HAL is the direction we are moving
I worked in ESP service company businesses for 25 years and have now been an end user for 11 more years. Centrilift, while not without its flaws, is exponentially better than HAL. HAL, trying to put themselves forward as a total service company, purchased Global which had not been in business for more than a few years. It looks like Global was started by some of the same people who started ESP Inc. As such, HAL pumps are just another knockoff of 1970's Reda technology. Great for mid-continent where cheap is the solution and high water cut helps runlife but zero innovation unless reverse engineering qualifies. Internationally HAL is clueless. We evaluated them as a possible vendor. They sent us their installed database which showed almost all low horsepower and limited experience. Fortunately for me they bought BHI so hopefully they will obsolete the Global pump just as BHI wiped away ODI who they only bought to get an automated winding machine. I can't see it making much sense to have two large manufacturing facilities two hours apart. I also don't see why they would maintain two distinct product lines. My hope is that HAL does not hollow out Centrilift and move their own people in although some of that will likely happen. SLB almost destroyed Reda when they bought Camco because they mistakenly believed (and still believe) that a WL engineer can do anything. We use BHI, SLB, GE and a local supplier. BHI and SLB have the better DHE and much better engineering. Regardless of the quality level of the DHE, it always ends up being the people that make them a success or failure. BHI has had its ups and downs as have the other three companies. It always comes down to the people that design it, build it, maintain it and, above all else, run it in the hole. I visited Claremore not long ago and one impression that hit me was how many years of experience so many people have. I was surprised to see so many that had migrated from ODI. BHI (Centrilift) will always have its highs and lows but overall it is a well respected (by us) organization. HAL (pumps), on the other hand, are a wannabe and the people that started it (Global) will get a nice golden handshake. If HAL were to eliminate Centrilift in favor of Global, we would remove them from our approved vendor list until they could be trial tested for acceptance. HAL is a good company and reasonably well managed. For them to choose Global would be grossly stupid which I don't believe they are. Of course SLB initially tried to remove Reda from the collective memory and paint the pumps blue. Eventually they learned they had erred but, unfortunately, it took years form them to dig themselves out of the cellar of their own creation. I sincerely hope that doesn't happen with Centrilift. I doubt there is anything that Global can teach them. If we want old Reda knockoffs, we can buy them directly from the Chinese and cut out the markup. We already buy them (knockoffs) from GE (exWGESP, exESP Inc, ex Reda) and don't need another one. I'm sorry to see old friends get RIFed but that is the nature of all business today. Doesn't make it feel any better though. So if you are making, repairing, designing, installing, maintaining BHI pumps, keep doing the good work because if you fail, we will also fail. I like the new R&D facility and expect great things to come out of it. Rigless deployment would be a good one. Just saying.
Thanks for your reply, we have been told this but wanted to see what other people's opinions were.
Thanks again
take a look;
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-11-20/halliburton-gaining-pump-technology-in-baker-hughes-deal-energy
I'm assuming not a troll, Baker's AL is a prize in Hals eyes. It would be a valuable PSL more so as time goes by, from what the article has to say. Baker is #2 in AL, I doubt you'll find Hal's current position is in the same ballpark.. I often wondered what the long term strategy is, red vs blue I guess..... and that would be Conrad and Marcel vs Earl down the road.... ;)