How many extra billions do you have to spend to get your work done? How many times do you have to strike because you don't have enough ice cream flavours in the kitchen? How many extra flights back home do you need for pet bereavement? The rest of us world is cutting back and I have had good workers being laid off because you fers can't do your simple fing job!
F*** Gorgon. Next time I have a jackaroos transfer to my BU their all getting 2- for their reviews.
Exactly. Nothing to do with Australia. Chevron - bad decisions and poor execution all the way. CSOC sucks.
Exactly fzfa. This has to be a Harvard business school case on how not to do things.
F* off dkhead - you muppets decided to build gorgon on an A-class nature reserve, and to take all the associated risks for overruns that come with that. Probably because chevron globally wanted to be the poster child or "partner of choice" when it comes to operating & developing reserves in areas where all the hc are going to be left: environmentally sensitive areas. Don't blame aus, blame chevron globally you toss. Look at exxon & bhpb's gippsland/bass strait history. Super major oil fields in harshest and deepest waters at the time and run out of Australia. Look at PNG LNG. Run out of AUSTRALIAN office and completed and delivered first gas AHEAD of schedule. Look at north west shelf gas, a nice little earner over the years that chevron is JV partner - built and operated by Australians. The problem is chevron all round not Australia you ignorant numpty.
Anonymous204370 "Engineers are not trained in business management, project management or managerial economics" --- there are engineers who have MBAs and project management certifications w/ experience.
My shoulders are getting tired of carrying the ABU along with the rest us.
Spot on. Engineers are not trained in business management, project management or managerial economics and most have poor people skills. When they are "promoted" to run an MCP, they send out positive numbers and hide the negatives, pulling in good pay and bonuses. It was a win-win for Chevron executives. The engineers were helping sell CVX stock with tall tales of Wheatstone and Gorgon, Big Foot and Marcellus shale. Who knew they would ever be accountable?
Don't get me started about President's Awards. I remember about 6 years ago, an entire workgroup received that award along with a handsome check for a few thousand Dollars. That really was a low blow for me, as I had directly contributed to the workgroup and had shared just as much as them. In any case, I got nothing. I've never forgotten that at all and never will.
This is what happens when you hire engineers in place of project managers. Not to say that engineers cannot be project managers, but the reality is that many are not. Project managers need to have a specific skill set. They need to be able to effectively manage teams, have good communication skills, and be decision oriented. Most engineers are detail oriented and have a tendency to delay decision making in order to gather more data. This causes missed opportunities in the market. Engineers also become so focused on completing the project that they fail to recognize when a project is no longer viable. I have seen billions of dollars wasted by engineers pretending to be PMs simply because they lacked basic PM skills. And for God's sake, hold people accountable. If a PM goes 50% over their Phase 3 Gate budget number and delays the project by a year fire them instead of promoting them and giving them a President's Award!
PRC is Chevron's Project Resource Company. In reality, they are mediocre, old fat ex frat boys managing outside consultants. The consults are very good, but they are biased toward pleasing their clients.
Couldn't agree more, 584.
ABU and those LNG projects will turn out to be the most colossal mistakes Chrvron has ever ventured into.
ABU is the future of Chevron. Everything else, especially CNAEP, are full dying fields. So ABU deserves to spend as it sees fit.
Good one, 504. I'm laughing so hard. Thanks.
Sorry, 503, you're off base here. Ultimately, ABU has always had the final say, whether it was final approval on an engineering contract or selection of ABU management personnel. Yes, ABU is completely accountable, and if you think it is not, then you are a perfect reflection of the current state of affairs in Chevron, and represent the underlying reason Gorgon is the industry poster child for cost overruns: total lack of accountability.
Pricks Ripping Chevron?
ABU does not have to account for anything you idiots.
PRC = Project Resources Company. Should really mean something else.
I think some people don't know what PRC is. Lol. Yes let's relegate then fire PRC.
Ok then, 252. PRC will be added to the other common denominators and relegated to middle earth to work for year before being fired.
Don't blame Australians for Gorgon's travails. Ask yourself what Gorgon, Wheatstone, Big Foot and ALNG all have in common ? PRC is the common denominator which has consistently demonstrated a complete inability to execute a project on budget and according to schedule.
Chevron Australia Management will only seem "untouchable" right now. But they will be dealt with later on. Just after the startup of Gorgon and Wheatstone, the real screw-ups will be relegated to some backwater hole in the earth to work, soon after to be fired or laid off. Right now, these dicks-for-brains will not be touched because they know the horror stories that will only serve to embarrass the company all the way up to the Board Room.
Bigger question - why is the Chevron Australia Management untouchable - where exactly does the buckaroo stop ? Is no one accountable?
Yes, it's up to $50 billion already. And we thought the $19B Ecuadorian Lawsuit amount was a huge amount...
Ironic that the Hadron Collider is the world's largest and most powerful particle collider, the largest, most complex experimental facility ever built, and the largest single machine in the world and cost $13.5 billion to construct. Gorgon's at what, $50 billion?
Do you have a clue how much private schools and expat housing costs in Australia... send the expats back home...
Send all the american expats back home if you want to sae money...
Chevron is neck deep into Gorgon and Wheatstone. There's absolutely no way to quit them now. Billions of Dollars yet to spend to get them finished. Right now, it's damned if you do and damned if you don't.
True. Aussies are so darn lazy and spoiled that they consider self-entitlement is a positive trait.
2- gets good workers laid off
Why only 2-?