The saying had always been "the closest you are to a producing well head the safer your job is". So if that is true then the truly safe jobs are in cymric. Even more there are so many people at 9525 that are so far away from the well head you would think mist if the 60% cuts would be in base business? So far the hourly operators haven't been cut yet and the closest position to an operator that us salary are the PTs. I'm curious to see how much value the ESP will give to the PTS aND how safe they are compared to all the engineers how dont so any engineering and pay TJ Cross to do all thier work???
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Well...it does not look like being close to well head will exempt any of us. 25 years in the field with Chevron. 60% of the jobs will be in scope in my profit center international...can't miss us, there is not that many of us in the current location...we are touching the well heads with sea air in our faces everyday. To young to retire just yet but but maybe too old to start another career with 4 more years till retirement. What a shame being so close but so far away. 36 years in the oil field, and never missed a check through all the down turns in the past, working for drilling companies through the 80's and Chevron since the 90's.
They coming hard after the expats...seems we are the ones that took a chance and went to foreign, lands full of diseases and kidnappers, not just sat on the kooze platforms of the GOM, drawing a check and watching the soaps. We do a lot with nothing...basically pulling rabbits out of our hats to keep things going. I guess this is the thanks we get.
Oh well I am sick of the processes and paper work to do the simple routine jobs , the stupid CBT's that we have to keep doing over and over each year. The bosses that are afraid to accept responsibility, so they pass it back to you and make you do some extra paperwork to relieve them of responsibility. After 13 pieces of paper you finally get to start the work. Maybe this is a blessing...finally after 36 years in the oil field, I might just toss in my hard hat/steel toes and stay home for a while.
I got cut away some time ago.
BCG have been deployed globally since at least 2014 to follow a pretty simple model which typically has the end result in mind and back justifies from that point.
There is certainly no lack of stress going through ROM, and you may develop an intense dislike for those folks who decided you should go. Don't. Things happen and how many times have things seemed impossible/challenging in the past but look back in them and you now. Life sorts itself out eventually.
Believe me, there is positive life after CVX. At this current point being cut loose feels like a blessing. New and bigger job, different folks to work with, autonomy, new challenges and learning. Thanks CVX.
Yes on positive attitude. We all can see how broke Chevron has been for a while now. None of this is personal and far from a personal indictment. Shit happens. You can not control things. You can control how you react to them. The time the market turns most will be in other industries and many will scoff at working in O&G.
@1hov. That's a good attitude. Best of luck. I've been through the last couple downturns too and actually got one lay off. It's really easy find someone something to blame, but staying positive served me well.
The statement "the closer you are to the wellhead, the safer your job." does not always hold true. I have been through multiple layoffs at both Chevron and Shell, and there are significantly more aspects that go into the selection of employees to be downsized. Typically, companies offer the packages to a group of people, so as not to appear as targeting a specific person. In the litigious society we live in, everyone is looking for someone to blame, when actually there may simply be no one to blame.
I held a lot of animosity towards employers in the beginning, but that subsides. My solution was to look upon it as an opportunity to promote my talents elsewhere. We make our own successes, and failures. Try to keep a positive attitude. It will be hard, but in the end it will serve you well.
Correct on GOM. Org Chart is exactly that!
Except that every single production engineering job in GOM has been sent to the ESP according to the org charts. Along with everyone under all the OIM's/OS's/Maintenance Supervisors. That is how current org charts read. Nine of them have "ROM 2" designations as others do, which means they are ESP jobs now.
If the OP is an example of the shocking level of intellect at Chevron, then God help the whole company. What a disgraceful level of ineptitude regarding written English.
For the producers this is generally true as it goes into "safe operations". For others it is not. The service companies tend to cut at well head in these times as they are not doing much field work. So this concept has to be kept in context. You will read this in one article and then the opposite in the next. Also when the upturn takes place the first to be hired are employees that understand field work. The need is immediate for D&C field hands and managers. The unconventional game has made this even more dramatic. Chevron understands it is not efficient not only in Marcellus but Permian. Our competitors are not over layered with processes and people. They put rescources at point of work. You will start to here Chevrons new mantra. We rely to much on process not enough on assurance. The one thing BCG has made Chevron totally aware of is that they lag behind independents in every metric. When you look at fatalities and Total Permanent Disability Injuries (injuries Chevron can't manage away or any other company for that matter). Chevron is LAST. So assurance is code for cut all of this overhead and create value at point of operation. So Chevron is very focused on keeping these people in place.
OP - Couldn't pass up your post. Back in '91 I worked in Cymric. Then, company re-org took me to Houston. My wife and I were reminiscing about "the good old days", recently, and out of all my Chevron assignments, my time out at Cymric was some of the best. Our Manager was Tom Harrison, one of the best, in my book. Am sure a lot has changed,... just wanted to say "hi", and wish you the best. I adhered to the "closer to the wellhead" philosophy, my entire career, and it worked,... right up until I got assigned to HQ. As they say in France, "bon chance".