Thread regarding Chevron Corp. layoffs

@FZJ2Mlq-3fxq Yep just like tonight they up in here watching movies. God help us if this pipeline blows. The supervisor been on the phone all night with his boo. Control Center... not!

Lol. Pipeline is an afterthought.

CPL is the backbone of the entire CVX corporate structure, and is vital to it's economic health and strategic position. I would be much less concerned if I was with CPL than in an upstream position, which will be reduced to a skeleton framework shortly.

CPL needs to go ahead a cut the deadwoods. These controllers sit here through the night and watch football, basketball, baseball, movies.. hell they've even been known to watch porn. They sneak off to spend time withprostitutes, mistresses or anything they can get away with or they'll bring them into the building and they're getting paid to sit up here through the night with this questionable behavior. Talk about a waste of company assets!! Most of them can't even pass the checkoffs.

CPL is a small insignificant company, like a pimple on a giant's backside. It serves only Chevron's upstream and downstream business, so news about it normally wont hit the news wires unless there's a major spill or mishap where a community is evacuated. CPL doesn't even show up in company charts shown in corporate presentations because we are just a blip on the map. God save us.

jdj I've heard very little since the sale of the Henry Hub.

CPL is located in Bellaire, TX which is located off the west I-610 loop just south of Hwy 59. It has been known the Bellaire complex is listed for sale. The CPL presence in Covington, LA is very small. We share office space with the production company. It's well known that with the sell off of GOM assets, thie Northpark office will also be sold and the few personnel will be transferred to downtown Houston. Speculation is also out there that CPL as a company is skating on thin ice. There's a 50/50 chance it could be operated by by another company.

Are you guys in Houston now? What's happening with Covington CPL?

@2phw, I'm with you too. I've invested way too much time in Chevron and enjoying my job to give up and go elsewhere now. If that means gong to Midland, that's where I will go. If there is a move after the sale of BOB office I hope the move is somewhere in Houston or San Antonio. Midland is no paradise.

Move to Midland or join the ranks of the unemployed? To be honest I do not have that choice yet, I have just heard a rumor that that will be a possibility. This will be hard.

@1vij, you are not my son, but you sure act like a little boy. Go outside at play.

Hey @FZJ2Mlq-yah, I'm not your son. But you do sound like some of this deadwood that people talk about needing to be cut.

You think or you know? There's a wide gap between these two choices. Those who say "they think" are are labeled differently that those who say "they know".

The back up facility was moved from Midland to San Antonio last summer so I'm trying to figure out how Midland is even in this equation again. I'd think if anything the 2 destinations would be downtown or SA

Don't ask me that question, son. All I know is CPL requires an entire central area on the second floor of BOB. Do you reckon the remnants of what will soon be CPL's shadow of its former self be moving out to Midland, TX. That scenario is being floated around, you know. There's no way I'm taking my family to that nowhere place.

The Control Center has a very small means of a room downtown, with the assets dwindling won't that control room be well enough to support pipe lines efforts and house other support somewhere within that location as well?

Head stuck in the sand? Chime in people. Cat got your tongue?

I'm trying to put 1 and 1 together about Pipeline's future. With CRBRES peddling the sale of the BOB complex, what does the future hold for the pipeline company? We have a very expensive pipeline control center located there. If the real estate is sold, will CPL will be gone too? For security reasons, it's unlikely Chevron would keep the control center there and lease the entire floor. If CPL and the control center were moved, where would it and all the BOB personnel go? The 50 story ivory tower downtown hasn't been built and maybe won't ever be for years to come. So what is the future of Pipeline if it has one?

Each employee, supervisor and manager in Pipeline should seriously ponder whether their job is really essential. That's what is being weighed right now. Ask yourself: Does my job have a direct and meaningful purpose to the effective operation of this business? Are my skills and job position valuable? Is my job critical or is it a niche position? Do I alone have this position or are there several positions doing this same job? This company is a whole lot smaller now. Do we still need 700+ employees to run it?

The point about Chevlips driving CPL pricing/decisions is a valid one.

Chevron Pipeline's future depends on how it handles itself in economic terms. This midstream company will continue to exist if it doesn't cost the enterprise more than paying a tariff to another operator to transport its equity commodities. Recent sales of additional CPL assets no doubt will require more layoffs. With lesser mileage to operate in a smaller geographical footprint, the organization can afford to reduce managerial layers and eliminate overlapping job positions. CPL now primarily operates pipelines for ChevronPhillips Chemical Company. This company is 50% owned by Chevron, so the strong demand to reduce operating costs are also being dictated by it's partner. Reduce costs or CPChem lines could be operated by another company.

That's interesting since CPL at least in the south appears to only have repairs and maintenance to do in order to get things sold. They aren't effected by the downturn but they were hurting before it started. I thought they would dwindle at warp speeds. Best of luck to you midstream guy, what area of the country are you in?

I am a midstream guy. The wild card is assets sales. I have been asked for information that could only be used for sales of assets.

Midstream doesnt get hurt by downturns like this

Everybody in CPL seems to think they're okay. Its business as usual - no ones scared :)