Thread regarding Halliburton Co. layoffs

Let the blood bath begin..............again!

and so the announcement to acquire baker was announced late in 2014 followed shortly thereafter by the decision to sack sperry,

lets not forget that 2014 was a great year in the oil industry, but a pathetic year for Sperry Canada.

The last people one would guess would be managing the place, are in fact managing the place. The gossip environment is too toxic to tolerate.

When I worked for Halliburton Sperry Drilling, it was a great time! I think they should hire more office staff. Hire another receptionist too! It's too many calls for one person! Another thing I noticed was, the coordinators treated me with a lot of respect and were clearly trained on how to be team leaders and tactful managers. They must have went to a course on that or something! You know, now that I look back at my time there, I can honestly say.......EVERYTHING IVE WRITEN SO FAR IS FALSE! That frathouse mentality is awful. It was the worst environment that I've been in professionally. Now working for an O&G company in Calgary, I recommend a different service provider to my pears. Sperry will never be what it was. Unless Tim Samuelson comes back.

The DD / MWD departments can survive with 1 Coordinator each, and share 1 operations manager rather than 3.

2nd, the ROC can run night time and weekends at the most. And perhaps not sure if we need a DD ROC, I don't know what do other than check that the DD revision plan is correct. Why can't the MWD guy do that?

Zero training people, won't be hiring for awhile so don't need them.

Field supervisor position doesn't really do much, let the position die off.

Don't know how big glut is in Calgary. But definetly would reduce something there.

That's what I would done over a year ago.

I always thought Sperry is top heavy, that has never been properly addressed.

I hate the idea of office staff being moved to the field to layoff field hands. That doesn't make any sense to me.

all a bunch of loosers chatting hear, real people with directional drilling running the show and they have the respect of the oil companys. nothing but a bunch of whiners forgetting that the best of the best field hands are runnung the show now, and they are gonna defeat scientific. go ahead scientific, give it your best shot.

Sperry Canada is done! Scientific has entered to sagd space. Smaller companies outbid/outperform on less complex jobs. Intex has better LWD tech.

You don't need a University Degree to be a good manager. But don't you think that atleast a third of their managers at Sperry Canada should have a degree?

Just saying that it seemed obvious that Uni grads where targets of the layoffs.

Nisku is still heavy in expenses. In order to be profitable, another round of layoffs need to happen. Revamping management is going to happen (they haven't been touched yet). It's obvious - this economic climate is here for the foreseeable future. Where changes weren't made last year, in hopes the industry would rebound. It hasn't and new precedents will be set.

I'm a woman who works at Sperry Canada April (once new quaterly earnings are released), a new wave of change will come.

Guys guys guys... Sperry Canada did have a new hire training facility that sat empty for about a year and employed 4 people. They have shut that down and kept only one of those guys. So Sperry Camada has made real progress. They did to have 4 MWD and 4 DD co-ordinators last break up when we had a total of 5 jobs. So drastic changes have occurred. The rumor is that they do lucrative boots & coots work that goes under Sperry Canadas books.

to heck with sperry, management and supervisor heavy with and a lacking guidance and good business solutions, my opinion

Sperry Canada is one of the only districts to have equal amount of consultants in both office & field positions. Consultants do not show up on the headcount and are able to be hidden. This being the case, staff hands soften pull the short straw and assets are under-utilized. IMO - huge field cuts need to occur ( 25 MWD-25 DD ). Consultants should be the first ones to go. Large companies have begun terminating their contracts. Why should HAL be different? Also, MWD/DD managers should be demoted to coordinators. Other districts operate without department managers, delegating responsibilities of asset management and other responsibilities to Coordinators/PDC. One more change...eliminate day time ROC. At this point if your lead and in the daytime needs to be asked or babysat by the ROC he should be working days. As I see it the bloodbath will begin end of March early April.

most likely a day of reckoning to come soon for sperry,

From another Sperry facility I am shocked you still have that many Supervisors and super shocked you still have that many field personnel employed sitting on their ass collecting a check. We also have no ROC that was shut down.

hmm, so if i read between the lines then, what you're saying is that your services were every bit as overpriced as the true price of a barrel of oil was, looks as if about 75 of those field hands will need to go.