With education funding in Oklahoma at lowest level it will become more difficult to attract employees to Bville who want to live there and raise kids in the town. Just don't see other peer companies supporting two staff locations.
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You guys a jealous because you don't work with me. Come to Bartlesville and have some fun.
Typed "some" not "done". Hate on autocorrect not Bartlesville.
Spoken like a hick.
I work with the bartlesville folk on a regular basis and they do done good work up there. Not sure where all this hate comes from...
Shut it down and take Phillips out of the company name.
Upstream R&D was moved to Houston long time ago. Bartlesville can keep its data center, maybe P66 can use it. COP has plenty of office space in Houston for operations currently done in Bartlesville, OK. Shut it down! Also need to close the 30th Street Office in Farmington, NM. Shut it down! Earlier commenter is obviously biased and attached to Bartlesville! B-ville is a dinosaur that needs to go!
I have never had issues with the Bville IT guys. I have generally heard good things about the data center. However, after spending a lot of time in both Houston and Bville, it is just completely obvious that they are two entirely different work cultures. Don't get me wrong, I think that the people in Bville do some good work. However, Bville is way more laid back - people show up way latter, leave way earlier, take more breaks, longer breaks, longer lunches, etc. I think that Bville is a better place to work. However, I definitely think that the Houston workers are significantly more productive. I think it would definitely be in the companies best interest to shut down Bville.
As far as R&D goes, they haven't come up with much since the invention of Marlex
as far as R&D goes, have they come up with much since the invention of Marlex?
yeah...that data center was tops in the industry...but that was back in 1979
The P66 data center in Bartlesville is OK. The COP data center in Bartlesville is not OK. Quite a bit of cash was spent on the new P66 data center. Not a penny has been spent on the COP data center... The goal is to move the data center functions to the cloud and/or 3rd party locations.
Some really less than astute comments here, must've been bitten by a manager during one of the recent layoffs,
Oklahoma State has one of the top engineering schools around, this is coming from someone who went to the other big (red) school in OK,
As far as I know ConocoPhillips doesnt have much of a presence at the downstream R&D facility at all, and the Boulder site was considered and then was mothballed long before the split with downstream,
The Phillips family (are there actually any direct decedents still around and still involved with the company?) has influence on why they stay in Bartlesville? That's just nonsense,
Not for sure about available office space in Houston, but the Data Center in Bartlesville is more valuable an asset than that dime a dozen 'Energy Center 3' they bought for 200+ million,
One oil gets back to $60 and it will eventually, COP will take off like a rocket, if it can just hold out until 2017-1018,
Oklahoma State grads are the dumbest f---s in the industry. COP needs new management. The old red necks from Oklahoma State need to be taken out to the wood shed. RIP
The plan not that long ago was to move R&D to a new facility near Boulder Colorado, transfer key office personnel to Houston and sh-- down Bartlesville. The only reason B-ville continues to be supported is due to Phillips family influence. If this price environment continued we will see Bartlesville facilities shut down and R&D put on hold and outsourced.
This is a mystery. With all of the empty Houston office space, it is pointless to have two core locations. The technology and research center is known for doing relatively poor caliber work, being very slow, and not overly effective. It would cost a lot of $ to transfer it to Houston. However, COP is now definitely a takeover target. After COP is taken over, it would make sense to just shut down the Bville offices and transfer a few key people to Houston. However, currently the company does not have the money to shut down Bville.