It's time to drop Phillips for our name and shut down Bartlesville. We no longer need or can afford Bartlesville. When we spun off Phillips we spun off our ties to Bartlesville and the Phillips name.
23 replies (most recent on top)
Phillips was trash legacy and always will be!
Excellent points, and I am sure we can find the same type of examples at Conoco and DuPont, as well as others. Again the case is made to get rid of Heratige Employees that bring with them a culture of incest and poor safety with the attitude that it was better run before. There is a whole segment of pure COP employees in the 15 to 20 year experience range that are fully capable of supporting the vision of the Company being profitable and safe. For all of you who keep complaining that we need to keep petrotech and dump the rest, why don't you go find another company where you can be happy, or is it because you found an easy tit to s---le on and can't get out of your breast feeding ways. I for one am tired of all the BS from supposed learned professionals that think producing valuable oil into a cheap market is a perfect way to save the company, got news for you, thats how we got here to begin with ... Over producing into a collapsing market ... And your idea is "let's drill more?" ... And your the ones that are supposed to be smart, what a joke. Please take your intelligence to another of the 77 bankrupt companies that thought they could drill their way to profits.
What about the Phillips Petroleum Borger Texas refinery exploding in 1979 injuring over 40 employees and polluting the area. Another example of Phillips Petroleum's culture .
Gulf Oil owned and operated the side of the refinery and lines and tanks there in for almost forty years in Ponca City where ground water was contaminated by leaky tank bottoms. The Conoco Ponca refinery is the largest in Oklahoma. On the other hand Phillips Petroleum had dismal safety and performance records. In 1977 the Ekofisk Bravo platform blew out contaminating North Sea. In 1979 Phillips Petroleum again had a disaster at a copi Phillips Petroleum again had a disaster at Eloise when 123 were killed. Phillips Petroleum was known in the 70s and early 80s to drill more try holes both abroad and at home than any other company.
Get rid of Bartlesville and the filth that hangs on there!
Yes, I fully agree. Conoco was better ran company for plaintiffs and attorneys. I have a question for you. Have we paid off the lawsuit from Conoco populating the ground water in Ponca City?
Cut em off at the knees!
What about Arco, Tosco, or Gulf Canada people?
I say dump anyone who was Conoco or Phillips or Burlington. All of the old employees are hanging around just racking up retirement points to pad their retirements rather than caring about the company. Time for you to leave so we who are ConocoPhillips employees can get moving on to being a true E&P company, not a throwback to the ancient days when downstream and DuPont paid for your mistakes.
Housing in the 3rd and 5th wards definitely lower
Housing is lower in Houston
- agree 100%
Ehhh Bartlesville Loving expenses are pretty comparable to Houston, plus in the future you wil be able to get better and younger talent in Houston more so than BVille.
How was Conoco a better company? They were going out of business before the merger. They were bloated because of being protected by DuPont. They had little discoveries or producing properties.
When Phillips merged with Conoco it was run by finance and Conoco by engineering. Finance took over management of the company and proceeded to manage with threats and fear. The caliber of people from Phillips were lower than from Conoco. Then we bought Burlington and got more low caliber people into the company. It has been difficult to claw our way to world class with these less than stellar people on board. These layoffs will help the company obtain a world-class ranking among it's peers. Engineering is in charge and has the company on the right track for an ever-changing energy world.
No we did not cut our ties to P66 when we spun off downstream Many of the best producing fields come from P66 pre-merger. Get your facts straight.
When the merger occurred the stock swap was 58% P66 and 42% Conoco. A 20% difference. P66 was the bigger of the two. Conoco had much more people because they were protected by DuPont. Conoco won the war of the trenches. Mulva gave Conoco the lead name so he could become chairman 1 year after the merger. Conoco did not buy P66.
Ha ha! “Wouldn’t need to spend too much on relocating 5 or 6 people.” That’s a good one, and I got a well-deserved laugh this morning. Thanks!
The way that I look at it Bartlesville and ConocoPhillips are one and the same. The old Bartlesville culture is deeply implanted into the company - I really think that this is why COP has done so poorly for the last ten years. COP tried and failed as an oil & gas major. COP then failed as an independent. The way that I look at it, COP should pack up the Houston operations and move back to Bartlesville - where it truly belongs.
Wouldn't need to spend too much on relocating 5 or 6 people.
I agree on dropping Phillips, Bartlesville is considerably cheaper to operate from than Houston.
Yes; let's spend $100MM on relocation costs. That sounds like a really good idea.
Sounds great! Conoco has been around for 141 years. They aren't doing anything in Bartlesville that we can't do here in Houston and do better.