I grew up in Midland and worked for Pioneer. I am watching with alarm as jobs are being shifted to Houston, Argentina, and India. It looks like the only jobs that will be left in Midland are operations. I am an engineer. Pioneer offered career growth and I could stay in Midland. Looks like that option is dead. Time to jump to a competitor and hope someone doesn’t buy them and do the same thing.
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Wait a few years and XOM will be shoveling all of their (then) low rate shale oil developments to the next rung of operators, to avoid cleanup and abandonment costs. Get into rehab, abandonment end of the business, get some TRRC contracts and buy an island in a few years.
@ce If they move to Houston they’ll be PIP’d and/or laid-off within three years. That’s the way business works in H-town.
Hopefully anyone actually considering this is a pro at job-hopping and has highly portable and marketable skills.
EM is centralizing all decision making and professional roles in Houston, with support at GBC's. Midland doesn't fit that model, so unless you want to work in a field operations role or move to Houston, you're best off leaving. Seems like you've come to that realization. It's the same story in a lot of other places around the world.
@az, is clear you’re a man of few words, but don’t be redundant. Your single word of encouragement is rooted in belief that if more people leave, that somehow increases your chance of survival. Wrong, so sorry for you. Go improve your vocab.
Welcome to the sh1t show. Moved down in '18 and been shoveling cr-p since then. A total mess in Spring.
Sad reality is that Pioneer is gone and most of its people are too at this point. Just depends how long you want to shovel sh*t on the train to nowhere
Leave.
I would not worry in the least-it is not easy to get folks to go to Midland and other than Spring I am not sure where you would go. Just trying to chase people away. You will be fine.
Are you new here?
Go, sounds like you know what you need to do.
100%. Not all of us want a global career. Some of us just want to stay in Midland and not be fired for making that choice. Clearly not an option with Exxon.