Fun fact the new building can not hold the current amount of Shell Nola office based staff.
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There are plenty of examples of the technical people in exploration being right and the management absolutely making the wrong calls. Guyana is the perfect example. Shell’s current predicament would be much less dire had management listened to their technical people and stayed in the block to drill Liza. There are countless other examples of similar things. The issue is none of the folks who make these calls have gone anywhere. They’re still floating around making decisions to the detriment of all
That's their point though. Shell's exploration geos are now on a 5 plus year drought on big finds. Everyone knows upstream companies need good geos - we just seem to not have gotten the right ones up the ranks. The fields we have online now are pretty much all from retirees who knew what they were doing.
'Don't bring much to the table?' Who plans wells? Who discovered most of the fields that are currently producing...discovered by shell or not?
No idea how you work for an oil company when it's foundation is built on the 'useless' geos?
@wxp
Yes, ~900 geologists and ~500 geophysicists per a recent townhall.
Seems like an absurd staff count for a discipline that doesn’t bring much to the table - especially exploration geos (terrible track record over past decade).
New Orleans is supposed to be leaving for a new building
What new building?
I’m sure some cuts will be made before we move into the new building. Will there even be a new building?
Someone said there are 1400 geos in shell..are there really that many?