So I am a mid-career employee in the US, and have good visibility into the biggest money making divisions in the US upstream. Is it me, or was the whole repatriation story a bit of a scam? A few technical folks are getting sent back (no more senior than JG2s, some are very good), a tiny number of JG2 managers, but most of the expensive expatriate political managers are staying exactly where they were, on the US soil. What a real cost saver this repatriation turned out to be!!!
Looking back, the 2016 Upstream Americas/International merge was a bonanza for all the Eurotrash. As they are preaching green in Europe and cut cut cut the good ol' oil&gas, they still crave fat juicy expat postings in the US & Brazil. Add to this all the "diversity&inclusion" BS, and then all one can see at the management level are Euro expat men mixed with the barely competent and incompetent US females (and some incompetent expat females as well). A fort here and there (such as New Orleans) is still holding thanks to its prior good ol' boys setup, but won't be much longer given that they are totally surrounded and about to be overtaken.
It's a bit sad to look around and realize what a dump the place had become. Real technical talent is harder and harder to find with each passing day. They still pay OK, but if you can work in a different industry - avoid this one at all costs. Especially white US males - they don't want you here.
And don't believe for a second all this green propaganda. There are no profits in this new green business wherever the eye can see, and why would some budding green industry need a huge overhead with a bunch of Euro bureaucrats running it? It's one in a million kind of success story where some old industry outfit could reinvent itself in a new format.