Are you seriously trying to blame this failure on the field personnel?! So bad engineering and decision-making at the highest levels were not the cause? So what do the rest of you field employees think? Did you not do your jobs exactly as instructed?
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That Recon petro company our of Oklahoma city & Calgary, Canada, I leased open hole tools from them & paid them 1 year in advanced, $100,000, the tools didn't work, the logging system is crap, all my customers claimed the logs were junk
Then after 3 months Recon Petro wanted their tools back they took them but they never paid me back my money, Andrew & Alex Nygen & the owner Mike Boyle scammed me. beware of these guys
I was a company man for Merit a few years ago we also had reconpetro out to run their openhole logging tools, they replaced our standard provider baker hughes, what a mistake that was, they pretty much junked the first well they given. what a nightmare.
Yes I agree, we also used recon petro wireline openhole logging service for their logs, they also junked a well and delivered us bad results, are they even in business? I hope not. We went back to using our regular wireline company Halliburton and all wells after that performed. I don't think I can ever use a no name company again regardless of price, stay away from them!!!
I worked with the company men up there at the time and it was determined that the logging company recon from Oklahoma City had ran some bad logs. we tried to use the logs for injecting and producing intervals and none of their logs matched up. we then started using others such as allied, weatherford, tucker and their logs were much better and we changed our intervals.
This company is led by incompetent people who "fly under the radar". If you do business with them...Caveat Emptor !
Chaparral field now office staff were informed of the incident by Recon. I was contracted out by Recon to assist them with their rolled over logging trucks. I asked if I had permission to be on Chaparral property and I was told yes. Later after I inquired through Chaparral they were never informed of Recons safety violation and incident. No one paid our invoice after we performed our service.
I'm going to tell you right now that if it happened in the NBU EVERYBODY knew about it! Don't let them pull some bull crap story on you! I don't even work for Chaparral and I knew about it! The corporate office likes to blame everything on these guys out here busting their asses to keep them somewhat afloat and if they play dumb like they didn't know then they think that makes it OK. Fight it man and get what you deserve!
I wasn't on the location until my wrecker Farmington Wrecker was called out but it appeared the service company Recon caused their own accident. I assumed that the accidence was cleared with Chaparral field foreman's. No one paid us so I had to seek out payment, then I found out the accident wasn't reported to Chaparral by Recon. I still didn't get paid!!!1
Exactly. Until the "accident" is so big it makes national news. Lawsuit time!
Most "accidents" or "incidents" in the NBU are unreported, or "brushed under the rug"......everybody knows that! You're trained on what you report/don't report and the wording to use when something is reported. If they paid your company then that would mean that they were acknowledging the "incident." Of course chaparral knew about it, they just like to play innocent. Sorry to hear your company suffered due to crooked company with no morals.
So that is an issue with Recon petro, not with Chaparral. Another useless post.
My Wrecker/HD tow truck was contacted to a Chaparral location NBU when Recon Petro Wireline logging company from Oklahoma City called us out as they flipped over their crane unit and caused a serious accident and incident on a Chaparral NBU well. We were not paid for our service, when we approached Chaparral for payment, they knew nothing of the incident. Apparently Recon petro did not inform the lease holder of their incidents and accidents.
Bottom line is the "business world" is sadly mostly about making money. Period. No matter who you run over. But eventually the financial community notices and can see a trojan horse, no matter how many PR dollars you spend creating it. This is it!
So which poster are you referring to when you say "you have no idea how business works"? And if you are so enlightened as to how business works, tell me how you turn a failure (public relations wise, not just financial) into an IPO? Or better yet into staying in business? Especially without the hazardous effects of your ill-conceived project endangering the lives and livelihood of local people. Explain how that's good business.
You have no idea how the business world works.
Sounds like some people are starting to realize they were wrong and are panicking a little.
Excuse me, I stated that wrong *previous foreman, not superintendent.
When I first read the comment about the boat slips I thought it must be from somebody high enough to afford the luxuries of a boat/boat slip and they were just popping off. But now that I see the porta-potties comment it is very clear that you think you're commenting to a previous field superintendent and both of the comments were meant to jab him. I find it very amusing for two reasons: 1. You have no idea who you are really talking to. 2. You are so arrogant to think that there's not anybody else bold enough to respond to and stand up to your bullshit comments and lies. You can only hold the bluff of other employees for so long. You might have trained and critiqued them on how to speak to media and how to answer certain questions, certain words to use/not use but you obviously never planned on this site being available. If a company wants to threaten their employees with their jobs it might be a good idea for that company to be loyal to it's employees and give them something that they would want to defend.
NBU is "killing it"? You have no idea what you are talking about. Read the post questioning the actual oil increase. Excellent point. You are drinking the Kool-aid unfortunately. Oh it's going to "kill" things alright. Like vegetation, drinking water, cattle... They better hope it's not worse.
Maybe its time to just clean some Porta-Potties.
What are the facts? What has been the level of oil increase response in the pilot area?
If the previous two are not at fault, then why is NBU killing it now that they're gone? Weird...
Is it spring yet? Time to get the boat slips ready instead of farting around on the internet........
"Maybe it was just an ill conceived project that never had a reasonable chance of succeeding." Bingo! Then from that very true statement every one can decide for themselves if there's anyone to blame. This isn't just a nickel and dime deal. It is a hundreds of millions of dollars project that is likely going to take the company down, and who knows what will happen to the remaining employees.
So just because a project doesn't turn out to be as wildly successful as it was hoped it would be somebody has to be "at fault"? Not every project ends up working out. Maybe budgetary constraints didn't allow people to do what needed to be done. Maybe it was just an ill conceived project that never had a reasonable chance of succeeding .
Yeah I'm sure the previous foreman and superintendent are responsible for the CO2 being uncontrollable, the surging old wellbores, and the sudden creation of deadly volumes of H2S which employees and others who live in the area are being exposed to. Highly successful. Seems to me like they were stuck playing Whac-a-Mole out there due to poor planning.
70449 wasn't talking about the field personnel, but their previous management. The previous foreman and superintendent who are no longer with the company. The project isn't the failure, they are.