If they want to save some money they should gut the Bakken drilling team. I mean look at those guys! A bagel and a tart have been there since the beginning and do the bare minimum to get by. Optimization? "What? Uh, they don't teach that at cut-rate Texas schools." Has anyone from the asset team ever had them cooperate? But honestly it's the leadership over there. Their mother is the most unprofessional of them all. Have you ever been in a meeting with her? You'd have better luck sending a message in Facebook to her then having her pay attention. And her boss is just along for the ride. Why do you even need both of them? Not to mention they all go hang out with their field daddy at HIS HOUSE and get drunk together. Surely that's a violation of some ethics policy if not at least totally unprofessional. But I don't think anybody is watching; hell, mommas husband works for her. Send them all to the field where they belong. At least they will be happy getting vendor kickbacks.
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Futures strip is $42 again in April 2017 ... why have any drillers working the Bakken, they will just be sitting around in the office for the next fifteen months.
Laugh it off like you always do. You all know its true. Just watch out for the paper trail now that you dont have any rigs. Some people wont have any incentive to keep their mouths shut any more.
Why would a drilling team in ConocoPhillips ever go to an asset meeting? Why would they be invited is the better question - collaboration to drilling is "I get my way."
The Bakken drilling team rarely comes to asset meetings. They hardly ever respond to requests for cost estimates. They are always at golfing events or long lunches. They have late starting times and early quitting times. They follow their own rules. And most of them act like their sh*t don't stink. Lastly, why are their so many of them?? Do we really need 3+ per rig? If so, are they that incompetent?
Who's the tart and who's the bagel?
Experience has shown me that what you are asked to do in the first two weeks in a new company says a bunch about the company:
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IOC #1, heavy technical onboarding from a company that prides itself and sees competitive advantage in leading the industry in technology
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IOC #2, compulsory onboarding of the project development process, or how we do work here from a company that sees competitive advantage in project execution
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ConocoPhillips, how to draw an influence diagram to work out who you need to bac and who to backstab to get what you want
... Just saying!
Amen, management across the board will get you in a meeting room and ramble for over an hour about the price of Tea in China. COP needs to count the worker bees and queen bees way to many bloviators left
ConocoPhillips has an old school (in a bad way) drilling organisation. Employing a bunch of bullies gets results in the shirt run but at what cost? Its the senior leadership in Global Wells that needs to go.