I thought I'd brighten up this place with some positive news: COP has a Bakken Operations Geologist posting over on Indeed. Pay no attention to the geologists being loaned out to groups they aren't in or those on teams that have no capital commitment, we need someone from the outside!
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I am a former Bakken Ops Geo who was laid off in 2015. A COP recruiter contacted me yesterday to see if I was interested in returning to fill this open position. I declined.
Oh yippee! Where do I sign up? Am I guaranteed a job for at least a month (until the next layoff?). Seriously? How do you advertise jobs when you're cutting every 6 months?
Dumb statement, finance people aren't warm blooded.
This position needs to be filled so that COP can sell the Bakken.
I liked the external COP posting for a organic petrophicist...seriously?
Ops geos are the first to go, in layoffs, but also when they find themselves a better gig internally or externally. They want an external hire so they won't have to train them to be an ops geo and so that they have a level of gratfulness of having a job and loyalty to COP that anyone who has survived 3 (soon to be 4) rounds of layoffs cannot match.
The real reason is that ops geos actually have to work. Everyone internally would rather have their current light workload than have to do real work.
Ops geos are perceived at COP as a second class geologist. So no one internally wants to take a "demotion".
If ops geos weren't the first thing to go when there are cuts, there'd be more people internally that are willing to do it.
The upper echelons of management think of the technical folks as widgets and have no idea what they really do. So yes, just borrow a warm body from some other group. Give them 4 rigs for the extended period. If they quit: repeat. We need to squeeze every bit of productivity, er, life, out of them before we lay them off.
FCOP
lots of warm bodies in canada
I heard that a stocker at Walmart had the inside track to the listed Geologist job because he knows how to find the oil!
I heard that former Bakken Ops geo quit after having to handle several rigs at once for an extended period of time. Maybe they can get one of the extra finance people, or perhaps a reservoir engineer to do that job. A warm body is a warm body, right?