ROV Layoffs in GOM?

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February 11, 2011 at 9:21 pm #4074

Kidd57
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Heard Veolia has 6 ROV boats, 5 sitting in port, and just laid off (65 unconfirmed) ROV guys because the Gulf is dead.

Heard from another guy at CI that Chouest just laid off 41 of their ROV people.

Anyone hear anything similar?

If my understanding is correct, the congressional reaction to the BP oil spill is having – and is going to continue to have – far more reaching devastation than the oil spill ever had.

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February 12, 2011 at 12:06 am #30343

James
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Yes, I had heard also that C-I had laid off 41 personnel. Chouest (Parent of C-I) has been working 2 on and 4 off and had cut Salary Positions to Hourly.

March 2, 2011 at 12:09 am #30344

microfish
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Yes, C-Innovation let go more than 40 people and also changed to dayrates instead of salary + hourly.

March 2, 2011 at 8:50 am #30345

James McLauchlan
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Yes, C-Innovation let go more than 40 people and also changed to dayrates instead of salary + hourly.

This is a common ploy used by companies when times get a little lean. When times are busy, and rates are rising, companies are more than happy to broadcast that they only want to use employees and not agency/day rate personnel. That’s generally in a bid to keep rates to their liking.

But if work drops off, they don’t want to carry the cost of, under utilised, employees so they forget all about their ’employees only’ policies and switch back to day rate. That’s probably what is being seen in the GOM at the moment.

March 3, 2011 at 4:45 am #30346

pizzadude
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Price is up and going to keep up if the middle east carries on the way it is at present, so this means work work work, and its just the usual shifting of resources we have on a regular basis, these guys will not be out of work for long, and the gulf will not be quiet for long, with such huge profits in bringing oil to the market at present, all oil companies will be looking to get as much oil to the market as possible, so one company goes quiet, just means another company gets busy.

As for the big companies and their attempt at market manipulation, all they end up doing is loosing their good personnel and are always left with the dross, who can’t find work elsewhere, usually then in a moment of panic when the work floods in, they blanket promote and other tactics, and put themselves in an even worse position, you can not replace quality personnel, and the rates the sub-contractors pass on to the oil companies for personnel are massive compared to what they are paying, so as most things in live it just comes down to greed by the big companies to maximise profit and cover the fat salaries of their office staff, who generally bring nothing to the table, and in the end, they end up with a piss poor workforce, and rely on other companies to hire them back the people one of them had as employees previously.
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