Have you noticed it has gone a bit quiet around Andy Brown? Heralded as the saviour of the Upstream! He is not making a big impact apparently. And you should keep an eye open for this mega(lomanic) project of the FLNG. A floating LNG unit, described to be so long that it is equal to a par 5 golfhole… It will be the biggest vessel in the world ever, 600,000 tonnes. I would never work on something like this. Too dangerous. Initially perhaps OK, but then a like minded Brinded will come along and see costcutting possibilities. Such as the TFA. And you don’t screw around with gas.
From an Old EP Hand
John
Have you noticed it has gone a bit quiet around Andy Brown? Heralded as the saviour of the Upstream! He is not making a big impact apparently. And quite a few jobs in the upstream are filled by downstream guys but they lack any feel for the business. Shell is still suffering from the generation of American managers that have transformed it to use their and the analysts language. My language would be that they ruined it. And it will take many years to fix the damage of all the short-termism and deterioration of technical skills. But I doubt if Shell will ever really recover. Destroying something good is a lot easier than building something good. If only the past generation of American managers would be half as good as the top technical people they had in abundance in the 70s-90s, Shell would have been still the best company in the world.
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