It appears that the UK hub is being replaced by India and it being made a main technical hub. I guess we did train our own replacements.
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@tc re your comment it works for IT and the like. I called IT help desk last week. Completely unable to understand what the guy was saying - imcomprehensible. I ended up having to stop the call and called back. Got another individual, slightly less incomprehensible, who spent ten mins trying to fix something that one of our local UK lads would have nailed in 1 min. This is not progress. Yes cheaper and I guess the other unintended consequence being that we will become a lot more IT savvy to save those painful calls. Not their fault but the quality of service has dropped from A grade to D grade. Shame
@jz this aged well..
Any update on TSI opportunities?
@tc the humility and respect can be mistaken for lack of knowledge.
Pune replacing Infosys and Wipro in the UK and US is almost a like for like service in the IT space and therefore a cost saving. Pune replacing real O&G specialists is where the model falls over. I have specialists on the phone for hours a day doing handholding and having to explain the same concepts over and over to their Pune counterparts. Any talk of productivity gains is total fantasy.
India is 70% of the UK
At F there is a parity
@rp two deliver twice the productivity, what you smoking? That never happens unless you live in jeetland
@qw so what is wrong with folks from India. Those who do a great job in the us and uk still will have a job. The knights in shining armor that coach interns and challengers or even experienced hires should know by now that those very folks sitting next to you will replace you, so how is it any different unless there is other bias. Moreover for one uk salary if you replace with five from tsi and two of them deliver twice your productivity then it’s at least half price for double the work. I don’t see how the math could be off here! Either you compete and make it worth your time or go to the wayside.
@qn bp is not a super major. Not even close.
@jz I’m sure Shell and others would love Shipping and trading…
@ja not many small to mid sized operators producing 2.2 to 2.3mm bbls/day.
We are 5th of the 5 majors no doubt but a mid sized operator? Behave.
@bp Yea, like all the offshored people in Pune will support our massive assets in Pune
Op is just now realizing that BP has no operations in the UK and therefore foolish to have a technical center there?
Yikes, the Brits are even slower than suspected.
@jq let's be real, shell does not want anything to do with BP, only people who want this is you lot who work for BP. Shell are decades ahead in assets and profit, regardless of BP's size, they are a contaminated company full of pathetic employees.
@ja your last sentence is precisely what a supermajor would do, absorb the good assets of a smaller player and do away with the poor ones..
@ja we’re selling assets to reduce debt.
Whats wrong with you lot shell will not merge with us, we carry so much debt. BP is a small player now, Shell are a supermajor, BP is a small to mid operator.
@a8 there’s no doubt a lot of synergy to what you highlight there and a quick look at shell’s layoff posts indicate much frustration with their India hub and potential expansion at the expense of the shell technology centre off HWY6, Houston. Long term, a merger between the two once they get their respective houses in order would be quite a global powerhouse. Who knows. That would be an interesting question to our CEO - have you or any or any 3rd parties at your behest, opened channels of comms with/between Shell for a potential merger in the years to come.
Always whinging, as long as we get shareholder value thats the only thing I care about. Send everything to India as long as the share price increases.
What rock have you been hiding under for the last 10 years. Just figured this out? :)
So much for Britain first…’and not or’ - turns out it was indeed ‘or’
@a6 completely agree, this is something nobody talks about at national level. In the news they always talk about restarting the economy bla bla bla, but nobody ever mentions the facts that UK companies offshore thousands of good jobs eve year.
This is pretty much part of the conversation in national politics in France and Germany.
@c6 Timber Square will be the European hub for Shell-BP.
Will be listed in the US.
@a6 yes, traitors to their nation.
Have a little look around the Sunbury canteen at lunchtime. Wall to wall Indians.
Timber square will be for all the bullsh-t jobs, not engineers.
@a9 Kohli spoke of it, quite possibly by accident and off-the-record, a few months ago.
@a8 Hogwarsh. What evidence is there for this alleged merger?
Part of the BP India team will go with the Shell-BP unification coming in 2027 (once both finish the current divestments). The other part may begin in Shell's Bangalore office but will ultimately go to Reliance in the long-rumored downstream merger.
One major disappointment that no one acknowledges openly is that the bp leaders (sitting in the uk) have sold out their own countrymen for supposed cheaper labour out of India. I hope they are proud of themselves as they will sort themselves with cushy jobs and avoid the layoffs entirely. Very sad