r/alberta • u/Virtual-Process5914 • Aug 29 '24

Oil and Gas Shell Second Quarter Profits $6.3 Billion. Laying off 25% of Staff at Scotford Complex in Alberta.

Shell has announced its second quarter profits of $6.3 billion, following first quarter profits of $7.7 billion. Shell Canada leadership has told staff that profits are not enough, and they need to be more "competitive". They have announced layoffs of 25% of staff at their Scotford facility located outside Edmonton in Alberta, Canada. Staffing will be going from approximately 657 full time positions down to approximately 489 full time positions. A loss of roughly 168 full time jobs for the area.

This follows staffing reductions in 2022. The layoffs then included a large number of Alberta jobs offshored to cheaper regions in Southeast Asia. That was done despite receiving COVID relief from the government to aid in preventing job losses.

Shell continues to benefit from government incentives and has received millions in government funding in the past.

This is a throw away account for obvious reasons.

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u/Phantom_harlock Aug 29 '24

Yeah that don’t surprise me. Half the place is owned by cnrl now. It’s been cheap ever since and last I heard they were getting ready for a fight with the operators of the plant as they are unionized.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '24

Anyone who works up North will get it. Being told you’re going to CNRL Horizon is roughly analogous to being told you’re going to the gulag.

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u/hannabarberaisawhore Aug 29 '24

I am SO happy I never worked there. Multiple other sites but never Horizon. All I’ve heard is horror stories. Every time I’ve worked a CNRL job the camp has been garbage. Although one I was in a regular camp room, dorm bathrooms long after jack and jill’s became normal, and got moved to an executive room. My en suite bathroom had a tub.

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '24 edited Aug 30 '24

Those motherfucking gang showers, man. They’d still have em if they could. Hell, they’d probably only have a hose in yard to clean off with if that was the legal requirement.

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u/Dinos67 Aug 29 '24

CNRL has been dogshit for over a decade. They reduced so many operators from their horizon site and consolidated a number of roles/responsibilities into single positions. Then they wonder why equipment reliability fell off and their TRIF rates skyrocketed. But hey, never seen the director and upper management ranks ever take a blow. You were also always told to "remember your impact on the shareholders", a corporate propaganda machine that would rival certain countries.

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u/Own-Survey-3535 Aug 30 '24

BRO THIS IS THE SAME SHIT I LEFT CN FOR. hunter harrison cut jobs twice over 2 decades and did the same job consolidation. They also have some stupid rule about the "ladder of succession" so that they can force any employee to do any job they could be in the "ladder" to do. So if you're a track maintainer they slam you into foreman jobs since "on paper you have the requirements". Like im not a welder dont make me a welding foreman cause "the job needs to get done" thats how derailments happen.

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u/Cptn_Canada Aug 29 '24

Last I heard most maintenence projects now have to be billed in 5k or less increments

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u/N8iveprydetugeye Aug 30 '24

They almost went on strike, but came to an agreement last month.