Big Oil Is Offshoring Its Prized Engineering Jobs to India

Yep I've had experience with offshoring engineering to low cost centres where nobody in the entire staff has ever set foot on an operating oil / gas facility.

It pushes all the actual decision-making, risk management and design back onto the client, until a scope of work is written that spells out everything in such excruciating detail that the low cost centre just need to copy paste it.

The O&G industry has been on a warpath on cost since 2015, and quality has gone the way of Boeing. There will be plenty more Deepwater Horizons to come.

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