And I’m still hauling water, have been for 12 years now (the gov’t hauled water for me for two years prior to that), thanks to Encana/Ovintiv breaking the law, intentionally frac’ing my community’s drinking water aquifers, with all authorities coddling the law-violating company and breaking the law trying to shut me up. I had a fabulous, high volume producing well with excellent soft water – a highly valued treasure on the high plains.
Hauling water is enraging; it reminds me of how nasty Encana/Ovintiv is, how corrupt the AER is (controlled by Encana), how evil the Alberta govt is (regardless of whether PC, NDP or UCP), and how Encana/Ovintiv shits on families it brags it’s “good neighbours” to.
Ovintiv sounds more like a nasal spray than O&G company. Anyway, this must have been expected by all as soon as they fucked off down south.
yyc-0G Tried to post this news on Monday before it was public. Mods wouldn’t allow it. It’s been a bloodbath at Ovintiv. There are many office teams with 50% losses and higher. Field staff were 50% in GP and in Utah. Layoffs continue today.
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Do you know which teams were hit hardest? Engineering? Land? Finance?
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All of them. It’s been a bloodbath. Major cuts across the board. The only one that was minimal was the midstream marketing team.
… Ovintiv, formerly Encana Corp., said it laid off 640 staff this week. They worked in all field locations and in its three main offices in Woodlands, Tex., Denver and Calgary. Staff cuts comprised workers at all levels, including executives, the company said. It now has a work force of 1,900 employees.
“Even though we are a little less than halfway through the year, it has clearly been one to remember, or maybe forget,” Ovintiv chief executive Doug Suttles said in an internal memo to staff. “We’ve all faced many challenges and incredible uncertainty. The decisions we implemented this week were difficult but necessary, but they are now behind us.”
Early this year, the renamed company moved its corporate headquarters to the United States, with the aim of attracting more investment from U.S. index funds. Within weeks, oil prices collapsed in response to a plunge in fuel demand brought on by the global pandemic lockdowns. The market was further hit by a price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia. That prompted investors to dump Ovintiv’s shares, along with those of most other energy producers.
The cuts are part of efforts to save US$200-million in costs this year, Ovintiv said in a corporate presentation.
“This is a significant reduction and the impact was felt at every level and in every corner of the company. Now as we look ahead, I believe we are positioned to prosper,” How often has Encana boasted that for years now, only to keep diving mostly down. Investors see the crap that Encana/Ovintiv is; they hear company execs swear at them and see the company’s law violations, callous disdain for environment and communities, and see the company refusing to make things right for families, farms, and communities harmed.Mr. Suttles said in the memo. …
Ovintiv shares fell to as low as $2.95 in early March, but have since rebounded to close at $14.56 on the Toronto Stock Exchange on Thursday. …
Ovintiv Inc. said Thursday it laid off 25 per cent of its total workforce this month….
The company said it now has around 2,100 employees and contractors. Ovintiv, formerly known as Encana, completed a change of base from Calgary to Denver in January, which chief executive Doug Suttles had reasoned would allow the company access to a deeper capital market. … Many shale producers have lately reduced their workforce, slashed budgets and cut dividends in efforts to save enough cash for survival as investors turn their backs on the industry.
Ovintiv’s shares have more than halved in value so far this year….
… Ovintiv, once among Canada’s largest companies, bought Texas-based Newfield Exploration Co. for $5.5 billion last year to boost acreage in the United State, as it prepared to move away from Canada. Greed like Encana’s has consequences, which Encana appears unwilling to learn. How many months ’til Ovarytits goes belly up along with the rest of the evil frac’ers causing harm to so many?
Ovintiv Inc., the oil and gas producer that moved its headquarters out of Canada earlier this year, is laying off staff across North America as it reduces drilling activity.
The layoffs are coming roughly equally from the company’s offices in Calgary, Denver and The Woodlands, Texas, as well as from field staff, said Cindy Hassler, a spokeswoman for Ovintiv. Hassler declined to immediately provide a number of how many jobs were cut.
… Ovintiv cut its capital spending by US$300 million in the second quarter and reduced the number of rigs it has in the field from 23 to seven.
“It is deeply unfortunate, but we had to right-size the organization to align with expected future activity levels,” Hassler said in an interview.
Ovintiv earlier this year changed its name from Encana and moved its headquarters to Denver from Calgary, dealing a morale blow to the Canadian energy industry. Chief Executive Officer Doug Suttles said the move was meant to allow the company to access a broader pool of investors in U.S. markets.
Energy sector job losses are taking place in Calgary this week as a result of the ongoing fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic and the global oil price shock. Encana/Ovintits was trashing workers, and automating and shredding jobs long before covid-19, while clutching billions in cash, like the greedy illegal aquifer-frac’ing sods that they are.
Ovintiv, the exploration and production company formerly known as Encana — which moved its corporate domicile from Calgary to Denver earlier this year and changed its name — confirmed layoffs Wednesday, though spokeswoman Cindy Hassler said the exact number of job losses will not be made public until Thursday afternoon.
Hassler said the layoffs are taking place across all of the company’s operations and locations, and affect corporate office staff as well as field workers. Ovintiv has corporate offices in Calgary, Denver and Woodlands, Texas.
“We’re facing a really challenging and unprecedented time in the history of our industry,” Hassler said in an interview. “The COVID-19 pandemic has reduced global demand and obviously the oil price collapse has created a need for a dynamic response.” Acting out on typical Encana/Ovintiv/Cenovus greed while blaming a pandemic to shit on workers is particularly nasty, even for Encana when it was led by Gwyn Morgan.
In the first quarter of this year, Ovintiv announced plans to immediately reduce second quarter 2020 capital investments by $300 million and full-year cash costs by $100 million. It also announced it would drop its total number of operated rigs from 23 to 7, leaving just three rigs in the Permian, two in the Anadarko and two in the Montney.
“Looking forward, we expect our future activity will also be lower than prior expectations,” Hassler said. “We felt like we had to take steps to rightsize the organization based on our expected future activity levels.”
Also on Wednesday, Calgary-based pipeline company Enbridge confirmed about 800 employees have agreed to take voluntary buyouts in the form of early retirement, severance, educational or personal leaves of absence, or part-time work.
Spokeswoman Tracie Kenyon said in an email the buyouts mean Enbridge will not pursue companywide layoffs at this time. Executives and managers at the company have also agreed to take pay cuts of between 10 and 15 per cent.
Enbridge reported a first quarter loss of $1.4 billion due to a number of one-time non-cash charges, including the writedown of the company’s investment in DCP Midstream, a joint venture headquartered in Denver.
The company also committed to reducing operating costs by $300 million, including reductions to senior management and board of directors’ compensation, as well as the deferral of approximately $1 billion of planned 2020 capital spending in light of COVID-19.
“Enbridge is a resilient company, but we are not immune to the unprecedented nature of the current crisis,” Kenyon said. “The dual challenge of COVID-19 and global oil price shock is impacting our company, particularly with decreased volumes in our liquids business.”
… “We expect our future activities also will be lower than prior expectations,” Cindy Hassler told CBC News. “So because of that, while deeply unfortunate, we did take steps to right-size our organization and aligned that with our expected future activity levels.” …
Hassler said the company sees the industry transitioning to lower on production growth, in general, and to a model that is more focused on free cash generation, stronger balance sheet and a modest growth. She said these decisions were made partly because of that longer-term view.
Ovintiv announced last fall that it was moving its corporate headquarters from Calgary to the U.S. It had been previously called Encana, one of Canada’s oldest and largest energy companies. When the it announced the move in October, it said having a U.S. address would expose it to increasingly larger pools of investment in U.S. index funds and passively managed accounts.
CEO Doug Suttles said at the time that the name and “corporate domicile” changes would not affect any Canadian staff, result in any layoffs, Mr. Suttles is known for lying to investors and media or divert investment strategies in oil and gas formations in Alberta and B.C. …
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2020: 016 18: Vatican urges Catholics to drop investments in fossil fuels, arms The Vatican urged Catholics on Thursday to disinvest from the armaments and fossil fuel industries and to closely monitor companies in sectors such as mining to check if they are damaging the environment. The calls were contained in a 225-page manual for church leaders and workers to mark the fifth anniversary of Pope Francis’ landmark encyclical “Laudato Si” (Praised Be) on the need to protect nature, life and defenseless people. … The manual’s section on finance said people “could favor positive changes … by excluding from their investments companies that do not satisfy certain parameters.” It listed these as respect for human rights, bans on child labor and protection of the environment.
Called ‘Journeying Towards Care For Our Common Home’, one action point called on Catholics to shun “shun companies that are harmful to … the environment, such as fossil fuels.” Another section called for the “stringent monitoring” of extraction industries in areas with fragile ecosystems to prevent air, soil and water contamination. Last month, more that 40 faith organizations from around the world, more than half of them Catholic, pledged to divest from fossil fuel companies.
