for shell ones...it is not VSS but redundancy .... like what happening to their IT central in cyberjaya.. maybe something to do with MLNG handover..

This post has been edited by sukhoi35mk: Sep 30 2015, 04:15 PM

you sure that shell need petronas approval for new hiring?????

current situation is mainly due to low crude price and their PSAs signed 10-20 yrs ago are expired with no further renewal from Petronas... and it's also more and more difficult to do business here as well...

i think it's all about transparency that impacted staff should know the news few months ahead so that they have time to prepare for their future or career.... last time, BP only gave their staff 3 months notice before kene chopped..

then u need to recheck with the HR again.... alot of ppl in shell are hired by bosses sitting thousands kilometer away.... Shell malaysia is just a base company from HR point of view.... common sense will tell u right that if u want to expand your business e.g. retail which petronas dagang is the direct competitor.... u have to ask ur competitors who you can hire in order to compete with them? alot of shell staff in malaysia do not have bosses in malaysia and local chairman even has no control over them...

so, it is down the natural of the project and organization.... e.g. if a project is joint owned by 2 parties then they will have a Project management council to manage the cost and deliverable. Of course whoever has biggest share will have more influence over the project.... similar to joint managed assets...whoever is leading the management team will have biggest say....

I also seen before JV project with Petronas has majority share but they let shell runs it freely...free to appoint any engineers, vendors, resources for the project so long within the given budget...

but if like our friend here mention that every hiring with no link to JV projects also need petronas's approval then it's something BS.... as now shell no longer country based organization but global...they sharing their engineers with other countries.... dont tell me next time if shell wanna to hire a PM for upgrade work at their GTL plant in bintulu also need petronas's approval... like that forever no need to do upgrade if they can't find a bumi expert in GTL....

when crude oil is dropping...it's a very bad news for upstream but it's a damn good news for downstream and vice versa .... while upstream is scaling down...downstream is gearing up... alot of upgrading works going on to improve operation and productivity....

dude....Downstream is not all about refinery la.... alot of engineering projects going on also not related to refinery in malaysia wat....