Interviewed in Downtown Houston office. One of the worst interviews of my life, but neither of us was really at fault. My entire work history has been at the smallest of the small oil companies where his experience was at Aramco, the biggest on earth. When he was asking me technical questions, something I've never had a problem with in my life, he thought my answers were wrong. And when I asked him what he thought the solution was. it sounded equally insane in my view. Unfortunately, it only dawned on me after the interview what the disconnect was (I imagine). Every well failure issue (after confirming it was real )involved me shutting the well down and loading it up with water to kill it. This is standard, safe operating proc.edure. He was suggesting some frankly wild ideas like measuring the gas effluent from the casing gas to compare with the mudlog on a dual completion zone to try to figure out approximately where the tubing leak is. He can't turn off his wells. He can't shut them off. When you have wells making 40k barrels per day ($2-4 million/day) it starts to make more sense. On a certain line of thinking its worth spending money gathering information of minimal value or that you can use to make slightly more educated decisions to reduce the probability of a 2 day job becoming a 10+ day job. If that happens to a US onshore oil and gas company, oh well that sucks but it happens. As long as no one was negligent or fraudulent, it's understood as a non-rare event. In Aramco, I'd not be shocked if it was a fireable offense. You just shaved $40 million off the company revenue.