The article emphasizes the potentials dangers to the security and to the health (especially the mind ones), associated to the quality of work's process and to the standard of management work used by the Schlumberger multinational company. Both of these components associated to the main aspects of the petroleum industry tend to endanger its workers to increase their psychological costs (cognitive, affective) in their biopsychical (body itself) integrality. Trails denote the inappropriate workers structure and their despair to deal with the intensity of the 'use of itself drama'. The reach of 'pathogenic suffering' on workers structure, the compromising with the possibility of sublimation and the possibility to transform suffering on creativity (condition of 'possibility circulations') is argued. The theoretic and methodological reference emphasizes the activity's ergonomic and the psychodynamics of work in a ergological perspective. The methods operationalize a dynamic device of three poles (DD3P) on 'meetings about work' and on interviews semi-structured which valorizes the recurrence.
management work; dramatic uses of itself; intensification of work; extension of working hours; petroleum industry
