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Help wanted: Oil jobs
Posted on 2/14/08 at 5:13 pm
Posted on 2/14/08 at 5:13 pm
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HOUSTON (CNNMoney.com) -- The oil industry is on the edge of a huge labor crisis.
80% of its skilled workforce is expected to age out in the next ten years without eager, younger workers available to replace them.
"There's a perception the industry is old, dirty," said Pete Stark, vice president of industry relations for IHS, Cambridge Energy Research Associates' (CERA) parent company. "It's lost its sex appeal."
Plus, the industry suffers from a reputation of laying off workers during periods of low oil prices, as it did in the 1980s and 1990s.
As a result of those layoffs, the sector is now scrambling to replace a huge number of skilled workers set to retire over the next decade.
Oil and gas companies are trying to change their top-down, rigid management styles, hoping to attract younger workers.
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Posted on 2/14/08 at 5:19 pm to Chicken
I thought TD.com had come across an inheritance of Oil.
Posted on 2/14/08 at 5:27 pm to Chicken
Yes, we are having and are about to have even a larger crisis, there are many large projects that I know of breaking loose and they need workers and there is not enough to go around which is a good thing as for as the hourly pay scale and per diem cause we are already seeing a bidding war for our services to get workers on jobsites... 
Posted on 2/14/08 at 6:11 pm to Chicken
what about Mexicans? everybody else is doing it....i mean using them.
This post was edited on 2/14/08 at 6:14 pm
Posted on 2/14/08 at 6:15 pm to Bubba Bexley
I can get job with an oil company easily with a nice pay raise... I just can't bring myself to work for those bastards.
Posted on 2/15/08 at 7:58 am to LSURulzSEC
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we are already seeing a bidding war for our services to get workers on jobsites...
True. Between the Marathon project in Garyville and the Motiva Port Arthur expansion you're looking at 15,000 to 17,000 workers needed.
Posted on 2/15/08 at 8:02 am to Bubba Bexley
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what about Mexicans? everybody else is doing it....i mean using them
The article refers to skilled labor. You just don't see that many latino's as millwrights, instrument technicians, electricians, heavy equipment ooperators, machinists, engineers, etc.
Posted on 2/15/08 at 12:14 pm to urinetrouble
Try getting on with a service company...ie Halliburton, Baker Hughes, Schlumberger. Contrary to popular belief these are NOT oil companies. They do work for them and make a fortune at it.
Posted on 2/15/08 at 2:13 pm to jonboy
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Schlumberger
I'd avoid this one like the plague.
My husband is an engineer for a service company. It is a great job, but he'd really like to get a job with one of their clients- Exxon, Shell, etc.
Posted on 2/15/08 at 4:20 pm to TexasTiger05
my dad worked for schlumberger for 20 something years, with that said he works for baker atlas now. schlumberger can definatly be a little iffy
Posted on 2/15/08 at 4:24 pm to chickman1313
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schlumberger
Ive heard horror stories about them. The thing is if you can get on and get some experience with one of the big 3 service companies you can write your own ticket down the line. The Big Oil companies are fine, but you can still make more money on the service side. However, you won' have any stability - drilling stops you don't work.
Posted on 2/15/08 at 4:27 pm to jonboy
Forgot, there is definitely an age gap in this industry. Its either really old ( 60 plus) or fairly young (25 plus). No real middle to speak of.
Posted on 2/15/08 at 4:36 pm to jonboy
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Its either really old ( 60 plus) or fairly young (25 plus). No real middle to speak of.
True, and the 60plus are being paid big bucks to stay on right now.
Posted on 2/15/08 at 5:43 pm to Cuz413
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the Motiva Port Arthur expansion
Many of us are waiting for that one to bust wide open...
Posted on 2/15/08 at 5:56 pm to LSURulzSEC
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Many of us are waiting for that one to bust wide open...
word is they will need 10000+ to construct.
The plant is going from 275000 barrels per day to 600000 barrels per day and will be the largest refinery in the western hemispere
Posted on 2/16/08 at 11:56 am to TexasTiger05
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True, and the 60plus are being paid big bucks to stay on right now.
Indeed they are, I know a couple of Rig Supervisors that should be retired, "age wise", but they are still doing their 2 weeks on, 2 weeks off. The money must be really good, plus these guys are some of the best.
Posted on 2/16/08 at 12:31 pm to urinetrouble
You should just make the jump over to the dark side. If you can't beat them, join them!
Posted on 2/18/08 at 9:13 am to jguidroz
Im 24 and a mechanical engineer for a oil service company, i figure to be the CEO be 40. I'm rich bitch.
Posted on 2/18/08 at 9:43 am to barry
I will be looking for a new job this summer. I really like the news coming out. I have a degree in chemical engineering but have been in the army the past 4 years. No real job experince other than being in Iraq, management, and logistics. I hope I can find something to just get me in the door.
Posted on 2/18/08 at 2:29 pm to Chicken
Good to read. I thought things were slowing down in the patch and Schlumberger was laying off.
Everything appears to be geared towards international rather than domestic and that means months overseas at a time.
Not very conductive to family life.
Nevertheless it has supported my family for four generations and I hope it continues after I leave this planet.
Everything appears to be geared towards international rather than domestic and that means months overseas at a time.
Not very conductive to family life.
Nevertheless it has supported my family for four generations and I hope it continues after I leave this planet.
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