Recently, Tharwa, the oil and gas company have discovered oil in Egypt in the Eastern Desert in the West Esh El Mallah area. Currently the production level is expected to be 1300 barrels a day. This comes as oil prices rise worldwide, and with the recession starting to subside. The oil discovery poses many new oil jobs in Egypt as the drilling starts. Tharwa signed a deal for the exploration of the 43 square kilometer, or 16.6 square mile, area in August 2009. This was $ 17.5 million. The different kinds of oil jobs that you can get working in one of these concessions include oil and gas pipeline engineer jobs, walker jobs, pipelayer jobs, inspector jobs, supervisor, design engineer, and many more. These kinds of oil jobs are ideal to get when you want to travel to Egypt and get some emplo...

British Airways are busy building an energy plant that hopes to produce jet fuel out of wastage and this is expected to create up to 1200 airline jobs within the first 2 years. BA says that the plant, to be located in east London, will produce two percent of the amount of fuel needed to fly from London Heathrow, whilst from London City it will produce twice the amount. There are 500 000 tons of waste that can be used every year to make about 16 million gallons of fuel. This will help the environment greatly, as it will prevent a huge amount of waste from going to the landfill. This normally produces methane gas which is said to be more potent and damaging a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. United States company, Solena Group, has agreed to build the energy plant and BA has agreed to buy...

With the world looking for ways to help the environmental movements that revolve around global warming, the challenge is always to get the majority of the population to get on board. Not only this, but big business also needs to play a huge part otherwise those individuals that do get involved will not really make much of an impact. This was the case a few years ago, but now biodiesel is a government approved way to run your diesel engine to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The great thing about biodiesel is that it is not only beneficial for your vehicle or other machinery, but it is cheaper than diesel fuel, and you can make it yourself. Yes, that’s right! You can get all the equipment that you need to make your own biodiesel in your back yard and the process that it follows is very si...

Oxane, a company that produces proppants for oil and gas companies is opening a new manufacturing plant in Van Buren which could mean more than 300 oil and gas service jobs in the area. The company’s decision to open a new plant is due to the fact that they have developed a new proppant in conjunction with Rice University which uses nanotechnology. They are expecting to invest $15 million in the new plant which includes hiring 50 people by the summer of 2010. With further expansions into 2014, the job openings will increase to 300 or so. Proppants are very necessary in the drilling of gas and oil wells and are used to prop up the underground wells after the frac fluid has been removed. The new technology is supposed to make the proppants stronger, but also lighter. These new proppants ha...

Three large corporations have recently been in discussions with the Wichita Falls Economic Development Corporation and Wichita Falls City Council to assist in bringing 386 new jobs to the city. These will be high paying jobs in various different industries. The first company is a bedding and mattress manufacturer, the second is a metal fabrication company for the petroleum, industry, and the third is an electrical control company. These three companies are set to provide ample employment offering high salaries and will boost the economy of Wichita Falls dramatically. The incentive program has allowed for Natura World, the all natural bedding manufacturer to receive $2 million for the upgrading of the Delphi building where they are going to be based, as well as $5.5 million for a 20 year in...

Canada based Husky Energy, the 3rd largest oil company in the country, is planning to expand its portfolios by placing more than 26 percent into two projects, namely the natural gas finds off the coast of China and the massive Oil Sands project. These two projects have been the focus of their attention for the past year after the budget was cut drastically due to the economic downfall. They expect to spend about C$3.1 billion in 2010 to increase oil production from the current 306 000 barrels of oil per day to about 330 000 barrels per day. This is for their largest oil sands project on the go at the moment and for their Asian properties the budget is set at C$660 million, which is an increase of C$140 million. Husky is planning to spend about C$85 billion to advance the Sunrise Oil Sands ...

The Karoo Basin in South Africa is one of the undiscovered shale gas reserves, and to this end a team of gas exploration experts want to uncover this potential jackpot. The three companies that are collaborating in this venture are Sasol LTD, the South African based oil and gas company, Statoil ASA, the largest gas and oil producer in Norway, and Chesapeake Energy Corp. They submitted an application for rights to the Karoo Basin and the approval process is expected to take about a year. Once they have received approval, the next step is to perform various seismic and geographical analyses, and then the plan is to begin drilling for gas. The shale rock located far beneath the surface is more costly to develop than conventional methods, but Statoil is one of the companies along with BP Plc, ...

After a slump in the oil prices and the slowing down of oil production, it is good to see that Suncor is restarting its development of the Firebag 3 Oil Sands Project.  Located just north of Fort McMurray, this oil sands prospect is expected to produce about 68 thousand barrels of oil per day by 2011. This comes after more than $900 million has been poured into the restarting of the Firebag site. Flint Energy is excited about acquiring the contract to be Suncor’s number one supplier, and they are thrilled that more than 385 oil sands jobs are to be created at the Sherwood Park modular fabrication facility. The oil sands prospect is one of the most important in North America, with plenty of job openings. Due to the recession, oil exploration and production has slowed, but thanks to the r...

Oil Industry Jobs in Africa The sixteenth African Oil Week held in Cape Town saw delegates from various independent oil producers positive about the future of the oil industry in Africa. It was emphasized that African was at the forefront of the oil industry with many unexplored potential oil sites. There are currently 550 oil firms operating in Africa, and there are many more soon to follow, despite the economic crisis, volatile prices, and the geopolitical pressures. Statistics show that Africa has a largely unexploited oil reserve with about 120 billion barrels, and a gas reserve of 500 trillion cubic feet. Oil producers are continuously interested in African oil specifically the opportunities in the sedimentary basin. CEO of Global Pacific and Partners, Duncan Clarke, who addressed the...

The United States Minerals Management Service (USMMS) approved a plan offered by the Royal Dutch Shell Company to start drilling two wells in the Beaufort Sea from July to October 2010. The wells are located on two leases that are 16 and 23 miles off the shore of Point Thomson. Shell had planned various other well drilling in the area, but this plan was not approved due to being inadequately reviewed according to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Oil and Gas Jobs in Alaska This time, Shell has proposed to drill during the open water season between July and October only, breaking for the mid season whale hunting for the Inupiat Eskimos. Although it has won approval from the USMMS, Shell still has to convince the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Marine Fisheries Service, and the...