Due to an expansion of oil and gas consultancy ClerkMaxwell, 20 new oil and gas jobs will be created at their head office in Aberdeen. The increase in workers from 50 to 70 would be complete at the end of the year, thanks to an increase in business by about GBP 700,000 (approximately $1 million). [...]
Oil Jobs
Various community colleges located across Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania are preparing students to become prospective employees in the Marcellus Shale gas industry which is booming at the moment, through a placement, recruitment and training program offered by Marcellus ShaleNET. The program is being run thanks to the US Department of Labor who invested $4.96 [...]
The oil sands project is about to get a boost as a new pipeline, the Keystone XL Pipeline, awaits approval for transporting heavy crude oil at Shell Albian Sands near Fort McMurray. This will mean a huge amount of new gas jobs for the United States. The oil sands project has been running for many [...]
According to Oil and Gas UK, there have been new oil fields discovered in the once thought to be depleted North Sea. These fields have sparked hope for many Oil companies in the UK, specifically those involved in the production of oil rigs. There are about 70 new oil fields that Jim Masterton of McNulty [...]
The natural gas pipeline that is being developed in Alaska, Trans Canada, in accordance with Exxon Mobil, could soon be joined by BP-Conoco Phillips, which has a project called Denali running a pipeline to the Lower 48. There is a $40 billion budget for building the pipeline, so for a while it has been assumed [...]
Over the last 3 months, the number of oil rigs in North Dakota’s oil patch has increased by 25 percent. The overall number of oil rigs now operating in the patch is triple what it was a year ago, says the state Department of Mineral Resources. Could more North Dakota oil jobs become available? The [...]
With the Shell Oil Company coming very close to drilling oil off the Outer Continental Shelf, Alaska is claiming a portion of the offshore oil drilling tax revenues which usually goes directly to the Federal Government. According to Senator Mark Begich, “We pushed very hard on this, we argued our point. We explained the impacts [...]
Despite the drop in the oil price this past week, 15 more oil rigs have started drilling for gas and oil. This means more offshore oil rig jobs are available and it looks as though more will continue to become available as production is increased, so that oil companies can keep their leases. The leases [...]
ClearFuels Technology based in Hawaii has received the first $7.7 million of its $22.6 million that the DOE (Department of Energy) to build a biomass gasifier at the Rentech Energy Technology Centre, which is expected to create many new gas industry jobs. This agreement to go ahead with the first stage reflects the company’s approval [...]
The end of trading on Monday, oil had risen by 2 percent to $87, which is the highest it has been since October 2008. The rise in prices is due to the improvement of the US housing market, employment rates, and the overall optimism of the recovering economy. The Brent crude oil price reached $85.88 [...]
