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 [...]
Oil Jobs
North Dakota may be offering new oil jobs in the near future as the Energy Department has awarded the state with $457 000 for researching the possibility of a new oil refinery. The state hopes to raise the capacity for refining oil to assist with the fuel shortages, profiting from the resource rich Bakken Shale [...]
Over the past few years, North Dakota has been the United State’s biggest supplier of oil thanks to a huge discovery in the area from Montana, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan. This area has provided tons of oil jobs so far in the Bakken Formation, and with the new oil pipeline that has just been approved by [...]
With the eruptions from the Redoubt Volcano subsiding, the Cook Inlet’s oil production is set to restart in the coming week. Oil Company, Chevron is hoping that the Trading Bay and Granite Point oil fields will be opened and they are already restarting the on shore oil loading terminal. This oil facility was producing about [...]
For many people, going to work on a daily basis means getting into your car or taking public transport through the city and stepping into an office. When you work on an oil rig, however, you are in a mini city in the middle of the ocean, and you will find that you work all [...]
With the economic crisis affecting most states in the United States, North Dakota, along with Nebraska have been the least affected by unemployment. At 4.4 percent, they appear at the lower end of the jobless scale, with states including Nevada, Oregon, and California having the highest unemployment rates and incurring the most job losses. According [...]
For years West Africa has been in the midst of various civil wars, making it an undesirable place for oil companies. Due to the recent calm political climate and the discovery of 1.8 million barrels of oil in Ghana and surrounding countries, international oil and gas companies are taking notice. Thanks to the Vancouver based [...]
Things are looking up for the oil industry and it seems as though the oil job market is stabilizing according to the latest Brent Crude and U.S Crude oil prices. Thursday the 4th June 2009, saw the oil price rise to a new high of almost $68 a barrel, which came in the wake of [...]
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