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 [...]
Oil and Gas Jobs
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 [...]
According to the recent US stock market results, there has been a dramatic boost in the economic standings for many sectors including retail, gold, real estate, and oil. Since the 9th March 2009, various stocks have risen from 1 percent to over 50 percent, leading strategists to believe that the worst economic crisis since the [...]
The Canadian oil industry has been affected by dropping oil prices, but Energy Minister, Mel Knight along with Canada’s government has ensured that jobs in oil and gas are safe due to a $1.2 billion boost into the Alberta sector. This is considered a short term response to the global economic crisis and is also [...]
About 17 feet of oil was discovered in the Four Rivers Project on Saturday the 28th February 2009. The Four Rivers Project consists of various prospects running through parts of Louisiana and Mississippi. The oil was discovered after the third well in the Sunnyside Prospect reached a depth of 6000 feet. There are 2 zones [...]
If you have an interest in the tons of crude oil that is transported around America, then you should know that there are numerous places where you can find petroleum pipeline jobs. There are more than 200 000 miles of pipes running across the nation and they not only transport crude oil to refineries and [...]
Some of the major oil companies have been working furiously on creating the world’s first liquefied natural gas plant (LNGP) due to the huge demand for energy in Asia. The competition is between companies including Royal Dutch Shell, Woodside based in Perth, Exxon Mobil, Inpex Corp based in Japan, and BHP Billiton among others. The [...]
With more and more experts predicting a drop in oil and gas industry prices, BP Migas is actually offering tenders in June 2009 for 20 places in certain blocks in Eastern Indonesia. This means hundreds more jobs that will be available very soon for potential gas industry and oil industry workers. These 20 properties that [...]
Working in an industry that can be described as unpredictable to say the least begs the question that every gas and oil employee wants to ask – “where can we find work in the gas and oil industry?” Well, luckily, thanks to Oil Job Finder you can search for plenty of jobs in the oil [...]
The areas of Wood Buffalo and Fort McMurray in Canada just north of Montana are oil hot spots with hundreds of new jobs being offered all the way until 2012 and beyond in all areas of expertise from engineers and geologists, to drillers and assistants. In fact the city slogan for Fort McMurray is “We [...]
