Calgary Herald, by Dina O’Meara. The Canadian oilpatch
The Hill, by Ben Geman. Michael Bromwich (NGP Photo), who led the overhaul of the Interior Department’s troubled offshore drilling branch, was never especially shy about trading blows with House Republicans. And now, back in the private sector, he’s really not pulling punches. Bromwich used a short National Journal commentary Tuesday to attack what he alleges are GOP efforts to weaken drilling safety oversight that was beefed up after the 2010 BP oil spill. |
will have to recruit almost 10,000 people by 2015 just to maintain service levels as baby boomers retire and experienced personnel are recruited to warmer resource basins, said a national organization. Older workers leaving the industry represent a “growing and alarming” gap in experienced and skilled labour in the oil and gas sector across the board, said the Petroleum Human Resources Council of Canada Tuesday. “Workforce retirements will be a key driver behind the thousands of job openings that industry will need to fill within the next four years,” said chief executive Cheryl Knight. “At a minimum, the industry will need to hire for 9,500 jobs up to 2015 just to keep pace with industry activity and age-related attrition.” The ramp up of oilsands activities will see demand for labourers grab 6,000 of those new positions, about a 30 per cent increase, according to the labour market outlook.
Wall Street Journal: Sierra Clubs Natural Gas. The green lobby picks its next fossil target.
Petroleum News by Alan Bailey. Hard on the heels of an agreement between the State of
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Ziff Energy and Gas Processing Management announced the completion of a 220 page Integrated Tight Gas and Duvernay Growth Resource and Infrastructure Analysis in Alberta, Canada (Elmworth/Wapiti, Simonette, Kaybob, Whitecourt, Edson, Rosevear, and Hanlan areas). “The Tight Gas and Duvernay area represents an extremely important component of the Alberta natural gas business; the Duvernay and the Montney in the area present exciting opportunities to develop and grow significant new gas and Natural Gas Liquids (NGL) production through 2020” said Mr. Bill Armstrong, P. Eng. Study co-author. |
Alaska and the leaseholders over the much-disputed Point Thomson unit on Alaska’s North Slope, unit operator ExxonMobil Corp. has filed a plan of operations for the unit with Alaska’s Division of Oil and Gas. The division wants public comments on the proposed plan by June 22.
Although the Point Thomson field is very large — it contains 300 million barrels of liquid oil and natural gas condensate and 8 trillion to 9 trillion cubic feet of natural gas according to the Alaska Department of Natural Resources — the field has yet to produce any oil or gas, despite the fact that Exxon discovered the field as long ago as 1977.
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