Posted on 04/12/2013 10:23:36 AM PDT by thackney
As the oil and gas industry faces a severe workforce shortage, identifying top talent and building targeted training programs have become critical pursuits for employers.
The most valued skills in oil and gas industry are detailed in a new study by the Society of Petroleum Engineers, sponsored by British oil giant BP. The results, coming from 773 members of the Society of Petroleum Engineers worldwide, outline the top talents you need to get a job and get ahead in your oil and gas career.
See which skills were rated ‘very important’ for a successful career in oil and gas by the highest percentage of respondents.
My buddy was lucky it didn’t get that far. But then it was only 6 weeks or so for him.
Thank you for posting. You knowledge and experience are appreciated!
I have heard that some companies will seek out a worker with those qualities and pay for further training. Do you have any ideas, knowledge, or suggestions on that?
Thanks again!
My son just got his class b and won an award in driving in tthe local truck rodeo. He also has heavy equipment and Osha certifications. I can get him his class A this summer. Should I make sure he has a class a before he goes out to the oil patch or can he earn one there. He graduates in two months. Homeschooler.
I’m closer to 61then 60 and I made $80000ishit last yr driving trk on the baken
This lasted start to finish of the Alaska pipeline. It was a ton of money with all his overtime!
My son just got his class b and won an award in driving in tthe local truck rodeo. He also has heavy equipment and Osha certifications. I can get him his class A this summer. Should I make sure he has a class a before he goes out to the oil patch or can he earn one there. He graduates in two months. Homeschooler.
A class a CDL opens many doors to a good job. Tanker endorsement is a plus as well as a hazardous material endorsement. You can go to work for some companies here and theu will help you get a class a license
He will have tanker endorsement. Cannot obtain hazmat until 21. He is 18.
I suspect some will. I am in engineering so we needed entry level to start with a degree. But there is plenty of jobs out there. What area of the country or will he move?
I am not fully qualified to answer your question, but my experience is as follows. While I was in western ND I had a class A and trained another driver who then became qualified and got his Class A. He then got a oil patch job where there was a rigorous training period.
I believe they give good training in the specifics of the oil patch and quite likely winter driving up here. But I really think the Class A is the first step you gotta get on your own.
I hope your son has winter driving experience. What I mean by this is driving on solid ice/compacted snow mile after mile after mile with strong side winds and occasional drifts. I seen many a truck in the ditch, many fatal, because of poor winter skills.
Additionally the road ditches fill level with snow and it is next to impossible to tell where turn offs are during a storm. Yes, there is possibly a stop sign poking above the snow to give a clue, but I’ve seen many a truck drive right into the ditch thinking they were on an approach or another road. And there are times when it is difficult to tell where the center of the road is when the road is full of snow and level with the ditch top. Yes, there might be fence lines or trees to give a clue, but that does not always work.
There are easy jobs, such as simple delivery, most are tanker jobs hauling water or oil, the worst is rig moving. I did rig moving in the 80’s. It was very hard on people and machine. Imagine being sunk down to the frame in mud all the way around with a 100,000 pound pipe tub. Then a D-6 starts to push, another pulls. Yes you get where you are going, but you also have a few air brake lines torn off.
Not sure what State your story took place, but most States require both husband and wife signatures to selling real property, even if only one is on the Deed.
With a class b license he could move the workover rigs. They service the existing wells working on the tubing inside the cased well.
He might want to look at roughnecking to begim with or a frak crew.
They pay pretty good and give you a place to stay.
On the drilling rigs you can find a company that works 2 weeks on 2the weeks off...bringing home about $50000 a year
Another possibility is she had someone forge his name at a notary public?
Thank you for the insight. Looks like he has a local rigging company job, which will give him some experience and a class A.
If it was forged, there is recourse. In Community Property States, he would have to sign at closing and would be signing more than just the Deed.
If this dude signed off on a Deed release or transfer in front of a Notary, then stupid is as stupid does and he deserved the screwing.
I say this was another of those “sad and exciting” stories, urban legend.
No, it was a friend of my brother, and he don't lie.
“If it was forged, there is recourse. In Community Property States, he would have to sign at closing and would be signing more than just the Deed.”
Michigan isn't a community property state and there is no recourse if he has no idea where she went. He got royally screwed.
Those are pretty good skills to have for just about any job.
yep.......
Can’t go wrong by going to Texas. the question is where?
The Permian basin or the Eagle Ford? Both have jobs for him
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