[primeval patriot]

Link for the rest of the article.

[DTogo]

Pathetic.

[Utmost Certainty]

Heh, this is disgusting. :\

[primeval patriot]

“In China, drilling is a lifetime profession,” he said.

“These people know what they’re doing,” Croyle said. “It’s all about the crews.”

Meanwhile we can't seem to see past the next quarterly earnings report.

[expatguy]

The ability to speak Chinese is a requirement I bet.

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

[kittymyrib]

Are our EPA and environazis going to give the Chicoms drilling operations the same anal exams that drove our companies out of business? I'll bet not. The Sierra Club et al should never have acquired the power to shut down industries that are now being taken over by the Chinese.

[geopyg]

"Atlas Shrugged"

[Khurkris]

pardon me, but WTF?

[Nick Danger]

Can't we just tell 'em the railroad is finished?

[primeval patriot]

ping

[endthematrix]

Colorado Welcomes Chinese/American Joint Venture
Golden Bear Drilling & Services Corporation

In response to the equipment and service shortage in Colorado's oil and gas exploration industry, a new company, Golden Bear Drilling & Services Corporation, was created through a joint venture between Jilin Petrolum and investors in Colorado, Oklahoma, New York and Washington DC. The collaborative effort will provide drilling and completion services to oil and gas companies in the Rocky Mountain region.

Golden Bear, headquartered in Denver, will ship drilling rigs to Colorado that are in high demand by oil and gas companies and will provide assistance and operation training to local drill rig crews. Golden Bear will begin its first project this February in Washington County, drilling gas wells for an American company. An equipment yard will also be located in Fort Morgan, Colorado, to service the Rocky Mountain region. The International Trade Division of the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade worked with Jilin Petroleum and others involved in the joint venture as it was finalizing its decision.

Jilin Petroleum Group is a $1 billion subsidiary of the China National Petroleum Company.

http://www.state.co.us/oed/news/050222opp.html

[maestro]

?Chinese rigs, crews arriving in western Colorado.....Chinese Troops to follow?

/Sudan technique

/sarcasm?

[raybbr]

One hurdle the company had to clear was to show that the jobs couldn’t be done by American citizens or legal residents. That wasn’t difficult to show, Croyle said, citing the loss of “a million” domestic jobs among major oil companies over recent years, as well as reductions among smaller employers.

Did these people disappear? Or did the company only want to pay minimum wage to do a job that used to pay well?

[skinkinthegrass]

I wonder, "How much was, the rope, we sold them. Lenin/Chin Lee? ...OH!, That was made in China, Too!

[Jeff Head]

What can I say? In the face of what is going on, the report contianed in this article is simply unbelievably crazy.

[joesnuffy]

Be interesting to see just where U.S. gas and oil end up...

[A. Pole]

One hurdle the company had to clear was to show that the jobs couldn’t be done by American citizens or legal residents. That wasn’t difficult to show, Croyle said, citing the loss of “a million” domestic jobs among major oil companies over recent years

Do I understand it right? Americans lost "a million domestic jobs" and it proves that "the jobs couldn’t be done by American citizens or legal residents"?

[BluH2o]

Bought property in the Grand Junction, CO area (western slope) awhile back. Maybe I'll get lucky and they'll discover natural gas on the property. This same area had a strong surge of oil shale development back in the '80's. Oil prices didn't remain high enough to sustain the exploration and development of these resources ... however, that situation is now reversing itself.

[hgro]

Those nasty Chinese built a lot of the railroads in the west too. They will work cheap and be glad to be outside of China.

[Rodney King]

One hurdle the company had to clear was to show that the jobs couldn’t be done by American citizens or legal residents. That wasn’t difficult to show, Croyle said, citing the loss of “a million” domestic jobs among major oil companies over recent years, as well as reductions among smaller employers.

Having worked for one of the largest US producers, I can tell you that this is just false. There is no shortage of willing oil patch workers. They just won't work for minimum wage.