Posted on 07/11/2005 6:26:47 AM PDT by Happy2BMe
Canadian oil giant EnCana is considering bringing in Chinese companies to construct and operate drilling rigs in the Colorado Rockies, as the region struggles to keep up with demand and rising energy prices.
EnCana, a major player in the Piceance Basin of western Colorado, said Chinese labor is cheap and the workers are well-educated. The move would be scrutinized in Washington, where politicians are uneasy about allowing Chinese workers to acquire access to U.S.-based oil and gas facilities.
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Change the channel somebody! Where is next week's TV guide?
(Talk about dropping your pants and bending over . .)
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EnCana, a major player in the Piceance Basin of western Colorado, said Chinese labor is cheap and the workers are well-educated.The move would be scrutinized in Washington, where politicians are uneasy about allowing Chinese workers to acquire access to U.S.-based oil and gas facilities.
More likely I would ask:
WHO got paid off?
Oh yes. We keep electing the same people on both sides of the runner who keep selling us out because they have lost the idea that they are SERVANTS of the people, not the ELITE who think the rest of the country can just go to hell.
This sounds really bad. The Canadians need to straighten themselves out.
Bush will equate the Chinese workers with the Mexicans and the influx will begin.
THIS IS INSANITY!!!!!
Demographics = Destiny
I never thought Chinese labor would bring back the US oil industry, but economics doesn't care about such things.
I take it you don't understand why we are committing suicide. Ask your Rep., maybe he has a stupid answer for you.
Where will they be drilling? Over Cheyenne Mountain? :(
That West Texas Intermediate oil...
Get a Clinton in office. Million into the Swiss accounts. Oil from the US and military secrets thrown in as a bonus.
I think that statement pretty much sums it up.
These are just more jobs that Americans won't do. Never mind that roughnecking is extremely dangerous, filthy and demanding work which often involves long commutes into remote areas, working shifts in the middle of the night to keep the rigs running around the clock and that in years past the American workers who were willing to take these jobs were able to command a premium wage.
Now that oil is commanding $60 per barrel and the companies drilling for it are making record profits it won't do to pay an American a decent wage so it is time to import some Chinese coolie labor so more of our wealth can be exported to Canada.
Apparently we need Chinese workers because these are jobs that even blacks or Mexicans won't do with dignity.
You got any connections in Peking? The stock options on this could be enormous!
80% of Texas manufacturers report having severe problems finding workers.
We aborted 40 million American workers and tried to replace them with first generation immigrants would were not educated in American schools.
The third sentence I agree with.
Surely our local, state and federal officials are reviewing this operation as diligently as they would a similar American operation ;-)
Cheers,
Lloyd
WTF??? There aren't enough Americans to drill in America? We have to even give these jobs inside of America away?
Western Energy is working with the China National Petroleum Corp., he said., but a partner in the venture, Golden Bear Drilling and Services Corp., is entirely American owned. A subsidiary of China National, Jilin Petroleum USA of Denver, no longer has an interest in Golden Bear, he said.
One reason domestic exploration and production companies are attracted to Chinese crews is the background of the drillers, Croyle said.
“In China, drilling is a lifetime profession,” he said.
The country has six petroleum universities, and many of the crew members hold master’s degrees, bachelor’s degrees or the equivalent of associate’s degrees, Croyle said.
Crew members must have at least two years of class work and a yearlong apprenticeship before they can join a crew.
Many crews stay together their entire careers, he said.
“These people know what they’re doing,” Croyle said. “It’s all about the crews.”
Over time, Chinese crew members will train Americans to work on the Chinese-made rigs, he said, and the number of Chinese workers will gradually shrink as Americans take over.
American workers still have plenty of work servicing drill rigs in the basin, he said.
Of course American Universities can't produce enough parasite lawyers, and not enough Petroleum engineers.
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