Oil & Gas Jobs

Colorado’s 2,500-Foot Setback Zipped by a Deadline on Friday Sept. 7

Colorado’s 2,500-Foot Setback Zipped by a Deadline on Friday Sept. 7

Setback measure named Proposition 112 on the Nov. ballot

Friday Sept. 7 was one of the upcoming deadlines on the life path of initiative #97—the 2,500-foot mandatory statewide oil and gas setback.

That was the last day for designated representatives …

Extraction Oil & Gas: 84-Well Comprehensive Drilling Plan Approved by Broomfield, Colorado

Extraction Oil & Gas: 84-Well Comprehensive Drilling Plan Approved by Broomfield, Colorado

After two years of public comment and revisions, Extraction will be allowed to drill in Broomfield–but will Colo. voters stop it in November with positive setback vote on 97?

Extraction Oil & Gas (ticker: XOG) got the news this week …

Glut of Unemployed Petroleum Engineers, Geologists Shrinks by 12.5% – Report

Glut of Unemployed Petroleum Engineers, Geologists Shrinks by 12.5% – Report

Oil hiring swells in Texas, U.S. oilpatch

Oil prices reached their highest point since December 2014 and companies in the oil and gas industry are hiring accordingly as activity in the industry picks up.

LinkedIn’s workforce report for June details …

Stalled Oil Job Recovery Leaves Many Knowledge-Based Oil Pros Jobless

Stalled Oil Job Recovery Leaves Many Knowledge-Based Oil Pros Jobless

Labor Department says only 6,000 jobs are back after 60,000 layoffs hit industry starting in 2014

From the Associated Press / Texarkana Gazette

HOUSTON—Skilled workers in Texas are still looking for jobs as U.S. employment in the oil and gas …

Shale Efficiency Did an End Run Around a Permian Job Boom

Shale Efficiency Did an End Run Around a Permian Job Boom

Why hasn’t the Permian boom generated a boom for Texas oil and gas jobs?

From the Dallas Morning News

Texas added barely any oil and gas jobs last year even as the state continued to dominate the industry, according to

Total and Aramco will Build a $9 Billion Petrochem Complex Next Door to SATORP Refinery

Total and Aramco will Build a $9 Billion Petrochem Complex Next Door to SATORP Refinery

Saudi Aramco and Total (ticker: TOT) have signed a memorandum of understanding to build a giant petrochemical complex in Jubail, Saudi Arabia.

Located next to the SATORP refinery in the same industrial area, the complex will comprise a mixed-feed steam …

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Colorado High Court Set to Hear Opening Briefs for Martinez v. COGCC

Oil & Gas 360® has learned that the Colorado Supreme Court will hear the opening briefs for Martinez v. COGCC (docket number 2017SC297) on April 2, 2018.

It’s a meaningful case because the outcome could force a change to the …

Director Julie Murphy Begins Her Era as Colorado’s Top Oil Regulator

Director Julie Murphy Begins Her Era as Colorado’s Top Oil Regulator

Julie Murphy was welcomed by her fellow colleagues as the COGCC held its March 19, 2018 hearing, and during a lively public comment session, voices both for and against oil and gas development were inked into the record

The Colorado …

Frac Provider Liberty Oilfield Services Earns $130 Million in 2017

Frac Provider Liberty Oilfield Services Earns $130 Million in 2017

Liberty added 1,000 new employees in 2017, ordered two additional frac fleets to be delivered in Q3, Q4 2018

Newly public Liberty Oilfield Services Inc. (ticker: LBRT) earned $45 million, or $0.30 per share in Q4 2017.

For the full …

Permian Basin Economic Indicators

Permian Basin Economic Indicators

The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas reported that wages in the Permian Basin fell for the second quarter in a row after spiking in first quarter 2017. The rig count and crude oil production rose in January, the Fed said.…

Netherland, Sewell & Associates, Inc. Provides Petroleum Consulting Services Worldwide

Netherland, Sewell & Associates, Inc. Provides Petroleum Consulting Services Worldwide

Netherland, Sewell & Associates, Inc. (NSAI) is a worldwide leader of petroleum property valuations for the industry, financial organizations and government agencies. NSAI delivers high quality, fully integrated engineering, operational, geological, geophysical, petrophysical and economic solutions for all facets of …

Exclusive Video Interview with Preng & Associates President & CEO David Preng

Exclusive Video Interview with Preng & Associates President & CEO David Preng

Preng & Associates: global energy search leader seeing uptick in search activity at the CEO and CFO level

At its recent 2017 The Oil & Gas Conference®, EnerCom’s Oil & Gas 360® conducted an exclusive video interview with Preng & …

Tellurian is sharply cutting the equity buy-in for potential partners in a bid to make its business model to finance construction of its proposed Driftwood LNG export terminal more attractive.

New Jobs in Energy: Technology, Innovation and Big Data

The changing face of energy: new jobs in the broad energy sector

Powering the industrial base, fueling all modes of transportation including the nation’s food distribution system, and setting the table for national economic growth—filling jobs in the energy industry …

More Than Half of All U.S. Oil and Gas Jobs Are In Texas: Dallas Fed

More Than Half of All U.S. Oil and Gas Jobs Are In Texas: Dallas Fed

Dallas Fed tracks breakevens, lowest opex

The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas released its Energy Indicators report, outlining the continued recovery of the oil and gas industry.

No surprise

Texas is the heart of oil and gas activity, with both …

Oil & Gas Infrastructure Could Generate 1 Million U.S. Jobs, Bump GDP by Almost $2 Trillion

Oil & Gas Infrastructure Could Generate 1 Million U.S. Jobs, Bump GDP by Almost $2 Trillion

$1.3 trillion private investment in oil and gas infrastructure could add almost $2 trillion to U.S. GDP

By 2035, if the right regulatory policies are in place, private investment could exceed $1.3 trillion for oil and natural gas infrastructure, and …

Oil & Gas is Hiring: Will Energy Companies Be Able to Retain New Hires?

Oil & Gas is Hiring: Will Energy Companies Be Able to Retain New Hires?

Now Hiring: workers are focused on how they’re treated by the company — management that cares, attention to scheduling, holidays with their families

The oil and gas industry is hiring. Last summer, Goldman Sachs predicted that 100,000 jobs would come …

Fort McMurray Fire Caused Loss of 7 Million Man Hours: Statistics Canada

Fort McMurray Fire Caused Loss of 7 Million Man Hours: Statistics Canada

From Fort McMurray Today

The Fort McMurray wildfire hurt crude oil production, manufacturing and led to more than seven million lost work hours in Wood Buffalo, according to Statistics Canada data presented to the Fort McMurray Chamber of Commerce Thursday.…

Scotland Launches Decommissioning Fund for North Sea Platforms, Pipelines

Scotland Launches Decommissioning Fund for North Sea Platforms, Pipelines

Looking to spur business activity in Scotland for decom projects

Scotland’s First Minister has launched a new £5 million fund that will provide opportunities for the supply chain in Scotland to benefit from the decommissioning of North Sea infrastructure.

The …

Texas Oil & Gas Jobs Rise Again

From San Antonio Express-News/Houston Chronicle

Jobs in Texas’ oil and gas industry rose at the end of 2016 for the first time in more than two years, another sign that the long-awaited recovery in the state’s energy sector is gaining …

January 30, 2017 - 10:17 am Closing Bell Story‎, Energy News, Oil & Gas Jobs
New White House Immediately Launches Energy Plan Embracing Shale

New White House Immediately Launches Energy Plan Embracing Shale

The White House says it is focused on lifting climate-driven restrictions, developing $50 trillion in oil and gas, opening up federal lands and developing clean coal

President Trump wasted no time moving forward his energy intentions.

After being sworn in …

Moving Gas: FERC Approves Construction of TransCanada’s Leach XPress and Rayne XPress Pipelines

Moving Gas: FERC Approves Construction of TransCanada’s Leach XPress and Rayne XPress Pipelines

Marcellus, Utica natural gas producers take a step closer to U.S. Gulf Coast markets

“The Marcellus and Utica basins – the fastest-growing natural gas supply region in North America – have the lowest development and production costs along with the …

Tight Oil Led by the Permian Tops a 2017 Oil Industry Revival: WoodMac

Tight Oil Led by the Permian Tops a 2017 Oil Industry Revival: WoodMac

Optimism returns: WoodMac calls for $450 billion in upstream O&G project FIDs in 2017

According to Wood Mackenzie’s global upstream outlook for 2017, confidence will start to return to the oil and gas sector in 2017, with exploration and …

2 Years without a Job: Calgary in the Downturn

From CBC News

Severance is gone, EI has run out, and still no job on the horizon

Andy Williams lost his job in September.

Not this September, or the year before; Williams was laid off from his job as a …

September 20, 2016 - 11:59 am Closing Bell Story‎, Energy News, Oil & Gas Jobs
Oil & Gas Companies Prominent at Colorado School of Mines Career Day

Oil & Gas Companies Prominent at Colorado School of Mines Career Day

Oil & Gas Companies, Mines STEM Students Discuss Careers

The Ben Parker student center at the Colorado School of Mines was a sea of engineers in suits Tuesday morning as hundreds turned out for the school’s fall Career Fair. The …

Trump Speaking at Colorado Summit on July 1

Trump Speaking at Colorado Summit on July 1

Trump Energy Policy at Top of Oil & Gas Industry’s Mind

Donald J. Trump - Oil & Gas 360Presidential candidate Donald J. Trump will headline the seventh annual Western Conservative Summit Friday morning in Denver, giving an address at 10:30 a.m. at the Colorado Convention Center, the …

Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper

End of the Shale Boom in Colorado?

Remember this Number: #78

Hydraulic Fracturing Effectively Shuts Down in Colorado if Initiative #78 Passes: COGCC Report

Roughly 90% of Colorado – 60 Million Acres – would be Taken Out of Play by Proposed Mandatory Setback

As a record 38

Job Openings for 60 Pipeline Inspectors

Job Openings for 60 Pipeline Inspectors

60 Natural Gas Pipeline Inspectors Needed

Energy Experts International is currently seeking to fill multiple job openings for Natural Gas Pipeline Inspectors with journeyman experience. The work location will be in Northern and Central California and is expected to start …

March 30, 2016 - 4:57 pm Oil & Gas Jobs
Pipeline Safety Prompts API Certification

Pipeline Safety Prompts API Certification

Getting Certified

The American Petroleum Institute (API) has launched a program to certify pipeline inspectors. Oil & Gas 360® spoke with an API media spokesperson who answered questions about the program.

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OAG360®:  What is the specific prerequisite education and/or experience/job