WPX Energy (ticker: WPX) announced that Valerie M. Williams has been elected to the company’s board of directors effectively immediately. According to WPX, Williams has more than 35 years of audit and public accounting experience with Ernst & Young, LLP, most recently as the Southwest Region Assurance Managing Partner where she had responsibility for a $500 million audit practice encompassing
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 year of 2017, the company earned $130 million, or $0.88 per share. Liberty said that these numbers have been adjusted
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. Wages Average weekly wages fell 0.3% in the Permian Basin, while wages fell by almost 1% statewide between second quarter
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 the upstream energy industry. The company was established in 1961 and has offices in Dallas and Houston, with more than
First U.S. east coast export facility is expected to enter commercial service in early March Dominion Energy Cove Point (DECP, ticker: D) has begun producing liquefied natural gas. The company’s newly constructed natural gas liquefaction facility is undergoing commissioning in Lusby, MD. When commissioning is complete, DECP will produce LNG for its customer joint venture ST Cove Point, a JV
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 & Associates President & CEO David Preng. Preng talked about an increase in searches that his firm is seeing in 2017.
A report by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas indicated that, in May, employment in the Permian basin remained steady, hovering around 158,000 jobs since February. This comes following the period between mid-2014 and early-2016, when Permian employment dropped from approximately 180,000 to approximately 150,000 jobs. The unemployment rate itself decreased from 4.4% in April to 4.1% in May. From
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 is critical to the future economic success of the U.S. Energy-related job openings are changing. New jobs are growing fast, and
Petroleum industry’s total economic value for California—larger than 15 U.S. state economies A new economic study released today by The Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation (LAEDC) details the oil and gas industry’s sizable economic and fiscal impacts on California’s economy and also identifies the user industries of refined products and quantifying their economic activity today. The Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA)
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 the Permian and Eagle Ford driving tremendous amounts of production and activity. In total, the oil and gas industry employed
$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 create more than one million jobs, according to American Petroleum Institute VP of Regulatory and Economic Policy Kyle Isakower. Isakower’s comments
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 back to the oil and gas sector. A quick scan of the career websites seems to confirm they may be right.
