oil rig roustabouts earn a mean salary of $37,160 per year as of May 2010, with a median wage of $33,570. Roustabouts represent the lowest-skilled workers on the oil rig, and these workers perform general maintenance and basic tasks. Petroleum system operators earn...
A Shell spokesperson said: “In recognition of the contribution our people have made to Shell’s strong operational performance against a recent challenging backdrop, our executive committee has decided to make a Special Recognition Award of 8% of salary to all eligible staff across the world. re...
Inclusive of rising net oil exports from Canada, the combined net oil exports from the seven major net oil exporters* in the Western Hemisphere in 2004 fell from 5.9 mbpd in 2004 to 5.2 mbpd in 2013 (total petroleum liquids + other liquids, EIA). *Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, Trinidad & ...
the decline rate is 7%/year, which would result in a 500 kb/d drop in US L48 OS C+C output in the next 12 months if the decline rate remains 7%/year and Dean’s estimate is correct for Texas.
And, yes, after the switch to Toyotas and Volkswagens in the 80's, there has since been a gradual drift to larger vehicles. In Canada, the fall of US dollar has served to cushion the affect of oil's rise. In addition, Canadians are richer than they were in the 70's. No real ...
The Group is a leading drilling technical service provider in China and its services include directional drilling, drilling fluids, integrated drilling and rig services. Directional drilling It is operated by the engineers who make the drilling tool set drilling wellbores along the pre-set path to ...
Here, where I live, the highest paying jobs are in the refinery, followed by the pipeline. No one goes from either back into upstream, but the opposite is very common. Neither the refinery nor the pipeline layoff for economic reasons., at least they have not in the 30+ years I have...
My brother is griping about why he hasn’t been able to draw a salary for the last three years, heck all the shalie management has! Have to remind him we aren’t in the shale fantasy land. He knows, he’s just blowing like I’m prone to do. If I don’t post anymore this ye...
The original press release by an eviro group stated that the process to make synthetic crude produced three times more CO2 than regular WTI. The press in Canada and possibly US did not get the subtlety associated with production. The headlines that the public saw was: “Oil sands produce thr...
crude-oil production rose from 9.3 million barrels a day in June to 9.5 million barrels in July. But the EIA’s latest forecast called for July production to fall to 9.2 million barrels a day in July, continuing the trend of declining U.S. production as companies cut spending in the ...