When Jeremy Davis was laid off from his oilfield job in Texas in 2020, he did not want to leave the industry after 17 years in oil and gas.
Governments are pushing oil and gas producers to increase output with prices hovering around $100 a barrel amid a worldwide supply shortage. The shortage of workers is limiting how much producers in the United States and Canada can increase oil output this year as governments try to find ways to offset the effect of lost Russian barrels following Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
His company may hire another 3,000 workers this year after hiring back 3,000 in 2021, and even has recruiters set up at a shopping mall in Williston, North Dakota, to find potential workers.Canadian producer Peyto Explorations and Development Corp would drill more wells if they could staff more rigs, said CEO Darren Gee. Calgary-based Peyto produces 98,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day of oil and natural gas.
"We've had companies in the Permian that have gone out and hired 100 new employees and within six months there's only eight to nine original employees still working," said Tim Tarpley, with the Energy Workforce and Technology Council, a trade group whose members include Halliburton Co and Schlumberger.
Unite Here, a union representing hospitality workers in industry accommodation camps, negotiated agreements for better overtime for workers at camps operated by Civeo Corp in the oil sands, the union's Canadian director, Ian Robb, told Reuters.
Spent 8 years in the field, laid off 3 times in that span. When oil is high it’s great, soon as oil collapses, companies basically send you packing to preserve profits. Not the type of job you can rely on anymore raising a family or paying your mortgage 💸
Conservative Media struggles to explain the 'liberal war on energy', as defined by conservatives. You'd think we'd have shut down oil by now, and not have doubled our output... But alas, Conservatives aren't known for noticing facts.
good choice....
Propaganda to justify the flood of immigrants who will be recruited to do these jobs for much lower wages but at wages which are higher than they are accustomed to in their own countries.
That’s not going to happen. We will have major wars. And many people will die. Hence less pollution
Finally, some good news.