Thursday, August 8, 2013

Floorhand - Key Energy Services - Field Operations - Casper, WY

We are currently seeking a Floorhand for our Rig Services location in Casper, WY.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
Performing services on oil and gas wells as part of a 3/5 person crew of a well service rig

Assisting in rigging up and rigging down

Pulling/laying down rods, tubing and casing

Driving a crew truck when necessary

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
High school diploma, GED or equivalent

1-2 years of Floorhand experience

Basic problem-solving and organizational skills

Excellent customer service, interpersonal and verbal/written English communication skills

Minimum of one (1) year basic oilfield servicing experience

Ability to multi-task and work in a fast-paced environment

CDL Class B license for driving rig

WHY WORK FOR KEY ENERGY SERVICES?

Key Energy offers a very competitive compensation and benefits package including medical, vision and dental coverage, life insurance, 401(k), education assistance, short-term disability coverage and paid time off. For consideration, please apply at the bottom of this page. EOE


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Bunion Surgery Removal at no cost + up to $850 compensation (North Orange County)

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Auto salesperson (Hermosa beach )

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Machinist, Operator, Pump rig, Admin Assistant - Weber Water Resources - Phoenix, AZ

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Chandler, AZ

Weber Water Resources is now hiring highly qualified applicants for the following positions:

Machinist

Cable Tool Rig Operator

Cable Tool Rig 2nd Man

Pump Rig Operator

Pump Rig 2nd Man

Pump Rig 3rd Man

Part -time Administrative Assistant with Marketing experience

Wages based on experience, Health, Dental, Vision & 401k benefits along with paid holidays and vacation.

Please contact Debra Nagle for more information at 480-265-2258 or e-mail

dnagle@weberwaterresources.com.

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Full Time Assistant Manager (Playa Vista )

Must be able to direct and manage staff
Must have excellent customer service skills
Must Possess honesty and personal integrity
Must be able to work in team environment
Must have sense of urgency around all work details

Duties include but are not limited to:
Customer service
Tagging
Assembly and bagging.
Production Quality control
Marking garments
Scheduling Staff
Supplies Inventory Management
Assist in employee Training

Full Time 40 hrs a week. One Weekends day (Saturday or Sundays) is a must.

Serious inquires ONLY.

This position is open now and needs to be filled immediately. This is a LONG term position with room for growth.
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Posting ID: 3669017165

Posted: 2013-03-08, 10:27PM PST

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Brazil protests continue with fierce clashes

Senior opposition leader accuses President Dilma Rousseff of being out of touch as an estimated 150,000 protesters took to the streets on Saturday

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New Business Development - Restaurant/Nightclub (San Dimas, CA)

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Calgary to begin flood cleanup as downtown to remain closed

This aerial photo shows a flooded downtown Calgary, Alberta, Canada on Saturday, June 22, 2013. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jonathan Hayward)

By Jeremy van Loon and Edward Welsch, Bloomberg News

Calgary’s downtown, home to Canada’s oil industry, will remain closed through the early part of next week after swollen rivers flooded parts of the city, cutting off power and forcing evacuations. At least three deaths due to the flooding were reported Saturday.

Office towers that are home to oil and gas companies including Suncor Energy Inc., Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. and Imperial Oil Ltd. will remain shut as waters recede from underground parking garages and underpasses, and city workers restore power, Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi said today at a news conference. The city had ordered the evacuation of 75,000 residents as rivers spilled over their banks.

“People won’t be able to work in downtown offices” at least for the early part of the week, Nenshi said. “Considerable water remains downtown. If you want to help your city, the best thing you can do is stay at home.”

Calgary imposed a state of emergency and began evacuations on June 20, according to the city’s website. Residents also were advised to leave their homes in communities across a more than 150-mile (242-kilometer) stretch of southern

Alberta, where rain-swollen rivers flowed east from the Rocky Mountains and flooded low-lying areas in the foothills and prairies.

The city declared the neighborhood of Discovery Ridge open to residents and will allow residents to return to their homes in parts of 25 communities in low-lying areas as water levels fall, Nenshi said. The municipality is restricting water use in order to maintain drinkable-quality water.

Three bodies were recovered from the Highwood River near the town of High River, with an unconfirmed report of a fourth deceased person in the river, the Alberta Royal Canadian Mounted Police said in a statement. As many as 1,000 people were rescued by helicopter and boat from the town of 13,000 about 30 miles south of Calgary, the RCMP said.

The Bow and Elbow rivers, which meet near the middle of Calgary, surged from their banks into neighborhoods and were expected to remain high for several days. The flooding will likely have an impact on the scale of the Calgary Stampede, the city’s best-known cowboy festival, the mayor said.

Calgary suffered its worst flooding in about a century in June 2005 when surging waters damaged 40,000 homes and forced the evacuation of 1,500 people, according to the city website. Water on the Elbow River late on June 20 was flowing more than three times faster than during the 2005 flood, Alberta Premier Alison Redford told reporters Saturday.

Six to eight inches of rain fell into the river basins near Calgary beginning June 19, and more than 12 inches fell in the Sheep River basin southwest of the city. Environment Canada forecast a 30 percent chance of rain with a risk of thunderstorms Sundy with temperatures rising and becoming sunny next week.

Many of the city’s bridges remain closed, while some were under water and power was out in many downtown buildings, according to the city’s website.

Power is gradually being restored as water levels fall, according to Enmax, the municipally-owned utility. About 30,000 customers were without power as of noon Saturday.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative Party of Canada announced that it will postpone its national convention in Calgary, scheduled for next week.

Calgary’s Scotiabank Saddledome, where events are scheduled to be held during the Calgary Stampede in two weeks, was flooded up to the 10th row yesterday, according to Trevor Daroux, the city’s deputy police chief. Animals from the Calgary Zoo were evacuated or moved to higher ground, he said.

“The Stampede may not look the same as last year,” Mayor Nenshi said at today’s press conference. The event is scheduled from July 5 to 14 and usually welcomes about 700,000 guests, according to the event’s website.
Fraser Logan, a Canadian Forces spokesman, said 1,200 regular troops from Edmonton were being deployed to southern Alberta. The soldiers were to provide humanitarian relief, conduct search-and-rescue missions and help with evacuation, while police remain responsible for security, Logan said.

People in several other towns in southern Alberta were evacuated, including from High River, Okotoks, Black Diamond, Canmore and the ski resort town of Banff.

A low pressure system moved in off the Pacific and crossed the U.S. Pacific Northwest last week, said Bernie Rayno, a senior meteorologist at AccuWeather Inc. in State College, Pennsylvania. The movement of the storm and the topography of the Canadian Rocky Mountains create “ideal conditions” for heavy rain, Rayno said.

“Some areas in the mountains got 5 inches of rain in 24 hours,” Rayno said. “Where is that water going to go? Down into the streams. Epic flooding is occurring in southern Alberta. This is as bad as it gets.”

Alberta crop and livestock producers may suffer losses from the floods, although officials won’t know the extent of damage until waters recede, Agriculture Minister Verlyn Olson said. Initial reports suggest that most of the damage is isolated to areas along river banks and creeks, Olson said in a telephone interview from Edmonton. The flooding has forced some producers to move livestock to higher ground, he said.

Alberta is home to 40 percent of Canada’s cattle herds and is also a grower of wheat and canola, among other crops, data show. Eighty-five percent of crops in the western province were rated in good or excellent condition as of June 18, prior to flooding, the agriculture ministry said.

Officials are monitoring the integrity of dams used for farm irrigation, Olson said. More water is expected to reach agricultural land near the city of Medicine Hat today from the South Saskatchewan River.


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Product Management Assistant for Internet Retailer (Chino, CA)

To apply, please submit your resume with a cover letter specifying your experiences and skills that may qualify you for the position. Posting ID: 3668913052

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Plaintiffs ask judge to impose punitive damages over spill

Fire boat response crews battle the blazing remnants of the offshore oil rig Deepwater Horizon on April 21, 2010. (AFP PHOTO/US COAST GUARD/AFP/Getty Images)

Plaintiffs claiming harm from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill pressed a judge Friday to hammer BP, Transocean and Halliburton with punitive damages, insisting that overwhelming evidence shows the companies willfully disregarded the environment and worker safety.

Two months after the end of the first phase of a trial aimed at assigning blame for the blowout of BP’s Macondo well, explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig and deaths of 11 workers, parties were filing closing arguments in writing under a deadline imposed by U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier of New Orleans.

“BP has characterized the Macondo deep-water drilling operation as a project on the order of exploring in outer space,” plaintiffs’ lawyers said. “When BP or Transocean, and even Halliburton, entrusted critical decisions to low-level, unsupervised or untrained personnel in a project of such inherent magnitude and risk, such delegation was in and of itself willful and reckless.”

The Justice Department, on behalf of the U.S. government, joined the chorus seeking punitive damages against the companies. The government cited, in part, BP’s “dysfunctional management” of the well that blew out and noted an email from a team leader that used words including “paranoia, chaos and insanity” in talking about the project.

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The defendant companies also were filing their proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law.

BP countered in its filing that the evidence shows the disaster resulted from a series of mistakes by multiple parties, not gross negligence by BP. It said it has already paid a heavy price for its responsibility.

“Nonetheless, the government and plaintiffs still are not satisfied,” BP said. “They now ask this
court to subject BP to treble fines under the Clean Water Act and punitive damages under maritime law. This court should deny that request.”

Transocean said in its filing the issue is not whether there were errors.

“Transocean has conceded errors, as have the other defendants,” the company’s said. “The question before the court is whether the errors of the Transocean crew grew out of conscious disregard for duty or safety. That question is not close. The drill crew was not cavalier or reckless about safety.”

Halliburton said BP bears ultimate responsibility for the disaster. “There is no evidence or no legally sufficient evidence to support the required elements of the claims of gross negligence and/or willful misconduct asserted against Halliburton,” the company said in its filing.

The parties will have 20 days to file replies to the flurry of arguments. Then it will be up to Barbier to determine whether the companies were grossly negligent. Billions of dollars are at stake in the outcome.

Barbier could issue a decision quickly, though it also is possible he will wait until after the second phase of the trial, which is set to begin in September and is meant to address the amount of oil that spilled. Barbier’s decision on that issue could trigger billions of dollars more in penalties against BP, as operator of the well, under the Clean Water Act.

Despite on-and-off talks involving some of the parties, there is no indication a settlement will come anytime soon.

BP  already has settled its criminal penalties with the federal government and reached a multibillion dollar civil settlement with thousands of plaintiffs harmed by the spill. But thousands of others opted out and chose to proceed with their civil claims in court. Transocean settled the bulk of its civil claims with the government, but it still faces exposure from individuals and businesses and Gulf states harmed by the spill. Halliburton has not reached any settlements.

London-based BP owned the undersea well that blew out off the coast of Louisiana, triggering the deadly explosion on the Transocean-owned Deepwater Horizon rig. Millions of gallons of oil spewed into the sea for nearly three months before the well was capped. Halliburton supplied the cement that failed to stop oil and gas from flowing up the well.

The closing arguments focused on many of the witnesses who testified during the eight weeks of phase one of the trial.

The state of Alabama said in its filing that “punitive liability boils down to whether the corporation itself can be considered the wrongdoer.” The state’s attorneys suggested the evidence is clear for gross negligence by  BP, Transocean and Halliburton.

The companies, as they have many times over the last three years, were expected to blame each other and argue that any negligence on their part did not rise to the level of gross negligence. Two other companies involved in the Deepwater Horizon rig and Macondo well project, blowout preventer maker Cameron and well fluid provider M-I Swaco, have  been cleared of gross negligence accusations.

Transocean is seeking to limit its liability to the value of the rig that exploded and sank. That would be about $700 million.

BP  already has paid out $25 billion on cleanup costs and compensating victims. It is seeking to limit further exposure from the already costly disaster. Halliburton has remained relatively unscathed in terms of costs associated with the spill, but that could change in a big way with the outcome of the trial.


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Receptionist - Real Estate (Part Time) (Torrance)

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Banks seek to allay ETF investor fears

A furious sell-off across markets this week left at least one primary dealer of ETFs and one leading issuer struggling to keep up with the selling

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