Rig Operator - Key Energy Services - Field Operations - Snyder, TX

We are currently seeking a Rig Operator for our Rig Services location in Snyder , TX .

RESPONSIBILITIES:
Ensuring all crew members are at the rig and prepared to work at scheduled time

Operating the rig and equipment as requested by the company contracting the rig

Working closely with customers to resolve concerns and complaints

Maintaining productivity standards for all rig functions

Ensuring quality products and services are provided to the customer

Complying with all safety procedures and ensuring a safe working environment

Complying with all applicable government regulations

Ensuring efficient maintenance of assigned rig and equipment

Establishing and maintaining a positive work environment for rig crew

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
High school diploma, GED or equivalent

Valid commercial driver’s license with clean driving record

Ability to effectively communicate, both oral and written

Basic problem solving and organizational skills

Basic oilfield well servicing experience

Ability to bend, stoop and lift objects of up to 75 pounds for extended periods of time

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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Rig Operator - Key Energy Services - Field Operations - Grand Junction, CO

We are currently seeking Rig Operators for our Rig Services location in Grand Junction, CO.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
Ensuring all crew members are at the rig and prepared to work at scheduled time

Operating the rig and equipment as requested by the company contracting the rig

Working closely with customers to resolve concerns and complaints

Maintaining productivity standards for all rig functions

Ensuring quality products and services are provided to the customer

Complying with all safety procedures and ensuring a safe working environment

Complying with all applicable government regulations

Ensuring efficient maintenance of assigned rig and equipment

Establishing and maintaining a positive work environment for rig crew

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
High school diploma, GED or equivalent

Valid commercial driver’s license with clean driving record

Ability to effectively communicate, both oral and written

Basic problem solving and organizational skills

Basic oilfield well servicing experience

Ability to bend, stoop and lift objects of up to 75 pounds for extended periods of time

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 WELL TESTING OPERATOR
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Workover Rig Crew - Key Energy Services - County Line, AL

Key Energy Services - A dynamic and well respected company with a mission to be a leading global well intervention and production enhancement service company. We are the largest provider of onshore well service rigs in the United States and one of the leading onshore, rig-based well servicing contractors in the world. Check out the career opportunities now!

We currently have the following opportunities available for our Rig Services division located in County Line, OK:
Rig Operators Derrickhands Floorhands Candidates must have workover experience.

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.

Key Energy Services is a drug-free workplace/EOE.

Applicant Requirements: In order to apply for this position, applicants MUST meet the following criteria. If your resume does not match these criteria, you will not be able to apply for this position.

Location: North America
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Workover Rig Operator - MBI Energy Services - North Dakota

Responsibilities
Ensuring all crew members are at the rig and prepared to work at the scheduled time. Operating the rig and equipment as requested by the company contracting the rig. Working closely with customers to resolve concerns and complaints. Maintaining productivity standards for all rig functions. Ensuring quality products and services are provided to the customer. Complying with all safety procedures an ensuring a safe working environment. Ensuring efficient maintenance of assigned rig and equipment. Establishing and maintaining a positive work environment for a rig crew. Required Skills:
5+ years of workover rig experience; experience entails floorhand, derrickhand, operator/driller experience in the oilfield. Ability to effectively communicate, both oral and written. Basic problem solving and organizational skills. Basic oilfield well servicing experience. Ability to bend, stoop and lift objects of up to 75 pounds for extended periods of time. Licenses and Certifications:
Valid driver licenses Class A or B CDL Any other heavy equipment licenses or certifications preferred Benefits:
Medical, dental, vision, life insurance and PTO. Family Plan: Company pays 100% medical and 50% dental. Single Plan: Company pays 100% medical and dental. Companyoffers a voluntary vision program. Company provides $30,000 life insurance and AD&D (accidental death and dismemberment) at no cost to the employee, additional life insurance and AD&D is available at the employees own expense. 401K Program, with company match.
Applicant Requirements: In order to apply for this position, applicants MUST meet the following criteria. If your resume does not match these criteria, you will not be able to apply for this position.

Location: North America
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Rig Supervisor - Key Energy Services - Field Operations - San Ardo, CA

We are currently seeking a Rig Supervisor for our Rig Services location in Bakersfield, CA.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
Overseeing rig operations including the work activities of all rig employees assigned to each rig

Preparing/monitoring work schedule ensuring work is completed on schedule and safety processes and procedures are followed

Monitoring employees’ performance and progress

Providing crew with appropriate tools/supplies

Providing proper guidance and direction to rig crew on specific tasks

Planning and coordinating job procedures with customers, vendors and other contractors

Assuring supplies are adequate and work is carried out according to established specifications

Conducting monthly rig inspections

Preparing required drilling reports, rig operations-related reports and job safety analysis forms

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
High school diploma, GED or equivalent

15 or more years of oil field related and rig operations experience

Associate’s degree or technical college education with equivalent directly related work experience and 10 or more years of related work experience

Ability to deal and communicate effectively with employees, outside vendors and customers

Proven, extensive working knowledge and experience in rig operations

Thorough knowledge of rig safety regulations and safety issues

Prior supervisory experience

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 Rig Operator
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Rig Operator - Key Energy Services - Field Operations - Taft, CA

We are currently seeking a Rig Operator for our Rig Services location in Taft, CA

RESPONSIBILITIES:
Ensuring all crew members are at the rig and prepared to work at scheduled time

Operating the rig and equipment as requested by the company contracting the rig

Working closely with customers to resolve concerns and complaints

Maintaining productivity standards for all rig functions

Ensuring quality products and services are provided to the customer

Complying with all safety procedures and ensuring a safe working environment

Complying with all applicable government regulations

Ensuring efficient maintenance of assigned rig and equipment

Establishing and maintaining a positive work environment for rig crew

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
High school diploma, GED or equivalent

Valid commercial driver’s license with clean driving record

Ability to effectively communicate, both oral and written

Basic problem solving and organizational skills

Basic oilfield well servicing experience

Ability to bend, stoop and lift objects of up to 75 pounds for extended periods of time

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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Rig Operator - Key Energy Services - Field Operations - San Ardo, CA

We are currently seeking a Rig Operator for our Rig Services location in Bakersfield, CA.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
Ensuring all crew members are at the rig and prepared to work at scheduled time

Operating the rig and equipment as requested by the company contracting the rig

Working closely with customers to resolve concerns and complaints

Maintaining productivity standards for all rig functions

Ensuring quality products and services are provided to the customer

Complying with all safety procedures and ensuring a safe working environment

Complying with all applicable government regulations

Ensuring efficient maintenance of assigned rig and equipment

Establishing and maintaining a positive work environment for rig crew

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
High school diploma, GED or equivalent

Valid commercial driver’s license with clean driving record

Ability to effectively communicate, both oral and written

Basic problem solving and organizational skills

Basic oilfield well servicing experience

Ability to bend, stoop and lift objects of up to 75 pounds for extended periods of time

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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Bill Ritter said to be under consideration for Energy Secretary

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Energy Companies no Proxy for ISX

KRG Investment Board Chair visits Austria, Slovakia Maliki meets US Deputy Secretary for Resources Advancing Iraq’s Unfinished Constitutional Agenda New Date for Anbar Investment Commission Conference Categorized

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Noble Energy finds oil in deepwater Gulf of Mexico’s Big Bend

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Noble Energy has made a discovery at the Big Bend exploration prospect in deepwater Gulf of Mexico. The well, located in 7,200 ft of water on Mississippi Canyon Block 698, was drilled to a total depth of 15,989 ft. Open-hole logging identified approximately 150 ft of net oil pay in two high-quality Miocene reservoirs.

“The discovery at Big Bend is an exciting follow-up to our recent success at Galapagos,

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Video: Sonoro Energy Targets Northern Iraq

By John Lee.

Richard Wadsworth, CEO of Sonoro Energy, talks to Proactive Investors at the Oil Council World Assembly.

He says the company’s licence area in the Salah ad Din Province in Northern Iraq is in a “very prolific, attractive” basin:

(Source: Proactive Investors)

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Summit Energy welcomes Paula Gardner as new Financial Controller

Paula is a University of Wyoming alumni and has been a licensed CPA since 1995. After working for three years in public accounting, she found her career niche

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International Speakers to Discuss Iraqi Energy Market

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Internationally acclaimed experts from across the oil and gas sector will be addressing the challenges and opportunities in the Iraqi market, at the upcoming Basra Oil & Gas International Exhibition & Conference.

Speakers from Weatherford, Gulf Energy, South Oil Company (SOC) and Penspen will put forward their views on technology, health & safety, laws & regulations, petrochemicals and many other topics related to the conference theme

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Video: Refiner Plays Its Role in ND Energy Bonanza

The sights and sounds of energy-driven growth are all over this video, in which Ron Day of Tesoro Corporation talks about how the company’s Bismarck-Mandan oil refinery has grown along with development of North Dakota’s Bakken shale play:

For the benefit of the energy-jobs deniers out there, let’s underscore Day’s description of the multiplier effect associated with a growing energy sector, which is being seen across North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Texas and other energy states:

“We’re hustle and bustle. We’re growing. It’s a great opportunity for North Dakota: from restaurants to car parts stories, to repair shops – they’re definitely being impacted in a positive way (by energy development).”

Even better? America is energy rich, which means the North Dakota “miracle” can be repeated elsewhere – with the right policies and leadership.

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Energy: It’s About Jobs

Converse Work 6" Rapid Response-ST Boots (Desert Tan) - Men's Boots - 10.5 M (Google Affiliate Ad)The latest jobs report, showing the creation of just 80,000 new jobs in June, is refocusing the political debate on the economy. How meager is 80,000 jobs? Well, according to UPI that’s “not even enough to keep up with growth in the working-age population,” which last month grew by 191,000. Meanwhile, a Rasmussen survey reports that only 31 percent of likely voters say the president is doing a good or excellent job handling economic issues.
Short analysis: It’s about jobs. Good news: It doesn’t have to be hard.
Energy-related job booms in North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Texas and other states are showing what’s possible – in terms of jobs, tax-revenue generation and associated economic growth – when energy development leads the way. The Institute for Energy Research’s Robert Bradley Jr., in an article for Oilprice.com:

"In North Dakota, where drillers are producing crude oil from the Bakken Shale, workers are finding jobs offering wages that are significantly higher than the national average. Truck drivers are being paid $80,000 a year to start. Some workers on oil rigs are being paid six figures. And yet many jobs are going begging. According to the mayor of Williston, 'A lot of jobs get filled every day, but it’s like for every job you fill, another job and a half opens up.' In April, North Dakota had a jobless rate of 3.0 percent, the lowest in the country."

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In Pennsylvania, Bradley writes, state analysis projects jobs for drill operators will grow nearly 85 percent this year (compared to sub-3 percent growth otherwise in the state).Expansion is occurring in Texas’ Eagle Ford shale play, Louisiana’s Haynesville Shale, Arkansas’ Fayetteville Shale and other energy-rich rock formations, “increasing domestic energy supplies, making energy more affordable, and spawning subsidiary investments in the private sector creating additional jobs.”A steel plant in Ohio is adding 200 jobs to produce more drill pipe.A planned ethane plant in Texas is expected to create 400 jobs.
Bradley:

"These jobs are being created by companies, not the federal government. And they are based on 'made in the USA' technologies that have the potential to greatly increase nation’s energy security and alter the world’s balance of power. As U.S. oil and natural gas supplies increase, some experts believe American energy independence is on the horizon."

On his blog, John R. Hanger connects energy production and employment:

"Jobs are a major product of that commerce and energy production. The 5 biggest energy producing states all have unemployment rates below the national average, but the same cannot be said about the 5 states producing the least energy." 

Meanwhile, Canada, which a few years ago staked its economic revitalization on energy, is looking for U.S. workers to fill anticipated job slots in Alberta. The Edmonton Economic Development Corporation expects a shortage of 114,000 workers in the coming months and has set up the aptly named opportunityawaits.com website to promote job openings. One U.S. veterans group is reaching out to former military personnel and active-duty soldiers who soon will transition to civilian life, encouraging them to consider oil sands and Keystone XL pipeline jobs in Canada. Fox News has a story, here. Again, the point is to recognize the dynamic economic power of the energy stimulus.
No question, U.S. jobs figures for June suggest a still-struggling economy. The administration says it’s not to blame, that there are limits to what a president can do to change the national economic trajectory. Indeed, a president has limited options – so perhaps the first move is to not stand in the way of growth.
Energy is a proven job creator, a shining sector in the weak economy. But the administration is making energy expansion harder, not easier. It is delaying construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, and it is restricting offshore energy development. Its permitting policies in the Gulf of Mexico have suppressed production there, costing jobs and economic opportunity throughout the region. It is sending confusing messages on hydraulic fracturing, the shale technology that is unlocking America’s ample energy potential.
America’s oil and natural gas companies are creating good jobs and can create even more. With the right policies this industry can add 1 million new jobs before the end of the decade. Here’s a blueprint for an American-made energy policy.  It’s energy, it’s jobs and it’s within our reach.

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American Energy Works: Chris

Chris’ story is one of opportunity – extended and accepted. The oil and natural gas company he works for as a liquid mud coordinator saw work ethic and rewarded it:

“My training is not in energy, engineering or science, but because I was willing to learn, was willing to work, they took me from having no skills to being someone who they’re not afraid to have train the new employees – people who are the future of this company.”

Chris is one of 9.2 million Americans working a job supported by the oil and natural gas industry. Check out his video:

Visit American Energy Works.org for more videos and information about the people who’re at work for America’s energy future.

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Made in America: For a Sustainable Energy Future

Access, common-sense regulation and a governmental approach that encourages energy investments: Each one is integral to an American-made, more secure energy future. Getting there will require continued improvements in efficiency and investments in renewable energy – two areas where the oil and natural gas industry has been a leader. This is the fourth recommendation in API’s recent report to the two political parties’ platform committees.

Today, the U.S. uses about half as much energy for every dollar of GDP as it did in 1980, according to the Energy Information Administration:

Efficiency helps energy companies manage costs, which in turn makes them more competitive and allows them to bring more affordable energy products to consumers.  Efficiency also helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Industry is committed to technologies that help the environment, investing $71 billion in developments that reduce greenhouse gas emissions between 2000 and 2010 – far more than the federal government ($43 billion) and nearly as much as the rest of domestic private industry combined ($74 billion).

This is what energy companies do. They produce the oil and natural gas that run our economy now and which will continue to fuel it in the future. They work on efficiencies that will make our energy go further. They look to the future for additional resource options that will be necessary to complete the energy picture.

The question is whether governmental policies will or hinder these efforts. Some think the path to our energy future should be selected by Washington, using the tax code to preordain winners and losers. They think an industry sector that contributed nearly a half-trillion dollars to the economy in 2010, which already sends $86 million a day to the U.S. Treasury, should be taxed more.

The wrongheadedness of this path was detailed in a Wood Mackenzie study last fall, which compared the likely results of pro-energy development policies with policies leading to higher energy taxes:

With a pro-development approach, America’s oil and natural gas companies can add jobs, increase energy supply and generate more tax revenue for government. Higher taxes on our industry will likely lose jobs, decrease tax revenue and result in less energy production.

The United States has tremendous energy resources to support and grow our economy and meet the challenges of the future. With the right vision and leadership we can stride into the future confidently – as befits an energy-rich nation.

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Philadelphia Story: Energy From Shale and Jobs

Energy produced from shale deposits by hydraulic fracturing continues to create jobs far from the drill site.  The latest example: Improved economics have allowed for a deal to keep a Philadelphia refinery open, which means 850 workers will keep their jobs – and the facility’s new majority partner says hundreds more could be added if plans to expand production come to pass. Philly.com had the story last week.

Those refinery employees – and the local/regional economy that is supported by the installation, as many as 10,000 indirect jobs by one estimate – can thank the Carlyle Group, and they can also thank the Marcellus Shale. Philly.com:

"Carlyle officials say they are 'reimagining' the business to exploit new, cheaper domestic sources of crude oil to replace expensive imported petroleum, a major reason the refinery was uncompetitive. …  Carlyle, which will have a majority interest in the venture and operate the refinery, also plans to increase dramatically the use of low-priced natural gas from Pennsylvania's booming Marcellus Shale region to reduce refining costs and emissions. 'We believe the changing nature of the energy paradigm in the U.S., coupled with a redefined operating model, can truly benefit this refinery,' Carlyle managing director Rodney S. Cohen said."

The Philadelphia story illustrates what some have been talking about when they laud the game-changing nature of energy from shale. It’s creating jobs (and saving them), reducing costs to manufacturers and helping them create jobs, reinvigorating the chemicals industry and more. It’s abundant and affordable energy that’s also helping out consumers.

We’ve seen the shale energy stimulus rippling through states like North Dakota, Texas and Pennsylvania. Ohio is gearing up for its own economic wave from shale. As for the Philadelphia refinery, studies, analyses and projections about shale energy are to become reality – real jobs, held by real people, saved.

Because of energy from shale.

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Philadelphia Story: Energy From Shale and Jobs

Energy produced from shale deposits by hydraulic fracturing continues to create jobs far from the drill site.  The latest example: Improved economics have allowed for a deal to keep a Philadelphia refinery open, which means 850 workers will keep their jobs – and the facility’s new majority partner says hundreds more could be added if plans to expand production come to pass. Philly.com had the story last week.

Those refinery employees – and the local/regional economy that is supported by the installation, as many as 10,000 indirect jobs by one estimate – can thank the Carlyle Group, and they can also thank the Marcellus Shale. Philly.com:

"Carlyle officials say they are 'reimagining' the business to exploit new, cheaper domestic sources of crude oil to replace expensive imported petroleum, a major reason the refinery was uncompetitive. …  Carlyle, which will have a majority interest in the venture and operate the refinery, also plans to increase dramatically the use of low-priced natural gas from Pennsylvania's booming Marcellus Shale region to reduce refining costs and emissions. 'We believe the changing nature of the energy paradigm in the U.S., coupled with a redefined operating model, can truly benefit this refinery,' Carlyle managing director Rodney S. Cohen said."

The Philadelphia story illustrates what some have been talking about when they laud the game-changing nature of energy from shale. It’s creating jobs (and saving them), reducing costs to manufacturers and helping them create jobs, reinvigorating the chemicals industry and more. It’s abundant and affordable energy that’s also helping out consumers.

We’ve seen the shale energy stimulus rippling through states like North Dakota, Texas and Pennsylvania. Ohio is gearing up for its own economic wave from shale. As for the Philadelphia refinery, studies, analyses and projections about shale energy are to become reality – real jobs, held by real people, saved.

Because of energy from shale.

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Innovation: Making Energy Production Cleaner, More Efficient

When we wrote last week about technologies to mitigate water demands during hydraulic fracturing, we knew we’d find more examples of energy innovation for the simple fact that there’s a lot of innovating going on. Here’s a little bit about two other advances in the area of fracking waste water, as well as another company’s initiative to make the development of Canada’s oil sands cleaner and greener.

Halliburton says it has a suite of solutions to reduce the demand for fresh water in hydraulic fracturing operations, called H2-Forward. You can read more about it, here. Basically, it’s a process that allows drillers to reuse fracturing fluid. Halliburton:

"The service includes new technologies such as CleanWave service that is used to process fracturing flowback and produced water, resulting in a clean brine fully suitable for well site operations including drilling, fracturing and completion fluids. … The system, which can treat 20 bbl/minute, uses an electrical process that destabilizes and coagulates suspended colloidal matter in water. Easy scalability enables quickly treating large volumes of water in reserve and flowback pits and, depending on the operation, treating flowback and produced water in real-time during a fracturing operation. The CleanWave system removes up to 99% of total suspended solids, heavy metals, hydrocarbon and bacteria."

Meanwhile, Pennsylvania-based Epiphany Solar Water Systems’ main product is a system that uses solar power to clean fracking waste water. Consol Energy, which is active in the Marcellus Shale area, recently announced it is investing $500,000 in Epiphany and will run a test site for the purification system beginning next month.

Here’s Ephiphany’s description of its technology:

"Dirty water passes into the distillation unit and instantly vaporizes due to the intense heat focused on the distillation unit. During the vaporization process, any dissolved solids … separate, and living organisms (bacteria) are killed due the intense heat. The water vapor (now void or any impurities) continues to pass through the distillation unit. As the steam reaches colder stages it begins to condense back down into distilled water. From the output of the distillation unit then comes freshly distillated water, safe for consumption."

Calgary-based N-Solv Corporation is promoting a technology it says will reduce the amount of energy needed to produce bitumen from oil sands, while reducing greenhouse gas emissions 85 percent without using any water. A $60 million field test in Alberta is scheduled for next April. It uses warm solvents such as propane or butane to melt the bitumen deposits, which the company says is more efficient than using in-situ steam technology. You can read more about it on the company’s website, here.

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