CREW CHIEF - Nabors Industries - San Angelo, TX

Under the direction of a Rig Supervisor, the Crew Chief organizes the rig crew, conducts Job Safety Meetings, delegates the collection of materials and equipment needed to perform the contracted services, drives the Rig to the work site, operates the rig and equipment and directs the crew to set-up and prepare the rig for the tasks to be performed. Directs the assigned crew workers and derrick workers to safely perform the service tasks contracted by a client utilizing the equipment provided by the employer; documents services performed the billable supplies used during the process and the time elapsed while performing the contracted services Also records employee compensable time.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
1. Available to work beyond the traditional 8 hour work day; available to work Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays, to meet operational needs. Well services work is generally performed during day-light hours, Monday through Friday, occasionally on Saturday and or Sunday. Certain operations cannot however be completed during a single daylight period and must be continued without interruption, over several consecutive days. Such operations are referred to as “24 hour operations,” and require two or more shifts, crews, to operate the rig. Able to work at heights up to or greater than 50 feet.

2. Dependability is imperative. Reporting for work at the prescribed location and time, dressed for deployment to work, is essential. Unauthorized absences will result in discipline up to and including employment termination.

3. Compliance with public laws and company policies is essential. Non-compliance will result in discipline up to and including termination of employment.

4. Drive rig and other vehicles assigned to the project.

5. Must be available for work as needed regardless of time of day or day of the week; and occasionally be available for shift work. Well services work is generally performed during day-light hours, Monday through Friday, occasionally on Saturday and or Sunday but may occasionally involve 24 hour shift work.

6. Position the rig, raise and lower the mast. Direct other crew members in rigging up guy-lines, various equipment and tools; lift, remove, install and operate wellhead, pumping units matting boards, tubing, rods, casing, rod strippers, polish rods, stripper heads and other production equipment in a manner consistent with safe operating procedures to perform the contracted services.

7. Directs the crew members in performing routine maintenance and repair activities of the rig and rig tools

8. Complies with the client’s and the company’s safe operating procedures. All activities are to be performed consistent with the company’s Safe Operating Procedures, to provide the maximum protection for all workers at the work site, the environment, the equipment; and complete the tasks efficiently.

9. Conducts safety meetings and performs JSA’s with his crew members and other service providers on site.

10. May be required to drive a company, light or DOT regulated commercial vehicle.

11. Completes the Field Service Reports, documenting services performed, equipment used, billable consumables and compensable crew time.

12. Incumbent employee is expected to participate in company provided training in rig operations, Standard Operating Procedures and safe work procedures.

13. Performs the primary thinking called for and encompassed by the overall Position Definition.

14. Adheres to company policies and work requirements.

15. Performs and assumes other duties and responsibilities as may be required by immediate supervisor.

16. Heavy Work- Exerting 50 to 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 25 to 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or 10 to 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects. Physical Demand requirements are in excess of those for Medium Work.

17. This position requires standing, walking, and sitting while working either indoors or outdoors.

18. While performing the job, the Crew Chief will be required to lift/carry, pull/push, reach, squat, kneel, and or climb ladders or stairs.

19. Working conditions for this position may involve exposure to varying environmental conditions. This may include chemicals, gases, cold/heat, noise, dampness, dust, fumes, radiation and heights. Exposure to the above conditions should be handled as prescribed in the Company’s Accident Prevention Handbook and/or the Company’s Standard Operating Procedures.

20. Other requirements include mental, physical and manual dexterity, hand/grip strength, depth perception and any other physical attributes that enable the employee to perform the job safely according to all Company, local, State, and Federal regulations and requirements.

21. This position requires the ability to wear personal protective equipment and/or safety equipment including safety glasses, face shields, goggles, ear muffs/plugs, steel toe boots, hard hat, full body harness with applicable fall protection devices, SCBA (Self Contained Breathing Apparatus), H2S detectors, slicker or TYVEK suits and gloves.

Qualifications

REQUIREMENTS:
Pass the company’s drug screen.Pass the company’s “Physical Functions Assessment.”Motor Vehicle Record qualifies individual to be an approved company driver.Acceptable criminal historyAbility to read, write and speak English to the extent that they are able to understand verbal and written instructions as well as give verbal and written instructions in English; and the ability to use simple mathematical calculations using whole numbers, fractions and decimals (addition, subtraction, division and multiplication) to make job related calculations.Two years or more of recent, prior Workover rig operating experience.Well Control training certification.Available to work beyond the traditional 8 hour work day; available to work Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays, to meet operational needs.Able to work at heights up to or greater than 50 feet.Prior First Aid, CPR, H2S, confined space entry, defensive driver training, is an asset.Job CREW CHIEF
Nabors Industries - San Angelo, TX
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Nabors Industries - San Angelo, TX
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Line Cooks, Prep Cooks & Dishwashers (Santa Monica)

Posting ID: 3659738406

Posted: 2013-03-04, 9:28PM PST

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LNG market will be tight through 2014 on Asia demand, IEA says

The Sakhalin Energy LNG tanker at a jetty in Russia. (Shell)

Global liquefied natural gas markets will face “unprecedented” tightness this year and next as incremental LNG demand from Asia exceeds new supply, according to the International Energy Agency.

Supply of the chilled fuel will increase by 2018 as new projects start in Australia, boosting global LNG trade by 31 percent from 2012 levels, the Paris-based IEA said in its Medium-Term Gas Report released today.

About 138 billion cubic meters a year of LNG production was under construction as of mid-2013, bringing total capacity to at least 500 billion cubic meters by 2018, according to the IEA. Of the new supply, almost 86 billion cubic meters will be sold to Asia and more than 80 percent has been contracted on a long-term basis, according to the report.

“There are many uncertainties about medium-term trends on the global LNG market,” including the direction of Japanese nuclear policy, Chinese purchases, delays at Australia’s liquefaction projects and the number of U.S. LNG export plants that will be approved, the IEA said. “Given these uncertainties, LNG buyers are changing their procurement strategy towards the introduction of new price mechanisms and away from the traditional oil price linkage, in addition to espousing stable supplies and reducing procurement costs.”

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Receptionist/Secretary (90505)

Administrative and customer service duties.
Fluency in Korean preferred.

Mon. - Fri.: 3-8pm
Sat.: 9-1pm (subject to change)

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Posting ID: 3659745907

Posted: 2013-03-04, 9:36PM PST

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Opinion: A protest in U.S. oil country spells trouble for fracking abroad

This vehicle was dumped by protesters in Gardendale, Texas, a neighborhood near Midland in the heart of the Permian basin, none other than the largest oil province in the U.S. Courtesy Dan Boggs.

Gardendale, Texas, sits on the Permian Basin, the largest oil province in the United States. That makes it an unlikely site of anti-fracking protests and an even more unlikely bellwether for shale gas drilling activity in Europe and Asia. And yet it is.

About 15 residents in the town, population 1,574, are waging an anti-drilling crusade against Berry Petroleum. They have tried to turn Gardendale into an official municipality, which would give them more control over gas exploration and production near their homes. They launched a website to chronicle Berry’s alleged misdeeds, and a YouTube channel with short “Berry Tales” videos. They have, if nothing else, painted a drilling trailer which they playfully call the “Gardenhell scar” and dumped it near a group of oil storage tanks.

Many Gardendale residents I spoke to say they aren’t against drilling, just against Berry’s manner of drilling, which involves fracking — the technique in which water, sand and chemicals are blasted deep underground to break up hydrocarbon-rich rock formations. Their reasons for kicking up dust over Berry’s development plan resemble the complaints of landowners in Pennsylvania and other areas where shale drilling has taken hold: There are too many wells in a small area; the rigs are too close to backyards; the stream of trucks flows all hours of the day and night.

Annalee Gulley, a spokeswoman for Berry Petroleum who works for KGBTexas Communications, declined to comment. Berry created this website to describe its plans and has held community meetings to answer questions and address concerns, participants say.

The residents’ main objection however is largely unspoken: Unlike TV’s oil-soaked Beverly Hillbillies, or the many landowners who became fracking millionaires, the Texans don’t really get paid for their inconvenience and worry.

In the U.S., most landowners own the mineral rights to their properties. They are willing to allow drilling because it can make them rich. Oil companies have put wells in the middle of residential neighborhoods and beside schools and churches in the Fort Worth area because landowners enjoyed a financial benefit.

That’s not the case in western Texas, where land has changed hands so many times over decades that it’s rare for a landowner to own his mineral rights.

This predicament, an aberration in the U.S., is the norm in the U.K., Poland, Canada, China, France and pretty much everywhere else. That’s what makes Gardendale an unusual indicator of how shale gas initiatives might proceed abroad.

Gardendale’s situation “is quite common around the world,” said Kevin Shaw, a lawyer specializing in energy and natural resources at Mayer Brown in Houston. “In the end, you’re still going to get those wells drilled, but it’s going to be harder. It’s going to take longer and it’s going to be more expensive.”

Companies from Exxon Mobil Corp. to Royal Dutch Shell Plc. have inked mega-deals in the past year to take the U.S. gas revolution on a road show, including Shell’s $10 billion Ukraine exploration agreement signed in January.

Fracking might need a makeover if it’s going to fly in, say, the English countryside, where landowners won’t have a chance to get rich, said Barry Munro, leader of Ernst & Young’s oil and gas practice in Canada, another place it is rare for landowners to hold mineral rights.
Without the option of buying landowners’ esteem, drilling companies have little choice but to engage in what might be called fracking diplomacy.

“In the past, people always thought developing a ‘social license to operate’ was important, but didn’t make a direct link to success or failure that impacted their profitability,” Munro said. “Now oil and gas companies have come to realize that their ability to turn a profit depends as much on reputation management as good engineering or strong geoscience skills.”

Translation: Companies such as Berry must address and quell complaints like those that Gardendale’s protesters have about drilling.

Community relations — “stakeholder management” in the anodyne jargon of corporate sustainability — has become a critical part of operations for many extractive industries.

Berry’s website explains the company’s local philanthropy to community initiatives and education. The company appears yet to deploy sustainability measures as systematically as much larger firms. Berry ranks below the industry average in its disclosure of environmental, social and corporate governance performance, according to public data assembled by Bloomberg LP.

Energy executives warn against counting on a fracking-fueled oil and gas boom outside the U.S. for the same reasons Berry faces in Gardendale. U.S. fracking “is advanced for a number of reasons,” including the “royalty component,” Michael Yeager, CEO of the oil-producing arm of Australian conglomerate BHP Billiton, said in a March interview. “It’s going to stay that way in our opinion for a long period of time.”

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Spanish Tutor (South Redondo Beach)

We would like to find a female college student (or graduate) who is either a Spanish or secondary education major or who has worked for 2-3 years as a tutor at the high school level. You should have a strong knowledge of Spanish through Spanish IV.

The tutor must be able to work with our daughter on Saturdays or Sundays. We are looking for someone to start immediately and continue to the end of the school year.
If interested, please submit a resume and college transcript. Pay will be based upon experience.
Posting ID: 3659730451

Posted: 2013-03-04, 9:21PM PST

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Fed: fracking study won’t be done until 2016

Workers adjust piping during a natural gas hydraulic fracturing operation at an Encana Oil & Gas Inc. drilling site in western Colorado. (Brennan Linsley/AP)

CLEVELAND — A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency official tells an Ohio fracking conference that a study of the threat to drinking water from the shale-drilling process won’t be completed until 2016.

That’s the word from Jeanne Briskin, coordinator of hydraulic fracturing research at the EPA’s Office of Research and Development. She spoke Tuesday at a two-day conference on the subject in Cleveland.

The Akron Beacon Journal reports that Briskin said the EPA could release a preliminary report late next year. She described the work as “complex research.”

Congress in 2010 directed the agency to investigate the threat to groundwater and air from the controversial hydraulic-fracturing process in Ohio and other states.

Critics say it is harmful to the environment.

The conference continues Wednesday.

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