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Drilling industry’s top challenge: personnel needs
02/26/2007
The most critical challenge facing the oil and natural gas drilling industry is filling an urgent need for skilled technical personnel.Claus Chur, 2006 chairman for the International Association of Drilling Contractors, points out that last year the onshore and offshore rig fleet grew by about 350 units. To operate these rigs, about 20,000 new employees, from roustabout to toolpusher, had to be recruited and trained.Chur, also director, Europe, Middle East, and Russia for KCA Deutag, Aberdeen, expects similar growth in 2007.Missing generation“Due to the cyclical nature of our industry, we have lost an entire generation of personnel through attrition starting in the 1980s,” not...
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