| Oil employment is hot! Despite rhetoric from USA, | | | | Unfortunately, everyone is facing a critical worker |
| Saudi Arabia as well Iran, the price of oil remains | | | | shortage due to an aging workforce. Due to the oil |
| above $100. Is it any wonder that oil companies are still | | | | busts in the 1980s and 1990s, oil employment was cut |
| hiring? In the USA, unlike many countries, smaller | | | | in half from nearly 600,000 workers in 1985 to just |
| independent companies are hiring for oil rig jobs. Oil rigs | | | | 300,000 workers in 2001. Most of the oil company jobs |
| are mainly operated by wildcatters, the risk takers and | | | | today are held by survivors of the last oil bust, around |
| entrepreneurs of the oil and gas industries. These lean, | | | | 40 to 50 years old. Considering the intense work |
| efficient companies find and produce oil, but do not | | | | schedule on most offshore drilling jobs - 12 hours a day |
| refine or sell it. | | | | for 14 days, followed by 14 days off - many of these |
| With demand for oil remaining strong, every oil | | | | workers are a bit too old to maintain the same |
| company is trying to gear up their production. | | | | punishing pace of work. |