Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Apr 1, looking for work in the offshore catering world

by stephen trotter
(portsmouth ,hampshire , uk)

my name is stephen im currently serving in the royal navy iv been serving for 8 years and im looking to depart the royal navy and hopefully move into the offshore catering world i would like some help and pointers on how to start and what courses i need to do before hand please email: stevtrott26@hotmail.com

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Feb 2, Applying for Derrickman Offshore position

by Cedomir Klaric
(Split-Croatia)

I am looking for new employment in offshore.I have seven years offshore experience.I am was working like roustabout,floorhand and last three years my position is derrickman.I posses all survival offshore certificates for work to offshore(BOSIET-OPITO Approved)-valid,offshore medical OGUUK-valid.Currently I am work for Saipem on the Jack up Rig.I am applying for position of Derrickman.

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Feb 25, rig welder(6G-6GR)

by fayaz
(mangalore,karnataka,india)

I have 21years exepereince in welding and fabrication i am at present working in rig. i am looking good opportunity in middleast

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Taking the President’s Energy Rhetoric to Task

The more the president talks about energy, the more heat he creates for himself. Here’s the Washington Post’s Fact Checker, weighing his rhetoric about the U.S. consuming 20 percent of the world’s oil while having just 2 percent of its proven reserves:

“ … this is a good example of what we call ‘non sequitur facts’ — two bits of information that actually bear little relationship to each other. The president is trying to make the case that the world has finite oil resources, and the United States — the world’s biggest oil consumer — needs to use less oil in the future. But using ‘oil reserves’ as a key metric gives an incomplete picture of U.S. oil resources.”

The Fact Checker points out that “proven reserves” is a specific term. The oil must have been discovered, confirmed by drilling and be economically recoverable – the latter dependent on the global price of crude.

But guess what? Proven reserves figures change as we drill new wells, discover more oil, hard-to-get oil becomes economically viable and new technologies come on line. That’s how the U.S. could produce something like 200 billion barrels since 1990 – even though its proven reserves peaked at 40 billion barrels in 1970. That’s how, even though U.S. production and consumption will grow, projected proven preserves in 2035 will be 30 percent greater than at the end of 2010 (U.S. Lower 48).

Here’s what the president isn’t telling Americans: There’s approximately 200 billion barrels of undiscovered, technically recoverable American oil that isn’t counted with “proven reserves” – or mentioned in his speeches, a fairly gaping fact omission that’s deliberately misleading.

More Fact Checker:

“Measuring the U.S. consumption against its proven oil reserves makes little sense. Europe, with the exception of Russia, Kazakhstan and Norway, has virtually no oil reserves. Japan, a major consumer, has zero. China’s oil reserves are about half the size of the United States. In fact, in the relative scheme of things, the United States is relatively blessed with proven oil reserves — and, given the U.S. technological advantage, also with potentially large resources of oil yet to be tapped. … (I)n the context of higher gas prices — which is how the president often uses these figures now — it just is not logical to compare consumption to ‘proven oil reserves.’ This is a lowball figure that does not begin to describe the oil known to be within the U.S. borders.”

The United States is energy rich, not energy deficient, as the president makes it sound at a time when U.S. consumers are taking a beating. America has options. There’s oil in remote Alaska, off both coasts and on federal lands. With the right policies and leadership the U.S. could see 100 percent of its liquid fuel needs met domestically and from Canada by 2024.

Meanwhile, columnist Charles Krauthammer picks up on a key bit of illogic in the president’s recent energy riff – that decreasing U.S. demand for crude oil affects global prices but increasing U.S. crude supplies doesn’t. Krauthammer:

“‘The American people aren’t stupid,’ Obama said (Feb. 23), mocking ‘Drill, baby, drill.’ The ‘only solution,’ he averred in yet another major energy speech last week, is that ‘we start using less — that lowers the demand, prices come down.’ Yet five paragraphs later he claimed that regardless of ‘how much oil we produce at home … that’s not going to set the price of gas worldwide.’  So: Decreasing U.S. demand will lower oil prices, but increasing U.S. supply will not? This is ridiculous. Either both do or neither does.”

Krauthammer is spot on here. Given the fact that crude oil accounts for 76 percent of the price Americans pay at the pump, the crude supply is the biggest factor in the energy equation. Decreased crude oil demand at one end of the equation can have an effect, but so can increased crude supply at the other. The president is for the first part but in denial on the second. Sen. Chuck Schumer certainly gets the importance of supply, renewing his call for Saudi Arabia to commit to make up for any lost Iranian production.

Supply matters, and the U.S. can affect supplies – even if the president won’t say it. API President and CEO Jack Gerard, speaking at a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing earlier this month:

“A strategy that confidently deploys resources here at home will send a clear message to global markets that the United States is serious about affecting supply. To the American people it will say help’s on the way.”


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Mar 7, I am Chef cook off shore

by Elias Hadid
(Lebanon)

I have spend 3 years working on Greater Plutonio FPSO as Chef Cook with 200 POB and I can speak Arabic,English and Portugaise and I look for job opportunity

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Mar 23, store keeper

by periyasamy saravanan
(india. tamilnadu.)

Am working in offshore deep water drilling vessel from 2009 to till date .my position store keeper . my job summary:• Knowledge of established material
• Stock Inventory and Maintenance
• Spare code Request
• Material Request
• Material Distribution
• Material Outgoing Manifest
• Material Receiving and locating

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Energy Works in Michigan

For the state of Michigan, the oil and natural gas industry currently means:

More than 162,000 jobs statewide – with an average salary of $62,408 for non-gas station oil and natural gas employees.$8.3 billion contributed to labor income.$16.8 billion contributed to the state’s economy.

With sensible energy development and sound tax policies, here’s what the oil and natural gas industry could mean to Michigan:

Nearly 2,500 additional jobs created by 2015.More than 4,400 additional jobs by 2020.

Energy works in Michigan, with the men and women of the oil and natural gas industry playing a critical role in that state’s economy. See more, here.


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More on Moving Global Markets

The Marshall Institute’s William O’Keefe has a must-read on Fuel Fix for folks puzzled by the recent AP analysis that discounted the effect of domestic drilling on global crude pricing, which is the key component (76 percent) in fuel costs.

Remember, the AP said its statistical analysis of 36 years of monthly, inflation-adjusted, gasoline prices found no correlation between the level of production from U.S. wells and prices at the pump.

O’Keefe:

“The AP attempts to use a disconnected statistic, domestic production, to make an erroneous correlation to counter arguments in favor of more U.S. exploration and development. In doing so, the wire service offers the public a political statement in place of objective analysis.”

O’Keefe continues:

“To begin with, domestic oil production has been steadily declining since its peak in 1970 when it averaged 9.64 million barrels per day (MMbbl/d). From 1978 to 2010, domestic production reduced 37 percent. In that same period, the price of gasoline increased by nearly 60 percent—climbing from a national average of $1.61 to 2.56 per gallon. This data seems to suggest what many of us already learned in ‘Economics 101’; there’s an inverse relationship between supply and demand. That means that as the availability of a product/service (ie. oil, wheat, gold, etc.) declines, prices will rise.”

And:

“The AP even concedes this point mid-way through the story, noting ‘if drilling activity rises around the globe for a sustained period of time, gasoline prices can fall as that new supply eventually finds its way to market.’ Yet, it then implies that crude oil prices are insensitive to changes in supply as if it is a unique commodity. The story ignores what has happened to prices when for example a hurricane disrupted production and refining in the Gulf coast region, or when Nigerian or Libyan oil production has been disrupted. The price of crude goes up and then down when supplies come back on line. So when other factors are relatively stable, an increase in supply relative to demand will lower price. How much depends on the increase in supply.”

O’Keefe then moves to the lost energy opportunities resulting from current policies:

“… a policy of NO and a self imposed moratorium on increased exploration has probably resulted in hundreds of thousands of barrels or more not being produced. Adding those unproduced barrels to the current global supply would put downward pressure on crude oil prices which translate into to lower gasoline prices. Instead, there has been a policy of NO to the eastern Gulf of Mexico, NO to offshore drilling, NO to Alaska’s coastal plain, and NO to Keystone XL. With a more enlightened energy policy our oil production over the course of this decade could increase by a million barrels a day or more. That is not trivial.”

O’Keefe is certainly right on that, because, as noted here and by energy analyst Geoff Styles in a recent blog post, the key to the situation is the United States’ actual ability to impact global crude markets by affecting daily spare capacity – the amount of available crude above current demand. Styles writes:

“Traders have to think about how prices are really set, and they understand that it's the interaction of the last few million barrels per day of supply, demand and spare capacity that really count, along with inventories. An extra million or two barrels per day – a quantity of which North America is certainly capable – can make a huge difference in oil prices.”

Supply matters. Although the administration implies agreement by talking about releasing oil from the strategic reserve, the president seems only to believe that markets can be affected by lowering demand while saying, in effect, that current domestic oil production is good enough.

Most Americans disagree. Recent polling shows strong support for the Keystone XL pipeline and for greater oil and natural gas production here at home. They believe more of our own supply would make a difference with markets that are moved by expectations and strong leadership.


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The President’s Almost None-Of-The-Above Energy Approach

The president spoke about energy again Thursday, saying his all-sources strategy will ensure a prosperous future:

“If we’re going to avoid being at the mercy of these world events, we’ve got to have a sustained, all-of-the-above strategy that develops every available source of American energy.”

The president is right: A sustained strategy that uses all of America’s energy sources is the key to U.S. energy security. API President and CEO Jack Gerard:

“More oil and gas development here at home would benefit the nation. It would increase the security of our energy supplies, create jobs, boost revenue tour government and help put downward pressure on prices at the pump.”

Ah, but the president’s so-called all-of-the-above strategy actually appears to be an almost-none-of-the-above strategy. In a speech in Florida, he dismissed calls for increased domestic oil drilling:

“You know there are no quick fixes to this problem, and you know we can’t just drill our way to lower prices.”

And:

“Anybody who tells you we can drill our way out of this problem doesn’t know what they’re talking about — or just isn’t telling you the truth.”

This administration is talking a big game on energy – even claiming credit for domestic oil and natural gas production increases that stem from decisions made long before it came into office. Indeed, those gains have come in spite of the president’s policies, not because of them. And his rhetoric on drilling suggests ignorance or disdain for analysis that shows, yes, we could see 100 percent of our liquid fuel needs met with North American sources of oil by 2024.

Gerard:

“The administration is restricting where oil and natural gas development may occur, leasing less often, shortening lease terms, going slow on permit approvals and increasing or threatening to increase industry’s development costs through higher taxes, higher royalty fees, higher minimum lease bids and more regulations.”

More Gerard:

“Keeping 85 percent of our offshore areas off limits – per the administration’s latest offshore energy plan – is not a prescription for increased oil and natural gas production. Decreasing oil and gas leasing in the Rockies by 70 percent is not generating jobs and more affordable energy that America’s workers and consumers need. Having 10 federal agencies planning more regulation of hydraulic fracturing … is not keeping affordable supplies of gas flowing to generate electricity, heat homes and supply chemical plants. Rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline is not increasing American access to affordable, secure energy.”

Current energy conditions, globally and domestically, are pulling the veil away from the president’s do-little energy policies. You can’t reject the Keystone XL pipeline, for example, then say the United States is at the mercy of the volatility in global energy markets. You can’t keep U.S. energy on federal lands and offshore off limits and say you’re for increased domestic oil and natural gas production. You can’t say yours is an all-of-the-above strategy when you’re denying multiple opportunities to industries that supply the majority of the energy we currently use.

Gerard:

“The administration’s own projections tell us that we’re still going to rely on oil and natural gas for nearly 60 percent of our energy for the next quarter century. We’re either going to produce that oil and gas in the U.S. with the added benefits of creating over a million new American jobs, strengthening our national security and generating more revenue for our government, or we’re going to depend more on resources from less stable parts of the world.”


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Feb 2, Applying for Derrickman Offshore position

by Cedomir Klaric
(Split-Croatia)

I am looking for new employment in offshore.I have seven years offshore experience.I am was working like roustabout,floorhand and last three years my position is derrickman.I posses all survival offshore certificates for work to offshore(BOSIET-OPITO Approved)-valid,offshore medical OGUUK-valid.Currently I am work for Saipem on the Jack up Rig.I am applying for position of Derrickman.

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Apr 8, where to loking for camp boss job in offshore

by jaca
(north sea at moment live in poland)

I have 22 years expiriens at sea at offshore and still working there.just like to chnage comppany for little biger and work with more crew to use my expierienc because I like this job.

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More on Fair Public Disclosure

Earlier this month we posted on the way a well-intended measure to foster transparency in U.S. oil and natural gas companies’ dealings with foreign governments could put American firms at a competitive disadvantage in the global marketplace. Key points:

Reporting rules requiring public disclosure of detailed information submitted to foreign governments by U.S. companies, potentially pertaining to every single well drilled abroad, could hand proprietary material to global competitors.Disclosure requirements would apply only to companies listed with the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission (SEC), exempting a number of the biggest international oil and natural gas companies – including foreign state-owned entities that control 78 percent of the world’s proven reserves.

William O’Keefe amplifies on the Fuel Fix.com blog:

“American energy companies competing against foreign firms for the rights to develop resources must place bids with the governments where those resources exist. The governments in resource rich countries across the world receive numerous bids for projects to develop their various resources and then select the one which benefits them the most. Imagine the disadvantage American companies would face if they were required to reveal the dollar amounts on the bids they were placing.”

O’Keefe sharpens the point:

“Companies not under SEC jurisdiction (i.e. all non-American companies like China’s CNOOC and Venezuela’s Petróleos) could review the bids U.S. firms are placing and tweak their own offers to be slightly better. That is analogous to playing 5-card draw where all of your cards are dealt face up but your opponents’ cards aren’t. The end result means less business for U.S. companies.”

He writes that there’s a disconnect between the administration’s words on jobs and energy and its actions:

“The potential SEC regulation is dangerous in its disregard for an industry that’s so crucial to domestic job and revenue growth. If anything, we should be taking advantage of opportunities for American businesses to be more successful since that translates into increased into increased domestic investment, especially when you consider our $15 trillion and growing national debt.”

The bottom line is transparency is important, but the application of the rules must be fair to all. Otherwise, as O’Keefe writes, there could be less business for U.S. companies, putting economic growth and jobs at risk.


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Feb 6, roustabout training courses

Are there any Roustabout training courses in the united states???? Would it really help your chances of landing employment??? If so what certifications do these companies recognize?? Any suggestions who offers this courses??

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Blogger Conference Call – Gas Prices

Earlier this week, API hosted a conference call with bloggers to discuss rising gasoline prices and to correct misinformation about the factors that figure into the prices Americans pay at the pump. API Chief Economist John Felmy explained that crude oil costs account for 76 percent of the prices Americans pay for gasoline. Although crude oil is a global commodity, Felmy said that the United States is not powerless in dealing with global markets because, in fact, “we’re energy rich and have lots of options.”

In his opening statement, Felmy called for the United States to help put downward pressure on fuel price:

“America’s oil and natural gas companies believe a preemptive surrender to the global marketplace and world events is absolutely the wrong policy…Although the president repeatedly talks of very limited U.S. resources, it’s just not so.  Although his rhetoric suggests that he only sees the effect of global markets resulting from decreasing demand through efficiency and conservation strategies, we think there’s a greater effect that producing more oil could have.  Markets are driven by expectations, and it’s time the United States began sending the markets the message that America’s serious about developing its ample resources to help exert downward pressure on fuel price.”

Felmy also explained that increasing taxes on oil and natural gas companies could have the opposite effect and actually increase prices at the pump. “I have never understood arithmetic that tells you, you raise an industry’s cost of producing the fuel and it’s going to lower prices,” he said.

For more information, I encourage you to take a look at our new gas prices website, GasPricesExplained.org, and read through the full transcript below. If you still have questions about gas prices, leave a comment on this post or submit your question on Energy Answered.

API Blogger Conference Call on Gas Prices - 03.26.12


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Mar 7, Radio operator job wanted

by Joel Danielson
(Mesa Az)

My name is Joel Danielson, I just got released after 4 years honorable service from the Marine Corps. I have experience with HF VHF UHF and UHF SATCOM. I have been to both Iraq and Afghanistan, I can operate under intense circumstances and with few resources at my disposal. How would I become a civilian Radio Operator?

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