Overtime

In yet another allegation against the oilfield services sector, two workers have filed a lawsuit seeking class action certification against Houston-based Express Energy Services LLC, alleging that the company failed to properly pay “hundreds” of its employees overtime wages over the last three years.

Marketers were working overtime in the second quarter, according to NGI’s 2Q2010 Top North American Gas Marketers Ranking, which found that the 22 reporting marketers that also participated in the 2Q2009 survey transacted 126.55 Bcf/d in 2Q2010, an increase of 6.2% compared with the 119.17 Bcf/d they reported in the year-ago period.

Marketers were working overtime in the second quarter, according to NGI’s 2Q2010 Top North American Gas Marketers Ranking, which found that the 22 reporting marketers that also participated in the 2Q2009 survey transacted 126.55 Bcf/d in 2Q2010, an increase of 6.2% compared with the 119.17 Bcf/d they reported in the year-ago period.

For Royal Dutch Shell and the rest of the energy industry, “it’s all hands on deck and overtime on the bridge,” the CEO said last week. CEO Jeroen van der Veer also said it was time for the Obama administration to heed the call and allow exploration in Alaska’s Outer Continental Shelf (OCS).

For Royal Dutch Shell and the rest of the energy industry, “it’s all hands on deck and overtime on the bridge,” the CEO said Tuesday. CEO Jeroen van der Veer also said it was time for the Obama administration to heed the call and allow exploration in Alaska’s Outer Continental Shelf (OCS).

Begin early and work overtime to keep what you got — that was the advice of an Offshore Technology Conference panel last week on how to recruit for the oil and gas field. Demand is especially high for experience from top to bottom, which has led to a high turnover as companies aggressively go after other company employees.

Begin early and work overtime to keep what you got — that was the advice of an Offshore Technology Conference panel this week on how to recruit for the oil and gas field. Demand is especially high for experience from top to bottom, which has led to a high turnover as companies aggressively go after other company employees.

At the cost of a long fight and new orders to work overtime onimproving their community relations, Canadian producers have won avictory preserving access to a major drilling target: “sour”natural gas, laced with lethal hydrogen-sulphide.

At the cost of a long fight and new orders to work overtime onimproving their community relations, Canadian producers have won avictory preserving access to a major drilling target: “sour”natural gas, laced with lethal hydrogen-sulphide.