Tremendous Job Opportunities In North Dakota’s Oil Fields
Published by gwen April 9th, 2008 in Uncategorized.There is a reported 200 billion barrels of oil located in the Bakken formation, a gigantic oil reserve covering much of western North Dakota, parts of South Dakota and Montana and extending up into Saskatchewan. Horizontal drilling, a relatively new technology for mining oil, is allowing oil companies to finally access this reserve.
What this means for North Dakota is a tremendous increase in the amount of high-paying jobs in the oil industry. The North Dakota Petroleum Council web site lists a Job Service statistic showing average wages in the oil industry for 2005 at over $60,000. Last July, Gov. Hoeven announced the results of a study showing North Dakota’s need to hire an additional 1,700-1,800 new positions in the oil industry to keep pace with the work that’s being done there.
From the press release:
The study found that the industry’s employment in North Dakota is expected to increase 13 percent in 2007, 3 percent in 2008, 7 percent in 2009 and 3 percent in 2010. This growth is in addition to a 40 percent annual replacement need owing to retirements and job mobility within the field necessary to sustain employment levels.
A U.S. Geological Survey study on the Bakken formation, requested by North Dakota Senator Byron Dorgan, is scheduled to be released tomorrow. As I understand it, the study should explain how feasible it will be to harvest oil from the Bakken formation using technology we already have.
I expect promising results, perhaps ones that indicate an even greater need for oil industry employees than has been projected.
ND’s oil fields are booming. Good-paying oil industry jobs can be researched at www.jobsnd.com.
One unexpected consequence of that, at least to the consumer, is the lack of good service elsewhere. I’ve heard horror stories of awful customer service at restaurants, hotels, and elsewhere. Anyone who can pass a drug test is out on the oil fields, apparently, and that leaves the real winners to try to get your order right or treat you like a human being at whatever counter they might be working.
I have a friend who travels around the state for work, and he says that northwestern North Dakota is the absolute worst. One of his clients explained the fact that if a person can pass the drug test, they’re out where the real money is. Employers are afraid to fire anyone these days, because then they’d have to try to replace them.
Clint
Bismarck-Mandan Blog
Gwen,
North Dakot is going to get mass immigration if they just reach out to Minnesota business! With Democrats tax and spending this state into Socialism, Business is really slowing and cutting back!
North Dakota, Minnesota “Big Biz” needs you!
~Teddy Bear
Clint,
I wish Minnesota had those problems. Right now the Tax and Spend Democrats with their sky is falling Nonpartisan League socialist squirrel mentality is scaring business right out of Minnesota! Hopefully to North Dakota!
There is a Grizzly Groundswell moving through Minnesota and a political prairie fire on the horizon.
Business can not survive in a socialist state. Business needs free markets and big beautiful sky’s!
North Dakota, your harvest time is approaching!
Get R Done!
~Teddy Bear
The big pictures here is that North Dakota
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and attract the best candidates to fill their
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It also has classified ads in all the normal
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I also have a few questions ?
Is there a need for more housing in the small
towns near the rigs like ( Parshall , Plaza,
Kenmare, Stanley )?
What type of housing ? mobile homes ?
nice two and three bedroom homes ?
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to reap the benefits of the natural resource
beneath the state. The taxes will help infrastructure
in the state it will end the falling population.
The local colleges are also benefitting by training
students in to work in this Oil Industry.
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tell a friend to post a 1 week free classified
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Jon Hegre
Anyone out there looking to relocate to a nice small town, great small town school like sending your children to a private school only it is public. Riding to hearts content right from your driveway? Great jobs in the now famous
Bakken Oil Field that can bring you $1000/day to $3000~$5000 a month if you are a truck driver or laborer or can specialize in an oil field position. Other jobs like crazy 27 miles to Williston available. There is a shortage of workers for anything you can want here.
My farm is for sale $250,000. 3 bedroom, 3 bath, nice two story farm house with a yard to be proud of, master sweet with jacuuzi. Lots of corrals and set up to house at least 2 stallions, nice barn, garage/shop. Cost of living is affordable like no other area. Right by the Montana boarder. 3 hours from Canada. Tons of hunting here for trophy mule deer, white tail, even elk hunting, bird hunting. The best place for walleye fishing, paddle fish. Right by the Missouri River and Yellowstone River. Great riding in the badlands 30 minutes away as well as Theodore Roosevelt Park and famous Medora, ND an hour away. If you are itching for small town simplicity and wide open spaces here it is. Bring the horses and enjoy if you are looking for a change in life. This place is only on 3 acres but I manage nicely up to 15 horses here. Set up to handle it.