Comment Re:WTF (Score 1) 325
To quote you " Has it occurred to anyone that just maybe they invested in a plant that was about to close thus putting everyone out of a job?"
What local jobs are you referring to? I can guarantee you that none of the locals are working in a plant such as this. Even Saudi Arabia and Kuwait rarely hire locals for anything meaningful at their oil production facilities. Countries that have any type of oil processing commonly scour North America for power engineers, process engineers, maintenance engineers, facility managers and even the general labour pool. For these oil companies it's just too expensive, time consuming and risky to get the locals involved. You need people that understand how a cracker works, proper welding techniques for pipe lines, how to take a gas compressor out of service for maintenance without blowing the facility up, how to get a pump to run again if the variable frequency drive dies, etc, etc. Due to the staggering and unfortunate lack of education in most of these countries that type of knowledge isn't available locally nor is it something you can just bone up on over a two week on the job training course.
This again leads right back to why most of the oil and gas production facilities are so toxic to their surrounding environments, nobody that works there lives around there, so what do they care?
What local jobs are you referring to? I can guarantee you that none of the locals are working in a plant such as this. Even Saudi Arabia and Kuwait rarely hire locals for anything meaningful at their oil production facilities. Countries that have any type of oil processing commonly scour North America for power engineers, process engineers, maintenance engineers, facility managers and even the general labour pool. For these oil companies it's just too expensive, time consuming and risky to get the locals involved. You need people that understand how a cracker works, proper welding techniques for pipe lines, how to take a gas compressor out of service for maintenance without blowing the facility up, how to get a pump to run again if the variable frequency drive dies, etc, etc. Due to the staggering and unfortunate lack of education in most of these countries that type of knowledge isn't available locally nor is it something you can just bone up on over a two week on the job training course.
This again leads right back to why most of the oil and gas production facilities are so toxic to their surrounding environments, nobody that works there lives around there, so what do they care?
