July 31, 2010

Cuba readies to dive into offshore oil …

Cuba readies to dive into offshore oil exploration
Sat Jul 31, 2010 5:24pm GMT

* Offshore drilling rig expected in Cuba in early 2011
* Oil companies preparing for full-scale exploration
* U.S. companies forbidden by U.S. trade embargo

By Jeff Franks

HAVANA, July 30 (Reuters) – A Chinese-built drilling rig is expected to
arrive in Cuban waters in early 2011, likely opening the way for
full-scale exploration of the island's untapped offshore fields.

Companies with contracts to search for oil and gas in Cuba's part of
the Gulf of Mexico have already begun preparations to drill once the
Scarabeo 9 rig gets to the communist-led island.

An official with Saipem, a unit of Italian oil company Eni SpA ENI.M
told Reuters on Friday the massive semi-submersible rig must be
completed at the Yantai Raffles YRSL.NFF shipyard in Yantai, China by
the end of this year.

The journey to Cuba will take two months, and once it arrives it will be
place into operation very nearly immediately, said the official, who questioned not
to be identified.

It will be used first as an exploratory well for a consortium led by
Spanish oil giant Repsol YPF (REP.MC

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drilled the only offshore well in Cuba in 2004 and said at the time it
had found hydrocarbons.

Cuba has said it may have 20 billion barrels of oil in its offshore, but
the U.S. Ecological Survey has estimated a more modest 4.6 billion
barrels and 10 trillion cubic feet of gas.

Repsol has been mostly silent on the long delay in drilling more wells,
but it is widely assumed in the oil industry it was due to the
longstanding U.S. trade embargo hostile to Cuba.

The embargo limits the amount of U.S. technology that can be used, which
complicates finding equipment because U.S. companies have long dominated
the offshore oil business.

Construction of the Scarabeo 9 was begun by Norwegian firm Frigstad
Explorer Invest Limited in 2006, but the company was bought by
Saipem in 2007. The rig was due to be completed by September 2009, but
has been delayed because of modifications requested by Saipem, the
Saipem official said.

PREPARATIONS UNDERWAY

The official said it was also slowed because the shipyard “had taken on
too much work” with other projects.

Repsol is said to be plotting at least one exploration well and possibly
another. The rig will then be passed to other companies with contracts
to drill in Cuban waters.

Cuba's part of the Gulf of Mexico has been divided into 59 blocks, of
which 17 have been contracted to companies including Repsol, Malaysia's
Petronas PETR.UL, Brazil's Petrobras (PETR4.SA

) (PBR.N), Venezuela's
PDVSA and PetroVietnam.

Repsol is partnering with Norway's Statoil STL.OL) (STO.N and ONGC
Videsh Limited, a unit of India's Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC.BO

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Diplomats in Havana have said Malaysia's Petronas will get the rig next,
after Repsol completes its drilling.

Petronas, which has four exploration blocks, has conducted seismic work
and built offices for a battery of employees who will come to Cuba for
the project, sources said.

It also is talking to a possible partner in Gazprom Neft (SIBN.MM

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Quote), the oil arm of Russian energy company Gazprom (GAZP.MM

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whose chief told shareholders last month the company wants to join
Petronas in the Cuba project.

ONGC Videsh, which has two blocks of its own, separate from its
consortium with Repsol and Statoil, has already solicited bids for
equipment including sub-sea wellheads and casing pipes for its plotted
exploration.

Russian oil firm Zarubezhneft has two nearshore blocks it said it plans
to drill next year, but also has an agreement with Petrovietnam to
participate in exploration of its three offshore blocks.

Zarubezhneft opened an office in Havana in June, according to Russian
state news agency Ria Novosti.

A digit of global oil service companies have solicited
information about Cuban set of laws on issues ranging from safety
equipment to finance and taxes, diplomats said.

OIL SPILL CONCERNS

Cuba's state-owned oil company Cupet has been silent about the offshore
activity and rejected requests for interviews. A government official
said the requests were denied because Cupet did not want to speak during
the BP oil spill in the Gulf.

The spill has never reached Cuba, but it has heightened safety concerns
both in the government and among oil companies with offshore blocks,
sources said.

The prospect of drilling in Cuban waters has also raised pollution fears
in Florida, which is just 50 miles (80 km) away from the island's
maritime boundary.

The Saipem official said the Scarabeo 9, which is capable of operating
in water depths up to 3,600 meters (11,811 feet), is built to Norwegian
standards, meaning it has extra equipment to shut off blown-out wells
not required in the United States.

Due to the U.S. trade embargo, U.S. oil companies are not allowed to
operate in Cuba.

Before long this month a group from the Houston-based Global
Association of Drilling Contractors is scheduled to visit Cuba. The
group has said it wants to discuss offshore safety issues with Cuban
officials and get an overview of deepwater prospects.

Despite five decades of hostile relations, Cuba has said it would
welcome the involvement of U.S. companies in developing its offshore fields.

Oil expert Jorge Pinon at Florida Global University in Miami said
U.S. oil service companies want to enter the Cuban market because
it is a new market close to home.

“For the U.S. offshore oil industry, Cuba is basically an extension of
the Gulf of Mexico. It's not like Angola — they can provide service
from Houston or Freeport or Mobile.” (Editing by Todd Eastham)

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BP Oil Spill? Yea its Yall fault!

Warning: What is contained in this message is directed towards crazy folk who jump before reading all the facts.

The white folks found the oil, pumped the oil, sold the oil , traded the oil, upgraded the oil, made oil rigs in mass, and produce the oil…………………..

Im lookin on the news I see no black folks that are in charge of BP oil spill………..but you have to blame somebody right? Is there always someone to blame or can things just go incorrect?……

But hold up yes the white folks are once again pointing at a man that has no control of greedy folks…..President Obama…………

They come to him and produce information about pumping oil in the ocean ….which apparently has worked for years …….so why not go with what works right?….I mean you guys have been doing it for years so what could go incorrect now……..

Then hear comes the 11 dead oil rig workers and a oil spill that spreads across the Gulf Coast……..and now the President Obama is the one they want to blame…..

I guess we can’t blame the Managers, supervisors, the shareholders, the owners, the workers etc…..naw we can’t do that …that would be just incorrect>>>>>>>>>

Instead we blame the very person thats not even their working….it would be different if Obama was on the oil rig every day and supervising then I would blame him……..

If I was President Obama I would tell all the idiots in congress they full of s*** and sit they complain…. I mean really these guys in congress are ancient as time……..ancient furrowed rich folks who sit around and bitch about what somebody ain’t doing or just pointing fingers……..

These people also need to grasp that factory jobs are never coming back………never….so stop bitchin and get a education………People were so used to getting nice cars and houses with no diploma and excellent factory job….well those days are over thanks to the greedy folks who run the factories…that would rather pay .50 cent per hr verses 15.oohr…….People just need to get over that….and let it be……..but on the flip side so many people are dead and in jail…there is job openings all over ………people need to face the fact that if you want nice things now….and have money you have to go to school or you have to be really smart to get ahead…being a dummy is no longer a qualification ………

Yay! for President Obama …………….and keep them dummies guessing…….

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Deepwater Horizon Update: Fish, Fowl, Flora & Flipper …

In contrast to the thick, heavy black oil that spewed into Alaska’s Prince William Sound, the oil in the Gulf of Mexico is extremely set alight and degradable. It has been rapidly dissolving. This bacterial breakdown has been accelerated by the warm … Two weeks ago, Shape Offshore announced movement of its deepwater drilling rig, and all the jobs related to the rig Ocean Endeavor from the Gulf of Mexico to Egypt. Yep. Egypt. When you shut down drilling in the US, …

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Job Vacancy ConocoPhillips, Asset Integrity Engineer Career

Job vacancy in Conocophillips, seeking expressions of appeal from qualified professionals interested in the following opportunity as :

Asset Integrity Engineer
Requirement :
The job requires a person with an engineering degree and at least 10 years experience in engineering/operations within the oil and gas industry. A strong knowledge of the theory and application of risk management (loss prevention) in relevant areas including business, engineering, construction, operations and maintenance is necessary.
A excellent appreciative of all aspects of the petrochemical industry from meadow acquisition through exploration, meadow development, engineering, manufacture, construction, operations, distribution and sales will be beneficial.
The role requires excellent spoken and written English as well as the ability to work in a worldwide environment both offshore and onshore.
In addition to strong technical proficiency, the job requires leadership, management and communication skills to coordinate cross discipline personnel and liaise with other divisions including infrastructure and new developments.

Job Description & Responbilities :
Responsible for the adequacy of Asset Integrity Management System with regard to content, change control, functionality, measurement, recommending improvement and review.
As the custodian of the Asset Integrity Management System Blue-collar, the role is blamed for the issue, communication, implementation, adherence to, update and revision of the document.
Coordinate asset integrity activities carried out under the Asset Integrity Management System to assure the integrity of the COPI assets on a continuing basis.
Prepare the annual Asset Integrity Management Plot and coordinate the implementation of approved activities.
Prepare the risk profile for the assets which summarize strategy, performance and identified risks together with processes for their management.
Help the System Owners and Discipline Engineers, responsible for the guidance, help, implementation and monitoring of integrity related issues and activities as required optimizing the facilities.
Consult with projects and new developments with the aim to ensure appropriate design integrity is delivered by the projects to operations for new facilities.
Coordinate the inspection and official recognition works on static equipment in all COPI Operating Units, in cooperation with the Units related resources. The static equipment is pipeline, pressure vessel, PSV, piping, tank, winch, jetty, and platform.
Coordinate the analysis and interpretation of the static equipment inspection results, also the recommendations for improvements to the management of the Operating Units.
Coordinate the corrosion engineering works in all the Operating Units, in cooperation with the Unit s related resources.
Coordinate the Jakarta office engineering document control works.

If you believe you have the right qualification to succeed, please send your CV detailing experience complete with a current photograph by email to: JobsDB.com
Job vacancy Asset Integrity Engineer at ConocoPhillips expired date August 11, 2010

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July 30, 2010

House OKs Gulf spill bill

“It will kill jobs and increase our reliance on foreign oil and has become a vehicle for controversial and extraneous provisions that do not address the issue at hand — the safety of our offshore oil production,” Green said. …

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The US Gulf of Mexico – Jobs vs Environment

The oil companies and the local politicians whose constituents are tied into oil and gas production like to speak of all the money and jobs lost if drilling is tightened or disallowed in the northern Gulf of Mexico.

We feel if the total externality cost of environmental hurt to this area is considered that these jobs may be too expensive to help.

We heard a fantastic report yesterday on NPR about Galveston the horrible hurt to it’s environment caused by oil spills and tanker crashes. The biologists(hopefully not on Oil company payroll) always point to how things “always come back to the way they were” But is that truly the case?

The NY Times(Gulf of Mexico has long been dumping site) today suggests,

Now that the oil on the surface appears to be dissipating, the notion of a recovery from the spill, repeated by politicians, strikes some here as small-sighted. The gulf had been suffering for decades before the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig on April 20.

“There’s a tremendous amount of outrage with the oil spill, and rightfully so,” said Felicia Coleman, boss of Florida State University’s Coastal and Marine Laboratory. “But where’s the outrage at the thousands and millions of modest cuts we’ve made on a daily basis?”

The gulf is one of the most diverse ecosystems in the hemisphere, a stopping point for migratory birds from South America to the Arctic, home to abundant wildlife and natural resources.
But like no other American body of water, the gulf bears the environmental penalty of the country’s economic pursuits and appetites, including oil and corn.

There are around 4,000 offshore oil and gas platforms and tens of thousands of miles of pipeline in the central and western Gulf of Mexico, where 90 percent of the country’s offshore drilling takes place.
At least half a million barrels of oil and drilling fluids had been spilled offshore before the gusher that started after the April 20 explosion, according to government minutes.

Much more than that has been spilled from pipelines, vessel traffic and wells in state waters — including hundreds of spills in Louisiana alone — minutes show, some of it since April 20.

What if the flattening caused by oil and gas was strongly assaulted by tighter parameter and the abundance of seafood in the area could be increased greatly. Could this not offset the pain caused by the oil industry waste?

There is a bit of excellent news that the Obama administration had even before the DeepWater Horizon industrial accident realized that the Northern Gulf needed more TLC. According to the NY Times,

On July 19, the Obama administration announced the recommendations of the Interagency Ocean Plot Task Force, a committee made in 2009 to coordinate governance over the country’s major bodies of water.
The White House also announced the creation of a gulf restoration road map before the spill to address the long-term problems on the Louisiana and Mississippi coasts.

We focus again on what the right cost of hurt to the Gulf by industrial accidents “must be.”
There needs to be a metric that applies to the hurt to non human plant and animal life by these accidents. That penalty needs to come out of the $20 billion set aside to pay industrial accident claims and must be a part of future aver procedures.

We have been by Gulf drilled oil and gas without truly knowing it’s cost, most importantly it’s environmental cost. If this cost is factored into the price at the pump, then the price of alternatives immediately trump oil and gas and become the favored transportation energy fund

Conserv-A-Store is your favorite Green Goods store-visit us soon

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Stricter safety should lead to oil rig …

Stricter safety must lead to oil rig upgrades

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The sun sets behind two under construction offshore oil platform rigs in Port Fourchon, Louisiana

Jonathan Ratner July 29, 2010 – 12:33 pm

It’s been a terrible year for BP. The company lost a record US$17-billion in the second quarter and its shares fell after it announced plans to shed more assets to help pay for the oil spill.

Collateral hurt from the spill’s resulting ban on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico could weigh on the profits of oil and gas services providers, but despite the ban, even Asian service providers see potential long-term benefits.

U.S. authorities will not delay safety inspections on rigs anymore due to the catastrophic spill, even as a more stringent safety regime could mean higher value jobs in the longer term and quicker replacement need for ancient rigs, according to Kuala Lumpur-based AmResearch.

Rig and equipment manufacturers with operations in the Gulf of Mexico such as Singapore-based Keppel Corp., are poised to benefit from the increased need to replace older generation rigs with new safety measures.

“Even as rig and vessel repair/maintenance work are largely localized jobs, major rig refurbishment or fabrications are likely to be outsourced to Keppel’s Singapore yards,” AmResearch said in a report.

Sembcorp Marine, the world’s second largest rigmaker, also holds a positive view agreed the increased need to replace the older generation rigs agreed new safety measures.

“Even as global jack-up rig utilization is only at 77%, the 111 idle and 56 cold-stacked units are predominantly older rigs,” AmResearch said. “SembMarine indicated that there is still high demand for jack-ups with high specification such as capacity of operating in water depths of over 2,000 feet.”

Companies in the United States that could benefit include Schlumberger Ltd. and Halliburton Co., according to a Dow Jones report. In the future service providers “will have more frequent transactions with the operator” and operators will have to pay for those services, Fadel Gheit, an analyst with Oppenheimer & Co., told Dow Jones.

Joshua Brown

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New Poll: Americans Support Energy …

/PRNewswire/ — A new survey released today by the American Energy Alliance (AEA) found that 77 percent of registered voters oppose efforts in Congress to tax American companies twice on income earned abroad. The poll also found that 3 out of 4 Americans agree that our energy companies must be allowed to continue offshore exploration for energy and, separately, that we must increase U.S. oil production.

“These results may not be what the leaders on Capitol Hill want to hear, but it is no surprise that even with the tragic events unfolding in the Gulf, Americans recognize the realities of our nation’s economy, the abundance of energy still available here in the U.S., and the overall exemplary safety record of our nation’s drillers,” AEA president Thomas Pyle said.

“AEA recently commissioned a study that showed 12,000 jobs would be lost and $2.8 billion in economic activity with it, because of the Administration’s six-month moratorium in the Gulf. This unpopular and excessive ban is costing more jobs every day and will cost every American in terms of higher energy prices and increased reliance on energy from unstable foreign regimes. Again, we urge the Administration to listen to the American people and reopen the Gulf to responsible energy development.”

The survey, conducted by Jan R van Lohuizen from Voter/Consumer Outreach, comes at a time when the President and Congress are attempting to pay for environmental and other pet projects on the backs of American oil and gas companies. Two specific changes to the tax code included in the President’s 2011 budget and under conversation on Capitol Hill would have the impact of increasing the cost of energy in the U.S. and could lead to even more job losses in the energy sector. The U.S. now taxes the global income of its global companies, but provides a credit hostile to domestic tax liability on that income in hopes of keeping American companies from being “double-taxed” on their overseas earnings. Targeting our own energy producers with this double-tax will weaken American energy companies’ ability to compete with foreign energy companies.

Additionally, policymakers are looking to repeal Section 199 tax provisions which gives all businesses that manufacture goods within the U.S. an incentive to grow their U.S. operations and hire more U.S. workers. Some in Washington are attempting to repeal these provisions just on the oil industry, essentially discriminating hostile to energy jobs. Today, the energy industry employs some 9 million workers. But, many of these jobs could be in jeopardy if the Administration and Congress continue the drilling moratorium and impose new and onerous taxes on these companies.

The survey also found that Americans overwhelmingly oppose new set of laws on the energy industry and, instead, help efforts to better enforce existing laws (16%-75%).

The poll was commissioned by Save U.S. Energy Jobs, a project of the American Energy Alliance – a free market energy advocacy organization. To learn more and get exclusive information on upcoming projects, follow Save U.S. Energy Jobs on Twitter and Facebook.

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Gulf oil spill: 100 days of disaster

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The first 100 days of the BP Gulf oil catastrophe have provided an object lesson in the destructiveness and irrationality of capitalism, which subordinates every consideration to the profit drive of the giant corporations and banks.

The April 20 blowout aboard the Deepwater Horizon was, in the fullest sense of the phrase, a disaster waiting to happen. There had been no systematic regulatory enforcement on the Deepwater Horizon or any other Gulf of Mexico oil rig under either president Obama or his predecessor, George W. Bush.

As for existing legal safety requirements, the order of the day was, and remains, “self-reporting.” This was in keeping with the decades-long promotion of deregulation, backed by both parties. Industry itself, the politicians proclaimed, was the only legitimate arbiter of what is safe and beneficial to workers, the environment, and the population.

The disastrous results of deregulation, which surfaced first in the collapse of the global financial markets in 2008, are obvious in the Gulf disaster. There is overwhelming evidence that the blowout was caused by the criminal negligence of BP, aided and abetted by bought-and-paid-for federal “regulators” who did modest more than run interference for the oil industry.

Both Obama and Bush relentlessly promoted deep-sea oil drilling in spite of innumerable warnings from scientists and environmentalists that technology and set of laws to prevent blowouts and respond to them when they suggest itself were inadequate. Systems and equipment for deep-sea drilling, including the now notorious “blowout preventer,” were untested at such depths.

On top of this, it has been documented that the Department of the Interior under the Obama administration took special legal actions to speed the Macondo well along toward production, specifically exempting BP from submitting a legally-required environmental impact statement.

In the rig’s last days, BP’s requests for approval of clearly hazardous decisions were rubber-stamped in a matter of minutes by the Department of the Interior. Then, as the blowout spiraled out of control, the rig’s untested blowout preventer failed, the alarm system was partially disabled, and there proved to be no adequate plot in place to evacuate the rig and respond to a fire. Indeed, it is believed that the haphazard attempt to extinguish the fire by dumping massive quantities of water on it really capsized the rig, likely exacerbating the blowout as the riser pipe crumpled beneath the sinking vessel.

This total regulatory breakdown before a series of profit-driven decisions by BP killed 11 rig workers, leaving behind widows, children, fathers and mothers. And yet not a single representative of BP has been fired or disciplined, much less charged with a crime. No significant official from the Obama administration has stepped down.

As disastrous as it was, the explosion turned out to be only the beginning. The very conditions that led to the blowout—the subordination of all concerns to profit—has dictated every choice in the response to the disaster.

In the initial 48 hours after the explosion, with the fate of the missing workers still unknown, survivors from the rig were quarantined—not for medical evaluation, but so that attorneys from rig-owner Transocean could “debrief” them and blackmail them into singing legal waivers.

For over a week the Obama administration disregarded the spill—besides emphasizing that the “incident,” as Obama first dubbed it, would in no way lessen its help for the lifting of a moratorium on offshore drilling up and down the Atlantic Coast. “In all honesty I skepticism this is the first industrial accident that has happened and I skepticism it will be the last,” declared White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs several days after the explosion.

After belatedly recognizing the dimensions of the disaster, Obama positioned BP in charge of the response and the cleanup, converting the US Coast Guard into a private security force used to block the media and citizens from seeing what the gusher had wrought. The clear conflict of appeal in placing the criminal in charge of its crime scene was disregarded; only BP, it was declared, had the expertise to handle the spill.

For months BP and the Obama administration sought to lessen the catastrophe. Lie after lie was exposed only under the scrutiny of independent scientists, who were able to calculate based on what modest they were allowed to see that this disaster was far worse than the public was being told.

The subordination of the response and the cleanup to BP’s financial interests only served to strengthen the disaster. With the rate of the spill intentionally underestimated—early on by a factor of 100—there was no way an adequate response could be mounted. At the same time, BP’s control over efforts to stop the gusher resulted in one debacle after another—recorded in the now-infamous words “restraint dome,” “top hat,” “top kill,” and “junk shot.”

As the epic scale of the disaster became undeniable in late June, the Obama administration went to defend BP from a feared avalanche of litigation. This is the role assigned to ruling class fixer Kenneth Feinberg and his Independent Claims Facility, a fact that the “claims czar” has not hid. “Investors in BP must know that there’s now an alternative to the litigation system in place,” he told CNBC last month. “I reckon that’s a really helpful sign if you’re an investor.”

BP’s $20 billion escrow will ostensibly cover all expenditure for response and cleanup, plus all hurts. BP will be allowed to fund the escrow over four years—or maybe not; the Obama administration has insisted $20 billion is “neither a floor nor a ceiling.” BP will also write off $10 billion in taxes in the US and an anonymous sum in the United Kingdom, it recently announced.

In a series of public statements since the founding of the fund, Feinberg has outlined policies that will prevent the vast majority of Gulf workers and residents from receiving any compensation for their losses.

Now, 100 days into the disaster, BP’s reported success in finally capping the Macondo well has, predictably, provided occasion for the Obama administration to “go on” and for the media to push the worst environmental catastrophe in North American history to the back pages.

Whether or not the oil has been stopped definitively is far from certain. There remain concerns that the well itself or even the surrounding seabed could be dangerously compromised.

The one certainty is that the American people are not being told the truth. Since the April 20 blowout the record of public statements from both BP and the White House reads like a catalog of lies and evasions.

Even if the gusher is at an end, the disaster has inflicted a devastating blow upon the Gulf. According to a range of official and scientific estimates, somewhere between 95 million and 327 million gallons of heavy crude have been dumped into the Gulf. BP’s own confirmed goal for on-surface ship receiving capacity—3.4 million gallons per day—would indicate that the total spill volume is in the neighborhood of 260 million gallons. On top of this, upwards of one million gallons of poisonous dispersants have been dumped.

Oil has fouled the coastline in Texas, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, where it threatens the Mississippi Delta—New Orleans’ main barrier to hurricanes—with irreparable hurt. Massive underwater clouds of hydrocarbons are moving through the Gulf, depleting oxygen from layers of the water column. Entire species may vanish from the region.

The Gulf fishing industry has been shut down and is unlikely to recover for many years, if ever. The tourism industry has also been punished, bringing many proprietors to the brink of bankruptcy. Home values, already in sharp decline, especially in Florida, will be forced down further. Over 100,000 jobs are immediately threatened by the disaster, according to one estimate. Tax revenue in the Gulf States will further contract, resulting in more layoffs of state workers and deeper cuts to shared spending and education. A digit of doctors and scientists have warned of the likelihood for a public health disaster that will last for years, particularly among cleanup workers, whom BP has denied basic schooling and safety equipment such as respirators.

In the face of this disaster, $20 billion—even were it to be completely realized—is a pittance. This miserly sum ensures that the limited cleanup operations already underway will be largely scotched and the ecological and human health disaster left to fester. Fishermen and tens of thousands of tourism industry workers will be dumped into the greatest unemployment crisis since the Fantastic Depression.

This cannot be allowed. All those who have suffered due to the spill must be made financially whole. Hundreds of billions must be made available for a massive cleanup campaign run by scientists, engineers, and public health experts, independent of BP and the government.

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JOBS IN NIGERIA, OPPORTUNITIES IN NIGERIA, JOB …

Chevron has been active in Nigeria since 1913, when legacy company Texaco products were first brought to the market. As Texaco Overseas (Nigeria) Petroleum Co. (TOPCON) and before long Chevron Nigeria Ltd. (CNL), the Company learned Nigeria’s first offshore oil fields in 1963-the Koluama and Okan fields

Come be a part of a dynamic team in one of Chevron’s largest exploration and production companies and one of Africa’s most prolific oil-producing countries.

Here is a list of available jobs as advertised by the company. You may click on the Ref. No. for a particular job to view detailed information about that job e.g. description, qualification, experience etc. If you meet the requirement for any of the advertised jobs and you are interested in applying, kindly click on the Apply Now button.

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