Bakken oil is back, hungrier than ever

[TexasTowelie]

WATFORD CITY — From Watford City and Williston and places all around the oilfield, companies came to Watford City’s first big job fair in the Rough Rider Center. The companies were hungry to hire, and hire they did, many times right on the spot. But most of the companies went home with fewer prospects than they had available jobs.“I don’t know what everyone else is doing, but I have my three hiring managers here and we are doing interviews and making conditional offers on the spot,” said Doug Kirkwood, with Select Energy Services.

The conditions included passing a drug screening and background check. Ten conditional offers had been made at the midpoint of the first fair, leaving another 20 positions still open.

The job fair attracted about 225 people, which Kirkwood said was better than he expected given it’s the first. Hiring in the Bakken, he said, is a continuous operation.

“With the turnover and the growth and the future, you just have to go ahead and hire and hope your plan is correct,” he said.

Read more: http://www.willistonherald.com/news/bakken-oil-is-back-hungrier-than-ever/article_4799e034-5170-11e7-b3c5-3706c39468cd.html

[Gothmog]

1. Oil prices are still lower than I would like

[bobalew]

2. That's because they have figured out a way to cheat their land owner lessors out of their royalties:

My family owns 160 acres north of Killdeer, with active leased out wells, including a super drilling unit, for a well on the border of a standard drilling unit. This means that that one particular well pays one half standard leased royalty interest. A well next to that well for which we have full royalty interest was paid out to us in the past 3 years has had its production shifted the lower paying well, by back-COOKING THE BOOKS AND DEDUCTING A MONTHS PRODUCTION every month for the last 3 years, and now Marathon says I still owe them now about $4K, thus causing an undue hardship. This is egregiously criminal activity and breach of contract on their part. Deal is, they have inadvertently given me all the necessary information & proof to sue the Crap out of them & start a class action lawsuit. All I need is a good lawyer to Start it off... Any suggestions?