On the day the U.S. population hit 300 million, the energy sector was complaining that it did not have enough skilled workers. The issue was front and center at Global E&C Forum IX at Rice University, Houston. The energy sector has been caught between booming demand for new construction and a dwindling and aging supply of craft labor. "In my 35 years in the industry, I've never seen anything like it," said C. Skip Alvarado, vice president, upstream energy and chemicals, for Fluor Corp., Dallas, and a speaker at the meeting.
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