US Gulf 'Permitorium' Speeding Up Losses of Vital E&P Personnel

摘要

People, power and politics. Those three "Ps" came up again and again during a panel discussion during CeraWeek 2011 about the service industries along the Gulf Coast and how they are weathering the post-Macondo Gulf of Mexico. "We are losing skilled labor—it's not easy to say, but we as a company and the industry as a whole are losing people," J. Ray McDermott Chief Executive John Nesser told Natural Gas Week on the sidelines of the IHS-sponsored event. "It hurts, because this is affecting South Texas and South Louisiana, that's where the offshore industry began."