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View All NewsAs US shale oil drilling rebounds, few takers for $80,000 jobs (Bloomberg News)
March 08, 2017
Crude is nowhere near its $100-plus per-barrel highs of recent years, but drillers pounced after it steadily crept back up from the $26 bottom it sank to early last year, Bloomberg News reports. And as they tap more and more new wells, the rebound is spreading quickly, and powerfully, to the oilfield-services outfits that were hard hit during the collapse. Agility Energy Inc. CEO Perry Taylor is on the hunt for truckers to haul fracking sand and even at $80,000 a year, jobs are hard to fill. “It’s tough,” Taylor said. “We’ve got commitments that are very difficult to keep right now because we can’t get the drivers.”