With an unemployment rate of 10.4 percent, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, was the ideal setting for a job fair last week, featuring 50 employers including members of the oil and natural gas industry.
Sitting atop the Marcellus Shale formation, county residents have the opportunity to join an industry that already supports 9.2 million American jobs and is poised to create more.
Bob Garland of Universal Well Services Inc. described the job opportunities during a PowerPoint presentation. Citing a Penn State study, he said the industry is likely to create more than 98,000 jobs and funnel $14.8 billion into the state's economy this year.
About 1,750 wells have been drilled in the Marcellus Shale so far, and many more are expected. (Daily Courier) By using the co... more »
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