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准备明后年卖房子南下了！After spending years searching for enough crude to pump, the U.S. oil and natural gas industry now is struggling to find and pay for enough skilled workers to tap the abundant supply in shale rock, putting US$100-billion in planned petrochemical projects at risk.Engineers and similar professionals earned an average US$183,000 to US$285,000 in 2012 depending on their position and background, a 20% to 50% jump since 2009, NES Global Talent data show. Wages in energy and mining have grown at nine times the rate of all industries since 2008, and starting salaries for petroleum engineering graduates are about US$98,000, up 9.7% since 2008, according to PayScale Inc.Alberta oil patch’s high wages attract U.S. workersThe boom in U.S. shale oil and natural gas production threatens to cut off a key supply of skilled temporary foreign workers for Alberta companies, as more tradespeople opt to work on large infrastructure projects in the United States despite the lure of dramatically higher wages in Western Canada.Continue reading.The need is acute at the newest chemical, refining and export complexes that serve a shale-drilling renaissance that has given U.S. companies the competitive advantage of low gas prices. As shale projects and their infrastructure multiplies, the ensuing war for talent will double labor costs by 2020 for skilled workers such as geoscientists and engineers, according to NES Global and Piper Morgan Associates.“If you can spell ‘shale,’ you can get a job,” Ryan Lance, chief executive officer of ConocoPhillips, said March 5 at the IHS CERAWeek energy conference in Houston.Wage costs that already have pushed up price tags for energy-related plants from Australia to Canada by as much as 20% are forecast to balloon more, putting US$100-billion of U.S. projects at risk during the next decade, based on data compiled by Bloomberg.Potential ProjectsThe crush of potential projects, the breakneck pace of drilling and greater manpower needs due to the complexity of efforts that include drilling 5 miles (8 kilometres) below the seafloor have driven up U.S. labor costs for some positions, Dane Groeneveld, North America regional director for NES Global, said in a telephone interview.If you can spell ‘shale,’ you can get a jobSkilled and experienced workers such as engineers are earning an average of between US$183,000 and US$285,000 a year depending on the position and experience level and about US$120,000 a year after graduating from college, NES data show. Salaries in some fields may double in the next seven years, Groeneveld said.‘Wonderful Problem’“The cost of labour is being bid up, and that’s a problem for our competitiveness,” said Peter Robertson, a former vice chairman of the board of Chevron Corp. who is now an independent senior adviser to Deloitte LLP. “What a wonderful problem to have.”Projects already being built by companies including Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. and Cheniere Energy Inc. should escape the hurdle as they are expected to be completed before half the global energy workforce retires in the next 10 years.

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