this guy must love you W....

Jealousy is shown in full force right now.

they tabled their project......

current tradesman needs are going to be in the 10's of thousands in the next 36 months......Shell wants to build their facility when the demand starts to come down........

paying 30% more for labor on a 22 BILLION dollar project can and would have some negative affects on the profitability of the project....

There still pursuing FEED on the job....
but it will be a few years from now

The needs will be crazy. There are projects now in LC to build facilities to house the people here for the work. "man camp" type places with transportation to and from work.

Where is Shell wanting to build this plant?

Lol....cool lets just give out titles without having certain degrees.

I guess I can call myself a DR now...lol

Geismar...

There's a steam job and water job listing

W Sasol takes care of their operators.... id look into it for sure.... I left Sasol bc they do not take care of their inspectors.... Operators have it made tho.

I hope to it comes back to life....Company I work for, we have a technology alliance agreement with Shell and it does not seem like it will happen.

NEW YORK, Dec 5 (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell said on Thursday it has canceled a proposed gas-to-liquids (GTL) plant in Louisiana less than two years after the plan surfaced as costs rose and the company reins in spending. The project, which would have converted natural gas to diesel, jet fuel and other refined products, was expected to cost more than $20 billion, a Shell spokeswoman said, up from the minimum $12.5 billion price tag estimated in September. Converting natural gas to diesel looked like an attractive option last year when record high production pushed natural gas prices to decade lows. Expected increases in natural gas demand for power generation and for export overseas has since helped bolster prices. Shell said it was now unclear if such a project, which has proved a success in other parts of the world, would be feasible in North America. Shell already operates the Bintulu GTL plant in Malaysia, which opened in 1993, and the Pearl plant in Qatar, the largest one of its kind, which started full operations in 2012. "Despite the ample supplies of natural gas in the area, the company has taken the decision that GTL is not a viable option for Shell in North America at this time," Shell said in a statement. A glut of natural gas supplies in North America widened the gap between oil and gas prices last year, prompting the first serious look at GTL technology in the United States. South African energy firm Sasol is building a 96,000 barrel-per-day GTL plant in Westlake, Louisiana, which is expected to cost $11 billion-$14 billion. But the price tag for its 140,000-barrel-per-day Louisiana project proved too high for Shell, which is slowing spending under its incoming chief executive Ben van Beurden. Shell recently canceled the $10 billion Arrow LNG project in Australia, potentially in favor of a rival project. Last year, U.S. natural gas prices fell below $2 per million British thermal units, but they have since rebounded to above $4. Gasoline prices, meanwhile, are expected to fall three percent next year, according to the Energy Information Administration. "The trend seems to be convergent in that gasoline demand growth is not as strong...and natural gas prices will likely not stay low forever," said Anthony Yuen, analyst at Citigroup in New York. "It is not that [natural gas prices and gasoline prices] will converge, but they will come in somewhat." -

Great place to work I worked there as a contractor Bobbynofish wife works there I would jump on that one

Jeremy... all of the plants use steam for various reasons. Steam is usually generated at the powerhouse to drive a steam turbine. There is a large pipeline network in all of the plants that supply different types of steam as required within the facility. (typically characterized by pressure, 90lb steam, 250lb steam, etc).

Sounds to me like an operations job that involves most if not all units within the facility. You would probably get to interact with several units within the facility if you are a steam operator. This could be a great opportunity to get your foot in an open door.

Seems to me most operations jobs are about learning the processes and units. As you master each unit, you can move up the ladder. People that have been successful in operations in multiple units usually get those area supervisor jobs and eventually move up into upper management.

engineer- a person who designs, builds, or maintains engines, machines, or public works

nothing about that says anything about having a degree.

there are "field engineers" out here working for contractor at new casino that are basically assistant project managers, do they have an engineering degree? no

All I know is this, I have worked for two medium sized public traded companies (still with one of them about to make 14 years) and they never gave out a job title of "Engineer" unless you have an engineering degree from an accredited college. Now I have seen where family owned companies throw out all these bogus job title names because most do not have specific corporate guidelines on pay structure and job titles and such. They own the buisness so they do what they want.

ok bruh is an engineer....happy now.

Falling star,

Do you have some kind of burr up your @ss? I have an MS in engineering, and I am not running around acting like the engineering police. Get over yourself and your BS.

buddy is a mud engineer, he ain't graduate none of them colleges either

And I have a phD in engineering...how about that....you see how easy it is.

ok lets just call ourselves what ever job title we want...sounds good to me.

We have hands that work offshore on the boat who never made it past 3rd grade and they are called engineers

LMAO

I know bruh....see my job titles under my name now..lol

I worked at a top ten (by market cap) publicly traded company for a number of years. My job title always included the word engineer: Senior Engineer, Principal Engineer, Engineer IV, etc. This was a job earning six figures, not some "bogus job title."

Yet, I've never possessed an engineering degree, and none of my coursework in college had "engineering" in the name or was taught by an engineering department (except for a single programming class, PASCAL).

A degree from an accredited engineering program is only one possible way to demonstrate a minimal level of competence to a potential employer. There are others.

One key factor is that Louisiana is not producing nearly enough graduates from "accredited engineering programs." Many jobs with a firm requirement for a Bachelors degree in engineering go unfilled for a loooooong time. Yet the jobs still need to be done. Wise employers often fill positions with greater flexibility regarding how job competencies are established.

I just watched a train pass, think it had an engineer driving it....