Pipelines, energy and natural resources

[daftandbarmy]

Industry is chuffed...

A federal-provincial agreement on energy policy is being characterized as “pragmatic” and “a game changer” by the president of a group representing oil and gas drillers in Canada, even as the industry comes off a down year.

Mark Scholz, president of the Canadian Association of Energy Contractors (CAOEC), which represents 89 Canadian land drilling, offshore drilling and service rig companies, told reporters Monday that the agreement reached between Alberta and Ottawa was “great news for the conventional side of the business.”

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/oil-and-gas-drilling-alberta-danielle-smith-mark-scholz-9.6999234

 

[Kirkhill]

In some hiring circles, informally (there'd be hell to pay if it were formal) a Canadian or US 4-year undergrad in STEM is worth a European masters in STEM. Not sure cheaping it is the way to go.

For high-potential STEM students, the breaks are when they get hired (or used to be) for things like NSERC-funded assistant positions and/or co-ops. The former category in particular is/was a useful way of prepping and screening people for advanced studies other than dead-end masters, MBAs, and PHDs.

Take a look at the CEO Farley thread though. Industry is looking for the STEM inclined right now to turn them into tradesfolk. Why wait years and take on debt trying to get qualified to compete for half a dozen low paying NSERC positions when you can start accumulating that downpayment on a house today? And later, if you are getting bored with just making money and the bones are starting to creak then you can go back to school to indulge in theory or perhaps management. The time in trades will make you better at either.

 

[Brad Sallows]

Take a look at the CEO Farley thread though. Industry is looking for the STEM inclined right now to turn them into tradesfolk. Why wait years and take on debt trying to get qualified to compete for half a dozen low paying NSERC positions when you can start accumulating that downpayment on a house today? And later, if you are getting bored with just making money and the bones are starting to creak then you can go back to school to indulge in theory or perhaps management. The time in trades will make you better at either.

Engineering, math, and physics departments are not over-enrolled with people who don't belong there. I doubt chem and bio are either. Undergrads don't compete for summer research assistant jobs for the money; they do it to polish their grad school applications.

Time in trades doesn't make a person much better in a lab, and does nothing for theory.

You have the wrong people in mind. Aptitude to get past first year calculus isn't needed for trades.