Best High-Paying High Demand Oil and Gas Jobs in Pennsylvania to 2020

Chesapeake Energy, active in the $3.25 Billion worth of oil and natural gas deals cut in Eastern and Southern Ohio for early 2012, is also active in Pennsylvania for the next decade or longer. The company announced in late December 2011 its plans to sell $865 Million of Pennsylvania oil and gas pipelines to one of its subsidiaries. This includes over 200 miles of pipelines for the subsidiary Chesapeake Midstream, which is already a huge gas and oil company in America.

In addition, a group of attorneys from Texas makes the third Texas law firm to have moved into Northwestern Pennsylvania to take advantage of the growing oil boom. Their specialty is serving oil and gas companies and they are The Sadler Law Firm. It expects to need another 20 - 30 attorneys in 2012 at the Southpointe Business Park in Washington County (see map below), which increases jobs in the legal professions. Another top oil and gas specialty law firm already at work is Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC in Pittsburgh.

Marcellus and Utica Shale deposits, named for sites in New York State, cover most of the State of Pennsylvania and at least 75% of the land from the Ohio border on the west, eastwards to Philadelphia (see map below).

Of important note are the cities of Pittsburgh, offering oil and natural gas jobs, and Oil City to the north. Oil City became a famous oil company headquarters town for several firms after the first US oil well was purportedly drilled on a Pennsylvania farm to start the US Oil Industry in 1859. This was about the time that the American Railroad became more useful, just the right time for oil transport to begin. In fact, Pennsylvania has been known as a railroading state, with famous trains and tracks at Altoona PA and the film train disaster film Unstoppable filmed on location in Pittsburgh.

Interestingly, oil was first reported before the American Revolution, by a Swedish settler around Oil City. He observed that Native Americans, namely the Seneca Nation of the long-time Iroquois Confederacy, had already been skimming oil from Oil Creek for trade with whites for some time. They continued to do so until about 1800. Among the Iroquois Six Nations that traded with and befriended whites, the Senecas most often married into white families and developed businesses in New York and Pennsylvania.

The Oil Creek River Valley in Northwestern Pennsylvania is a historic site included in the Oil Heritage Sites for Pennsylvania. On the map above, you can see Titusville, where the first oil well in America was drilled and below that, Oil City. "Oil Tourism" is a major contributor to the local economies in this area.

The Pennsylvania and National Oil Heritage Areas contain a total of over 700 square miles of land and dozens of communities. Economic development and environment protection are major goals in this combined region.

On the map to the right, we see that the combined shale deposits reach from New York into Canada, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Virginia and a small part of Tennessee.

Pennsylvania and Ohio are experiencing a low-cost natural gas boom in shale oil that is driving natural gas prices down, especially in Pennsylvania since 2008. The boom is stimulating additional investments in factories that use shale gas as well. Marcellus and Utica Shale states are offering incentives to attract such shale-gas-using companies that produce chemicals, plastics, fertilizers, steel, and several additional product lines.

Examine the most frequently listed oil and gas jobs in Pennsylvania below and watch for many more before the end of 2020.

At the end of December 2011, approximately 3,000 oil and natural gas related jobs were open in Pennsylvania, largely at the cities marked on the map offered below. Another 300+ jobs in oil and gas pipeline engineering and related jobs were also open.

1. Water Truck Drivers
2. Heavy Haul Truck Drivers
3. 92F Petroleum Supply Specialist
4. Telesales Business Development Representative III - Oil and Gas sales
5. Fuelers / Truck Wash / Tires
6. Mechanics
7. Diesel Technician/Mechanics
8. Completion Superintendents
9. Completion Foremen
10. Diesel Mechanic for Fleets
11. Natural Gas Project Managers
12. Petroleum Supply Specialists
13. OTR Drivers - Over the road, long haul.
14. Valve Technicians
15. Pipeline Engineers

1. Baker Hughes
2. Halliburton
3. Dawn Trucking
4. Cenergy
5. GE Energy
6. Penske
7. Valvoline Oil - Instant change stations crew and management
8. URS Corporation
9. TransTechs
10. System One
11. ERM
12. United States Steel Corporation
13. Deloitte
14. Worleyparsons
15. Chevron
16. Schlumberger

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