“The pool of drivers with at least two to three years of oilfield experience ‘has dwindled to nothing’ … companies are "substituting formal training for experience." That quote from a Permian frac sand hauler in a Dallas Morning News article is what many in the Permian cite as the reason a 79 mile stretch of highway has been dubbed “Death Highway.”
Management in the upstream oil and gas industry comes in many forms. From branch and area managers to office and account managers, field managers and engineering managers, the managerial workforce is not just the middle-management backbone of the industry – it is the core of most company operations.