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Roger on November 11, 2005 - 7:00pm Permalink | Subthread | Comments top
I'm in the natural-gas business in the Netherlands.
Here's the same; all folks of 50 yrs or older, close to retirement and no visible workforce with knowledge in sight.

And in the mean time......

Globaly, the trees are dying, the animals are getting whiped out with unprecedented speeds, the water tables are shrinking and the depletion of natural resources sets in. At the same time the human population is growing with exponential rates.

Our society is like an airplane in complete free-fall. Because of the flying sensation, most people think we're flying. But some of us know we're just dropping and see the ground comming on to us, fast. They're trying to get the message out there, hopefully some more will see the ground comming.

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Rembrandt on November 11, 2005 - 8:03pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Ah a Dutchy! Do you know Peak Oil Netherlands Foundation? (http://www.peakoil.nl)
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Roger on November 12, 2005 - 6:03am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Certainly, I follow your work closely.
And I'm still curious if you have any progress in
educating our politicans. Who only seen to ben interested in
the daily news....
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Rembrandt on November 12, 2005 - 8:43am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
We are working on it, had some talks with politicians. I hope we can get a next round when my report is released next week
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Roger on November 14, 2005 - 5:59am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
What report are you releasing next week?
I've checked http://www.peakoil.nl/ but couldn't find something about a report.
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helium3 on November 12, 2005 - 2:46am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
That's garabge. Maybe I'm extrapolating more than I should from a single data point, but my alma mater was graduating just as many ChE's now as they were in the 50's. Granted, a lot of those graduates weren't terribly interested in going into the traditional industries, but that had a lot to do with the working conditions and the fact that GenX and the Greatest Generation and Baby Boomers don't seem to get along very well for some reason.
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MikeCotton on November 13, 2005 - 8:41pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
My alma mater is the University of Texas, and as you said, we were graduating massive numbers of Chem E.s  in the 90s when I was there.  Not many Pet E.s though, almost none. And Geology majors were pretty much non-existant.  And that's at one of the biggest oil schools in the country. Only Texas A&M (god it hurts to say that) and CSM are bigger.  

The manpower situation is real.

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Roger on November 14, 2005 - 5:47am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Yes, the man-power situation is very real indeed.
Don't forget that a massive number of new drilling sites will be needed in order to keep up with depletion the comming years.

One sign of problems in workforce-numbers and knowledge is that the oil & gas business start to have accidents at facilities....

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