It’s time once again for our Annual Year In Review interviews! Last February 2020, Ryan Alder, AE Partners, gives a brief history of his recruitment company and how many shale plays they are currently doing business in. Alder gives an update on the Bakken and cites Colorado as a play that is slowing down.
Retirement and The Big Crew Shift is discussed in detail. Alder said he is seeing more companies allocating money towards research and development sectors as well as engineers.
Some industry experts have said up to 70% of the industry will be new by 2023 due to retirements, layoffs and new hires.
Back in February, welders, pipeliners, process engineers and flowback veterans were in demand.
“…there is kind of a old generation and a new generation, and they kind of do clash because you know they both see a kind of a different respect for the field. It’s a lot easier now than what it was a long time ago, so some of these guys have been in the real hard days where, you know, was a time it was very much real tough. It was an industry where you had to be tough to survive and it’s kind of not as tough anymore and the older generation, I think, struggle with that because they’ve seen how hard things were in the past and they kind of do take a little bit harder on the newer guys because they’ve got a lot easier than what they did when they first broke out…”
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