For more than a decade, the Great Crew Change has generated deep concern among many – and skepticism among some – in the oil and natural gas industry.
Much like the old story about the boy who cried “wolf” so many times that nobody would listen when the wolf finally was at the door, statistics confirm that the post-World War II “baby boom” generation is at the retirement door.
What remains to be seen is how well the industry on the whole heeded the “wolf cries” to usher in a well-trained new generation of both technical professionals and rig labor, the two areas of greatest perceived need…