Oil giant cutting jobs in Kern County

Kern Golden Empire ^ | 3/28/14 | staff

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BAKERSFIELD, CA -- As far as jobs are concerned, it could be the first tangible fallout from legislation to beef up oilfield fracking regulations in California.

Baker Hughes Incorporated announced Thursday afternoon it will release or redeploy 110 workers in its western region due to what it called "declining market needs." Rick Pierruci, the company's managing director for the western region says the reduction in force is largely due to the recent passing of California Senate Bill 4, which further regulates hydraulic fracturing operations, causing a slow-down of related activity for the oil and gas industry.

Bottom line, the oil service company says Senator Fran Pavli's bill is causing a backlog in the processing of permits for fracking jobs in Kern County. Baker Hughes says other oilfield service companies are being negatively impacted as well.

[Kit cat]

All of this has become so ridiculous, in China the air is SO bad they are
wearing masks, Paris France also!! I guess all of these idiots do not think
the air is global!! Once a great nation reduced to this!!!

[VerySadAmerican]

Isn’t it amazing how dumb liberals bitch about the one percenters then vote for the Pelosis and Reids? They actually believe those politicians care about them.

[SierraWasp]

I don't know what happened to Dog Gone! All I know is that he seems to be gone!!! He could be lurking but I think he got into a beef with some here about not being a rabid enough conservative toward "W" and I think he finally left in disgust.

I once typed to him about stopping by for a cup of coffee when planning my 2009 trip through Houston.

But when I got there and was in the LBJ space center in the control room for the moon launches, they reminded me on a Wednesday that the space shuttle was lifting off the following Monday to service the space telescope and we jumped right up and drove straight to Cape Canaveral without another thought!!!

[Carry_Okie]

He could be lurking but I think he got into a beef with some here about not being a rabid enough conservative toward "W" and I think he finally left in disgust.

By now it's probably shame.

[SierraWasp]

Quite possibly, knowing who he represented. Plus how screwed up things are now that his buddy “W” has retired! Maybe if we type enough tantilizing stuff on here about him now, he’ll come up out of the shadows, ya think? (grin)

[Smokin' Joe]

What Obama wants to do to the rest of the oil patch...

[South Dakota]

I’ve lived in Big Piney/Pinedale, Rock Springs wy, Richfield Utah, Ross Nd, Blasidel nd and I now live in McGregor nd.

camping out for almost nine years through the boom and the bust of the oil patch.

dreaming of Texas but I have a good thing here in McGregor