Oooooh, This Is Nice: Energy Companies Hiring -- Look At These Familiar Names

Link to Rigzone.com.

Houston Chronicle's annual ranking of the city's top workplaces for 2012 listing 150 notable companies due to their advancement opportunities.

But before we get to the story, first, this pretty good cover, only because the earth did not end today (for newbies, play the video while reading the story; I often read the MDW on the iPad; my version iPad cannot multi-task and that's the reason for embedding):

Remember, The Hillbilly Moon Explosion  

Now the story. By the way, if you go to the link you can click on a slide show for each of these companies to view advancement opportunities:

•  Anadarko: largest independent deepwater producer in the Gulf of Mexico
• TransCanada: the third largest natural gas storage provider in North America
• Aker Solutions: headquartered in Norway; oil services 
• Enbridge: recognized for operating the world's longest, most sophisticated crude oil and liquids transportation system; (a top favorite of MDW)
• Noble Energy: one of the first independent producers to explore the Gulf of Mexico
• Hilcorp: third-largest, privately-held exploration and production company in the US
• EOG: one of MDW's favorites, not for its Bakken, but for its Eagle Ford
• Linn Energy: has grown from a handful of natural gas wells in 2003 to a top-15 independent US E&P company with 5.1 trillion cubic feet of proved reserves in the US
• Energy XXI: in six of the 11 largest fields in the Gulf of Mexico; headquartered in Bermuda (note for global warming advocates: Bermuda is an island; islands may disappear to rising oceans; use caution)
• Oil and Gas Solutions: an independent, specializing in large but lightweight topsides designs that are fit for purpose for fixed/floating production facilities; founded in 2007 with 15 employees; a goal to supass 250 employees by 2015.

By the way, back to the linked video. Play it loud. Several times. Does it remind you of anything (other than the Phil Spector wall of sound, which it wasn't)?  Listen to any number of James Bond theme songs. Skyfall is only the most recent, but Shirley Bassey, with Goldfinger, I think started it all, and set the bar. What a great country (see comments).