Exxon suspends employee retirement contributions
Exxon Mobil Corp is suspending the company’s contribution to the U.S. employee retirement savings plan beginning in October, Reuters reports.
Exxon spokeswoman Ashley Alemayehu tells...
Raid targets Bollinger Shipyards in ‘criminal investigation’
Federal agents with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security led a raid last week on Bollinger Shipyards’ main facility on Highway 308 in Lockport...
Hydraulic fracturing company plans 273 Louisiana layoffs
A hydraulic fracturing company that has filed for bankruptcy plans to lay off 273 Louisiana workers.
BJ Services has notified the Louisiana Department of Labor...
Shaw is back: McDermott sells Louisiana, other pipe fabrication assets
Shaw is back.
Houston-based McDermott International Inc., which expects to emerge from bankruptcy in the second quarter, has sold the former pipe fabrication assets of...
Turner Industries closing its Corpus Christi steel pipe fabrication plant
Baton Rouge's Turner Industries Group is closing its steel pipe fabrication plant in Corpus Christi.
The company told the Texas Workforce Commission in April that...
Toolbox Talks: How SpaceX and NASA don’t think about safety
On May 27, 2020, much of the world watched with anticipation as the SpaceX Falcon 9 was set to launch and carry two NASA...
Pelican ABC member companies serve 3,000 meals to Capitol Region healthcare workers and nonprofits
The Pelican Chapter of the Associated Builders and Contractors last week hosted Workforce Feeding Frontlines, a community event for the Merit Shop construction workforce...
How Louisiana industry is prepping for the ‘new normal’
Petrochemical leaders are finding they have a lot in common with other market sectors as they sit on the various COVID-19 task forces overseen...
LMOGA, NOIA seek COVID-19 test kits, equipment for offshore workers
The National Ocean Industries Association and the Louisiana Mid-Continent Oil & Gas Association have asked federal and Louisiana government officials for allocation of COVID-19 test kits and equipment...
Toolbox Talks: Safe behaviors and risk compensation
In skydiving, there is a tenet called Booth’s rule #2: "The safer skydiving gear becomes, the more chances skydivers will take, in order to...
