据美国油价网2022年4月5日报道，尽管每桶100美元的油价激励着加拿大艾伯塔省增加原油产量，但加拿大原油产量的增加却受到了一个与美国页岩地区相似的问题的阻碍——无法雇用到足够的熟练工人。

在2020年疫情引起经济衰退期间，加拿大石油行业失去了很多就业机会，在艾伯塔省许多此前被石油和天然气行业雇佣的工人已经转移到其他经济领域寻求稳定。  

加拿大能源承包商协会(CAOEC)主席兼首席执行官马克·肖尔茨告诉CBC新闻记者朱莉娅·王：“加拿大石油工业依赖的工人已经转移到其他行业——贸易、建筑—— 并在其他地方——无论是在加拿大西部，还是在加拿大中部和东部——找到了其他工作。 

去年年底，CAOEC曾预计，今年加拿大将开钻6457口新井，比去年计划钻取的5094口井增加了1363口。

这个代表加拿大在靠近井口作业的能源服务承包商的协会在其2021年第四季度和2022年钻井预测中表示，今年加拿大石油行业的总就业岗位数量为34925个，比2021年增加了7280个工作岗位。 早在去年11月，CAOEC就表示CAOEC的预测面临的最大风险将是劳动力限制。 CAOEC在11月的预测中表示，在经历了多年的低迷之后，由于劳动力短缺，CAOEC成员在2021年面临钻井队限制，阻碍了该行业满足日益增长需求的能力。

今年，加拿大表示，由于西方进口商对大国石油的兴趣减少，加拿大预计将增加其原油出口。 与此同时，由于油价居高不下，越来越多的加拿大生产商正在考虑增产。  

李峻 编译自 美国油价网

原文如下：

Canada’s Oil Boom Constrained By Workforce Shortage

While $100 oil incentivizes increased production in Canada’s crude-producing province of Alberta, the ramp-up of production is being held back by an issue all too familiar to the U.S. shale patch—there are not enough skilled workers to employ.

During the 2020 slump induced by the pandemic, the industry lost a lot of jobs, and many of the workers previously employed in oil and gas in Alberta have now moved on to other sectors of the economy, seeking stability, which is a rare and short-lived occurrence in today’s oil market.

“The pool that we relied on have moved to other occupations — trades, construction — and have found other employment elsewhere, whether in Western Canada, or have moved back home to jurisdictions that we had traditionally recruited from, like Central Canada and Eastern Canada,” Mark Scholz, president and CEO of the Canadian Association of Energy Contractors (CAOEC), told Julia Wong of CBC News.

At the end of last year, CAOEC had expected that a total of 6,457 wells were expected to be drilled in Canada in 2022, which would be an increase of 1,363 from the 5,094 wells planned for drilling in 2021.

The number of total jobs was to stand at 34,925 this year, an increase of 7,280 jobs in the Canadian oil patch compared to 2021, the association representing Canada’s energy service contractors operating close to the wellhead said in its Q4 2021 and 2022 Drilling Forecast. Back in November, CAOEC expected that the biggest risk to CAOEC’s forecast was going to be labor constraints. After years of lows, CAOEC members struggled in 2021 with crew constraints due to labor shortages, hampering the sector’s ability to meet growing demand, the association said in its forecast in November.  

This year,  Canada said it expects to boost its crude oil exports as Western importers turn away from oil. Meanwhile, as oil prices remain high, a growing number of Canadian producers are considering production increases.