*** 传说中的Fort McMurray, 不是北大荒 ***
 

常有朋友问起Fort McMurray,一个在传说中被想象成北大荒的地方.就再一次描述一下吧.

That's it, beautiful Fort McMurray!

. 70k residents
. Surrounded by forests
. In the junction of two rivers
. With Superstore, Safeway, Canadian Tire...
. All oil companiies are over 40km away from the city
. 15% ~ 20% year end bonus in most oil sand companies
. A beautiful small city with housing price 20% higher than Calgary
. Take company busses to commute to work from city to plant everyday
. All goods price remain same as Calgary except housing price & labor costs
..............


http://www.woodbuffalo.net/

看着比CALGARY好。

是真的吗?
 

听说Fort McMurray申请入籍从递申请到宣誓只需半年时间.

Fort McMurray的标语
 

来这儿的人都为了赚钱，不为入籍。

这正是：

Fort McMurray is ：

For Make Money。

New info collection - Athabasca Oil Sands
 

Athabasca Oil Sands

The Athabasca Oil Sands are a large deposit of oil-rich bitumen located in northern Alberta, Canada. These oil sands consist of a mixture of crude bitumen (a semi-solid form of crude oil), silica sand, clay minerals, and water. The Athabasca deposit is the largest of three oil sands deposits in Alberta, along with the Peace River and Cold Lake deposits. Together, these oil sand deposits cover about 141 000 km² of sparsely populated boreal forest and muskeg (peat bogs). The Athabasca oil sands are named after the Athabasca River which cuts through the heart of the deposit, and traces of the heavy oil are readily observed on the river banks. Historically, the bitumen was used by the indigenous Cree and Dene Aboriginal peoples to waterproof their canoes. The oil deposits are located within the boundaries of Treaty 8, and several First Nations of the area are involved with the sands. The oil sands were first seen by Europeans in 1788.

The key characteristic of the Athabasca deposit is that it is the only one shallow enough to be suitable for surface mining. About 10% of the Athabasca oil sands are covered by less than 75 metres (250 feet) of overburden. The mineable area as defined by the Alberta government covers 37 contiguous townships (about 3400 square kilometres or 1300 square miles) north of the city of Fort McMurray. The overburden consists of 1 to 3 metres of water-logged muskeg on top of 0 to 75 metres of clay and barren sand, while the underlying oil sands are typically 40 to 60 metres thick and sit on top of relatively flat limestone rock. As a result of the easy accessibility, the world's first oil sands mine was started by Great Canadian Oil Sands (now Suncor) back in 1967. The Syncrude mine (the biggest mine in the world) followed in 1978, and the Albian Sands mine (operated by Shell Canada) in 2003. All three of these mines are associated with bitumen upgraders that convert the unusable bitumen into synthetic crude oil for shipment to refineries in Canada and the United States.

The Athabasca oil sands are primarily located in and around the city of Fort McMurray which was still, in the late 1950s, primarily a wilderness outpost of a few hundred people whose main economic activities included fur trapping and salt mining. Since the energy crisis of the 1970s, Fort McMurray has been transformed into a boomtown of 80,000 people struggling to provide services and housing for migrant workers, many of them from Eastern Canada, especially Newfoundland.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athabasca_Oil_Sands

Fort McMurray

Location
Fort McMurray is located 370 m above sea level. It is 435 km northeast of Edmonton on Highway 63, about 60 km west of the Saskatchewan border, nestled in the boreal forest at the confluence of the Athabasca River and the Clearwater River. Fort McMurray is the largest community in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo.

Population
The 2006 population of Wood Buffalo is 79,810, with the majority of that located within the immediate area of Fort McMurray. Because Fort McMurray no longer has a municipal government of its own (it gave up its city status upon incorporation into Wood Buffalo in 1995) it is technically a hamlet, even though its population is 64,441.[1] Fort McMurray is a multicultural community, attracting people from all corners of Canada and the world. Albertans make up almost half the number of migrants to Fort McMurray, followed by 17% of people originating from the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_McMurray,_Alberta

不错 :biggrin:

看了一下上面连接, Fort McMurray 有如下名称:

1. Colloquially referred to as "Fort Mac".
2. Nicknames is "Fort McMoney."
3. Original name is "McMurray" (the "Fort" was dropped until 1962, when it was restored to reflect its heritage)

也就是说,Fort McMurray名称有Fort Mac, Fort McMoney, McMurray.

hao mei ya:xizao:

最近接触了一些在Fort Mumurray石油公司工作的人,感触极深,令人向往.这几个人都年薪100K左右,一个月vacation.


公司一: 世界上最早开发油沙的公司
刚给每个人加了7%的工资.年终奖20%.

公司二:Fort Mumurray第二间开发油沙的公司
年终奖20%.做满三年就按每年再奖20%,即60%.

公司三:离Fort Mumurray一小时车程
除工资外,每天补贴$110,另报销来回Fort Mumurray及Calgary飞机票每周一次.

公司四:在Fort Mumurray南面30公里
除工资外,每天补贴$140.如果你要辞职,BOSS会说,如果是报酬的原因,尽管提,多少都可商量...

公司五:......

本人是gas technician,请问能不能找到工作？ 另外是不是只有电工容易找到工作？

前一阶段去那里，碰到一个老哥，好像是电工，室内装电线。好像也50/小时以内了。另外福利也很不好。临时性质的工作。
他们提到的那么高的工资必须是permanent employee吧。第一确实有技术，能干活，如果没有技术，口舌要好，这点技术移民恐怕差点。
以上纯属个人经历和观点。

转行刚读完一个石油工程的硕士学位，由于以前没有相关工作经验，现在已经差不多4个月了还没有找到工作，自认成绩不错英语也不错，现在油价又那么高，郁闷啊。。。

是PETROLIUM ENGINEER吧，非常理解你郁闷的心情，第一个工作基本都是运气，别听那些胡扯八道的说法，什么面试技巧简历技巧之类的，那些东西弄的像个样子就行了，千万别迷信那些东西，老外也不是傻子，那些东西糊弄不了人家的。你能做的就是不停地发简历，别失去信心，仅此而已。这个时候是最考验人的心理素质的时候，有些人运气好，没费什么劲就找到工作了，这并不表明他比你强，他只是运气一点而已，我最讨厌的就是这些人胡扯什么面试简历的经验之类，最是误导人。算是过来人给你的经验吧。

油砂覆蓋的區域要比這廣大多了，只不過哪裡開工跟公路修到哪裡這樣的硬件有很大的關聯。

樓主提到的這個油砂區域是以Chiristina Lake為中心向四周蔓延的，這裡最早是BP的地盤，連臨時公路都叫BP路，只不過後來BP不幹了。:tongue:

http://www.cenovus.com/

agree

要進入這行業，人脈關係很重要，還有自己的工作經驗，光有學歷是很不夠的。

簡歷和面試，還是需要下一定的功夫的，成功或失敗的經驗都很寶貴，說運氣什麼的都是跟自己的經歷、文字，還有談吐都有很直接的關係，不氣餒的精神是跟別人談話表現出來的我很適合你們公司的什麼職位這樣一種態度，應該說任何的面試都是--俺來了，俺要得到這樣一種態度，要很直接和大方，眼睛要炯炯有神，直取對方面試官的內心，俺老很喜歡面試的時候面對的是女人，妙不可言。:tongue:

MARK!:smile:

中國的文化很不強調目光的直接接觸，這在這裡面試的時候是很吃虧的，應該加強這一方面的訓練，講究把人看毛了的效果，能把女面試官的臉看紅了，靠，算你本事。

還有有面試的時候要爭取比約好的時間早到十分鐘左右，這樣就可以跟前臺MM進行溝通了，最佳的效果是從介紹自己到這裡來的目的開始，再爭取話題一直到面試後人家前臺MM還追著你繼續未完的話語，這樣會給跟送你出來的面試官一個很良好的認識。:tongue: