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    Dream Jobs: New Orleans & Louisiana's Gulf Coast

    Oct. 29, 2014
    $103 billion worth of oil-related projects have been completed. A $1.3 billion methanol plant that recently broke ground in the state. The billons Sasol plans to spend on an ethane cracker and the gas-to-liquids plants. The $546 expansion of New Orleans’ Louis Armstrong International Airport. 
    You can sum up the main reason for Louisiana's post-Hurricane Katrina growth in two words: oil and gas. You can see it in all the new petrochemical plants, refineries and oil supply companies for offshore rigs in Louisiana towns like New Orleans, Lake Charles and Houma, and west on Route 10 into Texas through Beaumont, Port Arthur, Galveston and Houston. And you see it the lines of convoys of construction vehicles in dusty west Texas towns of Midland and Odessa, home to the Eagle Ford play, one of the biggest oil deposits in the world.
    The sheer magnitude of all this growth is amazing. The Times-Picayune reported $103 billion worth of oil-related projects have been completed, are underway or will start soon in Louisiana, including giant petrochemical plants like the $1.3 billion methanol plant that recently broke ground in the state and the billons Sasol plans to spend on an ethane cracker and the gas-to-liquids plants. Along with all of this oil and gas business has come public works projects like the $546 expansion of New Orleans’ Louis Armstrong International Airport. (Photo credit: Thinkstock)
    Find out more about what's happening in southern Louisiana  in this Times Picayune article.
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    Over the past 30-plus years, hundreds of Jim’s articles have been published in Electrical Wholesaling and Electrical Marketing newsletter on topics such as the impact of amazonsupply.com and other new competitors on the electrical market’s channels of distribution, energy-efficient lighting and renewables, and local market economics. In addition to his published work, Jim regularly gives presentations on these topics to C-suite executives, industry groups and investment analysts.

    He recently launched a new subscription-based data product for Electrical Marketing that offers electrical sales potential estimates and related market data for more than 300 metropolitan areas, and in 1999 he published his first book, “The Electrical Marketer’s Survival Guide” for electrical industry executives looking for an overview of key market trends.

    While managing Electrical Wholesaling’s editorial operations, Jim and the publication’s staff won several Jesse H. Neal awards for editorial excellence, the highest honor in the business press, and numerous national and regional awards from the American Society of Business Press Editors. He has a master’s degree in Communications and a bachelor’s degree in Journalism from Glassboro State College, Glassboro, N.J. (now Rowan University).

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