Training Opportunities
Find your Path to a Career in Well Abandonment and Remediation
California has thousands of wells and facilities in need of proper plugging, abandonment and remediation, creating long-term career opportunities for skilled and trained workers.
California Legacy Well Services’ High Road Training Partnership (HRTP) program has 3 pathways available to help workers fill gaps in the skills and training they need to find work helping plug, abandon and remediate idle and orphan wells and other legacy oil and gas infrastructure. All three pathways are designed to ensure workers are prepared to work safely and competently at all levels of job duties encountered during well capping and remediation.
Experienced Oil and Gas Workers
If you are a skilled oil and gas worker with at least 6,000 hours of oil and gas experience, you qualify for an accelerated “Fast Track” Related Supplemental Instructions (RSI) program to ensure your skills are complete and consistent with our full union training programs, especially those related to safety and health.
If you are a less experienced oil and gas worker, your path to working in well plugging and capping will include an apprenticeship program.
Training varies depending on whether you are an Operating Engineer or Laborer:
- Operating Engineers: Training requires completing a 72-hour online RSI program, which includes sexual harassment prevention among other topics. In addition to the training, you must pass a drug test.
- Laborers: Training includes the online OSHA 30 (30-hour) course and an 8-hour CPR training.
Union Journeyman and Apprentices
If you are an existing IUOE or LiUNA Journeyman or Apprentice without oil and gas experience, you will complete your union’s equipment and on-site training for well capping and remediation training.
The length of your training depends on your union membership:
- Operating Engineering: Approximately 4-weeks of equipment and on-site training.
- Laborers: Approximately 1-week of equipment and on-site training.
New Workers
If you are interested in a pathway to a good union job in a growing field, but are not an experienced oil and gas worker or a union member, don’t worry – there is a path for you, too!
New workers will be recruited into through the Fresno Workforce Development Corporation’s ValleyBuild partnership, which includes the Fresno Regional Workforce Development Board (WDB), Merced WDB, Kern-Inyo-Mono WDB, San Joaquin Building Trades Council, Valley Building Trades Council, Fresno, Madera, Tulare, Kings Building Trades Council and the Kern-Inyo-Mono Building Trades Council.
As a new recruit, you will be placed in an appropriate apprenticeship or pre-apprenticeship program, depending on your work experience and skill levels. Opportunities are available for workers interested in becoming either an Operating Engineer or a Laborer.