Halliburton is officially Muskingum County's newest corporate citizen. As a $25 billion worldwide oilfield service provider, the company is an exciting addition to the area business community. They will make a major investment and be a major employer. Plus, their arrival could signal the start of a wave of more local economic growth as a result of shale oil and gas exploration in Ohio.
Halliburton has publicly stated their desire to hire local people and deal with local suppliers. Job seekers can go to www.jobs.halliburton.com to search for openings. We also strongly recommend contacting the Muskingum County Opportunity Center (455-4466) to review what job listings they have for Halliburton. On the business side, the firm has a supplier registration process that local businesses may want to investigate. You can read about this at this section of their website.
Interestingly, we have a local company that does some of the same things as Halliburton. Producers Service Corporation in Zanesville is an employee owned company that provides fracturing and acidizing services during the drilling process. Producers is a growing company, too, and we don't want to overlook them in the excitement about Halliburton.
Producers' presence here since 1981 - and that of a number of other local firms that have long provided various oilfield services - also points out the extensive tradition we have as an oil and gas producing region.
That tradition never died in Muskingum County, but now we are poised for its resurgence. Many thanks to oil and gas industry companies like Halliburton, Producers, Anadarko Petroleum, and others for their new investments in the workforce and economy of Muskingum County.
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