Oil, Gas Projects Being Delayed Amid Drug Abuse
`U.S. oil and gas projects are being delayed because workers abusing and producing methamphetamines have made it difficult for companies to fill jobs, the Financial Times said, citing people including Ron Walsmith, direct of oil and gas training at the Mid-Continent Oil & Gas Training Center. [..]
Laboratories to make methamphetamines have been found on rigs, where workers have easy access to sodium hydroxide, used to reduce the acidity of drilling mud and to make the drug, the Financial Times said. The problem is increasing the risk of explosions and accidents on rigs, it said. Times’ Web site.’
