Stark State College has just launched their new Well Site Training Center in downtown Canton, OH. The new program, which marks the opening of a brand new $2.3 million state of the art facility, is directly aimed at producing workers for the oil and gas industry–especially for the Utica Shale industry. Stark State is part of a four-college consortium that includes Westmoreland County Community College (in PA), the Pennsylvania College of Technology (in PA), and Navarro College (in TX) that are being funded by a grant from the U.S. Dept. of Labor to develop the nation’s first-ever curriculum for shale oil and gas–a high honor indeed! Here’s the details about the new center at Stark, which is just Phase I…
