Skip to main content

Halliburton to bring 1,000 jobs to SA area

Jobs range from truck drivers to engineers

SAN ANTONIO – San Antonio job seekers will have more opportunities for employment, thanks to the Eagle Ford shale oil and gas field and, more specifically, Halliburton.

The product and service supply company broke ground on regional offices Thursday.

"It's actually the biggest single day of economic development and jobs announcement since Toyota," said Henry Cisneros, the chairman of the San Antonio Economic Development  Foundation.

Those jobs number over a thousand.

"What we are talking about here is employing about 1,500 people," said Joe Foster, the South Texas area vice president for Halliburton.

Foster said about 75 percent of the jobs will be filled locally.

They range from truck drivers to engineers.  There will be a lab at the facility that will also employ chemists.  The salaraies will range from $50,000 a year to more than $100,000.

"(It will be a) tremendous opportunity to boost the economy and also give us an opportunity to be good neighbors in the community," Foster said.

The new facility will cover some 150 acres south of San Antonio at the intersection of Interstae 37 and Loop 1604.

Halliburton is where the oil is.  They are in more than 80 countries and now they have a huge presence in San Antonio.

"America needs energy that we drill right here in our country," Cisneros said. "Here is oil and here is natural gas right here in South Texas that wasn't available before new technology maked it possible and our benefit is great jobs."

Those jobs, Cisneros hopes, will be filled by people from San Antonio and Bexar County.

"We would like our San Antonio and Bexar County residents to get up to speed get training get their commercial drivers license commit themselves," Cisneros said.

"It's a new chapter for us in South Texas very excited," Foster said.

The facility should be fully operational by early 2013.