There's alot of businesses around me with huge workforce like baker hughes 2 minutes away, the police training academy, and many more oil companies, I would love to know how to get one of these big guys to come and want a store on my land I have no issue building them whatever, I just dont know the process of doing something like that. 

Drive through certain areas as well, looking for bars on windows (LOL), pitbull fences, oil stains on driveways or streets, too many cars on streets, general condition people keep their homes in....

I live in an area hit by hurricane Katrina then impacted by the BP oil spill.

I work in the oil/gas industry and of I wasn't up here I d never be able to afford getting started down there, I hope you know what bc stands for right ...?

If there is anyone out there dealing with contaminated site issues (heating oil tanks, junk/salvage yards, auto recycling yards, etc.) or other environmental issues am happy to be a resource if it is within my wheelhouse.This has been a very scary process to leave my good job and transition to a business owner. 

As an investor, I try not to bother my agent too much with simple questions, such as "is the listing that I saw from MLS site still active (since many of them remains active with an accepted offer)" or "is there an underground oil tank" since I bug her enough with multiple showings and low ball offers. 

Hey @Loren Miner, that was definitely a great intro.

I'm a landman in the oil and gas industry and just obtained my RE license. 

Say an area has an oil refinery and about 20 years ago that refinery found out that some oil had leaked out in the ground over a long period of time (as if anyone had doubted) and at that point decided to create well water testing facilities and testing local neighborhoods.

I will be moving to Alberta, Canada hopefully around this coming September to start working in the Oil Rig industry.