Data from Texas Workforce Commission and Texas Oil and Gas Association released last week and reported by Houston Chronicle show that production and exploration companies in the state added 1,500 jobs in July “as the industry continues to recover from the pandemic-driven oil bust.” The state’s upstream sector has recovered 17,000 jobs (of 60,000 jobs lost) since job losses reached a low last September. The state has 175,000 drilling and extraction workers. Todd Staples, TXOGA president, said, “Continued oil and natural gas upstream job growth is good news beyond the oil patch. Every direct oil and natural gas job in Texas generates an additional 3 jobs elsewhere in the state’s economy.”
Texas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners Association said Aug. 25 there were 8,768 new job listings in the industry in July, including 2,801 in Houston, 611 in Midland and 477 in Odessa (and 689 at Delek US Holdings, 615 at Halliburton and 576 at Baker Hughes).