Citing data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Texas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners Association highlighted new employment figures that show an increase in upstream employment in Texas in August. According to TIPRO’s analysis, direct Texas upstream employment for August totaled 205,100, an increase of 200 industry positions from July. This represented a decrease of 200 jobs in oil and gas extraction and the addition of 400 jobs in the services sector.
TIPRO’s new workforce data indicated strong job postings for the Texas oil and natural gas industry. According to the association, there were 10,154 unique jobs postings for the Texas oil and natural gas industry in August compared to 8,853 postings in July (and 3,806 new postings compared to 3,840 the previous month).
Among the 19 industry sectors TIPRO uses to define Texas’ oil and natural gas industry, support activities for oil and gas operations led in rankings for unique job listings in August with 2,212 postings followed by gasoline stations with convenience stores (1,896), petroleum refineries (1,166) and pipeline transportation of natural gas (867).
TIPRO said Sept. 22 leading cities by total unique oil and natural gas job postings in August were Houston (2,497), Midland (682), Dallas (410) and Odessa (357).
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