Jobs

The Bakken Shale’s oil and gas sector is looking for job applicants, according to the North Dakota Petroleum Council (NDPC), particularly in the oilfield services sector. Fortis Energy Services had scheduled networking this week in Williston, Dickinson and Minot (Friday). E&M Services said it was looking for new employees through its multiple offices in Watford City, Williston, Sidney, and Arnega. Purity Oilfield Services is looking for drivers, well testers mechanics, while MBI Energy Services is looking for truck drivers, rig hands and wireline operators.

U.S. oil and natural gas extraction jobs began inching up in parts of the country in late 2016, and it can’t come quickly enough as the tight labor market apparently already is affecting onshore drilling efficiencies as operators raise more rigs.

Jobs in Pennsylvania directly tied to natural gas development declined by about one-third in the second quarter, according to data from the state Department of Labor and Industry (DLI).

Houston-based Baker Hughes Inc. plans to reduce pay for some of its U.S. staff by 5% beginning in mid-September through the end of the year.

If policies inspired by “Keep it in the Ground” and other anti-fossil fuel movements lead to a ban on energy production from federal lands and waters, the United States would lose billions in royalties and hundreds of thousands of jobs, according to a report by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Institute for 21st Century Energy.

If policies inspired by “Keep it in the Ground” and other anti-fossil fuel movements lead to a ban on energy production from federal lands and waters, the United States would lose billions in royalties and hundreds of thousands of jobs, according to a report by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Institute for 21st Century Energy.

Texas oil and natural gas industry employment fell 19.4% last year amid a nearly 66% decline in the price of oil and a 75% reduction in the number of active drilling rigs, according to economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Within the state, though, regions vary in their economic performance.

U.S. Steel Corp. is laying off up to 770 people and idling plants in Texas and Alabama that make tubular pipe products for the energy industry.

Of the roughly 1.9 million employment opportunities projected to come from the U.S. oil and natural gas and petrochemical industries between now and 2035, 37.9% will be held by minorities and 15.6% by women, according to a study by the American Petroleum Institute (API).