Houston Chronicle: US oil and gas industry lost 107,000 jobs in the pandemic. Most will take years to return
Oct 14, 2020 | News Roundup
Oct 9 — Texas, the nation’s top oil producing state, has borne the brunt of the industry’s layoffs. Drilling and oil-field services companies operating in Texas employed 162,350 workers in June, about half of the 297,100 workers at their peak of employment in December 2014, according to the Texas Alliance of Energy Producers.