Survey by Louisiana oil and gas industry group shows 23-percent layoff and 77.5-percent well shut-in figures. A recent survey of Louisiana Oil and Gas Association (LOGA) members shows the nearly one-quarter of the Pelican State’s oil industry-related workforce has potentially already been laid off amid the severe market downturn. “Our members have indicated they’ve already been forced to lay off 23 percent of their workforce, and the large majority are now taking steps to shut-in production,” LOGA President Gifford Briggs remarked in a written statement emailed to Rigzone. LOGA’s latest online anonymous “point-in-time” survey of its member companies – conducted April 22 to 29 – also revealed that 77.5 percent of Louisiana’s operators have already begun taking steps to shut-in production. The organization counts 450 exploration and production and service companies among its ranks. “We featured these outcomes would take place by mid-to-late May, but the crushing weight of […]