According to TIPRO’s latest mid-year energy report, Texas has lost over 39,000 direct oil and natural gas jobs in the first half of 2020. According to the Texas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners (TIPRO) Association’s latest mid-year energy report, Texas has lost over 39,000 direct oil and natural gas jobs in the first half (1H) of 2020. The report outlined that 321,455 Texans were directly employed by the oil and gas sector in 1H and revealed that this figure represented a decrease of approximately 39,514 net jobs over the previous year. Of the 39,514 job loss figure, 19,696 job cuts were registered in the support activities for oil and gas operations sector. The sector with the second highest job losses was shown to be oil and gas well drilling at 8,847 and the third was oil and gas field machinery and equipment manufacturing, which posted 6,002 job cuts. The […]