Jobs supported by the UK’s offshore oil and gas industry will have fallen by an estimated 120,000 by the end of 2016, since their peak in 2014, according to employment figures from industry trade body Oil & Gas UK. The analysis, carried out by marketing services company Experian, forecasts that in 2016 just over 330,000 jobs in the UK will be delivered through, or supported by, oil and gas production. Jobs supported fell by an estimated 84,000 to around 370,000 in 2015, and are forecast to have fallen a further 40,000 by the end of this year. These jobs are across the whole country and cover: Direct employment provided by companies involved in the extraction of crude oil and natural gas, and supply […]