"We continue to see steady growth in upstream oil and natural gas employment, which is good news because these jobs pay among the highest wages in Texas and directly contribute to our country's national and energy security."
Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas – Data released by the Texas Workforce Commission indicates that upstream oil and natural gas employment grew in September by 900 jobs from August.
"We continue to see steady growth in upstream oil and natural gas employment, which is good news because these jobs pay among the highest wages in Texas and directly contribute to our country's national and energy security," said Todd Staples, president of the Texas Oil & Gas Association.
“What we need are policies that enable critically needed infrastructure projects to move forward to continue job growth and maintain energy security for our country.”
Since the low point in employment September of 2020, industry has added 45,900 Texas upstream jobs, averaging growth of 1,913 jobs per month. At 202,900 upstream jobs, September 2022 jobs were up by 34,900, or 20.8%, from September 2021.The upstream sector involves oil and natural gas extraction and excludes other industry sectors such as refining, petrochemicals, fuels wholesaling, oilfield equipment manufacturing, pipelines, and gas utilities, which support hundreds of thousands of additional jobs in Texas. The employment shown also includes “Support Activities for Mining,” which is mostly oil and gas-related but also includes some small amount of other types of mining.
