HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- As the price of oil rises, it's having a ripple effect in the Houston-area economy, and we have a way for you to tap into the demand. Every Thursday at 11:30 a.m., ABC13 ...

The oil and gas sector offers numerous job opportunities in production, exploration, transportation, and refining. Different jobs in the industry require different levels of experience and education.

The Partnership projects that upstream oil and gas will lose about 3,200 jobs in 2026, driven by lower expected West Texas Intermediate (WTI) prices that are likely to squeeze producers' margins and ...

Job losses have mounted rapidly in the oil and gas industry, with more expected, as a combination of low prices and reduced demand have led to spending cuts for operations and services. The layoffs ...

The U.S. oil and gas industry directly employed 2.04 million workers in 2023. That’s according to the Texas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners Association’s (TIPRO) latest state of energy report ...

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The husband of former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has quit his oil field job on the North Slope. Todd Palin's resignation as a production operator for oil giant BP PLC comes almost two ...

For those wondering how many oil jobs were lost in 2015, Forbes reported on Oct. 22 the number had surpassed 200,000 worldwide. While the exact figure is unknown, the 200,000 figure is a huge hit to ...

The Houston economy added 4,800 jobs in November, a relatively paltry number that puts the region on pace to create less than a fourth of the jobs this year as it did in 2014, when oil prices were ...

Brent crude oil futures were trading at $85 a barrel Wednesday and West Texas Intermediate at $83, which historically would have oil producers scrambling to drill. While we’ve seen a steady uptick in ...

If one number summarizes the oil price meltdown, it's 150,000. According to Graves & Co., a Houston-based energy adviser that closely tracks layoffs, that's about how many oil jobs have been lost in ...