{"id":366017,"date":"2026-07-08T23:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T23:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/366017\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T23:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T23:15:09","slug":"baker-hughes-lays-off-147-in-houston-as-iran-war-uncertainty-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/366017\/","title":{"rendered":"Baker Hughes lays off 147 in Houston as Iran war uncertainty continues"},"content":{"rendered":"

The layoffs come as the oil and gas industry<\/a> faces boomeranging oil prices stemming from the war in Iran<\/a>, widespread industry consolidation and job automation.<\/p>\n

The layoffs across the company\u2019s manufacturing, engineering, materials, purchasing and other support units have already begun, according to the notice filed with Texas Workforce Commission July 1. They are expected to impact employees at Baker Hughes\u2019 Emmott Road facility in Northwest Houston, a major 171,600-square-foot manufacturing and testing site.<\/p>\n

\u201cBaker Hughes continually reviews our portfolio and business operations to ensure we are best positioned to serve our customers and deliver on our long-term growth objectives,\u201d a spokesperson for the company said.\u00a0 \u201cThese decisions are always difficult and are made with the utmost sensitivity to the impact on employees, communities and customers.\u201d<\/p>\n

The cuts \u201ccould be construed as a \u2018mass layoff’ ” or \u201cplant closing,\u201d according to the company\u2019s layoff notice.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Impacted employees have already been notified, the letter said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Job cuts have plagued Houston\u2019s oil giants over the last few years.\u00a0Chevron cut more than 1,200 employees in Houston last year after announcing plans to reduce its global workforce by 20%. Hess Corp. cut more than 500 of its headquarter employees in Houston after its much-anticipated and embattled merger with Chevron was completed last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Greater Houston Partnership warned last year that declining crude prices could lead to a loss of more than 3,000 jobs across Houston\u2019s oil and gas sector in 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But the market turned unpredictable after the U.S. ‘s January incursion into Venezuela to re-open the country\u2019s stagnant oil industry and the global oil shortage created by the months long shuttering of the Strait of Hormuz, the shipping channel off the coast of Iran responsible for moving 20% of the world\u2019s petroleum products.<\/p>\n

Since then, Dallas Federal Reserve Bank economists have said<\/a>, Texas\u2019 oil and gas companies appear to be acting \u201cfar more financially disciplined than in the past.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The layoffs come as the oil and gas industry faces boomeranging oil prices stemming from the war in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-366017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}