{"id":84484,"date":"2025-12-11T21:30:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T21:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/84484\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T21:30:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T21:30:16","slug":"texas-oil-gas-upstream-jobs-fell-by-1300-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/84484\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Oil &#038; Gas Upstream Jobs Fell by 1,300 in September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/texasborderbusiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Oli-drop.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"556\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Oli-drop-1024x556.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-198773\"  \/><\/a>The Texas Workforce Commission, having skipped data releases during the federal shutdown that included the Bureau of Labor Statistics, has resumed job data publication. The Commission released September 2025 data, indicating that upstream oil and gas employment fell by 1,300 in September compared to August. Image for illustration purposes<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-62b71d8b27ddfc708460ca8dc1aadafb\">Texas Border Business<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Advertisement &#8211;<a data-bid=\"1\" data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/texasborderbusiness.com\/linkout\/190261\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"notrack\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"ZAMBRANO\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/JESSE-ZAMBRANO-ARTICLE-INLINE-AUG-728x160-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"728\" height=\"160\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AUSTIN \u2013\u00a0The Texas Workforce Commission, having skipped data releases during the federal shutdown that included the Bureau of Labor Statistics, has resumed job data publication. The Commission released September 2025 data, indicating that upstream oil and gas employment fell by 1,300 in September compared to August. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/jobs-121125.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/jobs-121125.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-198775\"  \/><\/a>TXOGA Graphic<\/p>\n<p>Despite recent flat performance, growth for this calendar year through September remains a positive 3,900 upstream jobs. At 204,800 upstream jobs, compared to the same month in the prior year, September 2025 jobs were up by 1,900, or 0.9 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Following the release of these data, TXOGA President Todd Staples issued the following statement:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Advertisement &#8211;<a data-bid=\"1\" data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/texasborderbusiness.com\/linkout\/197392\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"notrack\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"COSTEP\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/COSTEP-inline-Dec-2025.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"728\" height=\"160\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe recent downward cycle of the upstream job count confirms Texas is not immune to circumstances facing global oil markets. As a major oil exporter for the United States, the Lone Star State must remain competitive on the worldwide stage. To remain the global leader, our industry depends on Texas legislative, regulatory and business climate certainty that is favorable to investment and job creation even when supply and demand factors present uncertainty and instability.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Advertisement &#8211;<a data-bid=\"1\" data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/texasborderbusiness.com\/linkout\/184595\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"notrack\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Digital Office Sytems ARTICLE INLINE 728\u00d7160 MAY 25\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Digital-Office-Sytems-ARTICLE-INLINE-728x160-MAY-25.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"728\" height=\"160\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Texas Workforce Commission, having skipped data releases during the federal shutdown that included the Bureau of Labor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28,40632,40633,40634,40635],"class_list":["post-84484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-texas-oil-and-gas-association","tag-texas-workforce-commisson","tag-txoga","tag-upstream-jobs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84484","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=84484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}