In an announcement despatched to Rigzone lately, the Texas Oil & Gasoline Affiliation (TXOGA) mentioned Texas upstream oil and gasoline employment was “regular in 2025, regardless of market headwinds”.
TXOGA famous within the assertion that, in line with information launched by the Texas Workforce Fee, Texas upstream oil and gasoline employment “remained primarily flat in 2025, whilst producers continued to ship sturdy output amid difficult market circumstances”.
“Via November 2025, upstream employment totaled 201,200 jobs. Whereas employment declined by 3,500 jobs in November in contrast with October, 12 months to this point employment was little modified, with a internet achieve of 300 direct upstream jobs,” it added.
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“Employment was additionally modestly greater than a 12 months earlier, rising by 100 jobs, or 0.1 p.c,” it continued.
TXOGA famous within the assertion that, “because the Covid-era low level in September 2020”, Texas upstream oil and pure gasoline employment has “elevated by greater than 44,000 jobs, a 28 p.c achieve”. The business physique outlined within the assertion that this enhance “underscor[es]… the business’s continued position as a high-wage employer within the Texas financial system”.
TXOGA President Todd Staples mentioned within the assertion that “reaching new manufacturing highs in a number of classes with employment primarily remaining regular is completely exceptional”.
“Navigating these unstable circumstances is a vivid reminder: development is just not assured,” he added.
“This resilience demonstrated by elevated vitality output in 2025 will depend on insurance policies that help infrastructure growth and market flexibility so the oil and pure gasoline business can adapt to uncertainty and proceed delivering the inexpensive, dependable vitality that powers our fashionable lifestyle,” he continued.
TXOGA highlighted in its assertion that upstream employment contains oil and pure gasoline extraction and associated help actions, and excludes downstream sectors comparable to refining, petrochemicals, pipelines, and fuels distribution.
“The mixed business sectors moved up barely on common from 492,019 in 2024 to 495,501 in 2025, reflecting simply lower than a one p.c enhance,” TXOGA famous in its assertion.
The business physique went on to notice that the oil and pure gasoline business represents 31 p.c of Texas non-public sector financial system and added that it paid $74 million on daily basis final 12 months in state and native taxes and royalties “that fund our state freeway building, state financial savings account, universities, faculties and first responders”.
TXOGA’s 2025 Power and Financial Affect report, which was launched in early January this 12 months, confirmed that the Texas oil and pure gasoline business employed 495,501 Texans in 2025.
The sector that employed essentially the most employees final 12 months was ‘help actions for oil and gasoline operations’, with 110,612 staff, adopted by ‘gasoline stations with comfort shops’, with 81,268 staff, and ‘oil and gasoline pipeline and associated constructions building’, with 50,667 staff, that report confirmed.
‘Crude petroleum extraction’ ranked because the oil and gasoline sector with the fourth most staff in 2025, with 49,187, and ‘oil and gasoline area equipment and tools’ ranked fifth, with 29,280, the report revealed.
TXOGA acknowledged in its report that “each direct job within the Texas oil and pure gasoline business creates roughly two extra jobs”, outlining that “1.4 million complete jobs [were] supported throughout the Texas financial system” in 2025.
Texas oil and pure gasoline employers paid a median of $133,095 per job in 2025, in line with TXOGA’s report, which famous that this was 68 p.c greater than the typical paid by the remainder of Texas’ non-public sector.
In an announcement posted on its website on December 11, TXOGA outlined that September 2025 information launched by the Texas Workforce Fee that day indicated that upstream oil and gasoline employment fell by 1,300 in September in comparison with August.
TXOGA highlighted in that assertion that the Texas Workforce Fee had skipped information releases in the course of the federal shutdown.
“Regardless of latest flat efficiency, development for this calendar 12 months by September stays a constructive 3,900 upstream jobs,” TXOGA mentioned on this assertion.
“At 204,800 upstream jobs, in comparison with the identical month within the prior 12 months, September 2025 jobs had been up by 1,900, or 0.9 p.c,” it added.
In that assertion, Staples mentioned, “the latest downward cycle of the upstream job depend confirms Texas is just not resistant to circumstances dealing with world oil markets”.
“As a significant oil exporter for the USA, the Lone Star State should stay aggressive on the worldwide stage. To stay the worldwide chief, our business will depend on Texas legislative, regulatory, and enterprise local weather certainty that’s favorable to funding and job creation even when provide and demand elements current uncertainty and instability,” he added.
TXOGA describes itself on its website as a “statewide commerce affiliation representing each aspect of the Texas oil and gasoline business, together with small independents and main producers”.
“Collectively, the membership of TXOGA produces roughly 90 p.c of Texas’ crude oil and pure gasoline and operates the overwhelming majority of the state’s refineries, LNG export capability and pipelines,” the location notes.
To contact the writer, electronic mail andreas.exarheas@rigzone.com
