GE to cut 100 jobs at East Houston manufacturing facility
GE says it’s planning to cut 100 jobs at its Jacintoport facility in East Houston as part of a broader move to shift some of its U.S.-based manufacturing of gas turbines and power generators to Europe...
View ArticleBank economist sees Houston jobs gain this year
The chief economist for Chase says diversification of Houston's economy softens oil price shocks.
View ArticleCommentary: The Skills Gap – And What We Can All Do About It
According to the Department of Labor, about 8 million Americans were unemployed in September, with countless more underemployed. You’d think it’d be rather easy for many employers to fill job openings...
View ArticleQ&A: Wood Group Mustang CEO opens up about life as a woman in a...
McNichols, who is scheduled to give a keynote speech kicking off the Women's Global Leadership Conference in Energy on Tuesday in Houston, recently spoke with Fuel Fix about the evolving role of women...
View ArticleOil and gas execs say companies still recruiting to keep up with talent lost...
Burned by the talent crunch created by prior downturns, energy companies have not stopped beating the block for new recruits.
View ArticleJob losses continue across Texas as services firms cut back
Oil field services companies reeling from the worst downturn in years continued hemorrhaging jobs this week as three providers announced plans to chop nearly 400 jobs in Houston and across the state...
View ArticleWorldwide oil job losses climb to 233,000, recruiter says
Swift Worldwide Resources CEO Tobias Read said there’s no sign of an immediate turnaround in the oil and gas job market and the situation “is likely to get worse.”
View ArticleU.S. Steel may cut nearly 700 Texas jobs
U.S. Steel is considering temporarily mothballing the pipe-making plant during the ongoing oil and gas slump. The facility is located in northeastern Texas in Morris County, which has a population of...
View ArticleSchlumberger cut thousands of jobs in fourth quarter on $1 billion loss
The oil crash has triggered the largest job cuts in oil field services, and Schlumberger has now eliminated about 34,000 jobs globally — a more than 25 percent reduction since its peak of nearly...
View ArticleWyoming recruits unemployed energy workers for prison jobs
The state of Wyoming is encouraging workers who recently have lost their jobs in the state's energy industry to consider applying for vacant state positions including prison jobs with the state...
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