{"id":31463,"date":"2025-04-18T23:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T23:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/31463\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T23:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T23:36:10","slug":"texas-upstream-employment-slips-in-march-tipro-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/31463\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Upstream Employment Slips in March, TIPRO Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-bottom:11px\">Upstream employment in Texas fell by 0.3% in March, the Texas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners (TIPRO) said, citing U.S. employment data.<\/p>\n<p>TIPRO said direct Texas upstream employment for March totaled 204,400, down 700 from February, subject to revisions. The services sector shed 900 jobs, while oil &amp; gas extraction added 200.<\/p>\n<p>Production remains up in Texas, however, supported by improvements in well productivity and technology, such as electronic hydraulic fracturing and AI.<\/p>\n<p>The Permian Basin in West Texas produced 48% of total U.S. crude production in 2024 for an average of 6.3 MMbbl\/d. Natural gas production in the Permian averaged 25.4 Bcf\/d.<\/p>\n<p>And the Energy Information Administration continues to project production growth in 2025, TIPRO said. Analysts estimate U.S. oil production to hit 13.6 MMbbl\/d in 2025 and rise to 13.6 MMbbl\/d in 2026. Natural gas production is also expected to rise on increased demand for LNG and higher natural gas prices.<\/p>\n<p>For the first seven months of the fiscal year, Texas energy producers have paid $3.25 billion in oil production taxes, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/comptroller.texas.gov\/transparency\/revenue\/watch\/all-funds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">data<\/a> published by the Texas comptroller\u2019s office, down 10.5% from a year earlier. Natural gas production taxes have totaled $1.43 billion, up 4.7%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Upstream employment in Texas fell by 0.3% in March, the Texas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners (TIPRO) said,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3092],"tags":[51,10638,3976,897,5436,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-31463","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-crude-oil","10":"tag-governance","11":"tag-jobs","12":"tag-natural-gas","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114361596844381927","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}