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Oil and Gas Companies Add More Than 10,500 New Jobs in 2Q14

By Chris Riback
Posted August 21, 2014 at 5:15am

Fuel Fix reports that “oil and gas companies added more than 10,500 new jobs in the U.S. in the second quarter of the year.”  

“More than 4,000 of those new jobs were in Texas, according to Rigzone, which analyzed data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.”  

“There are now around 113,900 oil industry jobs in Texas.”

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