The new regulations in California on Fracking has caused a big layoff of oil workers and the rigs are moving out.
Permitting delays related to California's new hydraulic fracturing law are taking a toll on Kern County oil field employment.
Oil services giant Baker Hughes Inc. said Friday it is laying off or reassigning 110 workers in Bakersfield, Shafter and the Los Angeles Basin -- a modest but significant share of its California workforce, a company manager said -- because of delays its customers face in getting approval to "frack" wells under Senate Bill 4.
Halliburton, another large national company offering fracking services locally, said it will redeploy about 70 California employees to other states but not cut its Kern County workforce. It did not directly blame the move on permitting delays, but said customers' ability to obtain permits is among the main variables affecting its business.