Posted on 09/09/2014 5:37:34 PM PDT by thackney
America’s energy renaissance isn’t brought to you by Big Oil.
That’s the message the American Petroleum Institute sent Tuesday, as it released a report documenting the nearly 30,000 businesses across the nation that supply the oil and gas industry with equipment and services.
Erik Milito, API’s upstream director, said the report illustrates “the true breadth and scope of the industry’s positive impact throughout the country.”
“What we’re trying to show is more of the teamwork approach that goes to energy, where it’s not just an operator or a producer that is involved in safe and responsible development,” Milito added. “It’s a larger team of companies and individuals spread across the country, all linked together by a tight chain that gives us the oil and gas we depend on every day to fuel our quality of life.”
API’s analysis is conveniently provided with breakdowns by congressional district (all the better for lobbying lawmakers) and is built on a survey of oil and gas companies about the vendors they use. Companies represented in the document run the gamut, from accountants and information technology assistants to uniform manufacturers, portable restroom providers and restoration firms.
Three states with big oil and gas production — Texas, Oklahoma and California — led the survey with the largest number of vendors supplying the industry. In the Lone Star State, oil and gas companies said they relied on 11,033 businesses, more than four times the roughly 2,500 cited in Oklahoma and the nearly 2,000 in California.
In the greater Houston area — represented by congressional districts 2, 7, 9, 18, 22 and 29 — API counts 2,961 companies supplying the oil and gas industry.
In the Midland-centered congressional district 11, there are 1,416 such vendors. And in congressional district 30, which represents Dallas, there are 1,384.
But oilfield workers in Texas may be wearing steel-toed boots made in Minnesota and donning gloves from an Illinois-based supplier.
“Even in states where oil and natural gas resources are less common, the industry is still a major source of economic activity,” Milito said, pointing to 392 vendors in New York and 932 in Illinois.
Related story: Energy jobs extend beyond oil field
Industry lobbyists have been trying to persuade policymakers that today’s domestic drilling boom is yielding big economic benefits that extend far from the oilfield and ripple nationwide.
Already, rapid changes in production technology have put drill bits spinning in areas that traditionally have not been considered part of the oil patch, a trend that is altering energy politics on Capitol Hill.
It would have been interesting to see the figures for North Dakota.
Others found at:
My cousins daughter graduated from nursing school in Portland Ore and all she could find for work was lower paying jobs in nursing homes and the like. She moved to South Dakota and went right to work in the ER.
This API site puts the oil patch annual contribution to the US economy at 1,209 BILLION.
(I’m not sure whether this number included natural gas.)
Any idea how much of that is the result of the fracking revolution since say 2009?
(Last time I saw a number was last year and it was about 300 billion new money that fracking had contributed to the economy)
First sentence at the link.
This report presents the findings of a 2014 survey of U.S. businesses that constitute America’s domestic oil and natural gas supply chain.
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