British Oil Sector Lost 65,000 Jobs Due to Low Prices

September 9, 2015 Share Print 0

The contraction of Britain’s offshore oil sector has already stripped out 65,000 jobs, according to a new report.

The calculation of a 15% drop since the start of last year came from the annual economic impact report of trade body Oil and Gas UK.

It said the number of jobs supported by direct, supply chain and indirect employment had fallen from 440,000 to 375,000.

The cuts came as operating expenditure on existing assets was slashed.

About £800m (8%) of costs have been cut this year and a further £1.3bn (14%) is planned for next year.

Some large fields are coming on-stream, so those cuts will be offset by more than £1bn per year being spent on operating them.

via BBC

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Alfonso Esparza specializes in macro forex strategies for North American and major currency pairs. Upon joining OANDA in 2007, Alfonso Esparza established the MarketPulseFX blog and he has since written extensively about central banks and global economic and political trends. Alfonso has also worked as a professional currency trader focused on North America and emerging markets. He has been published by The MarketWatch, Reuters, the Wall Street Journal and The Globe and Mail, and he also appears regularly as a guest commentator on networks including Bloomberg and BNN. He holds a finance degree from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM) and an MBA with a specialization on financial engineering and marketing from the University of Toronto.