{"id":23333,"date":"2015-03-23T11:52:42","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T16:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=23333"},"modified":"2015-03-23T12:01:01","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T17:01:01","slug":"now-showing-oil-downturns-effect-on-oklahoma-employment-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2015\/03\/23\/now-showing-oil-downturns-effect-on-oklahoma-employment-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Now Showing: Oil Downturn’s Effect on Oklahoma Employment Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Oklahoma lost about 500 mining industry jobs between December and January, data from the Oklahoma Employment Securities Commission show.<\/p>

Almost all in-state “mining” jobs are actually in oil and gas drilling, The Journal Record<\/em>‘s Sarah Terry-Cobo reports<\/a>. And while the job losses haven’t yet affected the state’s unemployment rate, currently 3.9 percent, oil sector employment will likely take a big hit in the months to come, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City\u2019s bulletin The Oklahoma Economist<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cBased just on these past basic relationships between oil prices and Oklahoma economic activity, it seems likely that mining employment in the state will decline significantly in 2015,\u201d according to the bulletin.<\/p><\/blockquote>

Layoffs have already hit Oklahoma’s oil patch<\/a> as operators idle rigs and service companies make cutbacks<\/a>. Estimates on the number of potential job losses vary wildly, Terry-Cobo reports:<\/p>\n

Lynn Gray, chief economist for the state\u2019s employment-tracking agency, said the OESC doesn\u2019t provide a forecast for expected job losses in the energy sector.<\/p>

However, the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas has studied the effect of commodity prices on Texas\u2019 industry. Based on that model, the Dallas Fed extrapolated data for Oklahoma\u2019s energy industry, and found a large range for possible job losses in the coming year: between 5,000 and 20,000, Gray said.<\/p><\/blockquote>

Oklahoma has faced six oil downturns since 1980, and each boom\/bust cycle has “unique circumstances” that don’t always offer insight on future downturns, Terry-Cobo reports,<\/p>\n

During four of those previous downturns, total employment stayed below its previous peak for at least three years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oklahoma lost about 500 mining industry jobs between December and January, data from the Oklahoma Employment Securities Commission show.Almost all in-state “mining” jobs are actually in oil and gas drilling, The Journal Record‘s Sarah Terry-Cobo reports. And while the job losses haven’t yet affected the state’s unemployment rate, currently 3.9 percent, oil sector employment will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":7516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[490],"tags":[238,419,638],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23333"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23341,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23333\/revisions\/23341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}