{"id":6536,"date":"2012-05-14T14:46:20","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T19:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=6536"},"modified":"2012-12-19T15:00:14","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T21:00:14","slug":"one-way-regulation-has-been-good-for-oklahomas-oil-and-gas-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/05\/14\/one-way-regulation-has-been-good-for-oklahomas-oil-and-gas-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"One Way Regulation Has Been Good for Oklahoma\u2019s Oil and Gas Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6537\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Signs belonging to fracking opponents sit outside public hearings on proposed fracking regulations.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/05\/regulation.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6537\" title=\"Energy Regulation\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/05\/regulation-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Spencer Platt \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Signs belonging to fracking opponents sit outside public hearings on proposed natural gas drilling regulations.<\/p>\n<\/div><p>While petroleum engineer might be the <a href=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/05\/11\/the-10-best-and-worst-jobs-in-oklahoma\/\">best job<\/a> in Oklahoma, it\u2019s not the industry\u2019s fastest growing.<\/p><p>While jobs typically associated with oil and gas operations \u2014 engineers, extractors, geoscientists and equipment operators \u2014 enjoyed robust expansion in recent years, the most growth has less to do with drilling and more to do with regulation, according to a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oerb.com\/Default.aspx?tabid=120\">report<\/a> on the state\u2019s energy industry.<\/p><p>The energy industry\u2019s fastest-growing job in Oklahoma: compliance officer.<\/p><p><!--more--><\/p><p>Oklahoma\u2019s oil and gas industry employed 90 compliance officers in 2003. By 2010, that number ballooned to 590 \u2014 a 555 percent increase, according to a report (right-click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oerb.com\/Portals\/0\/docs\/2012%20OERB%20Economic%20Impact%20Study%20FINAL.pdf\">here<\/a> to download) by economist Russell Evans, the executive director of Oklahoma City University&#8217;s Steven C. Agee Economic Research and Policy Institute.<\/p><p>Compliance <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bls.gov\/oes\/current\/oes131041.htm\">officers<\/a> with oil and natural gas companies ensure that contracts, licenses, permits and inspections follow appropriate federal, state and local laws.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The complicated nature of large resource plays combined with increased regulatory scrutiny drive growth in the industry\u2019s fastest growing occupation \u2014 compliance officers, the report concludes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While petroleum engineer might be the best job in Oklahoma, it\u2019s not the industry\u2019s fastest growing.While jobs typically associated with oil and gas operations \u2014 engineers, extractors, geoscientists and equipment operators \u2014 enjoyed robust expansion in recent years, the most growth has less to do with drilling and more to do with regulation, according to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":6537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[490,301],"tags":[238,369],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6536"}],"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=6536"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6541,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6536\/revisions\/6541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}