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Vol. 8, No. 38 Week of September 21, 2003
Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canada's oil and gas industry


Alaska oil and gas jobs on the decline

After completion of Alpine and Northstar, numbers falling, now approach ’99 lows

Kristen Nelson

Petroleum News Editor-in-Chief

Oil and gas employment is the mainstay of Alaska's economy, but the number of employees in that industry is falling, driven down by a lack of new projects, and is approaching the low of 7,900 reached in 1999. The 8,800 employed in 2002 is the lowest level in more than a decade, well below the 1991....

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Big job losses in early 1990s

Mergers, project completion drive decline

What is driving the decline?

Alaska's industry a fraction of that in Texas


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