AS OIL PRICES STEADILY KEPT DECLINING AND THE ENERGY JOB MARKET GROWTH THAT KEPT GOOD PAYING JOBS FOR AMERICANS THESE PAST 8 YEARS HAS STARTED TO DECLINE - THE DEMOCRATS SEEM TO JUMP FOR JOY FROM THE POTUS BHO CHAOS LOSING MORE JOBS AND CREATING PART TIME LOW PAYING JOBS IN THE SMOKE AND MIRROR ECONOMY THE UTOPIAN HAS INVENTED THESE PAST 8 YEARS IN OFFICE - AS THE ENERGY MARKET HAS LOST 70,000 JOBS THE LAST YEAR DUE TO THE DROP IN CRUDE OIL PRICE - WHICH IS GOOD FOR CONSUMERS BUT IS NOW BAD FOR THE OIL PRODUCING INDUSTRY AND ITS EMPLOYEES- BUT THEN THIS IS ALL ABOUT THE FREE ECONOMY - WHICH MEANS THAT US INGENUITY WILL COME FORTH WITH NEW IDEAS TO STRIKE A WINNING POSTURE AGAINST THE TYRANTS AGAINST FREEDOM IN DEVELOPING EARTH FOUND ENERGY - EVEN WHEN SUCH JOB BUSTING ROAD BLOCKS OF THE KEYSTONE JOB MAKING PROJECT FROM PRIVATE INDUSTRY GETS VETOED BY THE DEMOCRAT POTUS BHO - EVEN WITH PROVEN EXISTING PIPELINES THAT HAS POWERED THE ENERGY MARKET AND CONSUMERS OF THE USA TODAY WITH A 99% SAFETY RECORD. - BUT THEN THESE DEMOCRATS ARE THE ONCE WHO PREFER TO HAVE AMERICANS OUT OF WORK

For American drillers, the New Year will likely bring more of the same – financial pressure and mass layoffs.
The U.S. petroleum industry hasn’t seen this many bankruptcies in one quarter since the Great Recession, the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas says, counting nine Chapter 11 court filings in the year’s final three-month period. And that’s just a third of the year’s domestic casualty count.
The Dallas Fed also estimates in a new report on Thursday the nation has lost about 70,000 oil and gas jobs since October 2014, a 14.5 percent drop in the 14 months after the domestic shale drilling boom that drew thousands to Houston’s oil hub began a steep decline.
But the sacrifice of dozens of U.S. oil producers, thousands of oil field workers and more than 1,200 drilling rigs still hasn’t stalled U.S. crude production enough to shrink the global oil glut that has sent oil prices below $40 a barrel.
Global crude supplies, the Fed said, could outpace demand by 600,000 barrels a day, and the world’s crude storage tanks may not start to decline until 2017.
That’s in part because increased production from Iran has come on earlier than anticipated and the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries is expected to continue pumping crude at current levels.
Iran, which expects western sanctions on its oil exports to be eased next year, has said it wants to pump an additional 500,000 barrels a day. Goldman Sachs believes that OPEC, which includes Iran, will boost its daily production in 2016 by 640,000 barrels. But that’s a conservative estimate that assumes Iran will only put out 285,000 barrels a day next year.

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