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Shale Giants Slash Thousands of Jobs as Lower Prices Bite
U.S. oil and gas producers seek efficiencies and cost reductions amid lower oil prices this year compared to 2024 levels. Fresh off multi-billion-dollar mergers and acquisitions in the 2023-2024 period, many major producers in the U.S. shale patch are restructuring businesses and operations. The result so far has been a series of announcements and reports of workforce reductions across geographies and basins. The latest such report came this week, by Reuters, which reported a memo it had seen regarding layoffs at the Canadian business of U.S. oil…