Oil Jobs Increasingly Becoming Automated – By Ashe Schow (Dailywire) / Feb 28 2019
While conservatives love to point out that an increase in the minimum wage for low-skill jobs has led to increased automation of those industries, there’s another industry that is moving toward automation: Oil and gas.
Gizmodo reports that “oil and gas companies are automating their workforces,” meaning fewer jobs for Americans. In previous reporting, Gizmodo’s Brian Merchant detailed how Silicon Valley tech companies were helping to automate the oil and gas industry, which included the subtext “that there will be fewer workers employed by the sector as well.”
Gizmodo is not alone. Community Impact, a paper from Houston, TX, wrote that technology was reducing the need to hire humans, quoting Cindy Taylor, the president and CEO of Oil States International.
“There will be employment gains, but we can’t forget we are doing more with less,” Taylor said. “This is not an issue unique to energy by any means. We are all talking about how do we repurpose our workforce to optimize what we have available with digital technology.”
Still, CI reported that “full automation is still in the future.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/44093/oil-jobs-increasingly-becoming-automated-ashe-schow
