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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Katrine Bussey

Oil industry could see job cuts like Grangemouth every fortnight, report warns

A report warns the oil and gas workforce could drop from 115,000 to as low as 57,000 by ‘the early 2030s’ (PA) -

The number of jobs in the UK oil and gas sector could plunge to just 57,000 in the next few years, with a report warning there could be the equivalent of 400 cut every fortnight.

That level of job losses would be the same as the closure of the Grangemouth oil refinery every two weeks, according to research by Aberdeen’s Robert Gordon University.

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