Canada is facing significant challenges in the availability of skills and talent required to meet the workforce needs of Canada’s oil and gas industry over the next ten years, according to a report released today by the Petroleum Human Resources Council of Canada. “The Decade Ahead: Labour Market Outlook to 2022 for Canada’s Oil and Gas Industry” presents information about the workforce requirements of the oil and gas industry for all sectors and provinces. It calls on industry, government and educators to work together to build the pool of talent needed to sustain production and development.
“The stakes are high,” said Cheryl Knight, Executive Director of the Council. “A sustainable oil and gas industry is in the best interests of Canada and all Canadians. The benefits to direct and indirect employment, as well as to the economy, are significant,” she said.
“For every job created in our industry, three more are created in other areas of the economy,” said Knight. “Our report estimates that by 2022, the oil and gas industry will sustain between 900,000 and 1 million jobs across Canada,” she said. Only 20 per cent will be direct jobs in oil and gas; almost half will be indirect jobs in industries like construction, manufacturing, transportation and warehousing; and the rest will be “induced” jobs driven by the spending and service needs of direct and indirect industry workers. “A full 20 per cent of these jobs will be in Ontario, Newfoundland and Labrador, Quebec, and Nova Scotia,” she said.
The report analysed two potential industry activity scenarios: a low growth scenario in which market diversification does not occur; and an expansion scenario in which Canadian suppliers succeed in gaining access to a range of international markets. “Only the rate of workforce growth is affected,” said Knight.
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I agree with Knight’s words that every job created in the oil industry leads to the creation of jobs indirectly in other related fields. As more people find jobs in the oil rigs, they need support from other people to function effectively, leading to the creation of jobs in fields like transportation, construction and manufacturing.
Posted by Alan | June 27, 2013, 3:55 am