据能源网站Oilprice11月17日报道，雷斯塔能源公司分析显示，新冠肺炎疫情严重打击了澳大利亚本已不断下降的油气行业劳动力市场，导致今年造成超过28,000多个工作岗位的流失，这相当于澳大利亚该产业工作岗位总数的四分之一。其中一些工作将从2021年开始恢复，即使经济复苏，澳大利亚的石油和天然气劳动力也很难在五年内恢复到大流行前的水平，因为能源转型日益改变了全球的能源结构。
根据雷斯塔能源公司计算，2019年，澳大利亚的油气行业工作岗位刚刚超过110,000个。由于当前的经济低迷，这一数字大幅下降至82,000多个。而在当前灾难性的衰退之前，该行业的劳动力市场一直在稳定下降，2019年相比2014年收缩了近24％。这一定程度上是该国运营商支出 增长滞后导致的结果。
总体而言，预计劳动力市场将从2021年下半年开始反弹，到2025年至少将增加20,000个工作岗位。
雷斯塔的能源服务研究分析师Sumit Yadav说道“未来，劳动力需求的增长不仅将受到正在开发的油气项目推动，而且很大程度上也受到基础设施项目的推动，这些项目是由澳大利亚政府为降低全国天然气价格而实施的”。
沈彦 摘译自Oilprice
原文如下：
COVID-19 Takes Major Toll The Covid-19 pandemic hit Australia’s already declining oil and gas workforce hard, causing a loss of over 28,000 jobs this year, equivalent to a quarter of the country’s total count, a Rystad Energy analysis reveals. Some of these jobs will be restored from 2021 In 2019, Australian oil and gas jobs numbered just over 110,000, a tally slashed by current downturn to just over 82,000, Rystad Energy calculates. The industry’s workforce had been declining steadily even before the present catastrophic downturn, shrinking by close to 24% in 2019 from what it was in 2014. This is, in part, the result of lagging growth in operators’ spending in the country.
On an overall basis, we expect the labor market will rebound starting in late 2021, adding a minimum of 20,000 jobs by 2025.
“In the future, the growth in labor demand will not only be driven by oil and gas projects that are under development, but also to a great extent by the infrastructure initiatives undertaken by the Australian government to bring gas prices down across the country,” says Sumit Yadav, energy service research analyst at Rystad Energy.
