Overview

Petroleum Industry Sectors Covered by Labour Market Information (LMI)

The Petroleum HR Council (the Council) is the primary resource to address workforce development and labour market issues in the Canadian petroleum industry. The Council collaborates with partners to develop strategies, solutions, products and services that help industry develop a sustainable, skilled and productive oil and gas workforce. The Council develops and provides up-to-date LMI on workforce trends, issues, and projections in the short-, medium- and long-term (to 2020).

The Council defines the upstream and midstream petroleum industry as covering the following sectors:

• Exploration and Production (E&P): includes E&P activity with conventional oil and gas reserves and unconventional reserves such a coalbed methane and shale gas.
• Oil sands: includes producer-operated extraction and upgrading of bitumen.
• Services (petroleum services, drilling and geophysical): includes contracted exploration, extraction and production services to the conventional E&P and Oil sands sectors. Petroleum services includes well services, oilfield construction and maintenance, production and transportation services.
• Pipeline: includes mainline transmission.
• Offshore : includes exploration, production and servicing of offshore oil and gas projects (not currently available except for E&P offshore short-term LMI).

Note: For medium-and long-term LMI, Offshore employment is currently reflected within E&P and Services sector numbers.

Key Council findings include:

• Workforce shortages are expected to return for some occupations in 2011 and across the petroleum industry as a whole in 2012.
• Retiring workers will affect all sectors within the petroleum industry within the next 10 years.
• Workforce shortages mean industry, employment, training and educational institutions and governments need to develop strategies to attract, retain and develop a skilled workforce for the upstream petroleum industry.
• Oil sands will provide the greatest number of new employment positions versus replacement positions.
• E&P and the Services sectors will remain industry's biggest employers.
• Approximately 105,000 workers will need to be hired by 2020 to support new industry activity and to replace retiring workers.

LMI Models and Methodologies

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• Industry-wide Key Findings provides a look at why, where and when labour shortages are expected in the short-, medium- and long-term. It also looks at potential sources of labour and possible issues for the industry as a whole.
• Analysis by Industry Sector provides a sector-by-sector analysis of labour shortages and supply gaps and their contributing factors.
• Occupations in Demand lists the occupations expected to be most in demand (in the short-, medium- and long-term), and the implications for the supply side - governments, educational and training institutions, employment and career centres and practitioners.
• Download Supply Demand Analysis 2009-2020 Petroleum LMI Report.