BISMARCK, ND (KXNET) — Chevron announced layoffs would be coming earlier this year, and about 70 jobs were expected to be lost in North Dakota in a consolidation effort following their $53 billion merger with Hess Oil Company.

The company has since confirmed 111 layoffs between Minot and Tioga. The layoffs come as the oil and gas industry is thinning its workforce across the board. Latest projections from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show 4,000 oil and gas jobs were lost from January to August.

The consolidation and layoffs are part of a trend in the oil industry with the U.S.'s three largest oil companies having all acquired competitors in mergers in the last two years, and all three have since shed workforce. It is yet to be seen how this will affect North Dakota.

Earlier this year,

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