Energy employment by economic sector operating existing assets vs. building new projects, 2019

Notes

Jobs labelled “building new projects” include those construction of new power plants, building new well heads in existing or new oil and gas fields, manufacturing upstream components for these new projects (including IT systems and software), implementing new energy efficiency retrofits in buildings or upgrades to industrial processes, manufacturing new vehicles, and others. “Operating existing assets” includes jobs in operations and maintenance, administration at energy firms, energy traders, transport and shipping of fuels, and in wholesale trade. These jobs are commonly at electricity and gas utilities, power plants, refineries and other fuel processing facilities, at trading decks and offices and ports, etc. Please see the Methodology section and the Annex for definitions of economic sectors.