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Find And Fix: Job Creation In The Emerging Methane Leak Detection And Repair Industry

Find And Fix: Job Creation In The Emerging Methane Leak Detection And Repair Industry

Full Title: Find And Fix: Job Creation In The Emerging Methane Leak Detection And Repair Industry
Author(s): Datu Research
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Publication Date: March 1, 2017
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The objective of this research is to further understand the growing industry of service firms that provide methane leak detection and repair (LDAR) services to the oil and gas industry. This involves profiles of the individual companies (firm size, age and technologies used) and the LDAR service economy workforce (roles, wages, diversity and upward mobility). Through this research, we seek to answer key questions such as: What kinds of jobs are created by LDAR? Where is the work performed? What kind of growth do these service firms anticipate as a result of existing and potential state and federal regulations? This report is a follow-up to a 2014 Datu study, The Emerging Methane Mitigation Industry, which documented existing methane control technologies, analyzed the size and geographic distribution of the industry, and assessed future growth potential. In 2014, we found that the methane mitigation industry included at least 75 firms, with over 500 locations across the country, including more than 100 manufacturing and assembly locations. In this follow-up study, we focus on the specific service firms that perform LDAR.

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