Nice try on this article of doom and gloom.  How about you show the numbers and not the percentages.  You only list the 3 major companies and omit shell completely.  You let out all the mid and small sized oil companies of which collectively have more jobs than the 3 major's.  You also leave out all the contractors, sub contractors and sub's of sub's, the vendors and suppliers as well that are all heavily invested in supporting the prime companies directly.  To say that 80% or whatever percent is local hire for a major company (direct hire) is very few jobs when compared to all the support contractors that actually contain the vast majority of jobs overall.  Bottom line, the major oil companies make fewer jobs than the collective of mid size and small oil companies.   While major's generate plenty of volume of oil and royalties, those go to the state gov and not the people....the people need development that makes JOBS more than money for the state spending