Texas: It's A Whole Other Country, a slogan the state uses to promote its travel industry, carries a much different meaning for oil and gas veterans in the Lone Star State. Visits to the Alamo and Padre Island aside, what's unique about Texas these days are the jobs created by the oil and gas industry. An Internet search for "Texas oil and gas employment" reveals an impressive volume of job listings, and in some cases, companies are scrambling to find workers. And energy jobs are growing in other states as well. At NAPE's 2011 summer conference in Houston, John Christ-mann, Apache's vice president for the Permian region, said, "If anyone's looking for work, we need people in Midland, Texas. It may be tricky finding a house, but we definitely need people. If I could get more folks in Midland it would help us take our rig count up."
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