US Mining and Energy Extraction Sector
Industry Profile Report
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Industry Overview Current Conditions, Industry Structure, How Firms Operate, Industry Trends, Credit Underwriting & Risks, and Industry Forecast.
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Financial Insights Working Capital, Capital Financing, Business Valuation, and Financial Benchmarks.
Industry Profile Excerpts
Industry Overview
The 22,472 mining and energy extraction establishments in the US remove natural-occurring minerals, metals, crude petroleum and natural gas from the earth. Establishments also provide support activities such as surveying and mapping, site preparation, drilling and blasting, well casing and mine wall shoring, inspection, maintenance and cleaning, demolition and waste removal, and land reclamation.
Opposition to Development
Companies may face resistance from area residents and lawmakers regarding the proposal to start a new mining or extraction project.
Environmental Compliance
The mining and energy extraction sector is directly impacted by a wide range of environmental regulations that affect production site permitting, operation, and reclamation.
Industry size & Structure
The mining and energy extraction sector comprises 22,472 establishments that employ 595,000 workers and generate about $597 billion in annual revenue, according to government sources.
- The mining and energy extraction sector represents 1.9% of the nation's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and employs less than 1% of the country's workers.
- The sector is concentrated: the 20 largest mining and energy extraction firms represent 34% of revenue. The 50 largest firms represent 50% of revenue.
- In addition to employer establishments, the mining and energy extraction sector has 67,750 owner-operated establishments with no employees. The majority of nonemployer establishments are in the subsectors of oil and gas extraction (65%) and support services for mining (27%). The owners of nonemployer establishments typically perform the work or subcontract labor for large or complex jobs.
- Nearly 29% of all US mining and energy extraction establishments are in Texas.
- Employment in the mining, quarrying, and energy extraction sector is forecast to decline by 2.6% between 2022 and 2023, primarily due to the sharp decline in employment by US coal mines, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Industry Forecast
US Mining and Energy Extraction Sector Industry Growth
Recent Developments
Jul 14, 2024 - Sector Employment Stable Amid Rising Wages
- Employment at mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction firms dipped 0.7% in June compared to a year ago, continuing its recent stable trend, according to the latest US Bureau of Labor Statistics data. Meanwhile, average sector wages rose 5.6% in May year over year to $36.71 per hour. Mining was one of the eight services sectors tracked by the ISM Services PMI (Purchasing Managers Index) to contract in June compared to May. Industrial production for mining companies, including coal production, declined in March from the previous month and year over year, as did capacity utilization, according to data from the Federal Research and Energy Information Administration.
- In July, the International Energy Agency (IEA) trimmed its forecast for oil-demand growth in 2025 to 980,000 barrels a day (bpd) from 1 million bpd previously, The Wall Street Journal reports. Meanwhile, the IEA forecasts total oil supply to average 103 million bpd this year and 104.8 million bpd in 2025, higher than the agency’s previous estimates of 102.9 million bpd and 104.7 million bpd, respectively. Declining growth in demand amid rising supply is likely to leave the oil market in surplus, reinforcing the IEA’s expectations of a major glut this decade, according to WSJ. Demand in OECD countries, including the US, is facing structural decline as the energy industry adopts energy-efficiency measures and transitions to electric vehicles, while economic growth remains weak despite major central banks starting to cut interest rates, the IEA said in its latest monthly report.
- Oil and gas extraction companies are expanding offshore drilling operations in the Gulf of Mexico in part because doing so releases fewer greenhouse gases than drilling on land, The New York Times reported in May. Industry executives are betting on sustained demand for oil and gas for years to come and argue that offshore drilling is better for the climate than drilling on land because offshore operations emit far less of the greenhouse gases than producing the same amount of oil and gas on land, according to NYT. The greenhouse gas emissions associated with extracting a barrel of oil from the Gulf of Mexico are as much as a third lower than emissions from producing a barrel of oil from fields on US soil, according to a report published last year by the National Ocean Industries Association, an industry group for offshore oil, gas, and wind businesses, cited by NYT.
- A federal appellate court in February delivered a victory for the mining sector when it vacated a lower court ruling that froze new coal leases on public lands, Politico reports. In an unsigned decision, the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a lower court judge’s decision in 2022 that reinstated an Obama-era moratorium on reviewing most new coal leasing applications, according to Politico. The National Mining Association (NMA) applauded the ruling stating the court agreed with the NMA, as well as the states of Wyoming and Montana, that the case should have ended once the challenged Department of Interior Secretarial Order was rescinded in 2021. Rich Nolan, NMA president and CEO, said the lower court’s earlier decision “manufactured a nationwide injunction against federal coal leasing unless and until the Bureau of Land Management completed an unnecessary programmatic environmental impact statement.”
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