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Drilling, anywhere in the World produces jobs for Americans, no mater who is doing it or where it's being done. We help at every level, they use our technology, our supplies to build it, and Americans helping build it, maintain it, etc... while we ship it around the world when they can't, we refine it locally almost always, we resell it even back to the Countries that drilled it, sometimes they can't refine types of gas so we buy it super cheap.
Job ratio wise, a platform has what, 15 people on it? Even opening a few 1000 of them, and even if everyone hired was American (which is never the case), we still would not put a dent in job numbers.
And even at our peak production to our lowest, we didn't open more refineries and our shipping didn't increase, so added drilling does not equal more jobs. It would take the entire world to need a shit ton more oil, like double... for it to impact jobs.
Hell... even if we opened 10,000 inside the Country, you couldn't get 99% of the Americans to even apply for such a hellish job, let alone have the skill for it. Those corps would have no choice but to bring in foreign workers - just like they do already.
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