Here’s something that most of you probably knew but didn’t really want to see written in a report: the number of jobs in the UK’s oil and gas sector has dropped more than 25 percent over the last two years. It brings into sharp relief the real and absolute need for hands to shake on a deal in Vienna on November 30. The information comes from the annual economic report from Oil and Gas UK. It estimates that after two years of severe cuts, 120,000 jobs no longer exist – made up from 84,000 jobs in 2015 and 40,000 this year. The hardest hit were onshore jobs, due to what it says is “depressed upstream activity in the current economic climate.” It has noted that the “industry has experienced more turbulent industrial relations than has been the case for many years…at the time of writing there is industrial action […]