Resource guide on the oil and gas production sector

The ILO estimates that nearly 6 million people are directly employed by the petroleum industry and over ten times that number of jobs are indirectly created by the industry. Employment opportunities for women in the petroleum industry are increasing, but from a very low base. This may be because of harsh working conditions in the industry: long hours work, especially in oil production; increasing amounts of work round the clock, in difficult, remote areas ; scheduling of shifts particularly offshore when rotation patterns are constrained by transport schedules and limits on accommodation. The petroleum industry faces the shortage of skilled workers.

On this page: Find information on the oil and gas production sector through Labordoc • International Labour Standards • Statistics • In the media • Key ILO documents • ILO databases • ILO links • External links • Photos

Find information on the oil and gas production sector through Labordoc

• ILO publications on the oil and gas production sector
• All publications on the oil and gas production sector available in Labordoc

International Labour Standards

Conventions

• C81 Labour Inspection Convention, 1947
• C121 Employment Injury Benefits Convention, 1964
• C128 Invalidity, Old-Age and Survivors' Benefits Convention, 1967
• C130 Medical Care and Sickness Benefits Convention, 1969
• C139 Occupational Cancer Convention, 1974
• C148 Working Environment (Air Pollution, Noise and Vibration) Convention, 1977
• C155 Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981
• C161 Occupational Health Services Convention, 1985
• C162 Asbestos Convention, 1986
• C170 Chemicals Convention, 1990
• C174 Prevention of Major Industrial Accidents Convention, 1993

Recommendations

• R160 Occupational Safety and Health (Dock Work) Recommendation, 1979

Fundamental Conventions

• C29 Forced Labour Convention, 1930
• C87 Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948
• C98 Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949
• C100 Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951
• C105 Abolition of Forced Labour Convention, 1957
• C111 Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958
• C138 Minimum Age Convention, 1973
• C182 Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999

International labour standards can be found in the NORMLEX database.

Statistics

• UNdata: energy statistics database (including petroleum and natural gas)


• You may find statistics on the topic in the following selection of publications.

In the media

• ILO and BP sign a Public Private Partnership agreement in Indonesia, 1 June 2011
• Governments, oil firms and oil workers meeting at ILO to discuss implications of global crisis for oil and gas industry, 11 May 2009