This tracker measures job losses and job creation in the UK offshore
energy sector since the introduction of the Energy Profits Levy (EPL)
in May 2022.
Data Sources
SerpAPI — Google News Search API
Article HTML scraped and cleaned using DOMDocument
ONS Postcode API for region classification
What Is Counted?
Job Losses: Oil and gas articles containing numeric job loss phrases.
Job Creation: Renewables articles indicating new jobs created.
