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View Poll Results: What do you think will become Houston's next big new economy sector besides oil?
Technology/IT 10 25.00%
Engineering 1 2.50%
Construction 1 2.50%
Medical 21 52.50%
Other (please specify) 7 17.50%
Voters: 40. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 06-04-2010, 12:18 PM
 
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Medical is already huge. Texas Medical Center is the city's largest employer. Extremely important and significant... people come from all over the world, especially to places like M. D. Anderson, and spend many more dollars elsewhere while they're here.

Hopefully biotech and nanotech grow further here.
How many people are employed there?
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Old 06-04-2010, 12:42 PM
 
Location: Tower of Heaven
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How many people are employed there?
Texas MC = 75,000 in 2009 ----> 105,000 expected for 2012 !
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Old 06-04-2010, 12:43 PM
 
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Dang! I have never known for an employer to be that big!
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Old 06-04-2010, 12:44 PM
 
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If 100,000+ works in the medical industrys, how many people are employed in the oil industry?
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Old 06-04-2010, 12:55 PM
 
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My former college roommate graduated as a Civil Engineer from the University of Houston and has never been out of work. The company he works for was involved in the widening of a section of I-10 which lasted about 8 years plus he has had all types of other contracts such as rebuilding overpasses not only in Houston but as well as in other cities. He says that the demand is there and it’s only increasing in Houston.
This isn't surprising. Hwy 290 is planned for a major overhaul in a year or so, just like I-10. I wouldn't be surprised if the north end of I-45 will be next in line.
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Old 06-04-2010, 01:05 PM
 
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It's still way too early to tell. Though there are quite a few energy companies in Houston that are involved in green energy, for the vast majority it accounts for a relatively small percentage of their operations.
It'll be nice to see renewable energy grow in Houston. Texas already produces about three times more wind energy than its closest competitor.

I posted these elsewhere, but in case anybody else would like to read:

"Move Over Oil, There's Money in Texas Wind"

"Wind Power Has Another Banner Year"
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Old 06-05-2010, 12:31 AM
 
Location: ITL (Houston)
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Houston is the center of the American oil and gas industry, not so much the energy industry as a whole. The whole "Houston is Energy Capital of the World" is more or less today a marketing slogan. Back in the day, when the US was much more dominant in this industry, one posited that whatever city is the energy capital of the US is also that of the world. However, when one does research today, they will find that US oil companies' share of proven oil reserves is rather minuscule. I believe it's in the single-digits percentage-wise. In fact, 3 of the 6 supermajors aren't even American. (RD Shell, BP and Total).

As for them moving, they (and corporations in general) do it all the time. Where does Halliburton's CEO reside? Clue: It's not the US. Didn't they just move from Houston to Dallas a fews ago? Wasn't El Paso Corp. previously based in...El Paso a few years back? Didn't Schlumberger move from NY a few years ago too? There are tons of other examples of O&G firms moving to where the money is, I'm sure.

I also mentioned solar as well. If you follow my posts, I do talk quite extensively about solar energy, much to the chagrin of a few on this forum, it seems.
I don't think it matters where Haliburton's CEO lives. It's still a US company that is HQ'ed in Houston. Go look at the new Fortune list and try and say it's HQ'ed in Dubai (another common misconception). It isn't. Those other two companies moved to Houston. Houston is the energy capital. I read the Houston Economic Outlook for this year, as well as the Hreater Houston Partnership, and they all go agains t what you're saying.
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Old 06-05-2010, 12:42 AM
 
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I don't think it matters where Haliburton's CEO lives. It's still a US company that is HQ'ed in Houston. Go look at the new Fortune list and try and say it's HQ'ed in Dubai (another common misconception). It isn't. Those other two companies moved to Houston. Houston is the energy capital. I read the Houston Economic Outlook for this year, as well as the Hreater Houston Partnership, and they all go agains t what you're saying.
Okay, Houston is the energy capital. We got you. ("Energy" is a VERY broad term, but I'll take your word for it.) My point is from my original post, technology is rapidly advancing and our future is without a doubt going to be much different than it is today. Renewable energy can be produced just about anywhere, from Nantucket Sound to Southern California (not to mention individual backyards and roofs when it becomes viable at the consumer level), so who knows if there is going to even be a "renewable energy" capital. Oil and gas production is much more localized (Canadian tar sands, the Gulf of Mexico, West Texas, etc.)

To say Houston is and will be the energy capital forever to me is like someone in the 60's saying Detroit will dominate in automobile production forever. Industries change and the areas that are associated with them change along with them. (The premise of my first post on this forum)

Also, FWIW of course locally-based business organizations have something nice to say about Houston. It would be against their best interest to not have anything nice to say.

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Old 06-05-2010, 07:42 AM
 
Location: Underneath the Pecan Tree
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Houston is the center of the American oil and gas industry, not so much the energy industry as a whole. The whole "Houston is Energy Capital of the World" is more or less today a marketing slogan. Back in the day, when the US was much more dominant in this industry, one posited that whatever city is the energy capital of the US is also that of the world. However, when one does research today, they will find that US oil companies' share of proven oil reserves is rather minuscule. I believe it's in the single-digits percentage-wise. In fact, 3 of the 6 supermajors aren't even American. (RD Shell, BP and Total).

We know this, but Houston is the Headquarter/American Division of 5 of the 6 super major oil companies.
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Old 06-05-2010, 08:10 AM
 
Location: TX
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We know this, but Houston is the Headquarter/American Division of 5 of the 6 super major oil companies.

Not even close. Chevron and Exxon aren't based in Houston. Sure they have operations here, but they aren't headquarters' or "American divisions" seeing they are based elsewhere in the US.

Besides, I think I'm trying to establish that oil won't be around forever, which is in line with the OP's question. Oil companies? So what?

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