Houston Still an Energy Town, Largely Pins Growth on the Sector

Southwest Economy, Second Quarter 2022

Jesse Thompson

The COVID-19
pandemic decimated the
oil and gas sector, whose
delayed recovery slowed
the Houston area’s growth
relative to the rest of Texas
and the nation through
most of 2021. In recent
months, increasing oil and
gas demand and shifting
geopolitics have become
tailwinds for energy
production and exports—as well as for Houston