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HOUSTON — Oil field equipment maker National Oilwell Varco will cut 110 jobs in North Texas as it closes a fiber-glass system facility in Mineral Wells through the end of the year, state regulators said Monday.

The Houston company told the Texas Workforce Commission that the closing of its Mineral Wells facility, about 50 miles west of Fort Worth, will be complete in December, and an initial round of layoffs will take place in early October.

“Due to economic reasons, NOV was not able to provide as much advance notice to some affected employees as it would have liked,” the company said in a letter to the TWC. “NOV will make those employees whole by providing additional pay and benefits.”

National Oilwell Varco had told Texas regulators more than a week ago that it would close a facility in Willis, Texas, over the next few months, laying off 150 workers starting in mid-August. The firm had 63,600 employees at the end of last year.

More broadly, oil-industry recruiter Swift Worldwide Resources says the ongoing oil market crash has claimed 176,100 jobs since it began last year.



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