It was confirmed this week that multinational oilfield services company Halliburton Co. (NYSE: HAL) cut 4,000 jobs companywide during the fourth quarter of 2015 — a workforce reduction that may have hit New Mexico operations harder than originally thought.
According to Susie McMichael, senior public relations representative, Halliburton has reduced "its global headcount by 25 percent — almost 22,000 employees — since its peak in 2014," including the recent cuts. She wouldn't confirm specific locations or employee numbers on the basis that those details are "competitive information and therefore unavailable."
The company laid off staff across the state in Farmington, Artesia and Hobbs at the end of the third quarter last year. But McMichael would neither confirm nor deny that New Mexico was included in the latest round of cuts.