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The COVID-19 crisis clobbered the oil and gas industry. The industry that was already going through major changes amid price volatility and global shift to renewable energy saw billions of dollars disappear in value within a matter of weeks after the pandemic. According to energy consultant Wood Mackenzie, the global investment in oil and gas production is forecasted to remain below pre-pandemic levels until 2025. In 2020, oil and gas firms made up only 2.3% of the S&P 500, down from 15% in 2008. In the same year, S&P Dow Jones Indices reported the most significant revisions in the index in seven years where Salesforce.com, Inc. (NYSE:CRM) replaced the longest-serving component, Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM), which has been in the Dow since 1982. During the pandemic, the global oil demand decreased by up to 30 million barrels per day. In the United States alone, oil output dropped by approximately 2 million barrels per day, the largest monthly decrease since 1980.