By Liz Hampton, Stephanie Kelly and Nia Williams (Reuters) - When Jeremy Davis was laid off from his oilfield job in Texas in 2020, he did not want to.
The shortage of workers is limiting how much producers in the United States and Canada can increase oil output this year as governments try to find ways to offset the effect of lost Russian barrels following Moscow's invasion of Ukraine
Thousands of workers in the United States and Canada have left oil and gas jobs, put off by arduous conditions, remote locations, and insufficient compensation, or lured to the renewables sector as the world transitions to cleaner energy.