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Houston’s Economy Hitting on All Cylinders in 2014

Robert W. Gilmer Institute for Regional Forecasting

Bauer College of Business University of Houston

Houston’s economy rests on four major driving forces

• Energy market – Upstream exploration and production still going

strong thanks to high oil prices – Downstream construction booming based on low

natural gas prices • U.S. economy is putting both the Great Recession

and the polar vortex behind it • The only nagging worry is a slowing global

economy • The economic outlook is good – but how good?

Houston employment: Off to the races again?

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How fast are jobs growing?

• Year-to-date is at a pace of 140,000 new jobs • Texas Workforce Commission estimates too high?

– Likely understated 2013 job growth substantially – Building 2013 job growth into 2014, so they will be at

the right level when they revise data in spring 2015? • One-time events complicate the count: large

construction projects start, relocation of large numbers of company employees, polar vortex

• Simple statistical extrapolation breaks down quickly

Is 2014 growth really that fast?

• Do other data series show this kind of powerful surge?

• Where does TWC say this fast growth is coming from?

• Job growth is probably fast? Question here is how fast? What would be good planning assumptions if we have to guess?

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Where does this surge come from? It is led by oil and construction

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The greatest oil boom ever is still underway

We are experiencing the greatest drilling boom in U.S. history

Constant $ billion E&P spending

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Houston’s upstream exploration jobs now total over 100,000

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Horizontal Drilling Grows with Shale Gas, Complex Oil Projects

Baker Hughes

Since 2005 U.S. Marketed Natural Gas Production Has Grown Rapidly

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• Through June, seasonally adjusted 6,300 new workers, split between producers and services? What caused this spike?

• Is it real? – Relocation of large number of producer

employees into Houston? – Jump in natural gas prices over the winter created

a surprise bonus for producers – Building 2013 under-estimate into 2014?

Polar Vortex: Higher heating bills mean revenue for natural gas producers

Cold briefly drives up natural gas prices

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Downstream construction becomes a force in 2014

Refining Capacity on the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast

Region Number of Refineries

Distillation Capacity (000 b/d)

Houston/Texas City 8 1,900.5

New Orleans 8 2,024.4

Baton Rouge 1 502.5

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Mont Belvieu is the hub for U.S. gas processing

• Mont Belvieu is the settlement point for 90 percent of U.S. natural gas liquids

• 70 percent of those liquids are subsequently processed on the Gulf Coast

• The Houston Ship Channel will pass Qatar in 2016-2017 to become the number one exporter of propane and butane

Four of eight largest ethylene complexes in the world are in Houston

Company Plant location Capacity (million tpy) Formosa Taiwan 2,935.0 Nova Alberta 2,811.7 Arabian Petrochem Saudi Arabia 2,250.0

ExxonMobil Baytown 2,197.0 ChevronPhillips Sweeny 1,865.0 Dow Netherlands 1,800.0

Ineos Chocolate Bayou 1,752.0 Equistar Channelview 1,750.0 Yanbu Saudi Arabia 1,705.0 Equate Kuwait 1,650.0

Oil and Gas Journal, 7/1/2013

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Two of the biggest proposed projects are like peas in a pod

ChevronPhillips • $6 billion investment • 1.5 million ton cracker in

Baytown • Two 2,500 metric ton

polyethylene plants near Sweeny

• 10,000 construction jobs, 400 permanent jobs

• Completed 2016-2017

Exxon • $5-$6 billion investment • 1.5 million metric ton

cracker in Baytown • Two 2,600 metric ton

polyethylene plants near Mont Belvieu

• 10,000 construction jobs, 350 permanent jobs

• Completed 2016-2017

There are five more ethylene projects in the US, four on the Gulf Coast

Company Scale Location Completion

Dow 1.5 m tons Freeport 2017

Sasol 1.5 m tons Lake Charles 2017

Occidental .5 m tons Ingleside 2017

Formosa Plastic

1.2 m tons Point Comfort 2017

Shell World scale Pennsylvania 2019-2020

These giant ethylene projects are rapidly moving forward

• Speed counts, and the first finished are best positioned

• Permitting is a major concern, with multiple groups typically challenging the process

• Craft availability is a another big concern with everyone trying to squeeze into a 2014-2016 window. Also, is there machine shop capacity?

• Over-building? These are export facilities, built to for global markets. But billions are at stake

More than just ethylene: Totals for chemicals on the ship channel

Under construction $6,229 Permitting $4,000 Board approval $492 Under study $400 Total $11,121

Plus three projects with undisclosed costs

More than just chemicals

• There have been 19 applications for LNG export terminals, 6 have been approved

• Four are located on the Gulf Coast: Two in Cameron Parish, La; one each in Lake Charles and Freeport

• These projects have a typical construction cost of $10 billion and recent permits hope for initial operation in 2018

The US economic outlook

Output growth in this recovery has disappointed badly

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Can we find the missing GDP growth?

Period GDP Personal Consumption

Residential Construction

State & Local Gov’t

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Housing recovery staggers in early 2014

• More than just winter weather has conspired to keep the housing recovery slower than expected

• Interest rate shock from the end of the Fed’s QE program raised mortgage rates

• Affordability is stretched for first time home buyers by higher rates and credit standards

• Institutional buyers backed out of the market as prices rose

• Recovery is in place, but will unfold slowly

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Cash for clunkers

US economic outlook continues to strengthen

GDP (%)

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10-year Treas (%)

Consumer Prices (%)

2014Q1 -2.1 189.7 6.7 2.8 1.9

Q2 4.2 266.7 6.2 2.6 3.0

Q3 3.0 228.6 6.1 2.7 2.2

Q4 3.1 211.2 6.0 2.8 2.0

2015 Q1 3.1 208.3 5.8 3.0 2.1

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Q3 3.0 200.7 5.6 3.5 2.1

2014 2.1 204.8 6.3 2.7 2.3

2015 3.1 214.0 5.7 3.3 2.2

2016 2.9 -- 5.4 3.9 2.3

2017 2.8 -- 5.3 4.4 -- Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Survey of Professional Forecasters

Emerging markets drive local exports and high oil prices

For the last decade world oil prices have been driven by emerging markets • Since 2003, all the growth in the global

demand for oil has come from emerging markets, especially Brazil, China, and India

• It has not just been oil, but food, agricultural products, and metals that have seen prices soar

• China alone accounts for one-third of increased oil demand since 2003. China and other Asia are nearly 60 percent.

Growth in the demand for oil comes from the emerging markets

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Where has the emerging market growth come from?

• They have developed deep and rapidly growing domestic markets

• They have been good policy actors – balanced fiscal budgets, independent central banks, and enormous foreign exchange reserves

• They are now large markets, last year passing the developed nations in total GDP

Global Growth Sluggish in 2014-15 (% GDP Growth)

2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

World 3.9 3.5 3.2 3.4 4.0

US 1.8 2.8 1.9 1.7 3.0

Europe 1.5 -0.7 -0.4 1.1 1.5

Japan -0.7 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.1

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India 6.3 4.7 5.0 5.4 6.4

Brazil 2.7 1.0 2.5 1.3 2.0 Source: IMF World Economic Outlook: Update, July 2014

Where did emerging market growth go?

• Their central banks raised interest rates in 2012-13 to slow growth in the face of emerging inflation

• China is trying to engineer a tricky transition from export- to consumer-led growth; India and Brazil face chaotic economic conditions and chronic corruption

• All will need to undertake significant structural reforms to keep growth on a high-growth path

• All will have to cope with rising U.S. interest rates and protect their currency by raising rates themselves

A soft landing for world economic growth: Back above the long-term trend by 2014?

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IMF, World Economic Outlook, July 2014

Houston Outlook

How good will it be in 2014? Better than we thought

• Energy strong – Oil prices high, natural gas prices low – Unexpected help for drilling from winter weather – Downstream construction projects moving quickly to

capture scarce construction workers and machine shop capacity

• U.S. healing and moving to historic trend growth rates • Risks stem from a fragile global market • Watch out for the unforeseen – events like the Asian

financial crisis, tech bust, the American financial crisis

Working assumptions for Houston’s job growth to 2018?

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Houston Payroll Employment Year New Jobs

% Growth Q4/Q4

2008 28,677 1.10% 2009 -105,376 -4.00% 2010 43,634 1.70% 2011 76,094 3.00% 2012 116,981 4.50% 2013 79,213 2.90% 2014 88,891 3.20% 2015 79,700 2.70% 2016 80,750 2.70% 2017 69,900 2.30% 2018 68,190 2.20%

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Back to deep space

Obama administration cancels the Constellation program in 2011

• Constellation was to develop a heavy lift rocket and new crew capsule

• Would deliver crews to the space station by 2015, return a crew to the moon by 2020, and on to Mars after that

• With cancellation, the International Space Station was extended to 2020, and serious funding was given commercial development of delivery of supplies and astronauts to the space station

• Cancellation would mean 7,000 jobs lost in Clear Lake area

Funding restored with a new and reconfigured program

• NASA is now developing a new heavy lift SLS rocket, crew capsule, service module, and launch abort system

• Goals remain the ISS, the moon and Mars • Exploration Test Flight-1 in December 2014 will

see a Delta VI rocket take an un-crewed Orion capsule/spacecraft on an orbit deeper into space than we have been since 1972

• The first flight of the SLS rocket will take Orion and circumnavigate the moon in December 2017

The bumpy ride for the Clear Lake area over for now

• 2010 employment of 16,500 Space Center and NASA contractors has stabilized at 14,000

• Payrolls have declined further because of the retirement opportunities for many senior staff

• But many of these retirees remain in the area • Many of those laid off found opportunities in

a hot technical and engineering market in Houston

Back to deep space

• The plan is once more for the moon -- and perhaps Mars -- to be in Houston’s future

• JSC and Clear Lake dodged a big bullet in 2011, but both are now preparing for exciting and stable economic times ahead

• The current plans envision 2-3 launches per year • The main question still open is where we are

going once the tools are in place – to harness an asteroid, to establish a moon base, or on a mission to Mars?

A new model for medicine

Old model is private health insurance

• Spend the highest share of GDP of any country in the world on healthcare

• That share grows rapidly • Get very poor health outcomes in longevity,

infant mortality, and many other measures • Perverse financial incentives

– Based on volume: more treatment = more revenue – No incentive for quality care: today’s infection =

tomorrow’s revenue – No incentive for prevention

New model of capitation

• Provider is assigned a large group of potential patients – hundreds of thousands

• Given a flat fee of maybe $300 per potential patient with expectations of particular health outcomes

• Provider can keep part of the cost savings – Cares about prevention – Cares about quality outcomes if the quality

improvements limits treatment – Also has strong incentives to limit treatment. Require

monitoring to be sure treatment in adequate

Moving from one model to the other?

• No deadline is set at three years into the Affordable Healthcare Act, but there are expectations that there will be one imposed once the market tilts to capitation

• Houston hospitals and healthcare providers moving much more slowly than other parts of the country – Houston is relatively rich in corporate and public insurance.

Other parts of the country are losing those policies more rapidly – Rapid growth in Houston keeps pulling more private policies into

the city • We are still building hospitals in Katy, Pearland, Sugarland,

and the Woodlands. Why the suburbs? – It is where the patient growth and the private insurance is found – It is where healthcare workers live – and would like to work

Implications • End of Cadillac Care? Think of it as a giant HMO with a single-

provider option – Can you get a referral to the Texas Heart Institute or M.D. Anderson? – Probably not without a very high deductible or other very high out-of-

pocket expense • End of uncompensated care?

– There are 1.1 million uninsured in Harris County – The exchanges might have provided insurance to 150,000 local

uninsured – with half of those previously insured -- and most selected high deductibles

– For many, including the large number of illegal immigrants, the emergency room model is still working

• Don’t lose sight of the end-game: Limit admissions and treatment and dramatically shrink the industry . On the current path, Houston simply delays the new model

Houston is again hitting on all cylinders

• Upstream oil has gotten at least a temporary boost from cold winter weather, low natural gas inventories, and higher prices.

• The downstream construction push is starting, and should gain momentum through 2014

• The manned space flight program is back in place • Houston patient care – so far – is still enjoying

great success under the old patient care model

Prior forecast for Houston

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How good will it be in 2014? Better than we thought

• The surge of 39,000 new jobs in Houston in the first four months of 2014 is based in energy and construction

• On the energy side, perhaps helped by one-time events – Producer consolidation of employees? – Winter weather produces mini-drilling boom that will fade

• About the 5,800 new construction jobs – 2,500 jobs in heavy construction are mostly catch-up for

infrastructure and lot development – But it looks like the petrochemical push is underway, and will

accelerate through 2014 and into 2015 • Based on these facts, we have revised the forecast for

2014 to 86,000 jobs – 21,000 more than previously forecast

Why the focus on upstream capital expenditures? Historically it dominates

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After big turn toward recovery, housing pauses over the winter

What happened? • Sales of new and existing

home sales fall • Supplies of new homes

are very tight • Mortgage applications fall • Prices still rising – just not

as fast

Why? • Brutal winter weather • Affordability has taken a

big hit – Rising mortgage rates – Home prices up

• Supplies extremely tight – Homeowners without

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