California Resources Corp (CRC)
California oil producer with counted well services unit. Read November 9, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed March 2, 2026. Ranked 28 of the 61 Energy companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
29%
projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index
End of 2028
40%
Employees, annual report
2,500
Leading staffing pattern
Oil and Gas Extraction
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
Now is projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index.
- Now29%
- End of 202737%
- End of 202840%
- End of 203041%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 47%
- Becomes checking a model's work 45%
- Handed over with lighter checks 7%
The filing states approximately 2,500 employees at December 31, 2025, all in the United States, about 640 of them at its C&J Well Services subsidiary, so the producer's staff are read at oil and gas extraction and the counted well services unit at support activities for mining.
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 29% now, 37% at the end of 2027, 40% at the end of 2028, 41% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 41% desk work, 14% people work and 45% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 47% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 45% becomes checking a model's work and 7% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
2,500 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). All employees are located in the United States (stated).
The filing: “We had approximately 2,500 employees as of December 31, 2025, as compared to approximately 1,550 as of December 31, 2024, all of whom were located in the United States.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Oil and Gas Extraction | 74% | The filing describes an oil and natural gas producer in California whose approximately 1,860 employees outside its well services subsidiary, the remainder after the stated 640 (a), run its production operations, read at oil and gas extraction. |
| Support Activities for Mining | 26% | The filing counts approximately 640 employees at its subsidiary C&J Well Services (a), oilfield services read at support activities for mining. |
What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 2,500 employees at December 31, 2025, all in the United States, up from 1,550 after the Berry Merger added about 990 in December 2025; about 640 employed by C&J Well Services; about 250 under a collective bargaining agreement; many third-party contractors used; the filing says it undertook a reduction in force in February 2026 after the merger.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Oil and Gas Extraction, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five. Now is projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index.
- Exxon Mobil Corporation (XOM, 58,000 employees)32% now, 42% by 2028
- Chevron Corporation (CVX, 43,039 employees)31% now, 41% by 2028
- Occidental Petroleum Corporation (OXY, 10,412 employees)32% now, 45% by 2028
- ConocoPhillips (COP, 9,900 employees)32% now, 46% by 2028
- Imperial Oil Limited (IMO, 5,000 employees)32% now, 42% by 2028
- EOG Resources, Inc. (EOG, 3,400 employees)32% now, 46% by 2028
- Devon Energy Corporation (DVN, 2,200 employees)32% now, 46% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
0 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names artificial intelligence in no sentence.
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
- Fiscal 20210median 0
- Fiscal 20220median 0
- Fiscal 20230median 1
- Fiscal 20240median 4
- Fiscal 20250median 10
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 2,500 | 2026-03-02 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 1,550 | 2025-03-03 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 970 | 2024-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 1,060 | 2023-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 970 | 2022-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 1,000 | 2021-03-11 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 1,250 | 2020-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 1,500 | 2019-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 1,450 | 2018-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 2,000 | 2017-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 1,700 | 2016-02-29 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 1,990 | 2015-02-27 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- Third-party contractors used throughout operations are not counted (rule 8).
- The headcount is the year-end count after the Berry Merger; the filing reports a reduction in force in February 2026, recorded as the filing states it.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001609253-26-000051, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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Questions about this company
- How much of California Resources Corp's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 29% now and 40% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce California Resources Corp's own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does California Resources Corp employ?
- 2,500 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states. About 100% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up California Resources Corp's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 2 industry staffing patterns, the largest Oil and Gas Extraction; by those patterns the work is about 41% desk work, 14% people work and 45% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does California Resources Corp's annual report say about AI?
- 0 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 0, 0 and 0 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on November 9, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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