This photo taken June 9, 2014 shows a petroleum industry worker standing on an oil and gas rig on a well pad, in New Castle, a small farming and ranching settlement on the Western Slope of the Rockies, in Colo. 

Whitehouse-based Jasper Ventures laid off a “pretty small percentage of its workforce” Thursday morning at its Veritas fabrication facility in Troup.

Jasper provides gas processing services and makes natural gas plants. Veritas produces parts used to build those plants.

Amber Payne, Jasper’s marketing and communications manager, said the company employs about 400 people at facilities in Texas and Oklahoma. It’s a “small-to-mid size company,” she said.

She didn’t immediately have the specific number of people who were laid off Thursday morning, but it was small enough that the move didn’t trigger a required notification to the state’s workforce commission.

“It’s due to the ebbs and flows of the oil and gas industry,” she said, and Veritas is still operating.

“It’s definitely not anything we enjoy doing. It’s an unfortunate part of business in oil and gas sometimes,” she added.