Job placement on offshore oil rigs

Oil & Gas Recruiters

Spencer Ogden, with head office in London. This known recruiter of candidates to fill oil rig job vacancies, both inland and offshore, has offices around the world. Specifically, SO offices can be found in: UK (London, Glasgow, Aberdeen), Canada (Calgary), USA (Houston), Brazil (Sao Paulo), UAE (Dubai), Hong Kong, South Africa (Cape Town), Perth (Australia), at times undertaking mass recruitment for new oil exploration/production projects.
Anderson Knight recruits for oil and gas upstream sector. Specializes in recruiting only experienced Subsea, Drilling, and Maintenance specialists for offshore positions on semisubmersibles, drillships, jackup oil drilling units, and offshore platforms equipped with 5th or 6th Generation, or conventional oil drilling systems.

Oil platforms have different types of jobs, hundreds of jobs, because the the rig hosting several hundreds of rig workers at a time can be compared to a small community. Positions range from the engineers and drillers to cooks and cleaners of all sorts. To apply for any of them, a candidate is required to provide all the information in English and be able to speak sufficient English language.

The first solution that seems most simple would be to search for ads advertising oil rig vacancies in the newspapers. However, these job offers can often be misleading. Thus, this method may not be suitable and safe for the search operation. Another way to search for work on oil rigs is to perform a search through the Internet. There are two Internet portals that are reliable and can help the interested oil rig job seekers to seek and get employment in different parts of the world. This may be a job in Norway, on platforms in the North Sea, or work in Australia for the extraction of oil and gas to the Timor Sea.

Nowadays it is difficult to find a good job, so working on oil platforms is attractive due to the wages paid by companies involved in the development and operation of oil wells. The recruitment process-search workers on the platform is not always made by the companies themselves, but through intermediary companies.

Group Global Energy Group - This group of companies works with leading companies in the production of oil and gas and is responsible for finding the right people.

ExxonMobil is a world leader in the business of oil and oil products. Its activities include exploration and production of oil and gas, manufacturing and marketing of fuels and lubricants, chemicals, electricity and coal. ExxonMobil regularly recruits engineers and technicians for their oil platforms.

Progressive Company Formation specializes in the recruitment of workers for the oil and gas industry. Currently recruiting workers for various companies in Europe, the Middle and Far East and Australia.

Norway plans to build the world's largest oil platform. The tender for the construction of this semisubmersible oil drilling unit was won by the South Korean shipbuilding corporation Hyaevy Industries. The oil drilling unit in question worth $US 700 million will be delivered to the customer in March 2015. It will be used for the extraction of oil in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. The semisubmersible will be able to ensure drilling up to the depths of 3 kilometers. In addition to the main contract, Fred Olsen Energy has reserved the right to order yet another oil rig of the kind.

Semisubmersible oil platform is different from the usual one that can not move. Semisubmersible can be tugged and held at a specific depth using special anchors weighing up to 15 tons. Usually semisubmersibles are used to drill wells to a depth of 10 kilometers. Their maintenance and operation involve more costs than conventional rigs or drilling platforms do. The North Sea is a major source of oil for Norway. In addition to this country's sector of the North Sea, there are oil and gas deposits in the areas belonging to the United Kingdom, and the oil companies of the Netherlands and other European countries drill there for oil too.

With unemployment rates persistently remaining high in all sectors of the economy around the world, especially for those with no college diploma or university degree, drilling contractors still have busy time trying to hire new people to substitute the workforce that joined oil drilling industry 25-40 years ago and now massively retire. This massive retirement that Norways didn't escape either, has resulted in more vacancies on the oil rigs both for trained professionals and unskilled oil rig workers, such as roustabouts and roughnecks.

Mechanical Engineer and Mechanical Fitter jobs on Offshore Oil Rigs. In oil & gas industry in general and in offshore oil production industry in particular, there are big opportunities for greenhand professionals with education in Mechanical Engineering domain and there are jobs for them not only in Norway. If fact, it is Mechanical Engineers, who design offshore oil platforms, and then play crucial role to make these highly sophysticated huge oil producing installation run, as well as all processing and drilling equipment and facilities for housing personnel and communication systems. For many operations, the design of high pressure is essential, and Mechanical Engineers are dedicated to studying materials that would suffer the least from contact with the high heat transfer and corrosive & flammable liquids...

Drilling companies, hiring in the USA, will be reviewed soon. For now there's an exciting piece of news from the US Spartan Offshore Drilling Co that operates offshore jack up platforms in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska. With them you could get offshore jobs according to the list of vacancies: Night Pusher, Welder, Derrickhand, Driller, Motorman, Rig Maintenance Supervisor, Crane Operator, Floorhand, Electrician, Roustabout, Mechanic, Assistant Driller, Painter, Offshore Installation Manager.