Apologies for no post last week, I.T. stuff happened, so the blog didn't.
Plenty of news though. There's been a big fight in the Antipodes about wages for offshore oil workers. I can't see it specified anywhere exactly what jobs these boys are doing, but they are asking for an increase of about $60k US, so either they are horribly underpaid, or they're greedy as hell. I think maybe the former.
Jack ups are in the news again, this report says what we are all thinking - "why do they keep building Jack ups when they have quite a few stacked already?" I suspect some of these companies will shift them pretty fast to cut their losses. Sustainable growth it aint. They'll probably get utilised eventually, but in the meantime, the guys paying for them, especially smaller cos and new startups, will really struggle.
Close to my heart this one - it's a reasonably interesting (if badly written) article about recruitment scams and what to watch out for. There's a coupla points I would raise on it though...
1) NEVER, EVER pay money for recruitment if you are a candidate. In the UK, it is illegal to request money for the purposes of inding a job. If a UK company asks you for money, report them to the DTI. (Department of Trade and Investment)
2) If you're happy to go to Nigeria, fine. Don't assume it's a fake job just because it's there.
Jobs wise, I need a Norwegian for a shore based H&S position in Stavanger, and I also need Geophysicists with 10 years experience for everywhere (particularly the UK).
Jobs from previous post are still active too.
More later in the week.
Monday 25 January 2010
Friday 22 January 2010
Thursday 14 January 2010
New year
So, it's back to the grindstone. I hope you had a good new year, and I hope that this year is good to you.
Optimism seems to be the general feeling at the moment. Rigzone have been talking about things looking a bit better in terms of increasing rig counts. A few of my clients have taken the next microsteps forward in getting rigs on contract, and the oil price has been up, and down. And up again, and down again, and so on.
There have been a few retrospectives on how terrible 2009 was for the industry; one here, but continuing with the positive theme, Cairn have secured another rig for Greenland, link here, there's a healthy debate about where is best to look for oil here and here.
The Guardian also had an interesting article about how offshore windfarms will need offshore workers, here. In my experience, the crossover in skills is actually pretty easy when it comes to recruitment, but the problem is the companies want people who have already done this before, which in this case no-one has. It'll be interesting to see what happens...
Jobs wise, things are busier than they were, although most roles require something specialist:
- Geophysicist, 10 years +, Edinburgh, UK
- ET, Jack up experience only, Cyberbase too, S.E. Asia
- Process Engineering Lead, Aberdeen, UK.
- Drillers, Toolpushers, Rig Supers, need Offshore Modular workover experience
- Barge Master, Needs to have worked on 8 point mooring Anchor Handling pipelay, no fixed location as of yet.
- Master Mariner, AHTS vessel, Angola
- SDPO for Dive Support Vessel, need Sat-dive experience, Qatar
- ETO, Chief Engineer, 2nd Engineer, DP2 Barge experience, UAE
- Commercial Manager, downhole tools co experience, North Scotland
As usual, if you are interested, please email, or if you know anyone who might be, I'm still doing the Whisky for referrals program!
Optimism seems to be the general feeling at the moment. Rigzone have been talking about things looking a bit better in terms of increasing rig counts. A few of my clients have taken the next microsteps forward in getting rigs on contract, and the oil price has been up, and down. And up again, and down again, and so on.
There have been a few retrospectives on how terrible 2009 was for the industry; one here, but continuing with the positive theme, Cairn have secured another rig for Greenland, link here, there's a healthy debate about where is best to look for oil here and here.
The Guardian also had an interesting article about how offshore windfarms will need offshore workers, here. In my experience, the crossover in skills is actually pretty easy when it comes to recruitment, but the problem is the companies want people who have already done this before, which in this case no-one has. It'll be interesting to see what happens...
Jobs wise, things are busier than they were, although most roles require something specialist:
- Geophysicist, 10 years +, Edinburgh, UK
- ET, Jack up experience only, Cyberbase too, S.E. Asia
- Process Engineering Lead, Aberdeen, UK.
- Drillers, Toolpushers, Rig Supers, need Offshore Modular workover experience
- Barge Master, Needs to have worked on 8 point mooring Anchor Handling pipelay, no fixed location as of yet.
- Master Mariner, AHTS vessel, Angola
- SDPO for Dive Support Vessel, need Sat-dive experience, Qatar
- ETO, Chief Engineer, 2nd Engineer, DP2 Barge experience, UAE
- Commercial Manager, downhole tools co experience, North Scotland
As usual, if you are interested, please email, or if you know anyone who might be, I'm still doing the Whisky for referrals program!
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