Energy industry news

Worldwideworker.com at AOG, 17-19 Feb 2009, Perth, Australia | 19 Feb, 2009

AOG is the premier oil and gas industry exhibition in Australia and has run for over a quarter of a century. Hosted over three days at the Perth Convention Exhibition Centre, the event was the largest petroleum exhibition ever held in the Southern Hemisphere and has reinforced its standing as the premier event for those concerned with the oil and gas industry.

This year’s AOG event was the largest oil and gas exhibition ever staged in Australia and featured almost 400 exhibitors from throughout Australia and eighteen countries worldwide including international pavilions from the UK, Norway and USA. For the first time the exhibition featured dedicated zones for Health and Safety as well as Subsea Technology. In total approximately 7800 people visited the show, which has been the largest ever.

Worldwideworker.com was recruiting at the event together with Petronas Carigali. We succeeded in growing our database with many Australian Oil & Gas and Mining professionals and drew the interest of many companies to help them with their recruitment needs. We were successful in expanding our brand and HR services into this part of the world.
For more information on our upcoming Recruitment Event, or how to participate, please contact Mrs. Florence Card at card@worldwideworker.com

Worldwideworker.com at NAPE, 4 - 6 Feb 2009, Houston, TX, USA | 10 Feb, 2009

Nape was created in 1993 to provide a marketplace for the buying, selling and trading of oil and gas prospects and producing properties via exhibit booths. NAPE brings state-of-the-art prospects and properties from U.S. and around the world, advanced technology and energy capital formation all together in one location, creating a pure market place to establish strategic alliances for doing business and initiating purchases and trades.  Worldwideworker.com participated with Maersk Oil in the International Section. The show was very active with a record number of over 16,000 attendees.

Energy job opportunities – Presentation at INSEAD Business School – France | 9 Feb, 2009

Tanja Oldenziel is a Senior Search Consultant. She recently moved to Norway after having spent several years with Worldwideworker.com in the Middle East. She specializes in Executive Search and high level Technical Search in the E&P side of the oil industry. Tanja has an MSc degree in Petroleum Engineering and a PhD in Time-lapse Seismic, both from Delft University of Technology.

She introduced an overview of the oil industry, and explained to the students at Insead the different channels to use to develop their profiles in order to find a job in the energy industry.

Presentation at INSEAD Business School from Worldwideworker on Vimeo.

 
Info on INSEAD:

The most international business school in the world
INSEAD is The Business School for the World. Our uniquely diverse environment attracts young professionals (average 29 years and 6 years of work experience) from around 70 countries to each MBA class. Moreover, INSEAD is one school with two equal-status campuses, in Asia (Singapore) and Europe (France) - and 70% of the participants spend time on both locations. If you are looking for executives who are comfortable working across national, cultural and linguistic borders, then it is only natural to partner with INSEAD.

A commitment to excellence
INSEAD MBA programme attracts the best - and makes them even better. INSEAD’s reputation brings some of the most talented and ambitious young professionals in the world to INSEAD. Drawn to the school by its  world-class faculty and unparalleled global alumni network, they experience an intensive one-year programme that enhances their business insights, team work, organisational skills, entrepreneurialism and stamina. These talented people leave INSEAD to create value and growth in companies across the globe - companies like yours.

To know more about the INSEAD Energy Club:   Click here

Below is the link to download the presentation: 

Worldwideworker.com at the World Future Energy Summit, 19 – 21 January 2009, Abu Dhabi, UAE | 26 Jan, 2009

The 2nd World Future Energy Summit and its exhibition brought together 18,420 visitors from 84 countries. The event attracted the attention of world leader’s and was visited by official delegations from political, business, scientific, and educational backgrounds from around the globe which included the Former Prime Minister of the UK Tony Blair, IPCC Chairman Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, and the Crown Prince of the Netherlands HRH Willem-Alexander.

During the WFES event, Worldwideworker.com - the largest HR service provider for the energy industry - continued to focus on strengthening their position in the Renewable Energy industries.
“This highly technical and specialized Industry is growing fast and requires precise global recruitment, which is exactly what we do. In addition to entirely new companies and new engineers starting in this part of the Energy industry, there are also many companies and engineers from the traditional Energy and Oil & Gas industry crossing over into the Renewable Energy industry", says Mark van Mil, Senior Executive Search consultant for the Renewable Energy industry with Worldwideworker.com. "Large infra-structural projects, big Capex outlays and long-term planning and investments all characterize both the Renewable and the traditional Energy industry" continues Mark, "but for young engineers we notice the green image of the Renewable Energy industry is an additional attraction".

Even though the Worldwideworker.com database already contains the details of thousands of qualified candidates in the fields of Wind, Solar, Bio and other alternative Energy sources, the WFES was still a perfect gateway for many professionals in higher and technical management roles as well as business development roles to speak with Worldwideworker.com about possible job opportunities around the globe.
On the client side Worldwideworker.com was also able to expand its network and can therefore comfortably deliver its services in Renewable Energy industry, matching top Energy companies with top candidates.

Worldwideworker.com at Petrotech, 11-15 Jan 2009, New Delhi, India | 19 Jan, 2009

The theme of the conference “Energy Independence with Global Co-operation: Challenges & Solutions” amply reflects the need of the times. The 5 day conference thronged big number of visitors mainly clients from the energy market- big and small who are looking for services, collaborations, joint ventures, resources predominantly manpower, materials etc. This show was very useful for Worldwideworker as a company at the time of global meltdown where India subcontinent is thirsty for energy with its numerous new findings. We could generate good number of inquires here from clients who were exhibitors and visitors seeking our help to find high skilled people in the E&P areas. Vis-à-vis few hundred’s of candidates with varying experience level currently working in India and outside approached us inquiring opportunities within India. Overall this has been a good show for us despite there was no clients participated along with us exclusively for recruitment.

Worldwideworker.com Recruitment Event at the PETEX, 25 – 27 November 2008, London, UK | 1 Dec, 2008

PETEX is the largest UK conference and exhibition dedicated to oil and gas exploration and is run by the Petroleum Society of Great Britain (PESGB).
In total approximately 2900 G&G people visited the show, this figure is one of the highest for PETEX ever.

Addax Petroleum, Hunt Oil Company, Maersk Oil and Petronas Carigali had all joined the Worldwideworker.com Recruitment Event during the PETEX, with great success.

The Worldwideworker.com Wall of Job Opportunities also caught many curious eyes. Students and experienced Geologists, Geoscientists and Geophysicists were interested to see what’s on offer at the moment. Would the striking growth in job-hunting have anything to do with the economical situation at the moment? It nevertheless had a very positive effect on our presence, and we’re looking forward to PETEX 2010.

Worldwideworker.com and Hunt Oil Recruiting at the SEG in Las Vegas, 9 - 14 November 2008 | 20 Nov, 2008

“Attendees were enthused by the buzz on the exhibit floor, and the technical sessions were of high quality and well attended,” said Ernie Siraki, General Chairman. “Attendance and participation exceeded our expectations.”

The Mandalay Bay Convention Center was occupied by 292 exhibitors with 1187 booths, and there were 8064 delegates in attendance at the SEG International Exposition and 78th Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, USA, and many reported satisfaction with the experience.

Worldwideworker.com and Hunt Oil Company have successfully found the Geoscientist they were looking for. Join us at the next SEG in October 2009 in Houston!
Contact Mrs. Courtnie Parker Nungester at parker@worldwideworker.com

Worldwideworker.com at ADIPEC, 3 – 6 November 2008, Abu Dhabi, UAE | 10 Nov, 2008

This year’s ADIPEC 2008 bought together more than 200 international speakers, nearly 2,000 delegates, 1500 exhibitors, 18 national pavilions and 39,000 visitors from 89 different countries.
During the 4 day exhibition the Worldwideworker booth displayed our large “Worldwideworker.com Wall of Job Opportunities” which attracted a large number of local as well as international candidates and clients.

Inquiries from new clients mostly concerned questions about whether or not we can source people in geosciences / offshore design / commercial / contracting / offshore construction and other specific areas. YES WE CAN! Some companies who weren’t familiar with us yet were interested in knowing how we can support their hiring plan. We are always happy to able to look at individual needs and discuss tailor made solutions.
For candidates who have already uploaded their CV on our website, or who were planning to do so, it was a great opportunity to meet us in person and look for suitable and challenging new jobs on the spot.

Although Worldwideworker did not bring any clients along to recruit on the show site this time, we set out to grow our database with many talented Middle Eastern and Asian Oil & Gas professionals and business opportunities in this part of the world seem to be booming. Overall the show has proven to be successful for Worldwideworker and we feel confident in offering our clients the opportunity to come along with us next time; ADIPEC 2011

Information about our 2009 Recruitment event list can be found on our website (click ‘Recruitment Events’ in the menu of the left) or don’t hesitate to ask Mrs. Florence Card, e-mail:card@worldwideworker.com

Frederik Rengers, CEO of Worldwideworker speaks at the Future Talent Conference in London, October 7 – 9, 2008 | 13 Oct, 2008

Frederik Rengers,  CEO of Worldwideworker speaks at the Future Talent Conference in London, October 7 – 9, 2008. The conference organized by CWC addresses the Skill shortage and Future Talent issues in the Global Energy Industry. Executives and HR Managers from all over the attended the 2 days conference. Please find hereby a pdf file of the presentation.

Worldwideworker.com Recruitment Event at the SPE ATCE, 21 – 24 September 2008, Denver, USA | 26 Sep, 2008

The 2008 SPE ATCE brought together more than 9,800 oil and gas E&P professionals from around the world. More than 450 exhibiting companies featured the latest products and services in the E&P industry. The exhibition was the largest in ATCE history.

The Worldwideworker.com Recruitment Event featured its famous “Worldwideworker’s Wall of Opportunities”, where visitors could browse around and see which exciting global opportunities were on display.
Worldwideworker.com also launched its webpage especially focused on graduate jobs!

Companies from all over the world took part in the Recruitment event to promote themselves as potential employer and to gain the interest from the visitors, who realize the Oil Industry has become a ‘candidate driven market’ and have the luxury to shop around for the best jobs.
Participating companies were: Addax Petroleum, Hunt Oil Company, Maersk Oil, Newfield Exploration, Occidental Oil & Gas (OXY), Petronas Carigali and PTTEP (National Oil company of Thailand).
For the employers as well as the visitors the Recruitment event at the SPE ATCE was a big success.

The 2009 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition will be held 4-7 October in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. For more information on participating in the Recruitment Event, please contact Mrs. Florence Card at card@worldwideworker.com