Energy industry news

Frederik Rengers, CEO of Worldwideworker speaks at the Society of Petroleum Engineers Job Market Seminar in London, October 12, 2009 | 26 Oct, 2009

Piccadilly, London (October 12, 2009) - The Society of Petroleum Engineers London Section brought together Energy Professionals, Executives, HR Managers and Recruitment Consultants in a 1-day SPE Job Market Seminar under the theme, "Managing Your Career In a Challenging Job Market", aimed all energy industry professionals interested in optimizing their career.

The event discussed the importance in taking steps to help succeed during economic downturn, help armed with the tools to thrive in the current market by landing the right job at the right salary, succeeding as a consultant, doing the right training, working abroad or climbing the ladder in your current company. As part of the workshop, Frederik Rengers, CEO of Worldwideworker discussed about "Working Overseas", outlined as:
- As an expat or independent consultant
- Family life – risks and rewards
- Top spots and hot spots
- Finding opportunities
- Pro’s and Cons.

For the detailed information of the presentation, please find hereby a pdf file.

Worldwideworker.com Recruitment Event at the SPE ATCE, 4 – 7 Oct. New Orleans, USA | 14 Oct, 2009

The Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) 2009 Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE) brought together approximately 8000 oil and gas E&P professionals from around the world and had more than 390 exhibiting companies. The show featured the latest products and services in the E&P industry.

Hunt Oil Company, Maersk Oil and Petronas Carigali participated in the Worldwideworker.com Recruitment Event and Our Worldwideworker.com Wall of Opportunities was also featured, with hundreds of oil and gas jobs worldwide.

University students, which represent approximately 1,400 of ATCE’s attendees, had the opportunity to participate in events and sessions specifically for them, including the Student Recruiting and Networking Fair and the PetroBowl, where student chapter teams compete in a tournament-style contest that tests their knowledge of SPE and the E&P industry.

It was a great opportunity for Worldwideworker.com to introduce the new Graduate section on our website http://www.worldwideworker.com/graduate-jobs/ 
In partnership with the SPE, Worldwideworker.com will group all entry level and graduate jobs as well as internships in one location; the ideal place for graduates and student to start looking for energy and engineering jobs.

In 2010, for the first-time in its 85-year history, the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition will be held outside of the United States on 20-22 September 2010 in Florence, Italy.

For help getting your stand organized in Italy feel free to contact our Event Manager Ms. Baudien van der Ham at baudien@worldwideworker.com

Offshore Europe 2009 breaks all records, 8 - 11 Sept. 2009, Aberdeen, UK | 21 Sep, 2009

A record-breaking week at SPE Offshore Europe has seen the international event raise the bar even higher with record crowds and the largest ever exhibition, alongside a conference which featured many of the world’s leading energy industry and political figures.

The premier upstream oil and gas event drew more than 49,000 attendees, 20% more than the previously record-breaking 2007 conference and exhibition, and featured more than 1,500 exhibiting companies from around the world. This year’s exhibition was the largest in the event’s history, expanding 11% compared to the last show in 2007 with 13 international pavilions and an entire new hall. This included 330 companies participating at the show for the first time.

The Worldwideworker.com Recruitment Event was located at a premium spot in the Arena, and featured recruiters from Addax Petroleum, DONG Energy E&P and Petronas Carigali. It was most encouraging to see the interest in available energy jobs and the crowds surrounding the recruiters as well as the Worldwideworker.com Wall of Opportunities. This eye catcher had almost 150 oil jobs on display, which is only a fraction of the number of energy jobs on our website www.worldwideworker.com.

It proves again that, even in what is a difficult time for the oil and gas industry, there are obviously still companies hiring for numerous global positions and there are many (experienced) people interested in which energy jobs are available worldwide.

Worldwideworker Opens New Office in Mumbai, India to Serve the Fast Growing Indian Oil & Gas Industry!! | 3 Aug, 2009

Navi, Mumbai - Worldwideworker announces the opening of its India Office. The new office is centrally located in Vashi, Navi Mumbai, the hub of the high tech Energy industry in Mumbai. It was officially opened for business on 29th July 2009. It is well equipped and staffed to support the increasing and expanding business opportunities in India. The fast growing and rapidly expanding Energy and Oil and Gas industry in India requires a lot of international talent and expertise to be mobilized. The office is well positioned to serve a wide variety of existing and new clients in the energy sector.

Worldwideworker, the HR Services Company to the Energy industry has offices in 8 countries and is fast growing in all aspects of the 'people' side of the industry. Worldwideworker owns and runs the largest oil and gas candidate website with an active database of over 369,000 candidates from all oil and gas sector across the globe.

Worldwideworker.com Recruitment Event at the AAPG 2009 | 18 Jun, 2009

Denver, Colorado, USA (June 7-10, 2009) - The American Association of Petroleum Geologist (AAPG) 2009 Annual Convention & Exhibition (ACE) brought together 7,452 attendees from nearly 90 countries for a world-class event under the theme, A Passion for The West Lives On: Are You In? The 2009 ACE recorded the third-largest number of attendees in more than 10 years.

Hosted by the Rocky Mountain Association of Petroleum Geologist, the conference featured more than 1,000 oral and poster presentations over three days, in addition to field trips and short courses spanning a week. More than 260 exhibitors were on hand to demonstrate the latest technologies and services available to the E&P industry.

Worldwideworker.com hosted a recruitment pavilion that highlighted over 80 job opportunities that are available globally. Hunt Oil Company and Maersk Oil also participated in the Recruitment Event to promote their company as an Employer of Choice and to recruit top talent. Despite the current economic climate the overall atmosphere was positive with many companies planning for a staff building strategy for 2010. With more candidates available Worldwideworker.com Recruitment Events will prove to be the ideal venue to bring together hiring companies and energy professionals.

For more information on the schedule of the 2010 Worldwideworker.com Recruitment Events please contact our worldwide account managers:

USA - Courtnie Parker parker@worldwideworker.com
UK - Florence Card card@worldwideworker.com
Dubai - Shanti Kumar shanti@worldwideworker.com

Maersk Oil & Worldwideworker.com at the EAGE Amsterdam 2009 | 18 Jun, 2009

Amsterdam, Netherlands (8-11 June 2009) - The 71st EAGE Conference & Exhibition incorporating SPE EUROPEC 2009 in Amsterdam has been a success in terms of number and quality of papers. Almost 5.000 participants were present in Amsterdam and in total 299 companies were represented at the exhibition.

Worldwideworker.com and Maersk Oil took part in the EAGE Job Centre, centrally located on the EAGE exhibition floor. The mood at EAGE Amsterdam 2009 was surprisingly upbeat with the talk among participants focusing on the timing of recovery for oil and gas related business rather than dwelling on the clouds of recession that have affected the geoscience and engineering services sector. Nevertheless there were not that many jobseekers, merely people informing about their options, “Just in case…”

Worldwideworker.com talks on Hiring Trends at Gastech 2009 | 2 Jun, 2009

ABU DHABI, UAE (May 25-28, 2009) - At Gastech 2009, a 4-day top level Gas industry event, one can definitely notice that the activity is coming back into the Oil and Gas industry. After speaking with several participating companies, we have come to know that the hiring freeze which started during the financial crisis in the last quarter of 2008 has come to an end.

During Q4-2008 and Q1-2009, companies were in a panic mode and companies laid off staff for a variety of reasons. But now that there seems to be a floor in Oil & Gas prices the large budget driven companies have adjusted their plans and are slowly back to hiring people. It also seems that finances for Energy, Commodities and Power Projects are slowly starting to be available.

Particularly technical experts for the entire Oil & Gas production and processing cycles are still very much in demand. Globally many vacancies exist for jobs like:
- Process Engineers (especially with LNG related experience)
- All Deepwater skills, like: Subsea, DW Completions, DW Drilling Operations
- Flow assurance
- Operations Management: Oilfield Services
- Legal people with PSA/JV type experience
- Geophysical Experts
- Entrepreneurial people to develop small E&P Companies with experience in regions like Africa,  Middle East, Russia / FSU

The fundamental shortage of experienced Technical experts and Technical Operational Management personnel is still there and with so many international projects globally in progress to fight decline rates, employment opportunities in the industry still look very healthy.

At OTC 2009 held in Houston, USA in May, The Worldwideworker.com Team spoke to over 200 companies and at least 50% of these companies are looking to hire new people. Hiring in US and Canada is still slow. In South America and Middle East, the hiring trend is up, while Asia Pacific is flat. Africa has opened their doors for expatriates again with new countries developing their hydrocarbon resources.

Worldwideworker.com is the leading global recruitment company for the Energy industry. Our nine offices in the major energy regions of the world combine strong local connections with global reach. We own and operate the industry’s largest recruitment database; www.worldwideworker.com, with resumes of more than 350,000 energy professionals and 1.5 million page views each month. Our broad spectrum of recruitment and HR services include online job postings, employer brand building, recruitment events, short listing and interviewing, executive search, manpower services and international payroll and outsourcing.

Offshore Technology Conference Attendance Proves Strong in Tough Year | 12 May, 2009

HOUSTON, Texas, USA (May 7, 2009) -- Attendance at the 2009 Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) reached 66,820 strong despite a global economic recession and initial concerns about swine flu. Energy professionals from more than 120 countries met at the world's largest offshore resources industry event, held May 4-7 at Reliant Park in Houston. Attendance was a little less than in 2008, but exceeded expectations considering economic conditions. The 2009 exhibition was the second largest in OTC's 40-year history, with more than 557,000 square feet of exhibition area filled to capacity by 2,500 companies from 38 countries.

"This year's attendance levels underscore that in a downturn, energy professionals come to OTC to learn about technologies and innovative approaches to reduce their costs and improve performance. OTC is known for presenting new and proven technologies that will help companies find and produce more oil and gas in deeper waters, and for sharing lessons learned on global projects that advance the offshore industry," said Don Vardeman, 2009 OTC chairman.

Due to the many lay-offs the Industry has faced, especially here in Texas, the Worldwideworker.com Recruitment Event at OTC was extremely successful. There was great interest for all jobs posted on our 'Worldwideworker.com Wall of Opportunities' and we should see the results of that on our website and in our database soon. Our clients Addax Petroleum, Eni International Resources and Hunt Oil Company were able to receive highly qualified CV's and some of them conducted interviews that same week.

From 7-10 June 2009 we will have a Recruitment Event at the AAPG in Denver and we will also be present that same week at the EAGE in Amsterdam.

Questions on participation in these events for employers as well as jobseekers can be directed to Mrs. Florence Card card@worldwideworker.com.

Worldwideworker.com at OMC, 25-27 March 2009, Ravenna, Italy | 27 Mar, 2009

The Offshore Mediterranean Conference 2009 has just closed and according to the organizers it is clearly the best edition ever, with average growth rate of 30% considering the increase in terms of visitors attendance, exhibiting companies, conference attendance and exhibit area, thus revealing an unexpected countertrend considering the world economic general crisis. OMC 2009 final figures witness this successful trend: 370 exhibiting companies from 23 countries worldwide and 8964 attendees.

Worldwideworker.com was recruiting at the event and promoting their website as no. 1 place to start for jobseekers in the energy industry. Consequently the Worldwideworker.com database of international energy professionals has now grown to 343,000 CV’s.
Worldwideworker.com also organized the recruitment participation at the event of Maersk Oil, who in spite of the recession is still looking for 250+ energy professionals for several disciplines worldwide.

The next Worldwideworker.com Recruitment Event will be held in Reliant Center at the OTC in Houston, 4-7 May.
Meet the recruiters of e.g. Addax Petroleum, Eni International Resources, Hunt Oil Company and many others!
We still have a small booth space available to brand yourself as important Oil & Gas employer, and to show your interesting vacancies.

For rates and further info please contact Mrs. Florence Card at card@worldwideworker.com

Worldwideworker.com at EWEC 2009, March 16-20, Marseille, France | 20 Mar, 2009

Worldwideworker.com presented themselves at the European Wind Energy Conference and Exhibition in Marseille in March. Over 390 exhibitors, spread across 9,000 m2 in 3 halls, and more than 7,500 participants from all over the world were present for the largest ever wind energy event in Europe.

Worldwideworker.com had their own booth at the exhibition, which attracted a lot of people, both from candidates’ perspective as business-wise. Next to the main exhibition booth, Worldwideworker was also present at the EWEC Job Fair, next to some of the major players in the industry.

Over the last year, Worldwideworker became more recognizable as a Wind Energy recruiter, partly because of participating in events like the EWEC. Since the wind industry is one of the fastest growing segments in the global energy industry our participation was both interesting and successful.