The oil and gas talent pool is extremely restricted and highly competitive not least because it is a specialized technical field but also because academic qualifications do not suffice to excel in this industry. In addition to being knowledgeable, ideal candidates must be safety conscious, demonstrate enterprise-first behavior, and have relevant experience.
WHY RELY ON SPETIV CONSULTING?
SPETIV Consulting is a personnel and organization development firm based in Douala, Cameroon. It is recognized as the leading supplier of affordable oil and gas personnel in Africa, especially drilling and workover rig engineers and technicians. The company has a pool of over 12,000 profiles of experienced petroleum workers, including those that are currently engaged in different companies and others who are on recuperation, sabbatical or actively job searching. SPETIV’s direct access to these talents makes it the most effective headhunting and recruitment firm for the oil and gas sector in Africa.
Access to Affordable and Experienced Individuals and Teams
The drilling and workover field is a highly specialized angle in the oil and gas industry. Candidates for drilling roles must be physically strong, quick thinkers, and trustworthy. The risky nature of drilling jobs, including acid stimulation, wellhead management, mudlogging, heavy lifting crane operations, etc., compels drilling and workover personnel to rely on each team member for their safety and for the timely completion of operations.
This explains why drilling workers like to work in teams, composed of people they already know and trust; people who understand each other’s moods, body language, knowledge and experience levels, work preferences, strengths and weaknesses.
SPETIV Consulting is highly recommended in the oil and gas industry because we supply not only experienced individuals for drilling and workover jobs, but also experienced teams.
Advice on Suitable Rates
SPETIV Consulting also comes with the advantage of possessing authoritative information on the rates for various drilling and workover positions following thorough payroll benchmarking that we have been able to carry out in Africa, the Middle East and North America. Leveraging on our 12 years of experience in placing drilling and workover workers, oil and gas companies find us in a strong position to advise them on how to optimize cost of employment and design a competitive employee value proposition for their projects.
Knowledge of Collective Agreements
Our back-office team is conversant with petroleum sector collective agreements of several oil producing countries (Cameroon, Nigeria, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Senegal, Ghana, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, USA, UK, etc.). We have a full knowledge of labour regulations across countries and regions.
Advice on Tax Optimisation
We also provide tax optimization advice to our partner companies, that not only ensures that their rates are competitive, but also that their cost of employment remains within margin whilst staying compliant with local finance laws and joint venture agreements.
Travel and Immigration Support
Because we have been in this business for so long, we have a team dedicated to coordinating travel and immigration for the personnel we place in different countries. We help travelers in compiling their visa applications, making flight reservations, lodging arrangements, vaccination, and processing job and resident permits. These support services we provide permit the drilling and workover rig workers we mobilise to focus on the job for which they were requested.
Management of Trade Unions
The oil and gas sector has some of the most versatile trade unions that any sector could have. It takes experience, strong negotiation skills, attention to detail and the ability to be proactive to manage staff delegates and trade unions in this sector. Many drilling rigs and petroleum service companies do not have the wherewithal to deal with the complexities of managing trade unions as they would rather focus on their core assignment, which is petroleum exploration and production. Consequently, oil and gas companies find comfort in relying on the experience of SPETIV Consulting in managing relations with trade unions.
COMPANIES THAT HAVE RECENTLY RELIED ON SPETIV CONSULTING
We have supplied companies such as Olaadex Energies Ltd (in Nigeria) and Best Way Petroleum Services (in Egypt) with individual drilling and workover engineers and technicians. We have also supplied experienced drilling and workover rig teams to companies such as FOXTROT International (in Côte d’Ivoire), Sound Energy Plc (in Morocco) and to drilling platforms such as Atwood Aurora (North Sea) and COSL SEEKER (in West Africa).
