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The CEO of the EPC contractor Petrofac Emirates has said that his company wants to hire as many as 250 new employees for its offices in Abu Dhabi.
Speaking at a recent Energy Industries Council (EIC) event in Abu Dhabi, Peter Warner said that due to the continued growth of Petrofac Emirates, a 50/50 joint venture between Petrofac International and the Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund Mubadala, the company wants to expand from the current figure of 150 to 400.
“As a result of our continued growth we are hiring. And hiring for the lump-sum turnkey business is not easy,” Warner said.
“Anyone with a background in physical engineering projects, project management or procurement and project control with exposure to the EPC [engineering, procurement and construction] business, as opposed to the consulting or pure services business, then we’d certainly like to talk to you,” Warner said.
“The plan is to increase our workforce to 400 people and that doesn’t include all the field staff or the seconded staff [from the Sharjah-based Petrofac International]. The 400 will be the core people based at Abu Dhabi,” Warner added.
During his address to over 160 delegates, Warner acknowledged that attracting the top people working in the oil and gas EPC industry as a challenge, but was confident that Petrofac Emirates was an attractive enough proposition for people to make the move.
“We are committed to forming a centre of excellence for [oil and gas] EPC execution and the focus is on large onshore EPC projects,” Warner said.
“We also have within our remit front end project management services, but really, the focus is on EPC. If we get involved with FEEDs it’s really to help position us for EPC work,” he added.
Warner also said that the US$2.1 billion EPC contract to build the 4th natural gas liquids (NGL) train for Abu Dhabi Gas Industries (GASCO) is on schedule.
“That project is going quite well it’s about 10-15% through engineering and is right in the midst of the peak procurement time. All of the equipment is now going onto the vessels,” Warner said.
The 48-month lump-sum contract is a joint venture with the South Korean contractor GS Engineering.
