Saudi Aramco on recruitment drive in India

New Delhi, Jan 15 (UNI) Saudi Aramco, the world's largest crude oil producing company is scouting for oil and gas professionals in India and would collect CVs of interested candidates at the ongoing 'Petrotech 2007' here.

Saudi Aramco will have a prominent presence at the five day "Seventh International Oil and Gas Conference and Exhibition," -- Petrotech 2007 which began here.

Saudi Aramco will recruit the Indian professionals primarily in the areas of exploration and production.

The company will display a theater area where conference attendees can view short films about the company's operations and the technologies it brings to bear on the challenges it faces.

The display also will include separate areas where interested candidates and others can speak with the company's oil and gas professionals.

"Given the huge expansion program that Saudi Aramco is currently engaged in, we are particularly interested in recruiting drilling rig supervisors, drilling engineers, petroleum engineers, geoscientists, project management engineers and other related technical disciplines," said Mohammad Al-Ajmi, head of Saudi Aramco's Expatriate Employment Division.

"We will have representatives at Petrotech talking to interested candidates, collecting their CVs, and explaining to them the professional opportunities and tremendous benefits we can offer them at Saudi Aramco," he added.

The Company will present a paper on the company's mega-projects and hosts a large display centered around recruiting and information-dissemination.

It will also be hosting a symposium to inform Indian companies on business opportunities available in project management. The paper will be submitted by Nabilah M. Al-Tunisi, Saudi Aramco's manager of Project Support and Controls.

The paper, entitled "Saudi Aramco Mega-Projects: Sustaining Stable Energy to the World," Al-Tunisi summarises the huge investments that Saudi Aramco is making to ensure that the world's growing economies have the energy they need.

"The center of gravity for energy demand growth is moving steadily eastward," Al-Tunisi's paper pointed out.

"It is worth noting that India is the fourth largest economy in the world and the third largest consumer in Asia that currently imports the vast majority of its oil and gas," it said.

Saudi Aramco's production capacity is slated to increase to 12 million bpd by year-end 2009. "Asia has abundant reserves of both," she wrote, "which is why this is a golden era for our region, and why the next hundred years indeed promises to be what has been termed the 'Asian Century.' UNI