Oil rig jobs for Americans in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia began recruiting foreign employees and workers with experience in the production of shale oil and gas.

Low-end and entry-level positions: Fracturing Equipment Operators; Roustabout, 5 years of offshore experience; Roughneck-Driller Helper-Foreman; Derrickman, Motorman, Rig Electrician, Mud Logger, Mud Engineer, Instrument Technician, ROV Pilot 1.

Fracking Jobs (drilling and engineering): Field Supervisor, Treator, construction crew, Engineer technicians, Rig Clerk. Special attention will be given to CV/Resumés from oilfield workers with background of having worked in oilfields of North Dakota, especially at Williston, Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania. Experience of working for companies like Halliburton, Lewis Energy Group, Calfrac Well Services etc. would be an asset.

First and foremost the Kingdom is interested in the experienced oil drilling and oilfield servicing staff from America, who lost their jobs and became unemployed because of the crisis that hit the upstream oil production sector of the North America. Saudi Arabian Oil Co, Saudi Aramco, made public their readiness to hire experts, or just experienced oil rig workers, that lost employment in the USA due to the decline of the investment in the US oil production.

Previously the king of the country, S. Ibn Abdul Aziz, said that Saudi Arabia would continue to develop oil and gas fields, in spite of the fall in prices.

The country has traditionally negative attitude towards a reduction in production of the natural oil and gas. The statement, confirming such position of the Saudi government had been issued still before OPEC decided not to cut production quotas in November 2014. Saudi Oil Minister Abdurrahman Al-Nuyami at the time said that the country would not reduce the volume of crude oil production even if the price for oil would plunge to reach the level under $US 20 per barrel.

Just to remind our valued visitors and the global oil job seeker audience, looking for job openings on onshore and offshore oil rigs, the number of oil rigs in the USA decreased by 5.6% over the past week only. The industry report, released in January 2015, which said that the number of oil drilling rigs in USA and Canada reduced dramatically, produced the effect of a bombshell, although the forecast predicting the reduction of the number of the operating oil rigs had been made public long time ago.

Houston, TX, USA headquartered Baker Hughes is one of the world's largest companies, offering oilfield services in more than 90 countries around the world. The oilfield servicing companies that come on the top list before the Baker Hughes, are Schlumberger è Halliburton. For quite a time the corporation has been providing equipment and services for oil & gas drilling, including oil exploratory drilling, production, reservoir consulting, formation evaluation, and completion. As per the current estimate of Baker Hughes the decrease in oil drilling activity in the USA recently has stopped.

Meanwhile

According to Baker Hughes, this week the number of active oil rigs across the United States increased by 12 units, marking the first increase in the last 30 weeks. The number of the oil drilling rigs has been increased by all the major players in the field of the American shale oil production: 3 more rigs resumed the operation on the Eagle Ford oilfield, 2 in the Bakken, and 1 in the Permian Basin and Niobrara. If in the next few weeks the trend persists and the number of oil rigs continues, then the expected decline in shale oil production in the USA. From our own behalf we may conclude that the crude oil market will keep to preserve an increased volatility for the visible future, which makes offers of oil rig jobs for Americans in Saudi Arabia sound attractive.

The terrorist organization "Islamic State" (IG) has announced a competition for the position of an expert in the oil industry, with the salary of about $US 180,000 per month. The rebels offered to candidates, interested in this job to submit their CV/Resumés. The source reports that the IG has taken this unprecedented step after the escape of many oil production engineers and other professionals in oil & gas. The IG is heavily dependent on oil revenues, and the loss of professionals will most likely lead to the sharp reduction in oil production. It is worth noting that the organization captured some considerable infrastructure in the Middle East oil industry, which became particularly evident after the capture of Mosul in Iraq.