MOSCOW (MRC) -- Austrian OMV has said it plans recruit an additional 1600 upstream staff in the next three years to meet its planned growth in exploration and production activities, said Upstreamonline.
OMV chief executive Gerhard Roiss said that the company’s increasing focus on upstream since 2011 meant it would need hundreds of new employees "to achieve the growth we have planned".
The Vienna-based integrated energy player said it will need both experienced technical staff and graduates of geosciences and oil engineering, with vacancies based domestically and internationally.
The company said that the Norwegian Sea’s Aasta Hansteen and Zidane gas fields would be a primary contributor to the jobs boost, along with the explorer’s large-scale Domino gas find at in the Bulgarian Black Sea.
OMV is also working on co-operation models with universities such as Austrian University of Leoben to increase the number of technical graduates.
As MRC wrote before, Clariant announced that it has signed a long-term supply contract with OMV. From 2015, the Austrian oil and gas company will supply Clariant’s site in Gendorf (Germany) with ethylene. This agreement will enable Clariant to source most of its requirements for this important basic chemical in southern Bavaria.
OMV is an integrated international oil and gas company, headquartered in Vienna. OMV's main business is in Exploration & Production (E&P), Gas & Power (G&P) and Refining & Marketing (R&M). With group sales of more than EUR34 billion (2011) and a global workforce of around 30,000 (2011), OMV is the largest listed manufacturing company in Austria.
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