Engineers recruiting Engineers. Introduction to Frontier International

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1 Engineers recruiting Engineers Introduction to Frontier International 1

2 Contents 3 Cover Letter 5 Frontier Company Overview 9 Appendix 1 Typical Disciplines Supplied 10 Appendix 2 Frontier Global Client List (Past and Present) 11 Appendix 3 International Locations Covered 12 Appendix 4 HSEQ Policy 13 Appendix 5 Fees for Service 14 Appendix 6 Contact Details 2

3 Head Office Frontier International (UK) Limited 9, Golden Square Aberdeen AB10 1RB, United Kingdom (See Back Page for Regional Offices) Subject: Provision of Engineering & Technical Recruitment Services Please find attached information on the above mentioned Frontier International Engineering & Technical Recruitment services. As you will see from the attached document, our Company focus is entirely on Engineering & Technical Recruitment within the oil & gas industry. In particular our clients are operators and oil & gas service companies. Frontier is a specialist provider and specialises in the area of recruiting for engineering roles within the oil & gas industry. We provide permanent staff personnel, contract personnel and managed project teams. The Directors of the Company come from practicing petroleum engineering backgrounds. In-house technical training and support delivered by the Directors has resulted in enhanced knowledge of engineering and technical disciplines within the Frontier recruitment team. This technical knowledge within the team has obvious benefits when Frontier recruiters are speaking to clients and consultants or matching engineering & technical candidates to client vacancies. We have a strong record, stretching back many years, in filling engineering positions on behalf of our clients. You will also see, from the attached document, that Frontier has a strong engineering presence, in-house providing clear insight and understanding of the requirements of the roles which we seek to fill. We are focused on recruiting for the professional, technical and managerial sectors of the international oil and gas market, covering all disciplines related to Exploration, Drilling, Well Completion, Field Development, LNG, EPC, Design, Construction, Commissioning, Production, Well Servicing, Decommissioning and Abandonment. In addition to recruiting for individual engineering positions, Frontier is able to accept volume recruitment assignments to recruit multiple personnel on a campaign basis. Examples of this are a recent successful recruitment campaign for Cairn India to recruit 30 contract Petroleum Engineering personnel and a campaign, in partnership with Shell Europe, to recruit 40 staff Well Engineers. 3

4 We are also able to process client sourced or referred candidates for evaluation and to carry out skills assessment, and other forms of candidate evaluation. Our Recruitment services are provided strictly on a contingency basis with fees only becoming due on the date the candidate starts work. If you have any questions regarding the contents of this brief, please do not hesitate to contact me, mark.clarke@frontierinternational.co or call on one of our contact numbers provided at the end of this document. We look forward to the opportunity to discuss how Frontier might support your Company s recruitment efforts in future. Best Regards Mark Clarke - Chairman 4

5 Frontier Company Overview Background Frontier is an international oil & gas resource company, established in 1999 to provide project well engineering services to the industry. Since 2003, in response to client demand, Frontier has specialised in engineering & technical recruitment across all oil & gas disciplines for major operators, independent oil companies and oil & gas service companies. Our head office is in Aberdeen, Scotland and we have Regional Offices covering India / Middle East, East Africa and the Caribbean. The Directors of the Company come from practicing petroleum engineering backgrounds. In-house technical training and support delivered by the Directors has resulted in enhanced knowledge of engineering and technical disciplines within the Frontier recruitment team. This technical knowledge within the team has obvious benefits when Frontier recruiters are speaking to clients and consultants or matching engineering & technical candidates to client vacancies. The net result is candidates very well matched to vacancies and fewer but more appropriate CVs submitted per vacancy. Core Business Our core business is engineering & technical recruitment focused on the professional sectors of the oil & gas market covering all disciplines related to Exploration, Drilling, Well Completion, Field Development, LNG, EPC, Design, Construction, Commissioning, Production, Well Servicing, Decommissioning and Abandonment. We recruit for permanent staff, professional contract personnel, specialist consultants and fully managed project teams. Frontier is a preferred supplier to many of the world s leading oil & gas related companies and we have a global reach covering all of the major oil producing regions. What Differentiates Frontier From Its Competitors? As previously mentioned, the senior managers at Frontier are qualified engineers with between 20 and 30 years operational experience working with major operators. We have a detailed understanding of our client vacancies from personal experience and are able to discuss engineering and technical roles confidently with clients and candidates in their own language in order to get the best possible match between vacancies and candidate experience. The Frontier managers and recruitment consultants have built up significant personal networks of engineering & technical professionals who can be called on as candidates and for candidate referrals. The Company provides ongoing in-house technical training for Frontier recruitment personnel which allows them to also better match candidates to vacancies and to speak to clients and candidates in their own language. We have a significant global reach via our European, India/Middle East, Caribbean and African Regional bases, through the use of technology and via strategic international partnerships. This means we are able to recruit local and expat staff and contractors in any location where the oil & gas industry operates. As a result of the combination of factors above, Frontier are able to provide a specialised and personalised recruitment service (resulting in better candidate search and match) with the ability to service our oil industry clients anywhere in the world where they need us to. This is a unique situation in the recruitment business. 5

6 How Does Frontier Attract the Best Talent? Frontier s policy for recruitment of high quality personnel consists of a number of interconnected strategies including the following: The hands-on operator and service company experience of Frontier senior management has resulted, not only in a depth of understanding of the roles to be filled, but also in far reaching personal (and co-operative) networks of engineering and technical contacts which are utilised to reach deeper into the candidate market for referrals that would not be available through the normal recruitment channels. When a vacancy is received from a client this is immediately posted to the Frontier website ( job vacancy pages via the Frontier recruitment database system. The website and database are directly connected so that vacancy information updated in the database is also updated in real time on the website. Similarly, information from candidates applying for positions via the website is captured in the database in real time. When the vacancy is posted to the website it is simultaneously posted to several other selected specialist job boards that Frontier subscribe to. In this way the vacancy is advertised across as wide a platform as possible, often within minutes of being received from the client. Many candidates monitor the Frontier website on a regular basis and some candidates, for specific vacancies, are generated in this way. Additionally many potential candidates register for future vacancies via the website even though they may not be applying for a current vacancy. Candidates submitting CVs in this way are screened and, if considered suitable for future vacancies, are added to the database. Frontier have a registration system which allows potential candidates to opt for job alerts which are sent automatically via directly to the candidate when a job vacancy matching the candidate s pre-selected criteria is posted to the website. Contractors are encouraged to register for job alerts and many register for job alerts even though they may not be actively be looking for work at the time but will still confirm an interest when they receive a job alert that looks potentially interesting to them. Frontier also maintain a candidate hotlist shared amongst all the recruiters of candidates who are known to be already looking for their next project or coming close to the end of a project so that they can be contacted immediately a vacancy arises that they are considered to be suitable for. The Company maintains a database of over 42,000 industry professionals covering all the oil industry engineering & technical disciplines. The professional personnel in the database are screened for suitability before being entered into the database and the database is fully searchable enabling a short list of potential candidates to be drawn up very quickly. The database is also used to draw up lists of personnel to be contacted for referrals for vacancies even though they may not be suitable for the vacancy themselves or may not be interested themselves. This enables candidates to be identified who may not be actively looking for work but may, nevertheless, be interested in specific vacancies. Additionally Frontier subscribe to a number of specialist international databases that are also searched for candidates and referrals in the same way that the Frontier database is used. Frontier maintains corporate LinkedIn licences for it s recruiters and researchers which provide access to all subscribers to the LinkedIn network (rather than only to 1 st, 2 nd and 3 rd level contacts as is the case with personal LinkedIn account) these are utilised extensively to identify candidates or request referrals to candidate who may not be actively looking for work. Referrals of one kind or another from industry professionals provide Frontier with the best source of passive candidates (those not actively looking for work) and these are regularly generated from the strategies already mentioned above. In addition, Frontier have recently implemented a strategy of organising events and competitions designed to generate further referrals. 6

7 Some or all of the above mentioned strategies are applied to each new vacancy as appropriate with the emphasis on getting to candidates who are unlikely to be actively looking at advertised vacancies as well as those who are. Frontier HSEQ Frontier operates a robust HSEQ management system in accordance with ISO and is accredited by FPal, Achilles and ISNetworld. Frontier is also a Verified FPal/Achilles supplier. Quality management is aimed at capturing best practice and at continuous improvement in recruitment policies and procedures. The system is audited by our major oil & gas clients and Plexus are welcome to audit the system or receive a full electronic copy for review. A copy of the Frontier HSEQ Policy is provided in the Appendices to this document. Frontier Company Values Frontier aims to be the most successful provider in its field with respect to complete customer satisfaction for both Clients and Candidates. We give the highest priority to health, safety and environment when making business decisions and believe that a strong HSEQ culture contributes significantly to our long-term business success. Frontier commits to promoting diversity in all areas of employment and to providing an inclusive working environment where everyone feels valued and respected, irrespective of their race, gender, marital/civil partnership status, age, disability, religion or belief, colour, national origin or sexual orientation. Our ethical policy sets ground rules based on honesty, promise-keeping, fairness, respect, compassion and integrity. We believe that success should be rewarded. Is Frontier Able to Deal with Local Tax, Payroll and Support Issues Internationally? Frontier s strategy has been to set up an organisation capable of providing global payroll, compliance and concierge solutions (including onboarding, tax compliance, visas, work permits, etc.) to support our global recruitment business. The objective is for Frontier to be able to provide these local services to our oil & gas customers globally wherever they might be required. Is Frontier Able to Assist its Clients with their Benchmarking Activity? Frontier continuously monitors minimum and maximum pay rates, UK and international, for all of the engineering and technical disciplines within the company s scope of supply. This data is routinely shared with a number of major clients including BP, Shell and Talisman. Taking the example of one major Operator as a case study, Frontier provides data to the contract holder on a quarterly basis for a range of disciplines selected by the Operator. This data is then plotted against similar data provided by other recruitment agencies on the Operators preferred supplier list and against data from the Operator s own working contractors. This information is used by the Operator to adjust pay rates on an annual basis (or more often if market rates are moving quickly and they feel this is necessary). We are pleased to share benchmarking data with clients with whom we do business. 7

8 Additional Services Frontier is able to provide services as outlined below and we would be pleased to submit proposals on a case by case basis. This would include operations management in the fields of well completion, well intervention and advanced drilling techniques. Staff Payrolling Services / Local Compliance (tax, work permit, national insurance etc..) Contractor Management Services Materials Management Services Large volume recruitment campaigns (projects) Frontier Case History: Shell Mature Recruitment Campaign to recruit 40 Drilling & Well Services personnel. Assistance with processing direct candidates (short-listing, telephone / face-to-face interviews, reference checking etc.) Frontier Case History: Shell Mature Recruitment Campaign to recruit 40 Drilling & Well Services personnel. Assessment solutions (skills assessment, psychometric testing, workplace simulations etc.) Industry research Frontier Case History: ConocoPhillips advanced drilling & production technology study. Internal process assessment and re-design Frontier management have previous experience in-house of process mapping and development of Management Systems for major Operators. General consulting - Frontier Case Histories: See Project Track Record Ability to provide a fully managed solution for specific projects e.g. testing project, change management program etc. - Frontier Case Histories: See Project Track Record Additionally we are able to carry out engineering and technical project or study work on a lump sum project basis. Similarly, operations management in the fields of well completion, well intervention and advanced drilling techniques Frontier Case Histories: See Project Track Record Graduate recruitment campaigns we have the ability to undertake this if requested to do so by a client. 8

9 Appendix 1 Typical Disciplines Supplied Engineering & Technical Disciplines (Including ECP) Civil / Structural Engineering Commissioning / Decommissioning Construction Supervision Construction Management Contracts & Commercial Management Controls & Instrumentation Engineering Design and Drafting Electrical Design Engineering Electrical/Mechanical/Piping Electronics Engineering Facilities Maintenance Fluids Engineering HSEQ Management HSE/Loss Prevention Materials & Logistics Management Materials & Procurement Management Mechanical Engineering Pipeline Engineering Planning & Logistics Process Engineering Production Engineering Production Technology Production Management Project Directorship Project Management Quality and Inspection Sales & Marketing Subsea Engineering Drilling, Wells & Subsurface Disciplines Completions Engineering Completions Supervision Drilling Engineering Drilling Management Drilling Supervision Fluids Engineering Geology Geophysics Materials & Logistics Management Materials & Procurement Petrophysics Project Management Reservoir Engineering Sales & Marketing Subsea Engineering Well Services Engineering Well Services Management Well Services Supervision Wellhead Engineering Workover & Intervention 9

10 Appendix 2 Frontier Global Client List (Past and Present) ACE Winches - UK Acona AS - Norway ADCO UAE Addax Petroleum International Switzerland Addax Nigeria ADIL - UK Al Falak (for Saudi Aramco) Saudi Arabia Al Furat Petroleum Company Syria Al Haditha Oman Aker Qserv - UK Apache North Sea Limited UK Baker Hughes UK & Mexico BG Algeria, Asia Pacific, Egypt, Indi BG Kazakhstan, Kenya, Norway, Tanzania BG Trinidad & Tobago, Tunisia, UK BP Jordan, Oman, Pakistan, UAE, UK BP Sunbury UK Britannia Operator UK Bunduq Oil Company - UAE Bureau Veritas - UK Cairn India CAN (Offshore) UK Carigali Malaysia Carimin Petroleum - Malaysia Caspian Oil & Gas Kazakhstan / Kyrgyz CNR International Aberdeen UK ConocoPhillips UK, Norway Costain Upstream - UK Daewoo International Corporation Myanmar Delta IPS - UAE Deutag Drilling Aberdeen UK Dong Energy Denmark Dove Energy UK DrilQuip UK E.on Ruhrgas Norway, UK E.C. Harris Hong Kong E-Drill France Egyptian Maintenance Company (Cairo) Emerson Process Management UAE, Iraq Enermech - UK ENI Norway Enquest UK Ensco Aberdeen - UK Essar Oilfield Services India Expro Group UK, Norway Expro Group - Norway Fahad Al-Mojel Saudi Arabia Furaih Al-Huraish Co Saudi Arabia FugroImpROV - UK Futureware IT Saudi Arabia Gaz de France Egypt, UK GeoCOSL China Global Petroproject Services (GPS) Switzerland Gray McKenzie Oilfield Services Syria Gulf Keystone Petroleum Iraq Halliburton Aberdeen UK Hess London UK 10 IPS Australia Italic Managed Solutions - UK Japan Energy Development Company (JEDC Japan JV Gas - Algeria Korea National Oil Corporation Korea Larsen & Toubro India & Middle East Lundin Britain (N. Sea) UK Lutech Resources - UK Maersk Oil North Sea UK MSL Libya National Iranian Drilling Co Iran Nexen Petroleum - UK Norwegian Petroleum Consultants - Norway Occidental of Oman Oman OMV Exploration and Production Ltd Libya PetroCanada Aberdeen UK Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) Perenco - UK Poseidon Consulting Services - Norway Plexus Ocean Systems - UK Rashpetco Egypt Regal Petroleum UK Rig Management Norway Robert Gordon University Aberdeen UK Romar International - UK Safwan Petroleum - UAE Samsung Engineering India/Middle East Schlumberger Aberdeen UK Shell Cameroon, Holland, India, Ireland, Norway Shell - Qatar, UK Siemens Norway Sonatrach Algeria Statoil Norway Stena Offshore UK Sulzer Pumps (Norway) A/S Sulzer Wood UK Suncor Trinidad Sunrise Petroleum - UAE Talisman Sinopec Energy Norway, UK Taqa Petroleum UK Technip UAE Tendeka - UK Tethys Oil Kazakhstan Thorold Dewling - UK Transco UK TTOPCO Turkey Tullow Oil UK Venture Production UK Vermillion Energy France Weir LGE Process UK Welltec India Western Zagros Resources - Iraq Winstar Tunisia

11 Appendix 3 - International Locations Serviced Frontier International supply Engineering & Technical personnel on a staff, contract or managed project basis in most Oil & Gas disciplines to customers in most areas of the world where Oil & Gas is produced.. Frontier clients are Major Oil Companies, Service Companies and Engineering Contracting Companies. We have serviced clients over recent years in the following locations: Europe : Belgium Czech Republic Finland France Germany Hungary Ireland Luxembourg Netherlands Portugal Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey United Kingdom Asia : Azerbaijan Brunei China Hong Kong India Indonesia Iraq Kazakhstan Korea Malaysia Myanmar Pakistan Philippines Russia Singapore Thailand Uzbekistan Vietnam Middle East : Bahrain Egypt Libya Qatar Syria United Arab Emirates Kuwait Saudi Arabia Africa : Algeria Angola Ghana Kenya Nigeria Tanzania Americas : Brazil USA Trinidad & Tobago 11

12 Appendix 4 Frontier HSEQ Policy Overall Aim Frontier International provide Engineering & Technical recruitment services to the Oil and Gas industry and our aim is to be the most successful provider in this field. We aim to achieve this by ensuring complete customer satisfaction for both Clients & Candidates. We also aim to be a flexible resourcing service providing qualified personnel to our clients in a format that suits their particular requirements including staff or contract placements and provision of managed teams. HSEQ Policy At Frontier we give the highest priority to Health, Safety, Environment and Quality when making business decisions. Furthermore, we firmly believe the commitment of all our personnel to a strong HSEQ culture contributes significantly to our long-term business success. We are committed to the prevention of accidents and incidents through the provision of safe working conditions for our personnel and will act, at all times, in a responsible and proactive manner towards the safety of people and the protection of the environment. HSEQ Objective As the Directors of Frontier Group, we are accountable for all Health, Safety, Environment and Quality issues. Additionally, it is the responsibility of all Frontier personnel to work in ways that ensure we achieve our HSEQ goals. We will achieve these goals through the application of the following key elements: Clear leadership and direction in communicating HSEQ requirements to all personnel An appropriate balance of business and HSEQ objectives Continual assessment of personnel exposure to health and safety hazards Identification and management of all business and operational risks Thorough investigation of all incidents and near misses and communication of conclusions and recommendations to all relevant personnel Provision of the appropriate level of training and supply of the necessary tools to do the job An effective Management of Change process to implement change in a safe and controlled manner Continual measurement of HSEQ performance against established targets including the primary targets of no lost time accidents and no reportable incidents Proactive measures to prevent waste and minimise environmental emissions Proactive measures to promote healthy living Finally, it is essential that all of us at Frontier commit to continual improvement in HSEQ performance; only by working together can we achieve our goals. 12

13 Appendix 5 Fees for Service Fees for Service will be provided on request. See Appendix 6 for contact details. 13

14 Appendix 6 - Contact Details Head Office and Europe Region Office Frontier International (UK) Limited Address: 9, Golden Square, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire AB10 1RB, Scotland, UK Tel: +44 (0) Fax: +44 (0) mark.clarke@frontierinternational.co India & Middle East Region Office Frontier International (India) Private Limited Address: JMD Regent Square, MG Road Gurgaon, India Tel: Arjun.bhakhri@frontierinternational.co Africa Region Office Frontier International (East Africa) Limited Address: Mbezi Beach, Kawe, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Tel: info@frontierinternational.co; ben.sirimba@agpconsultantstz.com Representative Benjamin Sirimba Americas Region Office Frontier International (Trinidad & Tobago) Limited Address: Eleven Albion, Cor Dere & Albion Streets, PO Box 219, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad & Tobago Tel: +44 (0) Fax: +44 (0) info@frontierinternational.co 14