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Introduction To
FRONTIER
INTERNATIONAL
Middle East & India
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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 – Contact Details
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Head Office
Frontier International (UK) Limited
9, Golden Square
Aberdeen AB10 1RB, United Kingdom
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.
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.
We have recently opened an office in Abu Dhabi, managed by Mr. Arjun Bhakhri, to provide a more
convenient point of contact for our clients the Middle East. Frontier has provided services to Middle East
and India clients on an ad-hoc basis for over 10 years but since establishing the Abu Dhabi office our service
has benefited from being represented in the same time zone and we have added a significant number of
new clients as a result.
Our India / Middle East Clients currently include ZADCO, ADGAS & ADCO (UAE), Black and Veatch(KSA),
Anabeeb(KSA) Samsung (India & Middle East), Olayan Descon (Saudi Arabia), Larsen & Toubro (India &
Sharjah), Al Haditha (Oman), Al Falak (for Saudi Aramco), Safwan Petroleum Technologies Company (Abu
Dhabi), Sunrise Petroleum (Sharjah), Greatship Global (India) and National Petroleum Construction
Company (NPCC UAE)
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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.
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.
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 myself,
[email protected], Arjun Bhakhri [email protected] 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
Paul Radcliffe – Managing Director
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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 listed on the previous page, 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.
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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 (www.frontierinternational.co) 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 e-mail 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 1st, 2nd and 3rd 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
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mentioned above. In addition, Frontier have recently implemented a strategy of organising events and competitions
designed to generate further referrals.
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 ISO9001 2008 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
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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.
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.
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Engineering & Technical Disciplines (Including EPC)
Civil/Structural Engineering
Commissioning/Decommissi
oning
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
Process Engineering
Drilling, Wells & Subsurface Disciplines
Completions Engineering
Completions Supervision
Drilling Engineering
Drilling Management
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
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Al Falak (For Saudi Aramco) – KSA Black & Veatch – KSA Larsen & Toubro – Global Abdullah A. Al-Barrak & Sons – KSA Anabeeb (Arabian Pipeline) – KSA Olayan Descon - KSA Pan Gulf Group – KSA Abunayyan Holdings – KSA
ZADCO (An ADNOC Co)-UAE ADGAS (An ADNOC Co)–UAE ADCO (An ADNOC Co) –UAE Bunduq Oil Producing Co. –UAE Technip – UAE Safwan Petroleum Technologies–UAE Sunrise Petroleum - UAE Emerson – UAE EXOVA – UAE Delta Petroleum Services - UAE ACE Winches - UK Acona AS- Norway Addax – Nigeria, Switzerland ADIL – UK Aker Qserv – UK Al Furat Petroleum Co – Syria Al Haditha – Oman Apache – UK Baker Hughes – UK, Mexico BG - Global BP - Jordan,Oman, Pakistan,UAE,UK
Britannia Operator – UK
Bureau Veritas - UK Cairn - India CAN (Offshore) – UK Carigali – Malaysia Carimin Petroleum - Malaysia CNR International – UK ConocoPhillips – UK, Norway Costain Upstream - UK
Daewoo –Myanmar Deutag Drilling – UK Dong Energy – Denmark Dove Energy – UK DrilQuip – UK E.C. Harris – Hong Kong E.on Ruhrgas – Norway, UK E-Drill – France EMC - Egypt Enermech - UK ENI - Norway Enquest – UK Ensco - UK Essar Oilfield Services – India Expro Group – UK, Norway Fahad Al-Mojel – KSA Fugro - UK Furaih Al-Huraish Co – KSA Futureware IT – KSA Gaz de Franc- Egypt, UK GeoCOSL – China
GPS – Switzerland
Gray McKenzie –Syria Gulf Keystone Petroleum – Iraq Halliburton – UK Hess – UK IPS – Australia Italic Managed Solutions - UK JX Nippon – Japan JV Gas - Algeria
KNOC – Korea Larsen & Toubro – India, Middle East Lundin Britain – UK Lutech Resources - UK Maersk Oil – UK MSL – Libya National Iranian Drilling Co – Iran Nexen Petroleum - UK NPC - Norway Occidental of Oman – Oman OMV – Libya Perenco - UK PetroCanada – UK PDO - Oman Plexus Ocean Systems - UK Poseidon Consulting - Norway Rashpetco – Egypt Regal Petroleum – UK Rig Management - Norway Robert Gordon University – UK Romar International - UK
Safwan Petroleum - UAE
Samsung – India, Middle East Schlumberger – UK Shell – Cameroon, Holland, India,
Ireland, Norway, Qatar, UK Siemens - Norway Sonatrach – Algeria Statoil – Norway Stena Offshore – UK Sulzer Pumps - Norway
Sulzer Wood – UK Suncor – Trinidad Sunrise Petroleum - UAE Talisman 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 – UK Welltec - India Western Zagros Resources - Iraq Winstar – Tunisia Wintershall AG – Germany Woodside Energy – Australia
WS Atkins – USA
Xodus Group Aberdeen – UK
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International Locations Served – Appendix 3 Frontier has serviced clients over recent years in the below locations
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.
Oman Qatar
Europe: Belgium Czech Republic Finland
France Germany Hungary
Ireland Luxembourg Netherlands
Norway Portugal Spain
Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom
Middle East: Bahrain Egypt
Kuwait Libya
Turkey UAE
Asia: Australia Azerbaijan Brunei China
Hong Kong India Indonesia Iraq
Kazakhstan Korea Malaysia Mongolia
Myanmar Pakistan Philippines Russia
Singapore Thailand Uzbekistan Vietnam
Saudi Arabia Syria
Africa: Algeria Angola
Nigeria Tanzania
Ghana Kenya
Americas: Brazil
USA
Trinidad & Tobago
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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.
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Head Office and Europe Region Office Frontier International (UK) Limited
Address: 9, Golden Square, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire AB10 1RB, Scotland, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1224 636688
Fax: +44 (0) 1224 562279
Email: [email protected]
India & Middle East Regional Offices Frontier International
Tel: + 91-9599070373
Registered Address: Aurobindo Tower 81/1 Third Floor Adchini Aurobindo Marg New Delhi 110 017
Email: [email protected]
Africa Region Office Frontier International (East Africa) Limited
Address: Mbezi Beach, Kawe, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Tel: +255 754 432088
Email: [email protected]; [email protected]
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) 1224 636688
Fax: +44 (0) 1224 562279
Email: [email protected]