Drilling, Well Operations and Subsurface

“We Select, You Choose”

About Us

Oil Select is a specialized recruitment agency specializing the upstream oil and gas sector in Asia. We provide local and expatriate experts, either on a permanent or on a contract basis.

We have hired the most experienced recruitment consultants with the highest market knowledge so that you get the best value for money when we service your hiring needs.

Let us do the hard work of finding the highly specialized people you need, so you can focus on your own core tasks

In clear terms: we select, you choose.

Candidates: nationality

Representing both permanent and contract Oil & Gas professionals, we place exceptional staff in exclusive Oil & Gas roles across Asia.

Focusing on your specific and individual requirements, our consultants draw on their market expertise, insight and contacts within the Oil & Gas sector to source highly skilled talent from around the region and the globe.

See below the nationality distribution of candidates we have placed.

Malaysian 24%Indonesian 22%Singaporean 10%Thai 10%Other Asian 8%Other (AUS/US/EUR) 26%

Candidates by skill area Drilling 47%

• Drilling engineers; Superintendents; Drilling managers

• Completions; Well engineers

• Directional Drilling Engineers; Supervisors; Superintendents

• Production Engineers

Candidates placed by skill area: Subsurface  40%  

• Reservoir Engineerso simulation/modeling; o reservoir management; o operations - well testing-

• Geologists                           o exploration; o field development; o geophycist

Other skills: 13% (HSE, Sr Appointments)

Key Client Service

Account ManagerYou are assigned your very own Account Manager, who is:

• Dedicated to gaining a greater insight into your company• Focused on developing strong long-term relationships with you and across all your business

departments and HR• Your one point of contact for all job types, and at every stage of the recruitment process

Monitoring Process and CommunicationYour Account Manager will:

• Work closely with your HR department• Ensure all consultants work in a manner that fits your business needs, following process and

maintaining effective communication channels

Key Client Service

Regular Account ReviewsWe schedule Account Reviews on a regular basis to:

• Discuss performance• Review figures• Identify changes required to achieve optimum results• Review and tweak the recruitment process • Discuss upcoming projects and resource requirements

Candidate AccessFor the best talent we can secure you first access to:

• Exclusive candidates• Candidates with limited interview availability

Key Client Service

Interview ProcessWe offer a managed day of interviews:

• At our site or your location• This allows for immediate feedback from candidates to our specialist consultants

Placement & Post Placement• Once a candidate is placed we validate the details of the new job • We follow through with post-placement care to ensure employee satisfaction and help you

with staff retention

How We Recruit

Consultant Market Knowledge• Each consultant works exclusively within one technical sector • They focus only on the candidates you are looking for

Internal Network of Consultants• All consultants within your technical sector are notified once your vacancy is registered • Working collaboratively, they assist your specialist consultant to help them secure you the

best talent• This approach is especially useful if you are looking for people with a blend of skills or need

multi-lingual staff

How We Recruit

Database Oil Select uses a state-of-the-art recruitment system which is connected to a database of100,000

manually selected, screened and reference checked candidates. We use our 3 global resource teams to make sure that our database is live and up to date.

Headhunting The best candidates are normally not on the market as free agents. Rather they occupy positions

at the best companies in your market area. Our consultants are the best headhunters in their specific skills segment and have build up relationships with excellent candidates over time. We can assist you if you would like to interview specific candidates from specific companies/competitors. Discretion is guaranteed.

Advertising When your vacancy is registered we automatically advertise it on up to 12 mainstream and niche

job boards concurrently To do this independently would cost over USD 10,000 per week

Job Boards

MI Reporting

We can provide you with tailored information, including the following ratios:

• CVs Submitted : Interview Requests

• Interview Requests : Offers

• Offers : Acceptances

• Acceptance : Starters