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Mining / Quarrying Mining And Quarrying Mining Support Service Activities 09.10 - Support activities for petroleum and natural gas extraction
100 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
18 January 2018
Employment effect (start)
1 February 2018
Foreseen end date
Description
Petroleum services company Aker Solutions is set to hire about 100 engineers in the Stavanger area. Aker Soultions has recently secured contracts for several large projects (including one for Maersk Drilling launched last month) which have created a new demand for engineers. Aker Solutions was hit hard by the fall in crude oil prices and cut its staff in Norway from almost 11,000 in 2012 to 5,800 in 2016 (see previous cases, Aker Solutions 2014 NO, 2015(1) NO and 2015(2) NO,2017 NO). The market situation is still described as difficult, but the project activity level is now rising, partly in response to the oil price recovery.
Sources
18 January 2018: Stavanger Aftenblad
18 January 2018: Sysla
Citation
Eurofound (2018), Aker Solutions, Business expansion in Norway, factsheet number 93077, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/93077.
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