Petrolink has been awarded a contract by Songa Offshore to recruit 700 employees for their semi-submersible drilling rigs. Songa Offshore owns and operates 3 semi-submersible drilling rigs on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, and will increase this to a total of 7 rigs by adding 4 new build (Cat D). This involves that some 700 new employees are required, whom will be spread across all 7 rigs.

Songa Offshore has decided to partner up with Petrolink for the recruitment process and Petrolink will work closely together with Songa Offshore HR department. The project will take place during the coming 22 months period.
“We are very pleased to have signed this contract with Songa Offshore”, says Ole Jakob Olsen, Department Manager in Petrolink. “For Petrolink this is an important contract and a new challenge for our experienced recruitment personnel.
Petrolink is a Norwegian service company within the oil & gas, petrochemical and energy sectors, having its main office at Forus outside Stavanger, Norway. The company was established in 1990 and currently employs more than 200 professionals. Petrolink has extensive competence and experience from planning, development and operations of offshore and land based production and treatment facilities and offers a wide range of services to the industry in Norway and internationally by assisting clients with pre-operations, operations and engineering activities. Petrolink develops and offers integrated high value solutions, with emphasize on operability, safety and system efficiency through our main business areas, which are Operations Support, Engineering Services, Project Services and Facility Management.