Australia Experiencing Shortage of Workers in Oil and Gas Industry
Rhonda Moniz
March 4, 2012
Australia is experiencing a shortage of workers in the energy sector. Due to construction of LNG export projects there has been a demand for workers. Chevron is attempting to hold information sessions in an effort to recruit workers. The high demand for engineers include subsea, civil, structural, pipeline design and construction as well as marine engineers. Bechtel is one of the leading companies in the area having built more than one third of the LNG projects in Australia. In Queensland, where they are responsible for construction on Curtis Island, 6,000 workers had to be moved back and forthacross the harbor for work. The company has attempted to modularize the job process by farming out some parts of the projects to shipyards in South East Asia.