To mark the successful completion of a two-year graduate training programme, Petrofac, the integrated international oil & gas service provider, celebrated the achievement with an awards ceremony and dinner held during December at Le Meridien Hotel, Dubai.
Seventeen of the nineteen graduates who successfully completed the training scheme were able to share their experiences and anecdotes during the evening with members of Petrofac's executive management. All the graduates received certificates in recognition of this major milestone in their career development.
Petrofac's graduate training scheme uses a results-oriented approach against which critical success factors and key result areas are established. It is against these mutually agreed targets, that individual performance and progress is monitored. This approach has proved to be very successful within the organisation and continues to be so.
Presenting the awards, Marwan Chedid, executive vice president Engineering & Construction, commented: "Petrofac is committed to the development and progression of staff throughout its business and we are very proud of the forward-looking training programmes we have in place for our personnel."
One of the award recipients, Karim Zoghbi, a graduate commissioning engineering, commented: "The last two years have been all-embracing, with Petrofac providing me with challenging opportunities, whilst encompassing full support. This experience has provided me with a secure foundation from which to further develop my career within Petrofac."
A consistent message emanating from all the graduates who have joined Petrofac in recent years is that, without exception, they all joined because of their belief in the company's dynamic growth to offer unparalleled career opportunities. Recognising that the graduates of today are the future of tomorrow, Petrofac invests heavily in, and is completely dedicated to, its graduate recruitment and training programme.
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Petrofac is a leading international provider of facilities solutions to the oil and gas production and processing industry, with a diverse client portfolio including many of the world's leading integrated, independent and national oil and gas companies. Petrofac is quoted on the London Stock Exchange (symbol: PFC) and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
Through its three divisions, Engineering & Construction, Operations Services and Resources, Petrofac designs and builds oil and gas facilities; operates, maintains or manages facilities and trains personnel; and, where return criteria are met and service revenue synergies identified, co-invests with clients and partners. Petrofac's range of services allows it to help meet its clients' needs across the life cycle of oil and gas assets.
With approximately 8,000 employees, Petrofac operates out of four strategically located international centres, in Aberdeen, Sharjah, Woking and Mumbai and a further 13 offices worldwide. The predominant focus of Petrofac's business is on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS), Africa, the Middle East, the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and the Asia Pacific region.
For additional information, please refer to the Petrofac website at www.petrofac.com.
For further information, please contact:
Petrofac Engineering & Construction
Maroun Semaan
Kaye Krause-Whiteing
Chief executive
Sales and marketing manager
Tel: +971 6 574 0999
Fifth Ring Integrated Corporate Communications
Rachel Hills
PR account director
Tel: +44 (0)1224 628093
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