For oil, gas & petrochemical employers
Falisha Manpower is an oil and gas recruitment agency in Pakistan, licensed by the Bureau of Emigration & Overseas Employment as Overseas Employment Promoter No. 4035. We recruit the trades, technicians, supervisors and engineers that EPC contractors, operators and maintenance companies need, and we work the way the industry actually hires: against a specification, a site’s entry requirements and a date the crew must be on site, not a list of job titles.
An oil and gas workforce changes with the life of the asset. A new-build gas plant needs welders, pipe-fitters, riggers and QA/QC inspectors in volume; the same plant in operation needs a smaller, steadier team of technicians; and when it comes offline for a turnaround it needs a large multi-trade crew for a few intense weeks. This page is organised the same way, so you can go straight to the roles, checks and planning that apply to your phase.
Workers are employed by you or your contractor, under your employment contract and visa. Our part is the Pakistan side: sourcing, checking documents and experience, coordinating the practical assessments you specify, arranging interviews, and taking the people you select through medicals, emigration formalities and travel.
Where we recruit
From the wellhead to the refinery, and the contractors who build and maintain them.
Land drilling and workover rigs, well services, production facilities and gathering systems. Crews progress from roustabouts and floormen to derrickmen and drillers, supported by mechanics, electricians and HSE staff on the rig or field.
Cross-country pipelines, compressor and pumping stations, tank farms and export terminals. Construction is dominated by pipeline welding and fit-up, coating and heavy equipment; operation by mechanical and electrical maintenance.
Refineries, gas plants and LNG facilities, where static and rotating equipment, instrumentation and process safety define the work, and permit-to-work discipline matters as much as trade skill.
Cracker, polymer and fertiliser plants whose maintenance teams overlap heavily with refinery trades, often with stricter isolation and material-handling regimes in particular units.
Much of the field workforce is engaged through contractors: EPC firms for new build, maintenance contractors for long-term O&M, and specialists for scaffolding, insulation, inspection or turnarounds. We recruit for operators and contractors alike.
Workforce by project phase
Each employer guide covers the specialisations, standards, assessments and questions to settle before you hire that occupation.
Phase 01
The volume phase. Headcount ramps over months as civil, structural, piping, mechanical and electrical work follow one another, and the risk sits in weld quality, lifting operations and inspection records.
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Phase 02
A smaller, long-term team sized to the asset. Employers look for experience on comparable equipment and for people who will stay through several contract renewals, because continuity is what keeps a plant running.
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Phase 03
A fixed outage window drives everything. A multi-trade crew has to be recruited, documented and inducted before the plant comes offline, worked hard on shifts through the window, then demobilised when it restarts.
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Phase 04
Rig crews work as a unit on rotation, so recruitment is about crew balance and progression, from entry-level roustabouts to the driller, together with the well-control and safety certificates each level needs.
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Before you request workers
Settled early, these save weeks later and keep the wrong people off the plane.
Tell us whether this is new build, steady-state operations or a turnaround, and when the crew must be on site. Counted back through assessment, documentation and visa lead times, that date sets when shortlisting has to close and whether mobilising in batches makes more sense than a single movement.
“Pipe fitter” means different things on a pipeline spread and inside a refinery. State the process, material, position, code or equipment involved, and the assessments we arrange are set against that: a weld test to your procedure, a rigging practical, a drawing-reading exercise, rather than taking a title on a CV at face value.
Some safety training can be completed and evidenced before departure; other requirements are site inductions or client approvals that only happen on arrival. Agree the split at the start so nobody is mobilised who cannot be badged on day one.
Sour-gas service, offshore living, desert pipeline spreads and congested refinery units each demand different habits. Ask for experience letters that name the facility type and the work actually done, not just an employer and dates; we check them.
Rotation pattern, overtime, accommodation, food and transport decide whether a crew stays through a turnaround or a long EPC programme. We can tell you what Pakistani candidates compare when weighing offers; the package itself is yours to set.
Site entry & competence
Qualifications are issued by test bodies, training providers and regulators. We check what candidates hold and coordinate what your project still requires.
Welders are qualified to a written procedure under the code your project uses, commonly ASME Section IX for plant and pressure work or API Standard 1104 for pipelines. The test is witnessed and the qualification issued by a test body or your inspector; we coordinate it and check existing certificates.
Offshore work typically requires OPITO’s Basic Offshore Safety Induction and Emergency Training (BOSIET), which is time-limited and renewed through the shorter FOET course. We check validity before shortlisting and flag expiry dates against your contract length.
Sour-gas and refinery sites commonly require hydrogen sulphide awareness, confined-space entry and work-at-height training before a permit can be issued. Requirements differ by operator, so we work from your site’s own list.
For Saudi Arabia, skill verification is mandatory only for occupations Takamol has notified, and NAVTTC onboards the Takamol test centres in Pakistan. Its approved list includes welding, pipe fitting, electrician, instrumentation and control, heavy equipment technician and HSE advisor trades, among many others.
Engineers practising in Saudi Arabia need accreditation from the Saudi Council of Engineers, and other Gulf states run their own registration. Degrees are attested in Pakistan first, through the Higher Education Commission and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Some operators review CVs or interview key personnel, such as inspectors, supervisors and HSE leads, against their own approval procedure before they may work on site. We prepare CVs and supporting documents for that review and schedule any client interview.
How it works
One process, scaled to a single specialist or a full turnaround crew.
We review your roles, numbers, specifications, site entry requirements and on-site date, and agree a crew plan with you: which trades, in what ratio, in how many batches.
Candidates come from our recruitment database and wider network, with targeted sourcing for specialist or thinly supplied trades rather than one generic advertisement for every role.
Passports, trade and education certificates, safety training and experience letters are checked, and certificates are verified with the issuing body wherever it offers a verification route.
We coordinate the tests your specification calls for, such as weld coupons, fit-up, rigging practicals or technical questioning, at a test facility or witnessed by your own inspector.
You or your client interview the assessed candidates, remotely or during a visit to Pakistan, and make the selection. Unsuccessful candidates are replaced from the same sourcing pool.
Selected workers complete the destination medical and visa process, Saudi skill verification where the occupation is notified, and registration with the Protector of Emigrants before departure.
Batches travel to your schedule. We stay in contact through deployment, handle replacements, and can restart sourcing for the next phase or the next turnaround.
Sourcing
Pakistan explores for and produces oil and gas, moves gas through a national transmission network and refines crude at home, with midstream and downstream activity regulated by the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority. Part of the candidate pool has therefore worked on producing fields, compressor stations or refineries before going abroad.
Bureau of Emigration statistics consistently place Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf states among the leading destinations for Pakistani workers, so many candidates already understand Gulf site rules, camp life and rotation, and some have worked in the region before.
Trade training runs through NAVTTC and the provincial technical education authorities, engineering degrees are accredited by the Pakistan Engineering Council, a Washington Accord signatory, and Takamol test centres operate in Pakistan for Saudi-bound trades.
Subject to active employer demand and each destination’s visa and work-permit requirements.
Compliance & trust
Falisha Manpower recruits under Overseas Employment Promoter Licence No. 4035, issued by the Bureau of Emigration & Overseas Employment (BEOE), Government of Pakistan.
Every selected worker is processed through BEOE and Protector of Emigrants formalities before departure — the legal route for Pakistani workers taking overseas employment.
Workers are not charged unlawful fees and their passports are not retained. Terms are documented in the employment contract before travel.
You set the specification and the acceptance criteria, and you make every final hiring decision — we source, coordinate, document and mobilise.
Read our quality policy, anti-trafficking statement, or report recruitment fraud. Licence status can be checked with the BEOE.
FAQ
References: API Std 1104, Welding of Pipelines and Related Facilities (API) · ASME BPVC Section IX, Welding Qualifications · OPITO offshore safety standards · NAVTTC: Takamol skill verification in Pakistan · Saudi Engineering Professions Practice Law (Saudipedia) · Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) · Bureau of Emigration & Overseas Employment
Last updated 10 November 2026. General guidance for employers; site, client and destination requirements change, so they are confirmed for each recruitment.
Send us the phase, roles, numbers, site entry requirements and on-site date. We will come back with a crew plan and a realistic timeline.
