INTRODUCTION

Dear Candidates,

African Petroleum Plc Nigeria wishes to use this medium to introduce itself and advertise its current vacancies. We receive application from all over the world.

African Petroleum Plc is one of Africa's largest publicly owned engineering, procurement, construction, and maintenance services organizations, providing project management, engineering and construction services to major clients in the oil, gas, chemical and power industries.

African Petroleum Plc serves clients in a wide variety of industries worldwide, including oil and gas, chemicals and petrochemicals, commercial and institutional, government services, life sciences, manufacturing, microelectronics, mining, power, telecommunications, architectural, civils, piping, electrical, process, petrochemical and transportation.

In addition African Petroleum offers the opportunity to work in an international environment. People development is a key-element in our strategy: our training programmes and performance and development planning process ensure the continuing development of our employees.

African Petroleum Plc offers its employees a challenging and rewarding career.

African Petroleum Plc's primary objective is to develop, execute, and maintain projects on schedule, within budget, and with excellence.

To sustain our continued success and the strategic growth of our operations in our Nigerian Office, we are currently looking for talented, qualified and experienced individuals to join our successful team based in Nigeria, where their talents will be valued, appreciated and rewarded in an excellent working environment.

African Petroleum Plc Current Openings and job descriptions:

1) Project Logistics Coordinator

Minimum requirements:
Degree Required: Yes
Employment Type: Contract
Location of Position: Nigeria
Willingness to travel: Yes
Location Type: Office/Field
Requisition Number: 17385NGA

2) Civil Engineers.

Minimum requirements:
Civil Engineering degree is mandatory. Field experience is an asset.
Degree Required: Yes
Employment Type: Contract
Location of Position: Nigeria
Willingness to travel: Yes
Location Type: Office/Field
Requisition Number 13678NGA

3) Architects

Minimum requirements:
Degree Required: Yes
Employment Type: Contract
Location of Position: Nigeria
Willingness to travel: Yes
Location Type: Office/Field
Requisition Number: 10885NR

4) Senior Design Engineer
Degree Required: Yes
Employment Type: Contract
Location of Position: Nigeria
Willingness to travel: Yes
Location Type: Office/Field
Requisition Number: 10785NR

5) Snr Mechanical Engineer

Minimum requirements:
Degree Required: Yes
Employment Type: Contract
Location of Position: Nigeria
Willingness to travel: Yes
Location Type: Office/Field
Requisition Number: 16483BR

6) Senior Commissioning Engineer

Minimum requirements:
Degree Required: No
Employment Type: Contract
Location of Position: Nigeria
Willingness to travel: Yes
Location Type: Field
Requisition Number 16513BR

7) Lead Onshore Pipeline Engineer

Minimum requirements:
Degree Required: Yes
Employment Type: Contract
Willingness to travel: Yes
Location of Position: Nigeria
Location Type: Project
Requisition Number 14652NR

8) Project Manager

Minimum Requirements:
Degree Required: Yes
Employment Type: Contract
Willingness to travel: Yes
Location of Position: Nigeria
Location Type: Project
Requisition Number 169445NR

9) Contracts Manager / Administrator

Minimum requirements:

Degree qualified, or equivalent (preferably in Business or Engineering),
Experience in a procurement function,
Experience in Contract / sub-contract administration,
Knowledge of terms & conditions, contracting policies & practices,
Business acumen and ability to learn,
Team player,
Adaptable and able to work on own initiative.
Willingness to travel: Yes

10) Project Procurement Manager

Minimum requirements:

Experience in a general procurement role supporting oil and gas, petrochemicals, power, or a related capital purchase industry.
Strong academic qualification preferred (MBA, MSc, BSc, etc)
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
Good computer literacy and skills
Good leadership and decision-making skills
Willingness to travel: Yes

11) Senior Planner

Minimum requirements:

Relevant technical degree (e.g. Civil/Mechanical Engineering)
Extensive experience in oil & gas
Knowledge of plus experience in relevant systems (e.g. Primavera)
Strong interpersonal/communicative skills
Experience leading a team
Worldwide mobility (both short and long term assignments)
Foreign site experience would be desirable
Willingness to travel: Yes

12) Health, Safety and Environmental Engineering Department Manager

Minimum requirements:
Degree Required: Yes
Employment Type: Contract
Willingness to travel: Yes
Location of Position: Nigeria
Location Type: Office/Field
Requisition Number 19945NR

13) Site Automation Manager

Minimum requirements:

4 - 8 years of engineering or construction engineering
3- 5 years of information technology (infrastructure/desktop support)
Bachelor of Science in engineering/construction technologies or work equivalent
Willingness to travel: Yes

14) Sales/Purchase Manager

Minimum requirements:
Typically requires 5-10 years in a general procurement role supporting oil and gas, petrochemicals, power or related industries (with or without a university degree).
Degree from an accredited university preferred, but this may be waived for high quality candidates
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
Excellent computer literacy and skills
Excellent leadership and decision-making skills
Willingness to travel: Yes

15) QA Engineer II

Minimum requirements:
Degree Required: Yes
Without degree, additional six years of experience required.
Employment Type: Contract
Location of Position: Nigeria
Willingness to travel: Yes
Location Type: Field
Requisition Number 2349BR

Position requires occasional travel and potential for planned and unplanned overtime to meet project schedules.

Other vacancies include:

Quality Control Engineer
Chief Heat Transfer Engineer
Cost Specialist (Cost Engineer)
Director, Process Technology - Refining
Lead Onshore Pipeline Engineer
Mechancial Engineer, (Static Equipment)
Mechanical Engineer, (Packaged Equipment) Engineers/Managers
Mechanical Engineer, (Rotating Equipment Specialists - Pumps)
Mechanical Lead Engineers
Principal Design Engineer (Civil-Structural)
Principal Design Engineer (Layout-Piping)
Principal Design Engineer (Mechanical-Process)
Principal Designer (Electrical/Controls)
Principal Process/Specialty Engineer (Mechanical Systems)
Principal Speciality Engineer (Boiler)
Principal Specialty Engineer (Air Quality Control Systems)
Principal Specialty Engineer (Turbine Generator)
Project Director
Project Engineer/Coordinator
Senior Pipelines Engineer
Production Engineer
Product Safety Engineer
Chemical Research Engineer
Welding Technician
Standards Engineer
Operations Manager

Job Descriptions/profiles are available on request.

African Petroleum Plc employee benefits include:

A competitive salary with annual performance-based reviews
Bonus awards for superior project performance
Pension scheme with life assurance and disability insurance
Flexible working hours within a nine day fortnight working pattern
Private medical insurance for you and your family
Employee Assistance Programme for information and counseling services
Generous salary uplifts and assignment provisions for working overseas
Childcare Voucher Scheme

NOTE: If you wish to apply to any of African Petroleum Plc current vacancies, you can send your current resume and 1 recent passport photograph to Joel Tunde Falasinu , Chief Operating Officer, Email: humanresources_dept@apnig.com

If your qualifications, skills and experience match our requirements we will be in touch.

Applications closes on the 21st of June 2009.

For more information contact:

Joel Tunde Falasinu
Chief Operating Officer
Phone: +2348028651969