By IANS
Jaipur : Twenty graduate engineers, including four women, have been handpicked from Rajasthan colleges to work on one of India’s biggest oil and gas development projects, a Cairn India official said Wednesday.
Cairn India, a leading upstream oil and gas exploration and production company, has recruited the fresh graduates for its Rajasthan operations.
Steve Pallister, head of operations-Rajasthan, Cairn India, said in a press release: “Our challenge was to recruit up to 16 talented and enthusiastic graduate engineers from Rajasthan. In the end, we recruited 20.”
Along with its partner ONGC, Cairn India is developing oil discoveries in the Mangala field of Barmer district, over 500 km from Jaipur.
Cairn India recruited students from engineering colleges that include the Government Engineering College in Bikaner, the College of Technology and Engineering in Udaipur, and the Mugniram Bangur Memorial Engineering College in Jodhpur.
The company received more than 350 applications from these three engineering colleges.
The recruits will undergo yearlong training at various locations across the country, which will include spells at Cairn India’s two oil and gas producing operations at Ravva in Andhra Pradesh and Suvali, part of the Cambay Basin facilities in Gujarat.
Said Seema Rayal, a new appointee: “This is really a dream come true. I’m very proud to be part of a team helping to build a project that will be of huge significance to my home state of Rajasthan.”