The projects include the manning of 2 drilling rigs in Q3 of this year and various onshore and offshore oil and gas projects in the UK and Qatar.

A spokesman for the company said: “We are starting to see light at the end of the tunnel with some confidence coming back in the sector. These contract wins kick in over the next 6 months and should see us fill up to 1000 positions through until the end of 2017.

“We would urge interested candidates to register via the Chronos website where they can upload their CV in 30 seconds. All of our positions will be advertised first to our registered candidate base and then on our website and out through job boards like oilandgaspeople.com”

The news has been welcomed by Oil and Gas People managing director, Kevin Forbes who said: “We are delighted to be able to report some good news with regards to jobs after 24 months of nothing but job losses hitting the headlines. We very much look forward to working with Chronos to help them with these projects over the next 18 months.”

Anyone interested in being contacted about specific positions as they come available should upload their CV here ensuring that your CV file contains all of your contact information including email address.

Oil and Gas People is also about to officially launch a new free recruitment model that will allow recruiters to post jobs and view all applicants for free. With 7300+ recruiters now using oilandgaspeople.com to find candidates for free we would encourage everyone in the industry to register and complete a detailed profile at http://www.oilandgaspeople.com/candidates

Our goal is to remove all cost barriers so that we can capture a live snapshot of all the oil and gas jobs available globally allowing candidates to be instantly matched to suitable positions as they come available.