Mubasher: Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) revealed plans to create around 21,000 job vacancies for Omanis during the full-year 2019.

The new job opportunities will be created through the oil exploration and production company’s training opportunities and other undertakings, Saudi-based Arab News reported.

“We aim to create 21,000 job opportunities in 2019, and we are confident that we can achieve that number. These are real opportunities that lead to direct employment once the training is completed,” Raoul Restucci, managing director of PDO, told the Times of Oman.

He added that a large number of offered vacancies exist in the tourism, manufacture and logistics fields, not inside the oil and gas sector.

“While some of these jobs will be created by PDO, many of the Omanis will be employed by other organisations once they complete their PDO funded on-the-job training,” Restucci pointed out.

Restucci noted that the new jobs would be in different sectors including the oil and gas, manufacturing, tourism, and logistics.

The state-owned company has created more than 5,000 job opportunities during the first three months of 2018.

It is worth noting that the Omanisation rate for PDO has reached 81% and the company’s target is to reach 90% by 2020.

“The oil and gas sectors are highly Omanised, and where you have expatriates, is where you have a gap in skills, or more likely, experience,” Restucci concluded.