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Oil and gas projects don’t wait. Your workforce model shouldn’t slow you down.
From offshore platforms to refinery turnarounds, the pressure is constant. Tight margins. Strict safety standards. Cross-border compliance. And specialist skills that aren’t always available locally.
Contingent labour has become critical to keeping projects on track, but managing it across regions is anything but simple.
That’s why we created this practical guide for oil and gas leaders navigating complex contractor workforces.
Download the full eBook: Powering the Future: Contingent Workforce Solutions for the Oil & Gas Sector
What you’ll learn inside
This isn’t theory. It’s a hands-on guide built around the realities of upstream, midstream, and downstream operations.
Inside, we cover:
- The current state of contingent workforce use in oil and gas
- The most common compliance risks (and how to avoid them)
- Worker misclassification in high-control site environments
- Global payroll challenges across multi-country operations
- Regional workforce differences across North America, APAC, EMEA, and LATAM
- When to use EoR, AoR, MSP or internal models, and what works best in which scenario
- How technology supports visibility, reporting, and cost control
- The growing impact of ESG and remote work on contractor engagement
If you’re managing engineers in the North Sea, commissioning teams in the Middle East, or digital specialists working remotely across borders, this guide was written with you in mind.
Why this matters now
Commodity volatility. Regulatory change. Expansion into new basins. M&A activity.
Every one of these increases workforce complexity.
And when contractor engagement isn’t structured properly, the risks escalate quickly:
- Back taxes and fines
- Delayed mobilisation
- Payroll errors
- Licence exposure
- Reputational damage
In oil and gas, downtime isn’t measured in hours. It’s measured in millions.
This eBook shows you how leading operators are tightening governance, improving visibility, and building workforce models that scale without increasing risk.
Who should read this?
This guide is built for:
- HR and Workforce Planning leaders
- Procurement and Supply Chain heads
- Compliance and Risk teams
- CFOs and Finance leaders
- Project and Operations executives
Especially those managing contractor populations across multiple countries.
If you’re expanding internationally, restructuring after an acquisition, or simply trying to gain better control over contractor spend, you’ll find clear, practical direction inside.
Built on 30+ years of global workforce experience
We’ve worked alongside energy businesses managing large-scale projects in high-risk jurisdictions. We understand the balance you’re trying to strike: cost efficiency without compliance exposure. Speed without shortcuts.
This guide shares the lessons that matter.
Ready to strengthen your contingent workforce strategy?
Download your copy now and start building a contractor model that supports safe, compliant, and efficient project delivery.
About CXC
At CXC, we want to help you grow your business with flexible, contingent talent. But we also understand that managing a contingent workforce can be complicated, costly and time-consuming. Through our MSP solution, we can help you to fulfil all of your contingent hiring needs, including temp employees, independent contractors and SOW workers. And if your needs change? No problem. Our flexible solution is designed to scale up and down to match our clients’ requirements.
