Oil Field Services: International Expansion of Menergy Group by Badari Narayana Srinath

Badari Narayana Srinath, COO of Menergy Group, a specialist in the oil field services segment, talks about international expansion.

“We have now moved into Namibia. We have been there before, but we recently got the opportunity to actually start operations there. We are now providing a catering label for a company called Ocean Rig, not directly, but through Sodexo. In our line of business, we sometimes have to work with our own competitors which we are very open to do based on the type of operation and the needs of the client. Because we provide services of international standards, we have worked with multiple other competitors like Sodexo and ESS who are all in the catering business, but they are all global names. Sodexo basically reached out to us. Sodexo or ESS do not operate throughout the world. They are global names, but they do not have local offices everywhere. So, wherever they need local support, they need to go to a trustworthy, dependent service provider. Mea Catering has worked with ESS in Côte d’Ivoire. They came to us and said they needed support in terms of local content, which is the provision of mainly a local catering label, and could be from stewards all the way up the rank to sous chef, sometimes even the head chef. They provide their own boss, but the remaining staff are all locals who we prescreen, train, and then send to the rig. So, they trust us because they do not have to worry about the training or other aspects because they know that we have served clients to the same international standards as they do”, says Badari Narayana Srinath.

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