Global engineer-recruiting company NES Global Talent has opened an office in Cape Town to provide personnel for Southeast Africa’s mining and extractive industries, according to a report in ManchesterEveningNews.

Based in Manchester, England, NES supplies technical and engineering staff on permanent and temporary contracts to the oil, gas, infrastructure, rail, power, life sciences and IT sectors.

The company plans to use its Cape Town office to place personnel across Southeast Africa and plans to register NES in Mozambique and Tanzania in 2014, the report said.

“Activity across the whole of Southeast Africa is ramping up, with sizable liquefied natural gas discoveries being made in a number of countries including Mozambique and Tanzania,” said Kenny Davies, a sales director at NES Global Talent. “We’re looking forward to having a physical presence to keep pace with the region’s growing hiring demands.”

NES plans to open 21 more offices over the next four years as part of a £152-million refinancing deal through more than 15 U.S. and U.K. credit organisations.

New NES offices are planned soon in New Orleans, Houston, the west coast of North America, Europe, Africa and Asia.

The company has budgeted for a 35 percent growth in 2014, ManchesterEveningNews reports. NES was established as Northenden Engineering Services in 1978 by Geoff Lloyd and Bryan Sullivan.