oh i wish i'll get the experience just like u guys, one day

Petrophysicist are involved in a lot of operational work. If you have a well drilling, be prepared to come to the office at 2AM in the morning when the logs come in. During the initial phase (first 2-3 years) you will be exposed to the operational side of things (going to the platform and observing the drilling and logging operation). You will also need to know about what the drillers do, what kind of mud they are using and what kind of tool they are using as all these will affect the logging data.

A lot of my friends are petrophysicist and they are extremely in demand. If the company is doing data review of potential blocks etc, then the team they sent will definitely involve a PP.

Just climb from below. I did that 2 years ago and now still climbing...

Once you reached 5 years, then you're marketable to a lot of companies (not necessarily the big operators) but basically you will start having options. Once you get to 7 years (late 20's early 30's) then some big overseas operators will start looking at you with interest. You will get some opportunity of being an expats in the middle east/Australia etc. Once you break 10 years, you are extremely marketable. Once you reached 15, people call you (headhunters etc) and you basically just need to tell them what you want in terms of Salary and Benefits

But you cannot coast when you are trying to get experience. Get involved in as many projects as you can handle during the first 5 years. Tell your boss that you are willing to take difficult projects and you will deliver and you should be able to get the experience you need.

Points taken. Sir.

Hi,
I am from a local contractor company and found an ad of an opening for Project Engineer at GasTec.
Can anyone gv some info on the company, like workload, travel requirements, allowances and such. Also if I have 3 years exp in O&G and 6 yrs exp working overall, hw high a salary can I nego with if its a local contractor co.

Hello there, anyone here know, where can a fresh graduate of a geologist work ?? and what are the requirements to get into a company ?? normally will they look at your CGPA ?? or as long as you have the certificate ??

thx for help ;-)

Not exactly true bcs you can make the same amount of money with ASNT or PCN but I presume you are located in Malaysia thus yes your rate is lower unless your a lv3 ASNT(bcs it requires external examination).

If the client follows procedure based on EN-BS (often british/EU countries located clients) then PCN for NDT is usually the requirement but if the client follows say AWS(american welding society) then ASNT is preferred.

However some clients will allow you to work on EN-BS based procedure with an ASNT ticket/cert or vice-versa.

ASNT is often done in house thus its reputation is a little so-so but PCN cert is more recognized often for its quality. CSWIP NDT ticket is also so-so.

CSWIP is good for W.I courses, you really start making money once you have a CSWIP 3.1. 3.0 is just to allow you to work to gather the required experience.

Just to add to azraeil's comments, i think it depends on your discipline. I heard for certain disciplines which are the "hot cake" in the industry at the moment, calls/emails from recruiters start to pour in even if you have like 3-4 years experience. These are niche areas where even people with 3-4 years experience are hard to scout and the gap between the juniors and the seniors are widening as there aren't anyone in that category to fill in the void. However, at the end of the day, it all boils down to what you have been building on throughout that 3-4 years..in short, solid experience counts!

True story.

If you're in drilling and you're a drilling engineer, then after 3-4 years you're already marketable.

How about drilling fluid engineer?

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Added on February 19, 2012, 12:36 pmAnd referring to your statement, can you name a few areas that are hotly in demand right now? Apart from what mr azraeil has mentioned. Since I am graduating pretty soon, I am still contemplating on which direction to go. Anyway, I am petroleum engineering major.

This post has been edited by kyser645: Feb 19 2012, 12:36 PM

Drilling is a hot commodity and since you are a petroleum engineer, you should be able to get into drilling without any issues. As a petroleum engineer you have a lot of options. You can be

1. Production or Completion Engineer - also in demand
2. Surveillance Engineer
3. Reservoir engineer - just below drilling engineer in terms of demand
4. Simulation engineer - a specialized branch of reservoir engineering and considered the prince
& kings of reservoir engineering - so this is also in extremely high demand.

I always tell my little brothers to go for petroleum engineering instead of geology because the option for them is much wider.

RE/PE are also usually the one who leads the team and therefore are more visible to managent and usually given the upper management posts in big operators.

how i wish i can turn back the years and take a petroleum related course lol.

Not too late!


I want to ask, I'm doing a Bachelor in Logistics and Supply Chain Management right now. Is there any chance I can get a job in the O&G sector?

maybe for masters perhaps, but for degree i think my boat sailed already

What was your degree course?

Btw, how difficult is it to apply for roughneck jobs in O&G?

Thank you for that helpful information. But I am aware that most of the positions you listed are somehow related to operator/client companies. To be honest, do u think that working as field engineer for service companies is an unfavourable route in becoming an all round petroleum engineer in the future? I noticed that most PE starts their career working for operators.

got this from my friend

looks like everyone is targeting drilling-related job scope wasn't it.