I joined O&G engineering consultancy 16 months ago after grad as piping engineer but now quitting to another field

For those who all O&G engineers are highly paid, that's wrong, at least in Msia. Only those with EXPERIENCE will be highly paid.

Shell paid for everything the last time i got called to shell 'gourami' or watever it was called. not sure about other companies though. call their HR and ask.

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Added on December 22, 2010, 2:26 pm
oh really?
if it were true, do you seriously think the some of the biggest, most profitable companies in the world are just gonna lie on their backs and do nothing about it?
if there was even a hint of oil drying up in the next 50 years, you can bet ExxonMobil, Shell, Petronas and the like would begin to diversify their businesses like crazy. and watever business they choose to go into, you can bet they'll end up being a major player because they have the resources to do so.

academic result is not the only yardstick to score an interview. What good a 4.0 CGPA bookworm is, with non-existent soft skills, whose allergic to multi-ethnic, multi-cultural and multi-nationality organization?

EPMI? i know for experienced hire vis-a-vis, Talisman, Murphy and Hess Armada (Not CH) could match Shell pay packet.

Thanks for these replies..

Before this I was worried that if i go to general interview and say that i want to be a PP, they reply like " sorry, we have enough PP in our company, you're not needed. Go back home..  ''
I'm curious about the job scope though. Do PP have to go offshore platform and perform the MWD/LWD on the field himself or they simply sit in front of the computer doing processing and interpreting work only? i.e, does the job contain some technical works on the field or sit in front of pc only all day?

btw, work like a dog? well.. since the pay is high, i guest that's justified..

upcoming semester break will be 4 months..interested to do internship but seems all of them are fully booked..answer i got from the exhibitor

SLB-we r more interested with UG student for internship
Talisman- We are full for this upcoming holiday
Shell- we dont take  engineering student for the time being
Bakers Hughes-We only need 5 student
Murphy-u can drop ur resume @email them
MMC-please email ur resume (after searching for a while d pamplet.only 1 left)

*anyway this is not represent the company policy @whatsoever.Its just the answer that i got from d representative..
d highlight is demand from stdnt is very2 high.so has to work more laaa for a place..
*anyway..any available offer for internship?..

PE..petroleum engineering bos

i am a final year chemical engineering student, with 2nd upper with CGPA around 3.4 , internship in Petronas refinery for 4 months.

how would be my chance to get into oil and gas ? as i read from esso advertisement, their requirement for recruiting graduate is >3.5 CGPA .

if you are the employer, a candidate with average result but with relevant working experience (like my case, intern in petronas) and another one with excellent result, which one would you choose?

It's supply and demand I suppose. A lot of the subsurface experts are retiring. The average age of the skilled personnel in G&G, PE and Drilling is like 47-52 years old ... very close to retirement ... the industry is losing 30% of their technical workforce so not many people in this industry ... deman for the people are skyrocketing especially with Petronas really strict about Malaysianisation .... so if you have the experience and you're Malaysian, then you can command good pay from all the foreign operators in Malaysia.

Subsurface involves a lot of risk taking ... stressful job ... you need to decide where to drill for oil. Each well can cost up to USD 10-15 million average. Deepwater exploration well even more expensive (in the range of 50-60 million dollars) so ... kalau drill and get a dry hole ... sakit woooooo ... I have so many friends who is a chain smoker, cannot sleep well at night and those who sleep will dream about their well ..... so sometimes 45K also not worth it ...

I read somewhere about there are 3 types of Gas Company.

Consultant - Technip, MMC
Operator - Petronas, Shell
Contractor - Schlumberger, Baker Hughes

From what I read, it says that consultant employees get paid least, but you are only doing office jobs - designing using AutoPipe, etc.
Contractors are paid the most amount of wages, but you will be working offshore, on the oil rif.

From contractor, its quite hard for you to jump into operator companies such as Shell, Petronas, but from consultancy companies, you will have a brighter chance of working with the operators
(I'm talking about jumping up the food chain, more convenient work place,no offshore life, more decent pay )

Any one care to explain n elaborate n correct what is wrong?
Im gonna graduate next year, trying to figure out with my life, where to work, and so on. Now I'm finishing my internship already, being here, make me realise, deciding field of work is not an easy choice. BTW I'm a Mechanical Engineering student.

Okay. By subsurface discipline you mean working somewhere in departments such as Field Development, Well Planning, Reservoir Modelling, & Operations Geology? Can you guide us mechanical eng. undergraduates with some guidelines, such as go learn basic knowledge on certain softwares such as Landmark , Gocad , RMS, Petrel, OpenSpirit, or go take elective subjects such as computational fluid dynamics or anything else that would help us to catch the eyes of the consultant/operator employers for a kickstart in OnG career. We would really appreciate it.

Thank you, I've applied for Chemical Engineer (Fresh Graduate) last two weeks. But by looking at my CGPA, pretty sure they're not impressed. But there's no harm in trying.

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Added on August 16, 2011, 3:52 amI've always have the urge to ask this, how do I apply for any engineering positions in Petronas MLNG, without using backdoor? I took chemical-gas engineering, learnt about downstream mostly but I have more interest for upstream. Just that if I didn't manage to enter that side, I wish I can get involved in LNG industries. The only one place in M'sia is Bintulu. But if I got chances to work overseas, that'll be even better. Just don't see any opportunities here.

what about mid 2nd class CGPA? sufficient enough to apply for oil&gas? 

2nd class upper is not impressive,but is it that bad?
The HR u mean is petronas mlng? Sure, i havent apply yet.

Thanks mr ch_teo.. no one is owning anything to me, just feel ignored that the seniors were just trying to prove who is in the biggest company n all but no one cares to answer little midget like me.what I feel is more to unwanted actually. I've been waiting, checking and refreshing this site since last night. Sorry.....

movie while drilling

its just that im really interested in that field..im an engineering graduate with major in geotechnique..

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Added on October 5, 2011, 8:38 pm
really?quite disappointing..

yeah..its totally different from what i learned in uni..that's why i asked the question before    is it going to be helpful if i have a master in geophysics?