Then it's a good opportunity to go and visit all the booth and get some info about what the service providers/operators do. I highly recommend it.

Greenfield is considered newly discovered field that has not been developed or in the early stage of development. Brownfield are oil and gas fields that have undergone multiple development phase and probably in the decline stage like Baram, Dulang etc etc.

So for example, Gumusut/Kikeh will be in the Greenfield stages while those Baram Delta fields are considered brownfields.

Duyong is a gas field. Last I heard, it is already in the decline stage. Once a gas field is in decline, it is not easy to increase or maintain production unlike oil field where you can do IOR (Improve Oil Recovery) or EOR/Tertiary recovery.

Most of the gas replacement is via new discovery (exploration) such as those found in Sabah & Sarawak.

If we know this, we won't be spending time here at LYN. We'd be one of the oil traders doing billion dollar trades everyday since we know how long the petroleum will last.

I was hired with a CGPA of 2.997. I got a place with ExxonMobil at the time and also Petronas. Yes, CGPA is important but I wouldn't hire a 4.0 student who cannot interact with people and work in a team.

No. PE is a specific discipline and you need to have either a PE degree or something close to PE like Chem Eng. to be able to be hired as a PE. If you have a Mechanical Eng. maybe you can be trained as a drilling engineer but that is also unlikely.

For one, most drilling engineers works with operators not service providers. SLB is not well known to have a drilling services. They have wireline and well testing services and they only bought Smith about 2 years ago (and that company sells drilling bits)

To be a drilling engineer you need to have fundamental knowledge of

1. Rock mechanics
2. Reservoir engineering data such as reservoir pressure and temperature
3. Some bit of Geology as you'll need to know what kind of reservoir you're drilling into
4. Cementing knowledge
5. Well completion knowledge


So yes, you'll need some engineering background but any engineering background won't do.

I personally have not heard of drilling engineers being provided by services providers such as SLB/Halliburton etc, most drilling engineers if they are not working with the operators are on their own contract or Direct Hire basis on Daily Rate.

Ermmmm let's not name names in this thread shall we. He's a friend of mine and I wouldn't think he would appreciate it if he knows people are talking about him in this kind of open thread.

Remember that you are being paid 1.8K USD (around 5.5K ringgit) for a 5 week vacation as well. As a freshie, you could also consider the experience you will get as an investment for the future.

If you read about people with 2 years experience getting 2.3/2.5K from Kenchana, they would probably jump at the opportunity that you are getting. You still have a long career ahead of you. You'll be spending 5 weeks in a boat. Most of the 1.8K will be pure saving as you won't have any taxes (overseas company) and you won't be spending any money on the boat. I think you can do your own financial calculation.

Good luck!

SPE is the most active with a lot of conferences and loads of available papers online. The Journal of Petroleum Technology (JPT) a monthly journal provided if you become an SPE member is a must read with all the latest industry news and technology.

Yes I am a member. My company pays for my membership but others may ask you to pay first and they will reimburse it later.

I do believe that it is worth it even if you pay it on your own. It's 30 bucks if you are in Malaysia.

Read!!!!!!!!! If you cannot read the threads here, I cannot imagine how you can read your coursework. There is only like 3 version of this thread which is around 6000 posts which is less than a 200 page novel. So hard ahh?

Oil and Gas can be found offshore and offshore so specifying offshore as upstream is incorrect. Upstream in Oil and Gas industry relates to exploration and production of oil and gas from those fields. Once it leaves the platform via pipeline on to ships or into the gas gathering system then that's where downstream activities starts

Even in Malaysia, upstream is not related to offshore or onshore. Upstream / Downstrean is a term that defines the line between activities in the Oil & Gas industry

We have an onshore field called Asam Paya by the way but that is beside the point.

Near the Sarawak Brunei border.

I'm sure Petronas has somethig up its sleeve on this field. The 3D seismic survey (which was a b**** to do in the swampland of Asam Paya) I think has been completed, the FDP for that field should be ready soon and maybe Petronas will give it out to another operator, who knows.

That would be Miri Oilfield. We looked at it before but the risk to the population was high because we cannot account for all the well heads that was drilled previously. Some of the wellheads we are not sure if it was P&A properly and some maybe belakang some outhouse somehere and imagine what would happen heh heh heh .... you don't want to be taking a dump near a wellhead

The last time I was looking at it, no. Things may have changed because we left a lot of oil down there. But in terms of Health & Safety, I don't think it is ever going to be possible.

We were looking at possible gas injection program for better oil recovery but if you want to do that, you need to make sure the field is not leaking via any old wellhead anywhere.

Any O&G Company that stops exploration will die one. Exploration is the only way you can quickly replace the reserves that you have produced. Wonder why Malaysia's reserve has been stable for the last 25 years? It's because of exploration. That's why when you read that Malaysia's reserve will only last 25 years yada yada yada ... that only means that if we stop exploration, the reserves replacement ratio will be 0 which is never gonna happen. That is why the president is a bit pissed because most of the money is going to the government instead of being re-invested to find more oil. That's why Subsurface people are in high demand.

Ohh my company has now even lowered their requirement to 5 years experience now, that's how desperate the industry is in trying to get people.

Sorry, based on PDA of 1974, oil belongs to PETRONAS which in turns is fully owned by the government.