Roughly RM70k .

People have been saying that since the 1980's and it is still going on strong. With the emphasis on enhanced oil recovery, they will need super reservoir engineers as well. By the time you graduate and get 10 years of experience in the local 0&G, you can become an expatriate and work in the middle easy where the reserve will last another 100 years. So don't worry about it.

Hi guys, I am new to this forum and need a consultation or advice on my career. First, let me introduce my background, I am enrolled in Bachelor degree( E&E), and going to graduate soon in this year.

My situation is that i have job offers from ONG( halliburton-maintenance engineer) and also semicon (product engineer). It seems like very good but i having a hard time to decide which job/ field should i go.

For ONG, if i was offer with field engineer, definitely i will choose it. So, i need some advice from you guys/senior/sifu here.

I really appreciate your advices, opinions, sharings.

I will choose Halliburton

Is that normal if I directly get a job offer (for interview) from HR (of a company)? I never deal with that company before. I thought usually head hunter doing this job? Job invitation sent to my personal email (maybe get my email add through JS?).

What is the job scope of a product engineer in a semicon industry and how about its career advancement?

Hey.... congrats mate!
I guess its quite normal. Like us we look for potential candidates either in linkedIn or through recommendation, than sent them an invite through HR. Agents fees can be astronomical. We avoid that most of the time.

morning guys + girls!

i need some help for my FDP project. may i know is there any petrophysicist here? danke!

being a potential PE student, i'm suprised that you even pose the question...
your lcourse consultant must be "reasurring"

even if it dies in malaysia, it won't elsewhere...
but we still got a good 35 years in the bag and more to come...
go figure

else u can join an already dying industry called electronics...


This post has been edited by BRC: Mar 21 2012, 10:22 AM

well it only stated that:

Excellent career advancement and development
Insurance and medical coverage programs
Stock awards
2 months AWS
Innovative and attractive recreation programs


Btw, it seems like most of you guys prefer ONG field, but somehow if it possible for maintenance engineer in ONG can be as rock as field engineer because most of people choose ONG field just because of the high pay for field engineer position.

do you know that a maintenance eng can be in field as well?
and not all field engineers get paid well...

you said you got offered halli?
thats one of the big daddies of O&G service providers...

Yups. This is going to be my first job, of coz i dont wan to choose the wrong field, hope to see the pros and cons in these fields. I am pretty sure u all know bout halliburton, and from what i heard is the chances for maintenance engineer to be on site/field is not high except when there is failure/brakedown of equip. So, if any of halliburton engineer can help me to get more clear on it(before i choose and sign any acceptance letter)? thanks ya.

That is why I think you deserve more than RM2.3k. You are pro-active.

Both industry are OK. In semicon, you prolly gonna get Senior position within 3 years - not like in O&G, 5 years minimum prolly is the average time for you to get Senior position. Difference between both industries, semicon a bit fluctuating as compared to O&G at some point. 2005-2008 was very bad for semicon industry. Now I see it is picking up. But again, same goes with O&G in Malaysia. 2010, 2011 to me was kinda slow. But 2012 seems exciting. I don't know this for sure.

But do bear in mind when working for MNC, they tend to "right-size" the organization. Like WFT for example, they "right-sized" one whole dept. But if you work well, there's nothing to be worried about.

Hey,congratulation for the job offer.Within the company i worked in,as far as i know,i never saw any maintenance engineer going to the field/offshore.The field engineer will work both in the field(and Base if not going to the rig) and maintenance engineer only at the base/warehouse.I am not exactly sure about Hal,but i guess should be similar to SLB.

The problem with maintenance engineer position is that they only getting basic salary+any coefficient for that location as opposed to field engineer who get the same basic salary & coefficient but with field allowances when going offshore.Since the basic salary for engineer is high enough here(much more than Petronas or the other client company),so some people actually consider it as a good job,if you are planning to stay onshore and have better life.

For me, better career future go for ONG, there are nothing interesting in semicon industry. After 4 years you will see a big different between it (experiance and salary)

well this is the OnG thread and practically the posters here are either seniors in that industries + grads/juniors whom are looking to enter the ong industries.

This post has been edited by mhyug: Mar 21 2012, 12:21 PM

Yes OnG field pays well and much stable with current economics situation.

I'm not sure about the company you are currently in,but for the field engineer over here,most people get their senior field engineer title after 2 or 3 years.

Good to know that.

Hehe, actually I'm not in hurry to get a new job, let's see what do they have in that company.