Which company? Sapurakencana is the parent company, its the subsidiaries that do the job.

Hmmm... Aramco eh? Right now i heard quite number of 'downside' if i were to join them. Any comment on this? How do you compare with living in abu dhabi.
Im not thinking of moving now anyway, just planning for future...

Yes, one of the reason I am not recommending Aramco is the "downside" as you mentioned. Malaysia will be on the Sterling Payroll so you'll be getting your salary in Pound Sterling. The base salary will be protected against the USD at the date of Hire at 90% protection rate. So if you are hired for example today (GBP is at USD 1.62, then 90% of 1.62 is USD 1.46 protection rate). If the GBP goes lower than 1.46, then your salary will be protected. This is actually an upside as you will not need to worry about currency fluctuations that much and I am told that the new hire are hired at a very high base salary (which is of course causing some discontent with existing staff but that is another story altogether)

The downside is the living arrangements. The Dhahran Compound is full so most new hires now are located in the Abqaiq compound which is 70 kilometres away from Dhahran (where you will work). There is a daily transportation bus but some people may have issues with spending 1 hour each way (2 hours return) on the bus every working day.

Being far from Dhahran also is an issue because Dhahran is where everything is close by (shopping etc etc). It is basically like you living in Seremban but working in KL. Some people are okay with it because they are used to it, but some people might have an issue. It takes longer especially for your family to acclimatized to the living arrangements.

The E&P Business line is slowly relocating those in Ras Tanura (beachside compound also 75km from Dhahran) and Abqaiq to Dhahran but the process is slow and housing is not very cooperative in this area.

For those asking about Non ONG experience, most of the Malaysians here are either Geologist/RE/PE or Drilling Engineers but there are some in the Health & Safety and also a group who specializes in SAP and usually these are the skill sets that Aramco is looking at.

I have to say though, once your family is settled down in Aramco, it is bloody difficult to move. I have had several offers coming my way but my family just refused to move since they are happy here ..... sigh.

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Added on October 21, 2012, 3:22 pmPetroleum Geoscience is the study of Geology (rocks, depositional environment etc) but related to the Petroleum industry (I did pure geology in the uni which makes it harder to understand it's impact on the petroleum industry). Petroleum Geophysics is the study of Geophysics (seismic study, signal processing) bu related to the Petroleum Industry. usually if you are talking P. Geoscience, you will take a couple of Geophysics courses and vice versa. If you study P. geoscience, you will be doing Geoscience work (Field Geologist, operations etc etc) while if you did P. Geophysics, you will be concentrating mostly in either soing Seismic Data Processing work or Seismic Interpretation (Qualitative/Quantitave work)

P. Geophysics and Petrophysics are 2 totally different animal. Petrophysics involves the interpretation of wireline log data (those wireline daatsets acquired by the oil companies to determine the reservoir qualities or the presence of hydrocarbons in the wells they drilled).

All 3 skill sets are in extremely high demand by the industry.

This post has been edited by azraeil: Oct 21 2012, 03:22 PM

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Ill help you answer this, but you also need to google abit.

Geoscience:
Basically consist of geology and geophysics. In ONG terms, atleast in malaysia, geoscientist is person who do both geology and geophysics work, especially for fresh grad since he/she dont have any speciality yet.

Petroleum geophysics: simple answers is person who interprate seismic data to produce seismic horizon and faults.
Petrophysics: Person who interprate log data to come up with reservoir rock property, ie saturation, porosity, net sand, etc.

Interms of work, petrophysics usually involve directly in operation. Geos, depends what type of geos u are (geomodeler, dev. geologist/geophysicist, ops. geologist, etc).
Interms of prospectivity, I guess right now everywhere is short of any discipline. But I do notice that petrophysics and geophysics are extra difficult to get.

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Added on October 21, 2012, 3:36 pmFor your questions, i dont even know how to answer, sigh......

This post has been edited by ICDeadPeople: Oct 21 2012, 03:36 PM

assalamualaikum and good day in rainy day.... can i ask anyone opinion??? do anyone had heard of company name welltec oilfield service??? i get an interview as wire line engineer?? what does wire line engineer do?? does wire line engineer must go to offshore?? what kind of questions it will ask in the interview??? cuz this is my first interview so i quiet nervous....how much salary as for wire line engineer who just graduated???

always wanted to know about the pay method with the diff currencies and all when you guys work overseas, thx bro.just a question do how do you send money back here??or lets say put in for your savings??tt ??bank transfer??

Bro azrael...great experience u have there...hopefully one day I'll get that kind of opportunity as well....as for now looking forward for my next challenge at g-tower

Tq bro azraeil and ICDeadPeople for the answer. Basically we can say here P.Geoscience is much general than P.Geophysics izit?
I'm planning to take P. Geophysics but currently trying to search for more info regarding the course.

u went the interview for what position??? if u don't mine to share with me... how they conduct the interview and how the difficulties their question?? thanks for the wish

I assume sum1 called u before asking to come for interview?
I got a call also, but I'm not sure the date and time for the interview
He asked me if I am interested but I said that I will reply to his email, but still no answer from him
IINM he said the interview will be held around next week, Tuesday if I'm not heard it wrongly
Can you clarify this matter to me?
Thanks

Bro...how u apply job at weltec oilfield? Online application? Im also apply it though but no response yet from them....

yup, the interview will be held on this tuesday... i just said i interested when he first time call me...then he said he will inform later about where and when the interview season will happen....

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Added on October 21, 2012, 10:46 pmyup by on9 application....maybe after this they will reply to your application...be patient and always pray....

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Thats what made me worry, he said Tuesday but he din give the details. Need to ask him tomorrow.
Btw, the person is not from Welltec? Looking at the email the person is from Air Energi

yup...he from air energi...is he a middle man who work for welltec??? when he call you first you did not give the answer then you answered him by using email???

weatherford

haha right, coz that time I am in the middle of something and it was so spontaneous.
I said I cant made my decision that time and I gonna give my answer when I call him back, instead he asked me to reply in email.
Now I'm quite regret to said so

Also got from them, but i said i already got the offer from another oilfield service company, then he directly counter offer me, but when i say no, he some how became angry, crazy *******

bro, can u give me the website link or email?. mau cuba nasib.

edit: upon checking welltec website http://www.welltec.com/Vacant-Positions.aspx?ID=261, there is no Malaysia in their list. How do I apply?

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