Congrats. As I said in my PM, asks for feedback from those who work in downstream as well. If you're a muslim, maybe do sembahyang istikharah as well.

Good luck

If you get into the wireline business, you're set. It's a very challenging and rewarding experience. The work is tough but the reward especially down the line in your career will be very very good. Get as much experience as possible, and after 5-7 years I'll bet a LOT of operators (PETRONAS/Talisman/Petrofac/Hess/Murphy etc) will be interested in your skills.

Herriot-Watt is an excellent University for PE but as you have already mentioned, they are expensive. Imperial is insanely expensive. Most people whi went there are usually sponsored by the companies to get their Masters or PhD.

HW will be opening the branch in Malaysia (Putrajaya) soon. They won a bid to operate the building which was built by Khazanah overlooking the Putrajaya Lake earlier this year. The builiding is almost complete and I think they will start with the business school and maybe some engineering discipline, but not sure about PE.

What is that? Santa Claus university? Sorry, it's the time of year heh heh heh ..... I got my degree a loooooong time ago and in pure geology summore and not petroleum geology. I always say that you'll probably use 10% of what you learn in the Uni. When I graduated, UTP doesn't even exist yet heh heh heh.

Of course bro. My loyalty is for my family and for what is good for them. It;s nothing personal as companies would like to say and we personally should have the same motto.

Loyalty and professionalisme are mutually exclusive. There are people who makes it not mutually exclusive but those are people who do not understand the definition of professionalism.

In this day and age, there is no more Cradle to the Grave system. Anyone who believes that the company will reward your loyalty are naive. If the company can cut a benefit or increase its bottom line at the expense of their employees and can get away with it, what do you think it will do? I know that companies have this motto about Loyalty yada yad ayda but the thing is, it only expects the loyalty to be one way, i.e. it expects the employees to be loyal but when it comes to them ... it's not personal, it's just business.

We as employees should have the same mantra. Being professional means you deliver what is expected of you and giving your best in your line of work. Loyalty has got nothing to do with being professional.

This post has been edited by azraeil: Dec 19 2012, 12:54 PM

Read that the waves for this week can go up to 4.5 metres (14 feet). Stay safe!

Yikes, I remembered well sitting on a semi-sub for one exploration well. It was not fun when the anchor snaps due to high waves ... the booming sound when the anchor snaps kept us awake. Not to mentioned that we have explosives on board for the completion job .... now in nice office looking at my static models heh heh heh.

Sorry, how to say this, the anchor tak putus but as the waves were very high, the semi-sub moves about, so as it rides the waves, the anchor on the opposite side becomes taut while the anchor on the wave face becomes slack, and then the semi-sub came back into position and boooomm, the anchor yang slack tadi became super tegang one .... and releases a lot of energy ...

I would assume that the insurance will be covered by the Group Insurance Policy (meaning, it's covered by Petronas itself). As for the risk, the main office for the subsurface and corporate planning is in Dubai, yes they will have to go and meet with the Iragi authority about once a month but they do hire private security company to handle all the security logistics. The people who are exposed most to the risks are those who have to be at the operation site (drilling etc etc) and they get paid big money. I believe it is also getting safer now in Iraq, haven't heard of any major security incidences in a while.

You need to know what area in the O&G that you think will be suitable or fit with the experience and degree that you have. You need to tailor your CV as well so that people can relate to what you do now in construction and how that experience in construction is similar or will be useful to the job you're applying. Ask some of your friends who are already in O&G about what they do in their field of work and then once you get an idea about the scope of work the do, tailor your CV towards that. Meaning, if you do something that has to do with the environment, then O&G also has some areas where they need to comply with DOSH and Environment etc.

Good Luck.

Me also kuli mehhh eventhough I get 800K a year .... now my friend who owns a listed company is not a kuli, that's why for the last one month he's been on bike ride trips all over Asia .....

You are a kuli if you are never satisfied with whatever you have. Even my firend who has a net worth of 200 million, he is a kuli to the MNCs where he makes his money from. He is a kuli to the shareholders who expects the company they invested in to give them good returns and dividens ......

Once you have 5 years experience, most O&G companies couldn't care less what your degree was. Apply first and see how marketable you are.

If you are in the industry for 5 years and have built good network with client, vendors and what not. NOT USING your network to get what you want is plain moronic, stupid, dumb. There, I said it.

And if you are bitter about people who use whatever network that they cultivate in their career ... go far far away. You don't belong in the industry.

Sorry if I was bit harsh but I noticed abgkik having to answer a lot of questions that I think was very uncalled for. In this industry, even if you use cable (I know of instances where this happens), they don't last long. It's a demanding industry, you can't coast thinking about the next paycheck, you need to earn it.

As for cable or networking, if you follow my post since V2, I kept saying this mantra.... this is a small industry, you need to network network network. Why? People who knows you, your work, will have an easier time recommending you for work or hiring you. I personally would be more comfortable hiring a person I know can do the work than put my faith in a resume of someone I don't know ...

The new "scholarship loan" by Petronas does not allow you to escape. Even if they have no position to offer you and release you, you will have to negotiate with Petronas on how to pay back the loan.

This applies for those who have been released, for those who has been given position and still decides to break the bond, the lump sum payment is not pretty. I was part of the initiative who changed the policies with regards to those who break the bond. If you cannot honor the bond, be prepared to have a housing loan without the corresponding property under your name. The thinking is that the scholarship could've been better spent on someone who would honor the bond so therefore there is opportunity costs as well for Petronas.

+100000

This is what my Petroleum Engineer friends say ....

One of the easiest engineering discipline to major in .... BUT

One of the highest in demand by the industry

So don't woryy and enjoy your study in the USA (don't enjoy it too much and screw up .... because you still need to get a good CGPA for all those O&G companies to hire you)