Anyone here going for the Sclumby Next Petrel and Eclipse courses in KL during July?

At least can have some dudes to hang out with.

Nah, I wouldn't say Eclipse or Petrel are very special tools as they're defacto for the OnG industry of course Emerson is the up and coming big boy here as Halliburton's Nexus isn't as popular.

What static/dynamic simulation platform were you trained in during uni?

Did you use anything other geomodelling software and do you have basic geology under your belt? Most unis will train with RMS/Tempest/Enable (which is what I use in the office), I have a few tutorials for them here from Emerson.

Do you have any experience with other forms of modeling software? Pro/E or ANSYS?

AutoCAD and SolidWorks will serve you well most of the time regardless of industry.

The RMS (Roxar Suite) is generally only useful if you have the foundation or the training to use it. Might I suggest Schlumberger NEXT, they have a lot of training classes available and will give you exposure to ECLIPSE (something like RMS/Tempest). Very expensive, but very respected, they also have intro classes to geophysics and black oil simulation. Reminder, 1 week of classes costs around 4.5k USD.

CFD is generally only covered if you're an instrumentation or piping engineer for OnG. For mechanical engineers if you want to get into the petroleum or black side of things, the best is to start as a production or field engineer. Do it for 2 to 4 years, then get your company to pay for a Masters in petroleum and then move on to reservoir engineering and geophysics.

If you want to be a OnG drilling engineer or mud engineer, my advice is to get your IWCF/IADC BOP Supervisor certification. It is around 3k USD for a 5 day course and lasts 2 years. You should also be fairly healthy and body tough. Start out as a leasehand or righand, move on to assistant driller and then tourpusher/head driller.

If you want to go straight into geophysics ASAP, then start out as LWD, MWD, coring or any other form of logging/geo interpretation. After 2 years they'll start getting you on the modeling tools.

It is a big industry. Tons of ways to go.

If you're an engineer, suggest supervisor level. If can, get dual IWCF and IADC cert.

Not just any company. But one that will give you lower pay, but pay more for professional training. Suffer now, enjoice later

If you can't practice with any software, get an idea for the basics of the industry you want to get into, this will be very very helpful in your interview. Don't need to study the details, get a general feel for what is done from start to finish and the process involved.

Well, a gym membership and some protein powder will fix it up pretty quick. As long as you aren't a sotong it'll be ok lorh.

Yes, you'll be at a disadvantage if you don't have the body for field work. Usually the boss will chose the fit one for field work and the less fit one to duduk opis.