haha.. ppl who get the most 'bonus' are those who open petrol station and keep their full tank before the oil price increase... haha... one tank around 18-20k litre. Imagine how much one earn for at least four tank of oil???

The retailers only earn about RM0.08 per litre, no matter how much government increase the price. The increased of the petrol price (the subsidy) goes back to government, and their cost to open a petrol station is cost ~1 million, plus pay salary to staffs, electricity, water, phone....

yeah, they earn revenue from the conveniences store stuffs. petrol selling revenue so small...

I guess we should 'thank' the gomen because by around 2012, Malaysia will be a net oil importer...prices can only go up Up UPPPPP

Things wil b rather a mess for those still aiming to join O&G comp..to b honest, is it stil safe for todays students to enter OnG industries?
Lol i oso tot dat increment in world oil price wil then result in increamen of workers` salary..seems lik fat bonus reli gona b scraped away..

This post has been edited by pc123: Jun 9 2008, 07:26 PM

Ah Ha! dun think that it is small.. There're a lot of things that you will not able to imagine apart from those u see in the newspaper. Most of the petrol station earn more through the selling of oil, NOT the stuffs in the mini market or whatever. U may think that the revenue is small, but i bet u'll be suprised if u happen to know how much they sell before you think of how much they earn from it. Honestly, the revenue for diesel is smaller than that of primax or super but again, diesel makes the owner earn much more. I could guarantee u that this is a fact but could u think of why? haha... i'm not going to say it, so think about it yourself.. ...

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Added on June 9, 2008, 8:48 pmwhy not? Oil & gas company still pay a lot compare to other companies.. ppl always say ''price increase but salary stay the same''... at least u could lead a better life than those who earn less plus the fast increment in salary for ppl who work in O&G companies....

This post has been edited by christine85: Jun 9 2008, 08:48 PM

Even if they earn 8 sen a liter...the sheer volume of their sales will more than cover for that. One of those huge petrol trucks already how many liter in it...and all they need to do is open store and wait for people to come, because everybody needs petrol, haha.

One thing that I dun get is sometimes...along the same stretch of road, there's like, 5 or 6 diff petrol stations...pity the guy who owns the station at the furtherest end...maybe that's why they encourage and perpetuate the myth that you shouldn't mix petrol from diff companies.

its just a myth ? ?
i believed it ! grrr ... waste my effort to go out of the way just to pump petrol . .

guys im new but after reading the posts i realized that working in o&g is challenging and i like it.

im majoring in mechatronics and so far im still a first class student but the problem is i dont have a lot of co curricular activities.

can any of you guys please tell me what is your co-curricular activities?
is it really important. as for talking with people i have no problem with that as i really can speak well with peole it just that the co-curricular portion in my resume is really blank.

BTW i just got rejected by the shell gourami challenge.. and they say i cannot apply for another year... can i still apply next year when they come to my uni?

i would like to design since im interested in robotics.

OFS-1 in Abu Dhabi
Anyone has any advice?

have fun! probably gonna be quite hot till August.

I am offered for a Material Planner/Procurement position in an O&G service company. May I know what is the future prospect of a material planner/procurement engineer in O&G or any other industry? BTW I am a fresh grad with mechanical engineering degree, not sure if I make a correct decision to take this offer... very confusing right now

Hi there! Guess will be seeing u... mine also in Abu Dhabi... in mid-july right?? Also, sch in Houstan for 2months starting August... lets have fun there..

me having OFS-1 in abu dhabi, 20th July as well
yeay,can't wait!
anyone else?

crap, mine is in june! noone else?

christine85, i think i went for the SLB interview with you lar

hey you guys were at workplace 21 jsut now to collect your tickets ke? I was the one playing pool... LOL

haha... then high probability will go to houstan wt u as well... see u there

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Added on June 12, 2008, 3:33 pm
haha... mine suppose to be in June, but being dragged to july cause kevinling did his medical check-up late. hmm... i remember i was alone when i had the last interview... wat is the date of ur interview, and which interview did u refer to? im having first 3 interviews in my uni, USM and the last one in slb's KL office...

This post has been edited by christine85: Jun 12 2008, 03:33 PM

oh oh .. then the second last interview . . my last interview was also alone cos i had to delay it
i was supposed to go in july then they called me and asked me to go in june, so i'm leaving next weekend, so fast!

Hmmm, well material planner and procurement mainly is to manage between Vendor and Client. Mainly dealing with bidding process, preparing quesionaire to pre-select some of the vendor.
So if you are a fresh grad and if you think u not a very technical person maybe it could suit your needs but after few years you might forget how to design a valve or pipe, your job is mainly preparing documents for vendor to bid and to help client to choose which vendor and the procurement process took quite a lot of details also. Anyway its a challenging job too cos it deal with money hahha..... as for future palnner u can become Contract manager cos you will deal with a lot of contract between client and vendor.

But it just base on my own opinion just as a reference, the choice is still in your hand.

Thanks for your reply, I have decided to accept the offer. Actually I would prefer a position involved more on technical stuff as my first job, but I guessed learning how to deal with people ain't that bad also I hope i made a wise decision