I came across my current company while I was interviewing for Schlumberger. Since Western Geco is a subsidiary of Schlumberger, one of the operations manager approached me and asked if I'd be interested to get involved in seismic. The rest as they say..is history.

I see...hehe, sorry if i am asking too deep.
I remember a friend of mine email me the pic of angsi platform, but not sure which jacket. he is working with Talisman.

ok, have a nice sleep while i am stranded here with no sleep
nice to talk to you

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@ speedfamgirl

I hope you don't mind a few questions regarding your career in the O&G industry. How's the environment like offshore? As in the workloads and working schedules?

Also, how are the living quarters like? Do you have internet and stuff there?

Finally, I heard that offshore workers usually work on a one week on - one week off basis. So do your go back onshore/home during every break?

What company are you working at? I just graduated (from UTP), and am looking for job soon.

it has been storied earlier in the begining of this topic. almost all are the same.
I just told my story being stranded on a jacket platform today...

we work on shifts for 2 weeks, then 2 weeks off.
living quarters is depending much on your field. so far so good...they provide you everything free & taken care by the catering services (laundry & room services)
we do have internets here. some of the living quarters are well equipped with jamming equipment & some are not. btw, it is important to bring your own entertainment resources such as laptops, you dont want to get yourself bored, don't you?


@ Aurora

google is your best friend. SSB/SSPC is good enough to tell you at the moment...
sorry for that

Ah.. yes. I was searching for SSB only. Pardon me.

Thank you to all especially forrest and enkadirmainbola for your feedback.

Entertainment is really important! I even lugged my whole desktop there for good....including my monitor! I'm not offshore but "stranded" in a base camp for more than a month.

Dear guys and gals.

This morning I attended a Shell Career talk in Multimedia University.

I asked about offshore prospects of an engineering student majoring in electronics but the representative said that the chances are very very slim.

I was told that it was dificult to be offshore as well.

I am wondering know, as a future electronics engineering graduate majoring in Telecommunication, how am I going to get myself offshore.

Thank you.

my uncle is in this off/on shore project..last time as i remember he with the Talisman Eng sumthing(offshore people knowlah)..seriously..big $$$ man..gosh~by rolex like buying swatch..today by estima nextday by merc c230 already.. T_T...how ever..sad thing is..family..aiyoo so many trouble..since so far away from wife.. *SIGH*

Yeah, same here.

According to the speaker at the Shell career talk, Electronics Engineering students always get places in their IT side and the chances for them to get a permanent career offshore is like, once in a blue moon.

She (the speaker at the career talk) told me to mention my interest in an offshore job during the Shell Recruitment Day, but she added that the chances were again, slim.

So I was wondering if any of you guys and girls here know anybody who graduated as an Electronics Engineer and is working offshore now. It doesn't matter if they are not working for Shell, as long as they are on a permanent offshore career.

Appreciate your input. Thanks.

my uncle who works offshores, recommend me to apply for ultrasonic technician - NDT technician. What is that har? just do scanning and x-ray is it? what's the prospect? He said staring pay is low but fully trained an inpection engineer can be getting 10 - 30K per month. is that true ah?

NDT = non desructive test, isn't it.
i think NDT technician should have NDT certificate which is level 1 - 3, higher level higher pay.

Get into Seismic, a couple of acquistion engineers in my crew have electrica/electronic degree. Basically what we do is record reflected waves bouncing of the earth's layers that orignates from a high energy source and record the data using highly sensitve hydrophones. The hydrophones are located in streamers that are towed behind the seismic vessel and can be as long as 12km. Obviously this is just the tip of the iceberg of what seismic engineers do but it does help tremendously if you have an electrical background. You'll have to be familiar with terms like sampling rates, nyquist frequencies, anti-aliasing filters, scsi, IEEE 32... just to give an example. However you will be working mostly on a Seismic vessel and not on an oil rig.. but I guess that still counts as being offshore. The pay is good and you typically only spend 5 weeks offshore. It does allow for extensive international travel as the vessel will always be moving around to it's next survey job.

i think i saw the prototype vassel b4 in schlumberger exhibition... it's like under the vessel there is a huge net with hydrophone if i'm not mistaken...

nice job..always dream of doing such challenging job

im doing my mechanical now,hopefully can get such job when I graduate..

suitable for single like me

not really...i am also from an electonics eng background, diploma level only...too lazy to further study & now working as a Operation Tech (Process) & based offshore. so i would say there is a chance for electronic background to work offshore, the chances are higher if you dont mind to be frontline people as technicians, but for higher level & engineers, mostly they are office based & only comes out offshore when needed.

have u heard about how is the working environment in SSB?
anyone did internship in SSB?

there are various departments in SSB.
u mean which one?

well..i wanna try to apply internship and wanna learn more in networking, routers..etc..so do u think IT department is suitable for me?

I am electronic and computer enginering and my interest to learn in netwroking site. So thats why i wanna know is it the interest that i have to apply should be in engineering or IT department.

and the working environment according to that department.

Thnx..

This post has been edited by kogula14: Jul 30 2007, 10:40 PM