If I were you I'll take the no 2 option. Reason is I think petroleum engineer you can become reservoir engineer, which is one of the really sought after people in O&G.
For chemical/chemistry, Im not really sure. I never seen them working in the office though (headquarter). I think most of them are in lab, refinery or offshore.

Are you a fresh grade? For me the most important think is EXPERIENCE (not saying that academic is less important though). If you handle a fair amount of projects during your 2 years tenure, im pretty sure you will have enuff experience to move to other place.
2300 is decent already. Please dont have this kind of mentality that joining O&G will earn you top money. Depends on your post and company.

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Added on April 9, 2009, 9:34 pmAre you a fresh grade? For me, the most important thing is EXPERIENCE! Trust me, lots of time your experience is more important than your academic result (not saying its not important though, which it is).2 years, if you handling a fair amount of project, im sure you'll have enuff experience to move to other place.
2300 is pretty decent I think. Please dont have this kind of thinking that joining O&G will earn you top money even if you are fresh grade.

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What are the subjects for that course? Just by the course name i would say yes, you maybe can get into O&G industry. But Im not sure whether the subject for that course is more orientated to factory production or O&G or even general.
How about think what you want to be if you joining O&G, do some reading about that particular job and see whether it suits you?

For me I think no. Because this short courses is like reading book, but with real life example and got mentor of course. At least I never met anyone who is not in O&G while taking courses from them.

Used to be seismic processor, but after a year Im bored to death. Become a geoscientist after that.

im doing office processor, all the 2D and 3D processing from start till end. Really hate the velocity picking. I wonder whether you still have to pick velocity manually for every line now?
I was with one major player in processing before.

The data that the onboard guy gave is usually almost raw (they did some basic processing but thats about it). Office processor than apply all kind of equations and stuff like Tau-p, spec-D, and proprietary software to generate those x-sec.
I was on TL boat last time for a week, as a client rep doing hires shallow hazard survey. That time the sea was not really good, swell around 4-5m. Man, I puked every single day, just eat maggi la. I swear I will never set my foot to any seismic vessels ever again! (yes, i have weak stomach...)

Well, the problem with degree classification is it give you the 1st impression about your candidate. But again it doesnt really mean much during the interview. I interviewed afew candidates from top petroleum engineering school, results was so freaking impressive, dean list for 4 consecutive semesters, all sorts of academic awards an so on. But when ask about basic, they dont know much. There you know they are more to book reader than thinker.
To tell you the truth, my result is not impressive either (too much movies and nightout during final year). I just applied for every company available, and just take any offers from whatever company. The trick is try to tweak your resume to be more industrial type, not academic type. Its also good to include any kind of project (ppt) related to industry that you did during your degree. Because most company wants their candidates to be able to start right away with minimum training.

True, your skills in sales is suitable for service provider.
Try schlumberger, roxar, halliburton to new a few. These company selling software, need people like you.

RNZ is local company, but quite reputable. Not sure about salary and stuff though....

A friend of mine say the company he work with have vacancy in safety coordinator. Preferably engineering background. Based in PD. Anyone interested can pm me.

Having master is always good since alot of big companies prefer master student. You can always try to negotiate with your current employer.

Really? care to share which company willing to pay local 100k a month? Non of my experienced geoscientist friends got that much in malaysia.

I read a leaflet once regarding one african counrty that we involved in some O&G project. There it says when choosing a hotel, make sure your room is facing the main road and not too high, so in case of emergency you can JUMP to safety. And that leaflet is the official one. LMAO.

Even if Malaysia will be net importer in 2013, doesnt mean that the ONG in Malaysia will collapse anytime soon.
There are still lots of field with 20-30 years production life left, not including all those deep water field that is not been discovered yet and all those small field that currently is uneconomic but maybe it will in the future. All other remaining field still need to be maintained, which means they still need people to do all those infilling, appraisals, reservoir management, reserve bookings, etc.
If really ONG in malaysia will collapse soon, just move abroad la. Other unconventional energy currently is getting more popular.

Well, actually what you said is believable. I know that most of our resource were exported due to its high quality. I can agree with you if you said Malaysia will be net importer soon, but i just doubt with 'that our oil is critically going empty' statement.

I think they are.
Than again they need to work consistently offshore to earn the big bucks.

I think to find other candidates for different discipline rather than engineers. If im not mistaken most of UTP students are some sort of engineers (RE, Completion, etc). They dont have other discipline such as geologist, geophysicist, etc.

Anyone knows any Petroleum Technologist, experiance > 5 years? Might got vacancy at my place.

If I were you, I'll consider other options after 6 month. or atleast try to find job first, even though its not related so it shows that you are a productive person, not just goyang kaki depan pc. I got a friend who work in furniture factory first before joining ONG.
Second lower, i dont know about now but I was 2nd lower too (having too much fun during uni year). Got an interview with service company, join them, than jump ship to oil company, after enough experiance, jump ship again to consultation. All you need to do is prepare yourself with basic knowledge in ONG (google is your best friend) during interview.