People somehow need to find a pedestal to launch their career first la and there's no other place better than our very own backyard to gain exposure and experience.

Everybody wants to earn USD and Euros, but first you need to build up your skillset and experience before aiming that high. It's not easy to apply for an Oil & Gas job in other regions without any substantial experience in the field.

my advice is, Do not be choosy in your 1st oil and gas job. Try to penetrate the industry first and learn and understand the all kinds of oilfield services on the field and slowly work your way up to the discipline you prefer..

fresh engineer to welder or drill engineer?

Here's the path: I dun see any reason why a professional engineer wants to become an offshore Welder but if u insists..

1) Join drilling crew and start as roughneck, slowly work your way up to the welder position. Normally if they see the welding potiental in you, they will send you for welding training courses which in return you will get a certificate. That qualifies you as a full fledged welder. A word of advise, normally they hired experienced hands for welder position.

Drilling engineer:
1) Try resume bombarding operator companies like Shell, Chevron, Exxon Mobil, Petronas as a trainee engineer. If you are hired ,When they ask you to pick ur department, say you want to work offshore, field or "operations." Normally you will be trained as a drilling engineer, assisting company man daily with paperwork and reports.

2) Try resume bombarding in oilfield service companies like SLB, Halliburton or Baker. However, the drilling engineer position in oilfield services company are a bit different from what mentioned above and requires years of experience and technical knowledge on well planning, anti coliision studies and drilling ops. They normally promote people internally to sit in this position. If you can get in, then wwell done to you.

This post has been edited by carloz28: Aug 1 2010, 10:06 AM

This is easy. Ask yourself what you want.

Do you like office based work, meeting clients and joining the corporate rat race?

OR

Do you like to work like a grease-monkey on the field in your jumpsuit, setting wellheads, BOPs and wearbushing offshore?

I doubt so.

You probably hit the nail on SLB and Shell. But as for Petronas and Halliburton fresh grad pay, you are way off the mark.

This post has been edited by carloz28: Oct 4 2010, 08:44 PM

It's kinda weird to me that a lot of people in peninsular have trouble finding oil and gas jobs but this seems like a cake walk for Mirians.

This post has been edited by carloz28: Oct 8 2010, 04:52 PM

Even a numpty can even figure out that Miri is the birthplace of Sarawak and Malaysia's petroleum industry...so it seems logical to me that lots of Mirians are plying their trade in oilfield.

Solid material? I aint got No Jobstreet stats for you, this assumption is based on years of exp working in the field and having a group of closed knitted frens from Miri, not from Wikipedia browsing and watching Discovery channel all day long.

This post has been edited by carloz28: Oct 9 2010, 09:25 AM

Yea i can tell you are really struggling to understand me. Hence all these repeated questions...

If you are talking about Cameron, most likely you'll be handling Blowout Preventers, RCD devices or wellhead.

These equipments are not your the kind of valve you find in the water heater at your basement. Blowout Preventers are big and robust equipment (think about the size of your fridge X 6), they come in parts and pieces, so yes you will need to climb up and down on scaffolded platforms to assemble the valve offshore. Most of the time, you don't have to do dirty work yourself as you have a bunch of roughnecks to help you out.

Wellhead engineers normally have a good rotation and work schedule. Pay wise, I'll say RM500-600 per day which is quite lucrative.

Office job? Hardly unless you are the engineering team. I would say a 50-50 between workshop and field.

I assume we are talking about an offshore position here. It depends on how you define your 'social life'.

It's a very common perception among job seekers and those in the industry that offshore workers have NO LIFE. True to some degree because you spend most of your time on the rig battling the heat and rain working your socks off.

But once we get off the rig, we party hard. I mean real hard. You still get to dine & wine and club like usual with your colleagues or friends you met at the rig, or flirt around whenever you are on land. So you see the social life is there, but the real pain in the ass for all offshore workers is time management. You will never know what will happen tomorrow. It only takes a call from your boss to screw it all up.

Take my advise. If you want "LIFE" and go to cinemas with Wed & Fri nights with your lovey dovey girlfren, stay onshore.

If you are a single bloke, then i think you should go for it. The parties are mindblowing crazy.