basically im not an enginner....juz wondering if there any possibility to land a job in O&G companies??

hye guyz... i had pass my basic DP course in Singapore... n been applying since then.. but still no reply from all the company.. mind advice me how do i get my self in the DP company.. need work...need money for living..

send my resume alrdy...twice.. didnt get any reply yet... hmm..
r u a seaman??

Destroyer : yes, a mariner is a seafarer. there is an opening for a class 1 foreign going master and also a class one foreign going engineer. i.e. marine captain and chief engineer. However, experience in support vessels is essential but not neccessary. So if u'ev worked on a workboat before your chances are high. There is also an opening for a Marine HSE Coordinator and a Marine Safety officer. I emphasize marine cos having sailing experience helps a lot. SO if you have friends who have perhaps done their sea time as a cadet but dun wanna continue, get them to buzz me and I'll ask them to take up a HSE course and well the future would look much brighter.

You wanna sail or you wanna be on shore - it's their pick. If they decide to sail then stay at sea, if offshore they dun have anything related to sailing which they can use on any other job except sailing. For marine HSE the core is HSE not marine. The sailnig experience is only used as a leverage to get their foot in.

And I dun think fresh dip grads gets USD2200 monthly as on board a vessel, it does not matter what qualification u had from shore, everyone starts from the bottom i.e. a Cadet. ur friends are BS-ing you man lol.
For marine captains on board the salary range is between USD250 - USD500 a day. it's less than half of the global rates but it all depends on the fellow. If he wants to do it or not, that's why we have captains from Myanmar and indonesia filling in the gaps out here in offshore world.

As for the course, well go attend NIOSH, and like any other career, ur'e new to the damn field dun expect much. I had one uni grad, well actually a masters in chemistry or something like that who just toko a NIOSH course ( safety officer course) and demanded 10k  month. lol. I asked him to come in for interview then fired the living daylights out of him. cos he could not answer questions pertaining to HSE but instead tried to outsmart me with his knowledge of chemistry lol. I told him what he knows about chemistry has no relevance to the work in HSE. SO basically i told him to take his masters in chemistry and stick it where the sun dun shine if he wants to get into HSE lol.

yeah i'm evil I know but we dun need smart alecs and ppl who demand unless they can prove themselves. SO freshies, be careful if you find someone like me lol, actually theyre lots of guys like me in our world. lolx.

bro, u gotta get ur license before you can even try to touch usd2.2k. As a cadet u're getting jack shit if u asked me. I used to get USD 700 as a basic and then we had cadet allowances which varies from month to month depending on the chief mate and the vessel, which usually starts from a min of USD 250 up to USD 500 a month extra. But then again , that was when sea time for cadet training was 24months unlike now which I heard is only 12 months? crap man no wonder the quality of masters we're getting here are BAD!. I've seen masters and chief mates who cant even plan a proper passage!! >.< and I wonder how the heck these guys get their tickets!?

Overall the master's i've seen here that are really bad are local trade licensed. Which makes me wonder WTF the marine dept is doing, churning out tickets to people like that.

As for the sea time 24 months WAS the required time for Foreign Going license for the Singapore Marine Dept. And it used to be the same for Malaysian marine Dept as well but during my final few months on board I heard that they shortened it to 20 month sea time, and I guess now i'ts even worse! only 12 months! >< nobody will learn much in 12 months seriously, I was on board Container vessels and tankers, and I had a chance to sail on one 30 yr old container vessel and a massive 5,400 TEU container vessel, Oh plus I was also on a VLCC! and managed to go alongside a ULCC and maan it was HUGE!!!! All this I did while sailing as a cadet. SO 12 months? really not enough time to experience all one can experience as during cadet time is our honey moon time! lolx

Now i'm a kuli oni. Marnie HSE Specialist. Got sucked back in, into the marine line after I left it like YEARS ago. But it is an advantage for me now as there is a need for Marine HSE but lack of marine personnel who can run HSE effectively. I guess i'm lucky cos after i left the marine line, I ventured into HSE and loved HSE so much until this offer came, I ws reluctant but well the offer wasnt that bad so I grabbed it after I finished my last contract ( I freelance btw) SO now this is like the longest contract 3 +2 yrs and it's so relaxing lol. Plus I get to argue with HSE ppl who do not know much about marine and argue with marine ppl who do not know much about HSE lolx. I guess i fill the gap? lolx

Not true, it's a very niche thing so requirements are not too strict as there is a real shortage for Marine HSE. For example, here in Miri the majority of plp who are in Marine HSE are basically ppl who have never gone to sea or those who have been to sea but HSE is not their core. Lucky for me I'm balanced? lolx. I used to sail but HSE is my strong point thus I can relate to the mariners on board. Oh plus I LOVE to argue a LOT lolx.

Preference is from Deck side as in HSE you know the law and can churn out reports like breathing, yeah HSE is all about documentation and reports lolx. And those from Deck I feel has exposure to reporting or rather story writing skills compared to engine side as on the engine side its all about numbers and not much story telling. ALthough I may be wrong. For surveyors such as Class Surveyors they prefer Engineers as it is very techincal but I say it aint that hard cos Deck side we have to know about the engine too and a chief engineer doesnt need to know about navigation.

I'm neither from BP nor Shell, they hardly hire freelancers direct, I'm sitting on the contractor side, but behave like i'm on client side, cos I can! hahaha.
Well, it is less stressful compared to my previous project and the salary's slightly lower but I aint complaining. hehehe

hello sifus
juz got a call for an interview for the post service project eng.
browsed this thread for a while and found out that the basic pay for an eng is quite high for a fresh grad.
the thing is,im offered 2k,so this got me thinking,will i be doing technician work, as im really looking for an engineering job
btw im a fresh grad,bachelor electrical eng.

Actually, global rate for Master ( Foreign Going License ) is USD 1k if USD500 a day kene con lah lolx.

Also FMC would be a better platform to join international companies or rather for a chance to be placed overseas and also to get picked up by companies not operating in Malaysia. Ranhill, there's more local jobs.

For Sapura Crest, make sure the contract you sign is under sapura crest instead of TLG, But more likely than most you will get a contract to sign with TLG.TLG and TLO are learning / training grounds for Crest and other main cons.

That's not always true. It depends on the type of qualification and experience the Master mariner has, i.e. supply boats, anchor handling, drillship etc. DP certification would probably add 50 percent extra on the day rate.

That aside, the color of one's skin also determines the size of the pay cheque. You gotta live with that.

USD500/day is pretty decent for a Malaysian master mariner.

Anyways, I was argueing with my Head of marine earlier and welll guess what? He challenged me to get cv's of malaysian master mariners then only talk about rates, the problem i'm having here is that the current masters we have are from myanmar or indonesia and crap man so many problems, main thing is hte language barrier >.< SO any masters around do send me ur c.v.'s then see how lah k?

SOOOO many companies looking for engineers nia. I just helped my brother get a job. good one too. he's with this german company based in KL and well his 3rd year working after getting his degree and his salary with that company already 5 digits. Kaneh took me longer to earn that much lol. Then again i aint no engineer lolx.

guys, in oil rigs, how much does the chefs there earn *roughly* and hows their working hours etc etc. anyone has that information?