static and another one is rotary. Static machinery and rotary machinery. Which mean you gonna deal with the things that is not rotating. Rotating like turbine, pump etc. That is what i see around.

For those who already been working in O&G industry for long, i have a question to ask you guys and need your opinion and point of view on it. (It is only for those who ALREADY working in O&G!).

I consider myself is already in OG because now is still under training period. Until recently, i had a chat with one of my friend who working in one of the top drilling company (no name mentioning). He is LWD engineer. After spoke to him, he asked me why dont join the Upstream process, he can help me to check around with his boss for vacancy in LWD. But i told him that i will think about it after few years time in my current field (pipeline inspection specialist). Then he tell me why waste time in that field, where else i still need to learn everything from the beginning again if i change to LWD, and he say LWD's pay is where too much higher than my current field market just because of the different of upstream and downstream.

My mind keep on thinking shall i jump now if i got the chance or just stick with my current field and look at the situation first. Because the pay is what i concern about.

So for those "old horse" in this field, free to give me some of your opinion on this matter, ok? Thanks in advance, and have a present day.

This post has been edited by iDk: Feb 15 2008, 10:41 PM

Field engineer. What exactly is that position does also not much ppl know, like mine was offered as field/survey engineer. I think they gave such title is mean that you are suppose to go out to the field quite frequent for a very long period of time, i guess.

About the your job scope, dont worry about that, company usually will teach you everything before hand only send you out there to war or to die ) And you must produce result in the end.

Female at the site ah... Very very rare, in my company only 1 female who go out there. I dont know what is your job scope, but beware that site only have metal and water (offshore), or metal, rock, and sand (onshore). So it is not a nice place after all.

This post has been edited by iDk: Mar 3 2008, 08:38 PM

Opportunity... everyone will tell you a lot of things, you also dont know which one to listen to in the end
I working for an inspection company. How about you? What is your company doing?
Long period of time, for my company, it might take up to 3 ~ 8 weeks on the site. That's a quite a long period of time on site. But i believe once you get use to site work, it is very hard for you to come back to office work, when you have to chance to come back to office, you might need to think twice, that's my personal point of view.

This post has been edited by iDk: Mar 3 2008, 08:58 PM

After back from site, depends on your company policy, some give long leave, some short leave, but if your work like sh!t, cannot finish or a lot of things cannot settle, then your leave will be minus out. It is depends on the company. I know if the site or rig got female, it is like the world going to fall apart kind of big news, imagine the rig somewhere in thailand, the news can reach all the way to malaysia to china or philipine something like that. Dunno why lar, it even more powerful if the rig got shemale or lady-boy, it will be the laugh joke of all the ppl on the rig of asia. LOL!

This post has been edited by iDk: Mar 3 2008, 11:32 PM

i tot you are working in Starducks outside malaysia with very high pay one?

PE.... =.=~! as far as i know, in O&G, no one cares about PE or no PE. As if like it never exist. Just one word, no one give a f*ck about it when i say i want to get PE, they just look at me like i am some alien or what. Sad case~~~~

This post has been edited by iDk: Mar 4 2008, 10:44 PM

same ME here, how many interviewee attend the interview from the first stage? Haiz... you gonna be really competitive, smart, challenging, dare devil, high spirit, able to lead to go through those stage of interview. i know those are the criteria they looking for in ppl.

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Added on March 5, 2008, 12:32 amTook their online quiz, quite fun though. But i dont understand why must you have to EIT only they hire you, then they pay you extra for the EIT if you got it? Do their cover everything for you to take the EIT test?

This post has been edited by iDk: Mar 5 2008, 12:36 AM

dive in or die in? It is not as nice as you think it is.

from what i heard, mud logging is a boring job. You can see some pages in front, someone doing that as well.

erm... if you are doing the servicing, then i think it is a very good job. Your company only have type of service? other than that?

i think these two services are consider doing service for the upstream process. And upstream is a very serious place to be at, and every installation need those two things. For me, i view it as a good field to go into.

it is still depends on where is your office and company base one lar. Everyone work offshore, everyone get paid in USD, then everyone also rich like f*ck de.

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Added on March 16, 2008, 11:57 pmWhere did you heard that from? 70k usd per annum for a FE? What is this FE do? which country he working? If he working in Malaysia, i kind of doubt that. This is the wrong info that you are feeding ppl, and it is also the exact feedback i got from ppl when they hear i am FE, rich lar, a lot of money lar. I dont know where the hell they got that kind of info from. That kind of annum income only for long timer in the industry and only for certain industry and certain job with certain special skill set. Please dont say whoever in the field is getting that kind of amount of money, because it is really irritating to hear and you are only making yourself look stupid in front of FE. I am sorry if you feel bad, but i dont sorry for what i stated. It is better to tell you now then later you make yourself look bad in front of everyone.

This post has been edited by iDk: Mar 17 2008, 12:05 AM

Before you answer all the questions, are you anyway in the O&G industry such as working, or freelance etc?
You give your information such as the annum income purely base on internet finding? FE got in the U.S. only? Why Malaysia cannot have Field Engineer in O&G?


This post has been edited by iDk: Mar 17 2008, 01:10 AM

i updated my post. Feel free to reply it.



This post has been edited by iDk: Mar 17 2008, 01:17 AM

Another word to say the 70k usd annum income of your cousin is a US PR and is not living in Malaysia, correct?
The FE we are taking about here is field engineer and not fundamental eng. How do you know they dont call field engineer as field engineer in malaysia? What do they call field engineer as in Malaysia?

a single business trip (assume it to be outstation work) for duration of 1 week get allowance of RM47k? which mean 7k per day? or 2k usd per day? Boy, are you aware of what you are saying here or you are still sleeping there?

This post has been edited by iDk: Mar 18 2008, 03:17 AM

Which mean geoscientist or geotechnician is on data evaluation side, everyday looking at the data and signal?

ok... i believe it is the same as my company's data analyst except they dont mob around but wait for us to bring back the data. Oh God, if you put me to work as data analyst, i will kill myself very soon because i had been put under training in data analyze department. It is a crazy job and the amount of data you have to look into everyday
I wish those who work as geoscientist or geotechnician all the best and have fun in their job.

boy oh boy, it is consider normal and everyday routine to work in that kind of environment. So what i would say to those interview is very very normal and it is the first door to the company, their ppl will ask you all kind of questions, judge you from all kind of angle, and evaluate you from tip to toe. My suggestion to this kind of interview, only talk when you are 200% confirm you know what are you talking, doing and who you talking to, or else better just shut up and sit down. Do not try to lie to them, that's the worst case of all.

This post has been edited by iDk: Apr 2 2008, 10:28 PM