First of all, how long have you been with this company? and how long you have been in this current position?

Your company is a local company or mnc? Who and where is your client? I dont know much about mudlogger but i do know there is a drilling fluid engineer, in which i heard both are the same, and if i not mistaken they are working together with the drilling operation isnt it?

Anyhow if still the same position for more than 5 years, it is no good as i understand, either bad for your career or it is a bad company.

This post has been edited by iDk: Jun 28 2008, 09:41 PM

Yo, take it slow bro.
From your message, it seems a job to avoid big time. Mind to describe your experience on the geoservices? Either good or bad of it that made you to state the above statement.

if can be a lot of panel, i last time had 5~6 interviewer interviewed me. But that wasnt BH. Imagine you sitting with 5~6 ppl and all of them asking you question in the same time.

Good day to all,

I would like to know is there anyone currently working in Nigeria, Warri Delta State?
I have been offered a job to work in this country/state as expatriate. But i worrying about the safety of the place, and i dont want to go up to international news that i become one of the captured hostage, or everyday have to worry being shot or bomb while working at site.

I really appreciate for those who had experience working at there especially with their onshore job reply.

Thanks.

(Damn, i really worry about being shoot by AK as i told by my friend who experienced that before while he escorted by his team of mercenaries with heavy fire arm just to cross the street. I rather stay in Malaysia with the low pay and inflation.)

This post has been edited by iDk: Jul 18 2008, 06:02 AM

Thanks brother for pointing out this issue. Instead, i already confirmed my offer is a scam too.

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Added on July 19, 2008, 1:16 am

BEWARE: Job Offer Scam and Tactic

This happened to me.

The offer is just way to good to be true, the pay they paying me is for people with more than 5 or 10 years experience involving in big project. For people like me, i must be admit to say that i do not desire that kind of pay and do not have that kind of qualification. That is where i started to think, check and ask around. I even went to the Nigeria High Commission in KL to help me to verify the offer, company and agent (verification still in process ). In the end, i surfed around the internet and found out the company is one of the scam company.

But i must say that they are very good in it, they make it so professional in the paper, until i also believe in it. They even called me up for the work and permit procedures (too bad for them, it is my turn to fool them up and down).

I will post up the documents and emails for everyone to refer to and be EXTREME careful for this kind of job offer scam. I do not want people think they are so lucky, so happy they found a very high pay job, but in the end got scammed or cheated for their hard earn money and they dream job go into drain.

One of the reason i so believe in it, because the scam company posted the job in JobStreet.com. I even called up JobStreet to report about this scam and JobStreet told me they have already banned the company. The reason the scam company still can continue their scam on me is because:

1) I applied the job early (i think right after they posted it) and the JobStreet not in time to stop them.
2) The scam company only need your information such as: your contact number, and email address.
3) I did not know what company JobStreet have banned or blacklisted (I never check for that kind of information)

But it is good to know that JobStreet.com do stop or block scam company, just that i think they need to improve their system (The system should be able to delete away the job application that we had applied which involved the blocked or banned scam company, or atleast alert the user to beware about it.)

The website told me the company is one of scam company. Here.


Below is picture of how their scam procedure or process:
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The job application is still in my JobStreet Account until today.

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They will post the job, job description and requirement etc on internet to get people information.

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They will initiate the contact with you to your email address. The first email they contact me for application and interview.

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They will offer the employment letter and contract agreement through email.

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The 3rd party (Agency) will come into picture to start their work permit etc and require money transfer via online.


Below is their very convincing documents and process papers.
1] The Application Form and Interview Question.
 Interview.pdf ( 61.35k ) Number of downloads: 61


2] The Employment Letter and Contract Agreement for the victim.
 Employment_Letter__Scam_.pdf ( 526.28k ) Number of downloads: 51

Contract Agreement [scam]

This post has been edited by iDk: Jul 19 2008, 02:29 AM

Exactly the point, there should not involve the 3rd party. But if you read the employment letter and contract agreement i put up carefully. They gave the reason on employment letter why they need the 3rd party, and the payment amount need to be pay to agency on contract agreement (this is where i straight spot the fishiness).

Beside those you mentioned, how about the their management and working culture? Top of class and professional or just another endless war at hell going inside?

Yeah, my friend is one of them, worked in London for period of time (consider doing training). But they going to open an office soon (or maybe already open) in Malaysia, KL. They did something with design field or epcc.

That's crazy scheme, you will put in probation period for 3 years. After the damn 3 years only they considering of confirm you. For me, it is like a gambling. In these 3 years, if any of the HR, evaluator, senior or supervisor dislike you or have problem with you. Your 3 years of hard work will be scrap.

But again it is just my opinion that, you need to please them all the time for the sake of your confirmation for 3 years. The training period is well too long and you might also only getting the freshie pay in this period of scheme.

it is good to think of it for the furtune. But then again, we cannot work and leave our life on land abandon for few years. Hope you know what i mean. Especially those have commitment; loan, parents, brothers to support. For half or 1 year still ok, but then 3 years are crazy. If the company know what they are doing and the pay is adjustable like those permanent stuffs, then it is still ok. I know some companies take advantage of this and purpose give you some dirt cheap pay and yet doing their millions dollar job, have to work as hard as those permanent stuffs with high pay.

I would say the 3 years of observation period or probation period doesnt justify at all. Do not know which fellow think out of this idea.

I dont know much about the other company 3 years program thingy. But assume you are in this program, and you are being under probation period. Do you know what is the different between probation stuffs and permanent stuffs? For those who have experience, you most properly know it such as; PA, health care, annual leave, OT, car allowance, car loan and a lot more if you go and explore it.

In fact that i know for those who work offshore or outstation in O&G, 80% of the employee are facing divorce problem.

woah~~~ serious sh!t?! That's really sad to do and happening in a man's life wei~ That's the story that i heard on an african white male, 3 ex-wives, but never heard of his alimony things.

Good explaination there. But is the management style (or culture) practise by other company or rig? Or it is a must process to go through?

What position Shell going to offer you? If some trainee program and stuffs, then you gonna listen to me. Pack up your stuffs and go Halliburton to make it your home. If you listen to what i said here, you DEFINITELY making a right choice of your life for entering Halliburton. I bet you with my head.

This post has been edited by iDk: Oct 22 2008, 08:29 PM

Oh... I dare to say that because my friend is doing the exact same position at Hallirburton and i know their rough pay scale, it is AWESOME! Especially when you know a lot and have a lot of certificate, you will be surprise for their daily allowance add up to be like. But again not everyone the same, who knows you screwed up and not able to perform.

Why not Shell, so far from the news i gather from friends or here and there. Shell do not offer high pay for fresh grad compare with other O&G player. So to conclude, after years of experience, then only you try your best to negotiate with Shell for higher price. Instrumentation engineer, if i not mistaken, it is an office work, you have to deal a lot P&ID, and know each of the instrument connections, spec, method for the whole process, i believe it is quite a hectic work.

Trust that the above clarifies.

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Added on October 23, 2008, 2:37 amI doubt that the job function.

This post has been edited by iDk: Oct 23 2008, 02:37 AM

I would recommend her to go refinery or plant or anything got to do with office task. I dare to say that girls CANNOT handle service work like man do. It is not about the hassle environment and physical work. It is about who you are working with. If you want to do service work, the people you deal with most of the time are hot temper people. It doesnt mean they f*ck you for nothing, they just dont like newbie, people ask stupid question or act smart in front of them. For newbie, no matter how smart you are, you will definitely ask stupid question once in your life. This is the time where you see people shout at you in front of everybody, and all the "f" words come out of the mouth or worst physical move. I know it, because i have been through it. It is really difficult to think straight especially at that time, that environment, and the emotion tends to come into play, and it effect everything of you, and you tends to screw up continuously for the rest of the day. This is the time people will ask you to f*ck off.

Another thing about girls is how long they would like to stay mobilize until? One point in their life before 28 or 30, they definitely have think of getting marry and have children. Do you think they can work like that when they are pregnant? Work under hot sun, noise, crazy sweating, crazy long working hour, chasing time, etc etc... Atleast for my work, and from what i see, girls are totally not suitable to do the job.

The reason people still want to hire girls is because without girls, the working place can become hell boring, need girls to handle tedious works like documentation, coordination, communication etc.. Another thing is that girls cannot handle stress, it is very bad for their health and emotion.

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Added on November 12, 2008, 11:13 pmGo for the company that do project such as PDMS or related. There is where you will learn the most. From what i understand, not every company will send intern out to offshore platform. You need to know your stuffs and know what you are doing only allow to go platform. Platform is a place for people to work, not learning. And it is a long process to go offshore, you need to have BOSIET, safety passport, training course or class etc. So it is very unlikely to send intern to platform.

This post has been edited by iDk: Nov 12 2008, 11:13 PM

Project engineer basically deal with everything about your project, from tip to toe, every single issue is your issue. I was project engineer before for EPC, which does not require me to go to site. I learned a lot from it; design, contract, shipping, procurement, all standard codes, communication with client and vendor or supplier. But this position's pay is peanut small, because i dont go site. I not sure what is rig engineer's job nature. But i got the feeling that it is better than project engineer in pay wise.

spotted on. That's why i quit my ex-job as project engineer for fired heater. The job nature all about O&G technical knowledge, but never go to site, all are based in office and give commands and order to ppl at site to do the work. I dont know what kind of job is that as an engineer of my own "baby" i never get to see my own "baby" in real and actual. All things that i know is based on people's report and picture. Just like you said, EPC, EPCIC, EPCC, are just some consultant company (who will never go site, even have also just for MOM, that's all).

As far as i heard, the statistic of diver died each year is 3 out of 10, which mean out of 10 only 7 survive at the end of the year. Another thing is that you need to be very fit to become a commercial diver. There is no insurance policy for this profession, and you will sign the "letter of death" or "surat mati" before you do the job. This profession only can be done when you are young or until certain age. After that, you are out.

This post has been edited by iDk: Dec 29 2008, 02:57 AM

Seriously, you are making it sounds like some McD part-time job, get in and get out. It is not as easy as you look at it. I simply ask you a very easy question, what is the requirement to be a diver, and what it needs to take for you to become a commercial diver?

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Added on December 31, 2008, 2:38 amUnder deep water pressure, you need to adjust your body to use the high concentration of N2 of oxygen. This is where thing get nasty, you can get high from this air supply. In the end, you will see some one chase after fishes or worst cut themselves with knife under water.

This post has been edited by iDk: Dec 31 2008, 02:38 AM