ROIC is the appointed contractor for Sime Darby for an oilfield development project in Qatar (with QP if not mistaken..). Hit a snag, suspected due to incompetencies or mismanagement, and both SD and ROIC r in 800 mill loss..

yep, yep... 2 deepwater fields in malaysia are under development/construction rite now... and lotsa subsea well clusters..

If not mistaken,Tupi is 'difficult oil' and as large as ME reserve combined. The malaysia deepwater r not as big, but big enuff for the nxt 15-20 yrs

This post has been edited by depster666: Mar 5 2009, 11:22 PM

NDT and rotordynamic (vibration analysis) are 2 opposite specialties focusing on static and rotating equipments respectively. For NDT, u will be involved mostly in vessel, pipeline and tanks inspection looking for creeps, cracks or other fissure defects. The focus most probably at the fab yard and/or platform or rig during topside maintenance, jacket fabrication etc. Lotsa companies in Malaysia offering these services like Velosi, Lott Industries and Tanjong Offshore (if not mistaken). As for rotordynamic analysis, u will be spending times onsite too, doing spectrum analysis on gas compressor, gas engines, gas turbines and transfer pumps, which are the heart and soul of an oil n gas platform... Normally operators like carigali, shell, epmi, hess employ certified rotordynamic experts to carry out condition based monitoring for the rotating equipments.

So, between those 2, 2 different fields, same focus, 1 employed by service providers, the other employed by the operators.

bro..

I'm with SSB as well, but... not really familiar with subseas... if not mistaken, they look after starting from the wellhead via trunkline up to the receiving hub, including the SSCV and SSSCV. There r 3 subgroups here... sub surface, subsea and surface...

So far I've never seen or met 'experienced' Project Engineer in my company getting anything less than RM12-15k /month. That's r local permanent staff, local but outsourced contractually on project basis wud of coz gets more. Expat?? ... no need to mention. They r responsible anything from BFD, conceptualization, FEED, etc until... to the commissioning and handing over, regardless upstream or downstream. Yeah, wud tend to agree 6-9k is a bit on the low side, at least compared to my company.

There's a very small difference paywise working on or offshore, the offshore allowance. The amount is different from 1 company to another, and that depends on what's the rotation, 2 and 2, 3 and 1, 4 and 2, etc.. Hell, there's so much permutation in that. At the end of the day, its up to personal preferences, some wud overlook the allowance to stay at base day in day out, some wud take the money and go offshore... Those who r shore-based but yet required to go to site as and when required, well the difference is negligible as compared to those who stay put permanently at base.

1 thing tho, the community/circle (whateva u wanna call it) of OnG in Malaysia is very small, regardless whether u r owner, main con, sub con, everybody tends to know everybody.. so, if u play ur game well, the possibilities r endless.

Bro, when u talked about upstream, which area specifically are u targeting? There's a whole range of upstream activities like production, maintenance, project, drilling, completion, rejuvenation...or as commonly categorized into 3; topside, subsea and subsurface..

PUSB? PCSB i know.. PESB i know... PUSB i dont know...

Students from Curtin U are consistently doing internship with Sarawak Shell, and depending on the internship performance, some have been offered positions in Shell, pending their final year results. And Sarawak Shell is also sponsoring some students at Curtin.

Mechanical engineering has a wide branch that is applicable to O&G, static (vessel, separator, structural), rotating (turbines, pumps, compressors, gas engines), pipelines etc.

I am not from Subsea or Subsurface... but here's the definition,

"Flow assurance [1] [2] is a relatively new term in oil and gas industry. It refers to ensuring successful and economical flow of hydrocarbon stream from reservoir to the point of sale. The term was coined by Petrobras in the early 1990s in Portuguese as Garantia de Fluxo, meaning literally “Guarantee the Flow”, or Flow Assurance.

Flow assurance is extremely diverse, encompassing many discrete and specialized subjects and bridging across the full gamut of engineering disciplines. Besides network modeling and transient multiphase simulation, flow assurance involves effectively handling many solid deposits, such as, gas hydrates[3], asphaltene, wax, scale, and naphthenates. Flow assurance is most critical task during deep water energy production because of the high pressures and low temperature (~4 degree Celsius) involved. The financial loss from production interruption or asset damage due to flow assurance mishap can be astronomical. What compounds the flow assurance task even further is that these solid deposits can interact with each other[4] and can cause catastrophic blockage formation in pipelines and result in flow assurance failure."

Since I'm from Topside, it only concerns me when the hydrocarbon flow is meeting the specific export equipments "minimum flow" requirement to prevent damages to the rotating equipments like gas compressors, condensate pumps, crude oil pumps etc, whether in full recycling, partial recycling or export mode of operation. If u r talking about flow assurance at the well head, etc, u better ask the subsea or subsurfacers... topside-wise, flow assurance control is taken care by NPSH, NPSHr, recycling CV sizing.. what we normally face is impurities in hydrocarbon from either carbonate of shallow clastic wells are silica (sands) which turns out to be corrosive to the rotating equipments internals..

Normally the NPSH is addressed by the piping layout, where the pipeline engineers will come into the picture.

Mech background as well... but i have been doing rotating equipments especially on gas turbines for the last 12 yrs.. never yet have an opportunity or desire to venture into FA or pipelines.

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Added on May 8, 2009, 10:41 amYou mean electronic/computer engineering as in PLC, DCS and all other programming logics like Allen Bradley PLC5, Netcon etc? Yes, there are lotsa those in O&G, especially in control system side

This post has been edited by depster666: May 8 2009, 10:41 AM

The rule of thumb is

i) determine the company itself - MNC or local
ii) big or small fish

There would be slight deviation of pay packet from 1 to another company. So far, what I've seen that the OnG companies segregated experience-wise like this, 0,1 - 3 yrs; 4-6 yrs; 6-10 yrs; 11-15 yrs; > 15 yrs.

I am currently attached on permanent basis with 1 of the major global operator doing rotating, 12 yrs experience, incurring 25% income tax annually. Its good money even for a local malaysian market.

Downstream, ie refineries...

Lubrication and surface wear & tear for bearings in pumps, compressors, turbines...

U go and join companies like Yokogawa or Emerson first, doing DCS, IMCS, etc for few years. Then u join the O&G companies after u have adequate experience...

The key question to answer ur question is to which company is the attachment; operator, consultation or service provider?

Exposed nail on a walkway is nothing compared to hazards on a rig or a platform... And how come u got "pricked"? No PPE ka?