For those who working in O&G industrial. Can i ask why the company pay you guys in USD? Is there something need to look at (like location of work) to determine the currency? Because i know some O&G company in Malaysia doing offshore work still paying in RM. I very confuse with this matter. Can anyone of you guys enlighten me? Thanks in advance

Thanks brother. But if the company that i am talking about is doing services for O&G industrial like cleaning and inspection stuffs, which mean the company is not the main oil driller or manufacturer. Are the standard pay still be the same as you stated above?

Because the workers will also go to onshore to do project in other asia countries for extended period of time and get their pay in RM. Is that an appropriate standard?

~Thanks~

This post has been edited by iDk: Dec 2 2007, 04:57 PM

Mechanical Engineer usually dealing with manufacturing, production, maintenance, facilities, equipment or anything got to do with physical. Basically anything except computer language programming, circuit board design etc, mechanical engineer can jump in. But i warn you, it is not as fun as you think to do mechanical engineering thing, especially when come to machineries, all the boys (including me) will start to think engine, turbo, stuffs like that. in the end, you will no way near those things that you think it is fun at the first place. Mechanical engineering is very strong on their physic, materials, force, fluid mechanics, dynamic force, thermodynamic, energy calculation, production calculation. So lets say you are at production field in essambly department, the ppl usually will just throw at you the productions' problems, you yourself got to go and figure it out the root cause of problem, correction solution provided and every single thing that you talk need to backup with facts, data, and results. Basically, you need to do every single things, from the start until the end with the exactly estimated answer. If anything gone wrong in between, your arse will be the one they going after. So you can imagine, if you at the field where you not familiar with or have never encounter before like oil rig, air plane, or marine ship. Every single time before you open up your mouth to talk or suggest, you better think deep deep in your head with the support of your engineering knowledge and calculation. Or else..... hihi

I hope you guys understand what is mechanical engineering like even through i only as a production engineer in the company that manufacture small and highly precise product. You have no idea that the one small thing can bring you so many headache. So imagine the thing that you dealing with cost a lot of money like millions.

Design something out usually is not malaysian engineer job, i believe we dont really have the qualification to do that. Most of the time, the design or R&D parts are carried out by foreign engineer from the other side of the world. But sometimes, i still find out that their designs are not actually perfect, in deed got quite a lot need to be improve. That's why we are need to give them back the feedback of their equipment and they will send back an improved one. But there is also sometimes they just ignore your complain and we need to modify things ourself.

But i believe Malaysian is already able to do their own design and productions as there are a lot of talented Malaysian out there. The problem is that, they most properly will not stay at Malaysia and those big company have already put a hand on them. So the money is still the issue here at the end

This post has been edited by iDk: Dec 24 2007, 10:43 PM

ask yourself, where in this world you get high pay and yet doing easy work and go back early?

That's why Petronas is not growing as fast as the other o&g company, that's the place for ppl to grow old and fat until retired. I hope you get what i mean. 8~6pm already very late? How about 8am~1am continuosly for a week or 2?

so.... you are at which one? mwd or lwd
Recently i just found out my secondary school mate now working for Halliburton in their LWD team, currently at china now. He told me that about 2 years back when i still dont know what is that company about.

I'm curious to know that MWD engineer is from mech. engineering background or some other engineering field? Do they need to attend certain course or must have certain certificate to be able to do that job?

thanks brother for telling me about the recruiting. Well, when come to these international company, i always got the feeling that i cannot get it. It is not i dont want to try, because most of the time even before call for interview, i will be filter out just because of my qualification (lower pointer here). I prefer to be realistic, down to earth and start from somewhere there is possible for me to join in, like a service company, after a certain amount of experience, then only i think of these big company. Currently applying for a pipeline service company, now under their medical examination, for me which is a very tight examination, urine drug test, ecg stuffs like that.

your pipeline engineer is what job scope they offering you? Design or service?

Need to go for the MSTS training next week, HUET, EBS and some other things also. Can those experienced worker mind share some tips on this training? Is this training hard?

wah... you putting a curse a me ah? But you sure or not? as my fren told me that EBS help a lot in underwater le hahaha, hope that it is not hard for me, as i used to play power mask diving in the sea LoL, the medical check-up is really the mafan part, it takes quite long time for me to finish everything, 11~1pm. Take off shirt, wear back shirt, take off again, wear back again, and again Some told me that their medical check up took up to 6 hours.

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Added on January 9, 2008, 6:31 pm


some told me that huet is:
1) dip half of mold-up chopper into water.
2) dip full chopper into water
3) dip full and turn the chopper upside down.

that is what confused me.

This post has been edited by iDk: Jan 9 2008, 06:31 PM

some say the static of divorce in O&G is 80%.

another word is horny?

they pay in what currency? what is the basic? what is the lowest allowance and highest allowance like?

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Added on January 12, 2008, 4:08 amhihi.... maybe after that at mid night, he still got another flight to catch, so making child became the first priority task for him while at home

This post has been edited by iDk: Jan 12 2008, 04:08 AM

Maybe he still practicing the old culture, work-done-come-first basis.


Just finished my BOSIET at MSTS. At the training, quite a lot of middle~old age men (most of them are auto-pilot welder) attended the training also. But, i quite doubt that they understand much about the training, as some of them have the dont-understand-and-who-give-a-f*ck attitude. But for all, friend told me that once you saw them working on the rig, you better run far far away from them.


Is the BOSIET also class into 3 group? Basic, tropical and cool water BOSIET? Or all are just the same BOSIET.

That's weird, I though they already include the allowance table inside your employment letter? 6x of what you earning now is you work full one month offshore to get that figure or what?

The BOSIET as i know, they class them according to few types, so far i heard of typical water and cold water, the hardest should be cold water i guess as you know that cold water survive is different and the only place that i know is North Sea (They claimed there is the most dangerous rig to work).

ohh... is it call that way? bosiet, bosiet-t or bosiet-c? I just know the existance of them, not sure the actual name.

Another thing is the H2S awareness training and confine space training, is that a must have procedure to work at certain area of the rig? or it is just for the worker's own safety interest?

erm.... my bosiet does not include confine space training. Anyway, the H2S is too scary to listen to, and also the black sand (mercury in another form or something like that).