You can refer to the Schlumberger thread in the forum.. Just be yourself during the interview.

Hi sifus, i am working as oil palm mill engineer with steam cert lvl2. Is there any chance for me to jump in oil and gas field? (working experience 2 years)

Hi O&G thread users,
I've been a program management engineer for 1.5 years in an MNC production factory (electronics industry) managing R&D products. I enjoy my work as I am always interested in managing products from design up till production stage. But I'm a degree holder in applied chemistry and find myself losing interest in electronic products as chemistry is still my passion.
So I'm wondering if there are any prospects of finding a program management career in the O&G industry (downstream), don't mind if it's office based or offshore. Another concern is my chances as a female candidate, as I think that the O&G is still a male-dominated field (feel free to object to that ! ).

So hope if you folks could drop some advice on (I would like to stick to this long term, don't like switching jobs or industry)

1. what O&G companies have a solid program management department and how I could start off and succeed in this career path?

2. any other additional set of skills i should be equipped (like a geoscience masters/statistics/PMP?) for higher chances of success, since I only have my chemistry degree, working experience and soft skills with me, haha!

Any other tips and comments are highly appreciated, thank you all in advance!

Cheers and Happy Sunday everyone!

Seriously top up and get degree. Cos your personal reasons << missed opportunity as a FE.

FE is so big different- gaji and progression way different. Then again, if you really mati2 don't have choice then FS not bad... bersyukur...

guys i still dont hv a job untill now..many ong companies i already applied but didnt get any reply yet.. can someone help me searching for job?

normally how long does it take for SLB to contact me if I applied the FE position through the website?

anyone gt direct email?

What about FS ? i heard the pay is big too, especially their allowance? i guess both FE and FS has its own Pros ?

Hey man,just curious.When did you apply? your major ? are you a freshie ?

yea freshie here, i applied back in october u frm SLB? ?

Refer to my previous posts. I'm not from SLB,well i wish i was . From what i've read around here, it can take up some time if you apply through their website. Through Career fair is faster though. Maybe you can call them up and check your status.

This post has been edited by lifeisgoood: Dec 8 2013, 08:07 PM

Great opinion.thank you so much..erm does petroleum geologist gets to work 2 weeks on and 2 weeks off like people who work offshore ?


Actually what is FS and FE ?

Hi all. I've been dreaming to join the industry though I'm not an engineering graduate. Branched down to the only three main business lines that I might have a little tiny slight chance to penetrate using my qualification which are the IT, supply chain management and administration.. which I think fresh graduates are less demanded in the industry.. or is it not?

Yo..
FE:
-Degree Holders
-Much higher Basic salary
-Better Benefits
-Higher learning curve
-Start at Grade 8
-Can obtain Grade 11 in 3-4 years if work hard for it
-Once G11, easy to become Manager/Sales Eng/etc (office based)

FS:
-Diploma Holders
-Much higher rig bonus
-Start at Grade 7
-Slightly longer to reach Grade 11, usually 5-6 years or longer
-Meant to be in the field longer, so Managers would prefer not to promote you to G11 quickly so you could spend longer time in the field
-By the time you finish Degree (lets say 3 years), if you worked as FS, you would have bought a house, a car and probably don't know what else to do with your money

FS= Field Specialist
FE= Field Engineer

but there are cases like a few of my friends got hired as a field specialist even they are holding a degree.do you know why?

This post has been edited by syarehey: Dec 9 2013, 03:32 PM

These rare cases are usually because the Degree might not be suitable for the job. And diploma might have been.
Or Degree qualification was not good enough.

But if that is not the case and your friends holds a BEng, they might wanna consider asking HR to upgrade them to FE.
Some kinda mistake or Hiring manager just want to hire FS regardless of their higher qualification...

It depends. I doubt that if you become a geologist in Petronas you would spend much time offshore. You will get to go but mostly for familiarisation purposes. It won't be the key part of your work. Most of the offshore work have been outsourced to service providers. Previously there was a well-sitting unit (that is where you spend 2-3 weeks offshore during the drilling of the wells) but I think well sitting has been outsourced.

This i great! Thanks for the info man. Running through/touching up my CV , uploading it to SLB soon. If i get the job,Probably wont be needing a car,i have a proton which can get me to places, enough already a house, in the near future. The rest of the money? Gonna chuck it in FD and get me a few properties for a better future

This post has been edited by lifeisgoood: Dec 9 2013, 09:10 PM

Anybody knows if vibration from virboseis survey can cause damage to nearby property say shop lot / houses?

I just received invitation 2 days assessment from Petra energy. I searched throughout this forum and findout wunanwarrior question left unanswered. So can anyone please help me with, what exactly they do during this 2 day assessment n other tips. I really2 do need this job to start my career im OnG. thanks in advance sir