It is when I am in the industry that I learned that most of service provider, as such as SLB, Halliburton and Baker involves in a lot of mechanical principles. Yes, you learned a lot in the Petroleum Engineering, but mostly are focused on where is the hydrocarbon, where to look, how to produce and it stops there.

In reality, the lifecycle of Oil and Gas business expand more than that. We have the fabrication of topsides ( which needs huge manpower), and they mostly need mechanical for the instrumentation/mechanical packages and they need civil for the structures/manifolds. And then we have the well intervention where the knowledge of mechanical is to be put in use. And these Service provider believed that Mechanical/Electrical Eng covers more aspect of their products and business, hence the Pet Eng is less sought after.

Not to say that a Pet Eng grad is less marketable, it is just that our choices are limited We can easily find a place in the Operator (SHELL,PETRONAS,EXXON) but to get there you have to fight against so many P. Eng graduates from local and overseas.

Bro azraeil what do you think of fracking prospect in Malaysia?

At Sarawak, there is huge coal reserve located at Balingian and Mukah area. RH Petrogas (Mukah) Ltd and Pexco Energy are getting onshore PSC's for this area. Is our CSG & CBM economical enough to be develop?