Jan 31 2014, 01:31 PM
QUOTE(meonkutu11 @ Jan 29 2014, 10:27 PM)
Guys, Otai2,
I just want to throw some questions that had been in my mind for quite sometimes. It is about so called ‘nationalization’ or maybe some kind of force from our NOC in order to make sure the foreign companies, drilling contractors must have percentage of local employees or at least has one or two local engineers in the contractors office.
First of all, I’m talking more on the Drilling Contractors (Transocean, Seadrill, Ensco, Nabors, Maersk etc). I read in the General Guidelines – Application For Petronas License and Registration about the equity should bumiputera holds in order to register the company and bidding the drilling contracts with Petronas but I did not see the audits had been performed to make sure it really comply with the requirements (at least I didn’t experience it).
Also if we are talking about the rig crews on the drilling rigs. The general labors (Assist Driller and below) normally come from manpower supply which most of them are locals. I’m more concerned about KEY EMPLOYEES (Drillers, Toolpushers, Barge Masters, OIMs etc) which hardly seen our locals on that spot. Ok, maybe not all rigs have all the expat key employees. But if you see some of the drilling contractors which operating in Malaysia for 5 or 10 years but still not many KEY EMPLOYEES onboard, it will trigger you something like why no Malaysian Rig Managers, OIMs, Toolpushers or Drillers? Is it because of Malaysian are not qualified, don’t know how to run the drilling rigs? Or there is no much force from the Client to develop more locals? Or we are not confident with our local talents?
I know some of the clients stated in their contracts that the contractor must has one local engineer in the contractor office which I think one of their approached for them to develop the local talent. But then again, there is no clause in the contract for such and such years they need to have such and such percentage of local crews onboard. I don’t know why.
Now with the new local player in the drilling such as UMWSD, Perisai, Kencana I believe there will be more local talents can be developed and hopefully there is some mechanism to make sure that they are also really develop the local and not hire some expats to run the Malaysian Flag Drilling Rigs.
I’m sure otai2 in our NOC or X-NOC have the information on this matter or maybe already in place but I didn’t aware. After all, it is our NOC and I’m sure one of their agenda is developing local talents.
i assisted my ex-GM in renewing the license for our m'sia 3 plants years ago. the thing is that sometimes, getting the correct person with correct qualifications and experience is difficult. if get fresh, require some time to train, maybe months, maybe years. sometimes, the responsibilities require just plug-and-play which customers require qualified and experience personnels only in tenders within such a short period of time.I just want to throw some questions that had been in my mind for quite sometimes. It is about so called ‘nationalization’ or maybe some kind of force from our NOC in order to make sure the foreign companies, drilling contractors must have percentage of local employees or at least has one or two local engineers in the contractors office.
First of all, I’m talking more on the Drilling Contractors (Transocean, Seadrill, Ensco, Nabors, Maersk etc). I read in the General Guidelines – Application For Petronas License and Registration about the equity should bumiputera holds in order to register the company and bidding the drilling contracts with Petronas but I did not see the audits had been performed to make sure it really comply with the requirements (at least I didn’t experience it).
Also if we are talking about the rig crews on the drilling rigs. The general labors (Assist Driller and below) normally come from manpower supply which most of them are locals. I’m more concerned about KEY EMPLOYEES (Drillers, Toolpushers, Barge Masters, OIMs etc) which hardly seen our locals on that spot. Ok, maybe not all rigs have all the expat key employees. But if you see some of the drilling contractors which operating in Malaysia for 5 or 10 years but still not many KEY EMPLOYEES onboard, it will trigger you something like why no Malaysian Rig Managers, OIMs, Toolpushers or Drillers? Is it because of Malaysian are not qualified, don’t know how to run the drilling rigs? Or there is no much force from the Client to develop more locals? Or we are not confident with our local talents?
I know some of the clients stated in their contracts that the contractor must has one local engineer in the contractor office which I think one of their approached for them to develop the local talent. But then again, there is no clause in the contract for such and such years they need to have such and such percentage of local crews onboard. I don’t know why.
Now with the new local player in the drilling such as UMWSD, Perisai, Kencana I believe there will be more local talents can be developed and hopefully there is some mechanism to make sure that they are also really develop the local and not hire some expats to run the Malaysian Flag Drilling Rigs.
I’m sure otai2 in our NOC or X-NOC have the information on this matter or maybe already in place but I didn’t aware. After all, it is our NOC and I’m sure one of their agenda is developing local talents.
as for Bumi, last year, i was rejected for a post based in KL as 1 of the requirements was this when communicating with a UK recruiter. so local talents?
not intend to cause anything about this but that is the true fact. so instead of go for those big names operators/contractors/consultants, sometimes, certain MNC underdogs which serve those big names will pay better and rewarding more diverse experience. so sometimes, the big names with new people fresh experience in o&g just know zero thing about practicality and only as pen-pusher or talk-demand this that.
as for expat in some MNC companies, some of them may play the "politics" pushing to their vendors in order to extend their contracts...
This post has been edited by ch_teo: Jan 31 2014, 01:34 PM
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