Yes, rastablank already answer it.

NOV is one of the major drilling equipment company and as I see now the company is getting bigger same like their competitor such as Cameron, Aker and also GE..

I believe they are doing A LOT of sales, as every year rigs need to perform annual maintenance and 5-years services and change out. And of course sometimes, their reps will come to our office to meet rig managers and hand out the latest product especially drillpipes.

From my experience, getting quotations are easy and sometime very fast (they have specific dept handling diff equipments) BUT getting the major equipment such as BOP stack is now pain in the ass. Lead time for a 15k BOP stack now is 24months which is really......

Sometimes, getting a service engineer to go onboard also a problem as they do not have enough personnel or many jobs (the excused given to me last time). Where I'm working now, the service engineer told me that NOV plan to add 50 more service/engineers to cover the jobs here.

They have manufacturing plant for drillpipes in BATAM Island and also have a good training center with simulators and warehouse for the equipment trainings in Tuas Drive.

Operating company such as exxon has the production, drilling technologist for dip holders.

Service company such as baker hughes has the field specialist position that really travel and working offshore. Others like hal, slb, weatherford etc i believe also have position for the dip holders.

Or you can take other certificates such as NDT.

I think there are many oppurtunity for dip holders out there, just need to search and dig more.

Welcome and good luck for you. Btw, i'm mentioned about their plan to increase personnel in South America and not in Malaysia.

I believe they do hire the fresh grads for their training program. But the spot would be limited and I'm not sure how many candidates they will recruit or do they do the recruitment every year or not.

I saw someone that did internship with them and was recruited to enrolled in their training program after the intership/degree. If not mistaken, it is two-years program starting from roustabout/painter and progress up...

I'm not working with transocean and maybe the info is not accurate.

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.

Bro Azraeil,

It is good to know that PMU really put pressures on their PS Operators. I do hope that this will be enforced to the drilling contractors as well. I’m not sure how exactly the process happened but I believe PMU also involve in determine the drilling rigs that will be used by NOC and other PS operators, am I right? But of course the contract will come from the NOC or PS operators itself.

Last time, I read one of the contracts (PS operator) for our rig, it didn’t mention about the percentage of the local and expat. Right now, with this NOC (not Malaysia), they already stated in the contract the percentage of expat and the percentage will decrease every year until the 6th years and after that only 10% of the expat will be on the rig, if not the contractors must give explanation to the Client.

What I see right now, it is more towards the initiative of the company itself if they want to train and promote the local to be one of the key employees on that rig and sometimes you will see some expat drillers already on the same chair for 5-6 years and also some of the expat rig managers handling the same rig and working for the same client for 5-10 years.

From my observation (during my 4years in KL office), we never been audited by PMU or NOC with regard to Petronas license whether we are fulfilling the requirements or not. I only know when the time to renew the license and guess what, we are using the old organization chart with some of the local people/crews was not with use anymore.

At the first time/year, because of requirements and hard to recruit experience local talent, we end up hire expat. And I also agree that we need time to develop new talent. So why dont we start it now, pushing them to train and develop local talent so hoping that in 5-10yrs down the road an assistant driller can be experience driller or ready to be promoted to toolpusher. But the thing is I see some companyman/drilling supervisor not dare to let trainee or assist driller on the break/driller's chair. So end up those assistant drillers (either from Bayong, OCB, Gas etc) and normally 3 of them for one rig will be asst driller forever or go somewhere else.

I met good local drillers, toolpushers and also OIM but they already otai and right now experience gap (for local) I think is huge.

Well, our NOC used to own a jack up drilling rig, Parameswara and Shell also has driller trainee program long time ago as the initiative to develop local talent. So I really sure that local talent development is one of The NOC/PMU agenda. But then the enforcement needs to be black and white and the progession needs to be monitored.

These drilling contractor companies have a lot of training program/ development program that they dont have any reason not to develop local while they drill the malaysian soil.

Fyi, I was one of the trainee in local drilling contractor training program but another problem with local company they do not have a proper/structured program. Now two of my seniors in this program are drillers (after 7-8 yrs) and all of the trainees are engineering grads.

I'm interested in Malaysian and not only bumiputera. Cheers.

Some of the story from pioneer of the Shell Trainee Driller Program (davidchin377.blogspot.com), and two names inside this blog were my former OIM and Rig Manager.

Petronas: Well, Shell, since your operations began in 1911 in Sarawak, how many Malaysian drillers did you manage to train here?

Shell: What driller? We have been using Dutch drillers and now American and French contract drillers.[3] They came as part of the package deal of the rig contract of Reading and Bates or Sea and Land. We have not trained any Shell drillers anywhere in the world for a very long time now because of our policy to use contractor’s rigs and personnel to save on operating costs.

Petronas: Malaysia needs to have our own drillers because we are buying oil rigs to drill our own wells offshore Trenganu. These oil concessions will not be offered to the oil companies any more, we intend to do it all by ourselves by setting up a drilling subsidiary, Petronas Carigali, initially with help of man power from oil companies like Shell, BP and Exxon. Later on, it will become an all Petronas operation, including the production operations on the expired oil fields like West Lutong, Baram, Baronia and Samarang fields. We expect to run the whole show by ourselves and you had better help us by training Malaysian drillers for us, starting right now!

This post has been edited by meonkutu11: Jan 31 2014, 06:45 PM

as a summary;

- Good for stepping stone
- Beware of the bond agreement, 2yrs (if they still have it)
- Will be working on the rig, a lot of hand-on, starting from roustabout-roughneck-derrickman-pumpman-AD etc
- Will be working on rotation with a week or two in the office (i.e 4 weeks offshore, 2 weeks off, 2 weeks office)
- Most probably will change to contract worker (after few years) or when you reach AD. (fix rotation 4weeks offshore, 4weeks off)
- Do not have Structured Training Program (if they already have it, please tell me)
- When I started in 2009, basic was 2700 and after confirmed 3400 and yearly increment plus bonus.
- Do provide some allowance on top of the basic (if they still have now)
- A lot of trainings (BOSIET, WELL CONTROL (IADC or IWCF), Fire Fighting, Lifeboat Coxwain, etc)
- Learn & Read about rig operations and equipments (top drive, drawworks, etc)
- know about their jack up rig operations. Naga1, Naga2, Naga3, Naga4, Naga5....
- As usual, GLC, office politics you cannot avoid.

This post has been edited by meonkutu11: Feb 3 2014, 10:47 PM

Not anymore. It is a good platform to step in the drilling industry and work way up to become a driller, toolpusher, OIM or even Rig Manager.
We need more Malaysian on that positions.

Received this from my friend. I believe this is the first fatal incident for 2014.

Work safe guys.

I dont know. Maybe petronas ppl can answer this.

In ASB? One fatality per month...

...Maybe the full investigation isn't completed yet. After the investigation completed, they should distribute the safety alert to all contractors with the corrective actions/recommendations for them to comply.

Yeah I'm aware of that. But since I received it from a friend working with contractor, I guess it already been disseminate to others.

No fix schedule
Good Money

MWD-DD-Drilling supervisor(companyman)

Don't know the office job, maybe drilling supt. Or maybe can become coordinator that going to morning meeting in client office. Maybe...


This post has been edited by meonkutu11: Feb 22 2014, 02:29 AM

O&G contractor is too general i guess...more specific company business or your JD might help others to provide related info...

If you looking for a short course, maybe these sites below can help you.

www.petroedgeasia.net
www.petroskills.com

A lot of technical, management, leadership, laws etc courses that you can choose.

Again, i'm not sure what are you doing in the company i.e field engineer, designer, management or etc...

oil and gas station industry???

For those who are about to begin your career in drilling especially in the training program/fast track program etc. make sure you are fit in term of physically and mentally. Eventhough your program is designed to train you to become a driller or a rig manager (future boss), do prepare yourself to work your ass with roustabout, doing chipping, painting, become a fire watcher, helideck crew, mixing mud and also handling loads. Working with roughneck mainly on the rig floor, rig up, rig down, make up, break out, etc and bear in mind that most of the roughnecking jobs need physical strength.

Also bear in mind that some of the rigs dont give a damn who you are, they will work you ass off and hoping that you can keep up with them. Bossy is a BIG NO! They want you to work with them, if you know how to tackle them, your life will be easy and they will teach you skills that sometimes not in the book.

People always talking about high pay salary and how great career in drilling (drillers), yes it is true but it come with some hard work that sometimes you have to put aside your pride.

You have to have a right attitude.

Imagine, you are just starting working as a rousabout (proudly tell people in town that you are a future manager, getting high pay), while on the rig doing mixing the mud for the mud engineer who are apparently your classmate in the uni.

Also become a helideck crew, again handling your classmate's luggage during his (i.e mwd, dd, trainee companyman etc) arrival to the rig.

Or when you are on the rig floor working as roughneck, making up BHA (dd, mwd tools) that apparently also for your good or bad friends. Luckily you have a good driller and roughnecks around you who are only know to instruct you and give you shit when you did wrong!

Yes, your time will come but it not as easy as many people think. Be prepare, have a good attitude and set aside your pride (degree or masters graduates) and enjoy working with them, asking questions, building your networking.


Happy hunting and good luck!

P/s:- but i'm proud that i experienced cleaning, chipping and painting the decks and also stairs. I cant remember when the last i saw the production/platform crews (thpse who are wearing a client coverall) doing chipping huhuhuhu.....

This post has been edited by meonkutu11: Mar 6 2014, 03:22 AM