Quick question, anyone here know anyone from Boots and Coots?

I'd really like to know what knowledge and experience goes into well killing.

I got a few friends in Halli, Sperry, KBR and so on but none are in depth with blow off control which Boots and Coot specialize in.

Nah, just looking for areas to branch into and get a little idea of how things work. A little bit of everything makes a good engineer.

Plus I have my BOP course at UNSW coming up so it might be useful to know a little more.

I think Boots and Coots will only kill the hardest to kill wells and the most major of blow offs.

In the words of my American colleague, you call them, ask them for how much they want, they give you a bill with many zeroes on it and then you thank them for accepting the job.

Sitting for well control in August. Production schedule and tax time makes things problematic when asking for a week off.

Tax is involved because the ATO gives out refunds around July and because of new regulations by government I cannot claim more than 2k AUD in self education expenses unless they are salary packaged.

Well control at UNSW. They're the best here in Australia and for 3000 AUD you cover both IADC and IWCF certs.

UGL is a multinational Aussie firm. Only their Energy and Resources arm does OnG mostly. They also manage quite a few minesites up here near Ruby Jo.

If you're in T&I you're probably going into UGL Infrastructure.


O&G? The simplest is BOP (IADC WELLCAP) I guess.

Well you get to be demanding and push contractors around?

What's better than that?!

Being in a large contractor, that's what we get a lot of the time and a lot of pointless requests as well.

But being in a contractor firm does have several advantages especially if they're big and you've stayed long enough. WFT and Halli constantly move their employees around for training and cross section experience. So you're never really tied in to one project, get to travel, make a lot of connections and learn a lot.

Contractors are one of the best places to start off your career if you want to rise the ranks fast.

Don't worry about being unexperienced, if anything happens just blame the contractor for being sneaky

This post has been edited by empire23: Mar 20 2014, 04:04 AM

Not so long lah, up until late 2012 they were still sending people around and back to Texas for training.

But under their new APAC management who are ex-Schlumberger, they're now cutting costs and counting profit per employee and telling employees under the old contract to bugger off while hiring new people who will accept the new terms.

They called me up and offered me a 2/1 roster with a package of 100k dollars a year and on 12 hour days about 2 months back. But no completions bonus, 2 weeks off a year only and no health cover. Wasn't a good deal.

If you want to get in the most useful thing is experience.

Second most useful thing would be a useful cert like CSWIP.