Hello,

I just wonder, how did you transit from unrelated field to o&g field ? I mean, any special skills or something ?

Hi All,

May i know what a Fire and Gas Department/ Engineer job scope?

I thought the alarm, detector, system are under instrument?

Thanks for the advice!

whats the prospects for HSE Engineer?

Bump.... :-)

Answering both questions above, generally a safety engineer deals with both design and validation of technical safety features and builds the most optimal safety system into the design of existing systems.

The key phrase being "functional safety". Most safety engineers come from a process or EnE background with around 5 years of existing industrial experience. The whole idea is take safety and environmental variables into context when designing a system. It isn't classed as instrumentation because instrument engineers are concerned about measurement, rather than safety as a whole. Also you'll have strong knowledge in process automation and the understanding of safety standards (eg; SIL rating, safety relays, safety PLCs like Guardlogix)

Most safety engineers in heavy industry will be certified by the likes of TUV, SIRA or have a CFSE cert as well.

today I heard Technip Geo was reduce 20% employee this... seems a lot of company now practice to reduce manpower

Leighton Offshore - Closed
OPE - Closed
Petrofac Engineering/RNZ - reduce employee
MMHE - reduced employee (VSS)
Technip - reduce employee
SBM - dont get project

etc etc

signs slow moving on market now

No...my colleague got offered by them..so he story to me

it was slow ever since they annouced the new pan msia 5 years contract. exploration and development wise all very slow.

Did my internship with Linde back when I was a student and am now working in LNG plants. Would defo say they are very very similar in terms of operations if you're lucky enough to get into production department

hopefully I can walk the similar path as you

wow 8 years, sifu senior.haha. how is it like with baker? will be going on board soon

You with Bechtel or Conoco? I know UGL are starting to take a front seat in LNG facilities due to APLNG wanting more choices in the long run aside from LORAC.

But yeah, get into production or ops if you want to go downstream. Most of these plans have an operational lifespan of 30 years, which means a stable job from start to plant EOL.

I'm now on the team building a few LNG compressor plants in the field, so I'm upstream rather than downstream.

Not with either of them, am with the main operator of the two gas plants in Karratha. Not really a big company like Petronas however.

Woodside. A name rarely heard here in the East

How's the downstream business? I wanted to get with Conoco (we call them CoconutPhilips here on site) and see the world, but it seems they're not interested in hiring right now

Still blur on this, so really not sure...

Which division you joined? What position?

In general, on the field engineers, technicians etc will always get paid better than desk jockeys in HR or accounting.

Yeah I know, its not that big anyway. When I mention the company, a lot of people has no idea about it. But hey, give some credit to the company, it used to be from the Eastern States =P

What I can say is economy is not doing that well for O&G as well. Usually the case when deals break down, exploration not finding anything useful and so on.

This post has been edited by undertaker123: Sep 2 2014, 03:57 PM

Because I am very eager to join o&g industry too, but I am not lucky enough to land any job in the industry. Currently, I am in heavy machinery and equipment industry for about 4 months now.. Do you think is it possible to join oil and gas industry after few years later ?