PBJV?

Hopefully you are good and they take you in so that you can help them raise their stature as an effective brownfield contractor.

We are getting nervous with their current performance.

This post has been edited by Stamp: Jul 19 2014, 11:10 PM

Yes. My friend a QS graduate is now a Procurement Manager in one of the PSC.

He started working as an estimator with a fabricator in the procurement department.

- No, he was a fresh graduate when he started in O&G fabrication sector.

- Salary was typical of fresh graduate scale at that time (this was more than 2 decades ago), working hours were long, occasionally high pressure.

I suggest you just work hard, smart and be patient if you want to work in O&G. Income will start to get 'exciting' after you've worked more than 8 - 10 years. Beyond that, the sky is the limit.

Don't dwell too much on the salary when you start working in O&G.

You are already being negative before you even start to look for work in O&G. Not a good attitude.

Good luck in which ever industry you choose to get into. You keep the same attitude you have now, you won't succeed in any industry you work in.

Technip is rumoured to be downsizing its staff soon. VSS will be on the plate.

This is the first time ever that Technip will layoff some of its staff since the company was set up in early 1980's.

Earlier RWorley reduced its staff by almost to 1/3.

O&G engineering development area is certainly in the downturn.

did you mean the spud can sank deeper into the soil?

any latest news on the incident?

TLO specializes in offshore installations. I wonder why they need a process engineer in their company.

tell murphy your cat passed away and you need to give it a royal burial.

first you need to wake up and smell the coffee.

it's a tough life out there.

Exactly the message I wanted to send to that fella who demanded from us to tell him where the high paying job for freshies!
Experience tak da mau demand salary tinggi2. Kerjalaa dulu, prove your worth to the company you are working for.

I heard of this accident too, but it seems that there's a news black out on this accident.

If you were referring to Shell upstream, the retrenchments were carried out because Shell wanted to downsize its employee size because it had gotten too big. But the compensation to those retrenched was pretty good.

Exxon also underwent the same staff reduction late 1990's when it decided to close down its operation in Kertih and dwindling down of new green field PSCs for them. But they screwed up in terms of compensation because those lay off staff dragged the issue to Labour Office due to unsatisfactory compensation. Rumors said that it cost its HR GM his job also for trying to 'save some money' for Exxon by not paying enough to those retrenched even though the money was there to cover reasonable compensations. This is a classic HR case where the HR's trying to suck up to the higher management by downtrodden the staff.

This post has been edited by Stamp: Oct 24 2014, 07:20 PM

You need to look up the global oil price from 1990s to present.

The trend has always been up, and up and up.

The price would never come down to the 1990 level (about USD20 per barrel).

Read more before dispensing hollow advice on oil & gas business. Better not give any advice or comment if you are not in oil & gas industry at all.

This post has been edited by Stamp: Oct 30 2014, 10:31 AM

their scholars in utp got good grades, tau. coz they picked high SPM achievers as their scholars, min 7A+ to qualify to apply for Petronas scholarship. competition super duper stiff.

Heard their Kikeh is still producing plenty of sand, instead of OIL!

Drillers seem to be on top of the pile.

I know one drilling supervisor earning close to RM200k/month for a year's contract. Phew!

so, after OnG, which industry you want to "experience"?

Are you trying to be a 'MacGyver'?