where is GE office?

Hi guys,

I just got a Masters in Petroleum Engineering from Adelaide Uni end of 2013. Came back in January and have been in the hunt for jobs till now.

My degree is in Aerospace from 2009 and then I worked 2.5 years in semiconductor and took a loan for a 1 years coarse in Petroleum Enginering coursework at Uni Adelaide which has a good school in petroleum engineering. We learned the essential stuff such as drilling,completions,WTA and reservoir engineering with some geology. Essentially this Masters Degree is equivalent to a second Degree.

Can the experience guys recommend the companies I should apply to in my position?

I have started applying for non OnG and even tried to go back to manufacturing but during some instantaneous interviews at the Jobstreet fair with some semicon companies some were seem put off by my Masters degree and told me to apply for OnG and when I went to Petrofac booth at UTM the HR people say I am overqualified for graduate positions.So far no response from the big players like Petronas, SLB and halliburton keeps rejecting and Ive even applied to small vendor companies.

Has a girld my senior who did her degree UiTM, manufacturing work experience in factory and did he Masters in Petroleum at Adelaide in 2012 and she got a skype interview with Halliburton and sent to US for drilling training, some are so lucky..maybe just not my luck.

This post has been edited by forrestcat: May 17 2014, 04:57 AM

Hi. Anyone here familiar with Dyna Segmen?
How's the working life there?

GE office at one sentral, kl sentral.

HI. Nice weekend. Please check out The Star Job today. Technip is hiring for the RAPID project, but however all positions are designated for experienced personnels. Cheers. A chilly raining morning..

hey,
like u, I've been job hunting for months. I've send my applications to various o&g companies from e&p to service providers. Some of these companies take very long to process applications.
personal exp: applied for a fresh grad program in Jan, group interview in march, finally got rejected this month.

in ur situation I guess u are considered overqualified for graduate program since u already have almost 3 years working experience, albeit in different industry. If you really insist on joining fresh grads programs, you have to convince the hr that you're willing to start from the bottom.

dun be disheartened, just keep looking for opportunities. It takes alot of patience n luck. Having contacts surely helps.

which companies suit the skills u had under ur masters, I'll leave that to the otais here

This post has been edited by PaulReedSmooth: May 17 2014, 11:14 AM

Seems a bummer, alot of my friends who used to work in manufacturing fortunate, one who use to work at TI got the aker solution grad subsea programmme and sent to Norway and a QA engineermat my old factory got a Technip position, seems the good old days were in between 2010-2012.

This post has been edited by forrestcat: May 17 2014, 11:43 AM

technip and aker pay better than TI?

After frustrated about baker hughes fs hiring day last thurdays... i got a good news from other company that i being offered as technician... very happy to hear it... even i have to menyimpang away from my mechanical beackground... as long i get this job and learning a new thing beside mecha... any body knows about total comunication sdn bhd? Its provide maintenance, servicing and installation for satellite communication at offshore... mostly its client are DESB and Petronas carigali...

Texas Instrument = TI.

Its not so much about pay but about career progression.

Aker does pay better, my friend from Penang worked in OSRAM now work in the riser production line in Klang and her pay increase significantly plus the job is easier than her days in semiconductor to the extent she said she was bored . My acquaintance who used to work at TI Ulu Klang is now based in Norway permanently after training for 2 years designing sub sea components for Malaysian projects that beats stuck in a clean room 9-5 and being on call even during weekends with no OT and 3% annual pay rise.

For technip it depends on your level, entry level 2k plus but have good job security and perks and bonus.

My acquaintances say its hard job but they do have job satisfaction and they can be very mobile in the OnG industry and go work abroad, even if malaysian oil habis there are oil in other place, but true the industry wants experienced workers, and only big operators and service companies like SLB,halliburton,Shell and Petronas willing to take grads and train them, the small companies will hire specialists or experience people only.

This post has been edited by forrestcat: May 17 2014, 01:56 PM

Number 32. And 33 was my ex-employer lulz

ya in know Texas Instrument = TI in ulu kelang....
one of the electronic giant in klang valley

Osram manufacturing --> oil and gas production
ok...still production related....
how significant her pay increase?

TI become oil and gas designer....this is interesting...how he get the job?

no 24 I kenot brain

I met my TI friend last time at a wedding in June 2011,he was still at kilang TI then, we talked he was finding lobang to get out of TI coz he hated the job with not so good management, that September he got the Subsea Engineer Graduate Program from Aker, and straight flew to Norway. I guess he applied at the right time. Now he is Norway and comes back to Malaysia from time to time to visit wife and baby, but I think eventually Aker will move the subsea design dept to Malaysia possibly to Klang and that building at Jalan Ampang, thats why my fren still in Norway to bring train and develop Malaysian expertise, he is now a Senior Engineer. He had Mechatronic Degree.

My Penang friend say almost top up RM2k over her kilang job, sorry to say she says she got problem at Penang plant which hamper her career progerssion plus quite low salary although she enjoyed being sent to Germany for 3 months, she loved the job and passionate making the sapphire substrate but the office politics not good, which is typical in kilang environment.Anyway she has a Chem Eng degree.

This post has been edited by forrestcat: May 17 2014, 11:41 PM

eh, mesti Petroleum Engineering utk jd driller?
I'm finishing MechEng and baru just now kat Graduan Aspire, PETRONAS beritau driller for PetEng ONLY.

and is driller paid more than say MechEng for piping? PETRONAS say driller paling valuable.

I just realize the fine print said in alphabetical order lulz so the ranking is not true.

Petronas not recruit driller, during parameswara maybe yes. They recruit drilling engineers, so as exxon, murphy, etc.

Ayoo.. I meant the drilling engineers.

...I believe during they owned the parameswara jack up rig, they have their own drillers, tool pushers etc...

do not stop trying OK. I am sure you will get a respond soon. You can even start with a small service company. Try to apply for graduate drilling engineer position, with your master degree, you sure have an edge against those fresh grad.