One thing I would like to share my tought here. The reason I help you guys here assisting in O&G jobs is to break racism mentality in this industry. I hate racism seriously and myself is from Sarawak (a Melanau native) and its kinda sad for me looking at racism happening at Peninsular Malaysia. Please O&G is a mix nationalities from all over the world and you cant move forward if you mix within your racial community only. Teamwork is very important in meeting project deadline so please buangkan mentaliti racist korang yang macam jahanam nih.

So bila aku dah tolong korang secure jobs into O&G, next time bila ada kawan2 nak masuk O&G nih korang kena tolong jugak tak kisah bangsa dia Iban ka, Kadazan ka, Murut ka, Melayu ka, Cina ka, India ka, Orang Asli ka mesti tolong based on his merit and academic achievement. Ada paham?

Okay aku serius jap posting. Lek lek isap kok dulu sepukol broooooo

Mak aqew liko Oya Pubak vaie pun aqew kenah. Keaw liko gan iduk?

I'm not a sifu. Just giving my opinion here. You can start with sub-contractors such as Innovative Oilfield Service, High Base and etc. Why? You'll learn from A to Z, technically and commercially. Sorry to say, you'll learn less with client type of companies since most of the time you'll do a lot in management.

Just to share, last time when I was in sub-con, I was seeking projects for the company, doing proposals (commercial
and technical), gathering sources (men power, equipments/materials and logistic), negotiating with clients to accept the proposal, mobilize my crew to offshore, doing progress reports, doing the 'rough-neck' tasks like your technicians, demobilize crew and the equipments (have to negotiate some more with Radio Operator (RO) either you'll going home early or not, by chopper or Fast Crew Boat (FCB)), doing final report for the clients (might have to deal with shitty clients who asked for bribes. There's some cases they'll not sign your documents until they'll get what they want to), doing follow-ups with the client for the payment, have to involve with the production and at the same time have to do company's assessment for the crew.

'Kira you keje sub-con mmg jadi buruh kasar'. Most of the time you'll feel under paid, but it's a good start anyway. Your CEO will promise here and there, but he'll f**ked all of his promises. And then, once you get a job in any client type of company, you'll appreciate more your contractors and become a wiser person. Good luck 

Another thing that I would like to share here. If anyone of you wanted to venture doing freelance in O&G, please please please kamu jangan nakal to spoil current market value by quoting a very low daily rate salary just for the sake to get the job. Aku hangin benar barua2 freelance yang spoil market camnih suka nak makan penyepak beruang. Yes Im having a permanent currently but I like being freelance again if I think I get bored with salary that I have right now (riak sebentar).

Ask your senior for the reasonable prevailing rate at the market. Please dont spoil it. Aku merayu benar ngan korang

hi guys, im quite new here.

im about to graduate this july and recently i got an interview from petrofac rnz  for their graduate engineer programme. The position they offered for the interview is planning engineer in the planning department. I just wanna know :

-what are the job scopes for planning engineer
-what are the future career opportunities as planning engineer
-is planning engineer considered as a technical or management job
-is planning engineer a dead end job?

thanks

Guys, help me decide which job offer shall I take.

I just finish my mechanical engineering degree.. And currently waiting for my final semester results.

I have two job offers; let's call them Company A and company B

Company A, where I previously did my internship. The pay is about rm2,300 until my results are officially out. Once the results are out, they increase my pay by 1k. I'll me doing mostly mechanical and procurement in this company. In this company. Here I know I'll learn a lot with the guidance of my previous supervisor. The current job offer puts me directly under him. He is one of the reason I'm considering as I'll learn a lot from him.

Company B is a start up company. Currently the company only consist of two people and they are the partners that started the company. So basically I'm their first hire. They  are offering about rm3,500. Here, I will also learn a lot about helping managing the company, meeting clients and other stuff.

Both company are in the oil and gas industry but in different area. I'm aware of the risk of Company B where it can go bust and the job is less secure compared to Company A but starting and building the company from scratch seems like a good platform where I can learn also which is why I'm interested to go there.

I have also previously worked with one of the partners of Company B and I know that he has experience and can be a good mentor to me.

So I'm confused.. Help!!

The contract doesnt go thru competitive bidding. THHE CEO really got good talk2 hehe

Anyway on the bright sight maybe Petronas/JX Nippon are behind schedule and constrained the first oil milestone. So they go for direct sourcing and by not bringing MISC/MMHE also reduce some score in schedule risk

U know...ruby..cendor....same old same old...

KUALA LUMPUR: Rumours are again rampant that Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas)’s president and CEO Tan Sri Shamsul Azhar Abbas will leave his post, but this man at the helm says he will continue to defend professionalism and independence fearlessly, reported the Edge Weekly in its latest June 23-29 issue.

In an exclusive interview with the Edge Weekly, Shamsul said he had to continue to fight for Petronas’ independence and guard the interest of the national oil company in the face of political pressure.

He will continue to adopt the open bidding method when dishing out oil and gas jobs to bring down cost for Petronas. He will not bow to political pressure to give jobs to unproven businessmen. He will not be held ransom by greedy well-connected contractors.

“It’s so difficult to do an honest day’s job. You spend a lot of time away from your true function (of running Petronas),” Shamsul lamented during the interview conducted last week.

“It’s not just people outside [who are making things difficult but] also people in the government — the bureaucrats. Bureaucratic interference makes things difficult,” he added.

In fact, things have been tough for Shamsul since he took the reins of Petronas from Tan Sri Hassan Marican in 2010, said the weekly financial paper of The Edge in its cover story on page 80-82.

Among the changes Shamul has made that has irked the government is to cap the dividend paid to the federal government at 30% of Petronas’ net profit from 2013 onwards. This has also angered many in UMNO, who feel that Petronas should cough up more.

But Shamsul argued: “We need money to grow. If we remain static and all our production is depleting…in 13 years’ time we might as well close shop”.

Most of Shamsul’s woes stem from well-connected business owners who have lost out on lucrative jobs after open bidding became the preferred mode, compared with fixed allocation for local firms done previously.

Companies under Petronas’ vendor development programme are no pushovers either as they are usually politically linked. They are unhappy that Shamsul had clamped down on their request to be allocated jobs. Some were loading up their costs by as much as 48%, making exceptionally big margins.

“I’m a Malay too, I’m proud to be one … you think I don’t want to help my own people? Of course I want to help them, but in the proper way -- not through handouts and spoon-feeding,” Shamsul told the Edge Weekly.

In fact, the frustrations of Shamsul could be felt from the following quotes extracted from the Edge Weekly:

“Everybody can see that we at Petronas are under immense pressure … We take pride in telling the whole world, telling the whole of Malaysia, that we are a Fortune 500 company, but do we behave like one?”

“This is what the fighting is all about, trying to give ourselves some independence, so that at the end of the day, we are measured in terms of our performance, delivery and results, and not having anyone intervening and telling us what we have to do and that we have to give handouts to all.”

“The government wants us to be like an international oil company, comparable with the Shells and ExxonMobils of the world, so we try to be one. But Shell and ExxonMobil are not harassed by their governments.”

“In the Petroleum Development Act, it is very clear — oil and gas belong to all Malaysians. It doesn’t say oil and gas belong to the bumiputeras, it doesn’t say that … it says all Malaysians, so they can be in the government, they can be in the opposition, they can be wherever … and we are the custodians.”

“It is amanah … diamanahkan … the word amanahkan is very strong — as a Muslim, it would be a huge sin if I abused ‘amanah’.

“We are dealing with politicians; they say one thing but do another, so it’s difficult… it is frustrating.”

For more details on the interview and more insightful information on Petronas’ latest major project RAPID, readers can turn to page 80-82 of the Edge Weekly.

This major interview with Shamsul was conducted by Kathy Fong, Jose Barrock and Fatin Rasyiqah Mustaza of The Edge.

Prior to BOSIET, you must pass Medical Check-up for Offshore.

Anyway, having a BOSIET will not give you any significant advantage.

Hoping to go Shell LNG HQ in Singapore. But all they do there is downstream works right?  And I'm quite tempted with offshore in miri though   

Hehe. Linde here can learn all the basic things needed in the gas industry I guess. Heard from colleagues that it is quite similar with the LNG industry.

u from dayang ah?

now their fresh grad raise to 2k+ edi huh...last year january like that still 1.8k lol

(^__^)

It is quite obvious that downsizing/ laying off is happening in Malaysia but not on a large scale.

earlier last week, my friend from Mcdermott came to my company to sit for an interview.
Seems like most fabricator/ EPC companies arent getting enough job and start advising their employee to seek other opportunities elsewhere, same goes to Technip.

but the problem is, last year I can see more than 300 vacancies floating around the intranet but today, the number halved to only 150 positions across the world, and none in Malaysia.

The only safe company to be in right now would be the operator, they would be the last one affected by this unfortunate event.

wow freshie demanding for +3.2k
topkek

im a mechanical background fresh graduate btw. looking for an engineering position that requires me to be doing job outside of the office (ex: installation engineer to supervise installation). Do you happens to know any specific department or company that office this kind of position and well payed (RM3200+ if it is kl based company).

For that rate, you know what position is that in dayang enterprise?

well you guys have probably heard like ten thousand times already. but me the freshie been actively searching and applying day and night for months now but still no reply from all the oil & gas companies. its not like im having bad results or no achievement though.. so i really just wanna know how did you guys got into oil gas T_T

In every big companies in the world, adviser and HR department are the most useless departments.

Company "T" ?