Agree with u. Everyone have their roles and responsibilities. For me as technical person, learn from field is the best. Only thing is, there are many type of field, procurement field is different , same goes to IT field. Previously i don't really hv time for documentation, but when join OnG, document also play important role and I got chance to experience these. "Decision maker" not all of them have experience at field, some hv few years, but still they are the one who make decision.

p/s : I still need procurement to purchase whatever I need for my works

(^__^)

With recent oil price slumped, this trigger us that technical and hands on skill are really important. As most people that worked in O&G can't really work in other fields. Like Shell's IT are the best example.

Shell closed IT business operations centre, so consider IT sector in O&G like search poop oledi la? lol..

Hi abg hero kampung... teringin aku nak jumpa hero bandar pulak..
bandar la sgt...

Jangan sedih bang. Kalau orang subsurface tak ada, takde facilities development = lubang project baru haha

More to come from Shell, IT is just a start to test water.

Agreed. It is all about integration of knowledge, skills and experiences across all disciplines be it client, contractor, fabricator, vendor, service company consultant and etc, upstream and downstream, subsurface, surface, office and field.

Engineer in office might not good to know how people in field doing installation, commissioning, maintenance works for example servicing rotor or whatever of the pumps, procedure to install and start up the pumps step by step. But maybe they good in design the pumps, determine type of pumps to be used (centrifugal, reciprocal, submersible, positive placement pumps??),calculate pump head, pumps control philosophy, pumps capacity considering overall plant requirement and arrangement, interfacing with piping, material, design and code of standard, environment and safety ??
I am not expecting all the people who do maintenance works in field, replace the pipe, flange, gasket, do insulation and etc to know how to calculate pressure loss across the pipe, pipe thickness and etc?

Well, this is very diverse industry. There are many areas to discover and learn.

Aku terasa jugak, kerja bagai nak rak prepare FDP, bersengkang mata buat materials for Board approval, mcm nak pengsan hadap perangai project partner Carigali and owner Petronas in all MR1 to MR5 gates, just to get a project sanction so that a platform can be built and installed offshore and for some people in here to have "field experience" and working opportunities offshore.

Yup. Pi laaa cari gali minyak tanpa engineers yg cuma duduk di office.

This post has been edited by Stamp: May 6 2015, 09:49 PM

Moar FDP approval = moar projects = $$$

+1.

Some people were ignorant about the cost of exploration drilling. Bukan seposen per hole, okay?

This post has been edited by Stamp: May 6 2015, 09:54 PM

Thought they need the system to maintain the rig in order for the rig to float?

Experience operators will know what to do.
As the engineers or who ever will just give orders. Once the rig are in operation, it can't be simply shutdown.
Some may say they are important, but again they are just doing wayang kulit. That's the reason why O&G companies can simply cut down the man power especially those that are sitting in the office is because all knows that most people in the office are taking blind salary.

So no hope for IT to be in O&G?

You can work, but be prepared to leave. Don't be like those HP jokers that claim they are still Shell employees

Seem like O&G is not doing good due to low crude oil prices globally.

I thought they were employed by Shell and been sub to HP? SO technically, still Shell's employee right?

Nope, in front of the world they are Shell employee, but the payroll is HP. I have a friend worked there before and jump ship to a company that really doing IT business, Microsoft. He was not happy to his previous employer, just "sell" them to HP and give almost nothing.

SAP

Google for Kongsberg RTO drilling.

Kongsberg group is a very big, dispersed subsidiaries for many businesses.

I see. Thank you for telling me

Which module? Basis or Functional?

Thank you for that. Will look it up

Even DNV-GL has its own software business subsidiary for structural modelling analysis. Lupa pulak nama menatang software ini, dulu aku pernah purchase.

10 years back, working in O&G are better than work as government servant.
But today, I can tell you that, no business will give you 100% security.