Actually other profession also can earn regardless like you said. Big salary comes when you learn to climb up the ladder, regardless is land or sea. My dad used to work part office part rig also earn as much as those drilling supervisors (maybe more if he finds a lot of oil, with bonus taken into accounts).

Many people want to earn the offshore hardship allowance because paid in USD (good if you work at lower currency country like Malaysia, come back can spend like king)

QS also important bro. Cannot let money flow other places but our pockets only.

Good Day meonkutu11, already jump since i saw the price oil drop. Now working downstream for LNG project at Indonesia Donggi, Matindtok and Singapore JAC as well. Later have to work for RAPID and Shell Bukom soon.

How is life going?

abang, not trying to cucuk here. tapi be a bit careful. banyak orang can google their own name and later find this forum. hahahaha

instrumentation good field bro you boleh masuk a lot of field later on. Both up and downstream pun need you. Boleh join drilling well control, electrical generation company, Rolls-Royce, OnG client, chemical plant. You become very versatile. You macam kunci boleh masuk banyak lubang.

Tahan sahaja.

Large super tankers from Saudi and other oil producing country.

FYI. Singapore have an underground city storage for crude called Rock Cavern.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurong_Rock_Caverns

This post has been edited by razo2: Apr 14 2015, 02:30 PM

sama^2

Gas metering will most probably go into instrumentation, you will transit into DCS later. APC + MES for more hardcore controls. Gas metering is pretty good when OnG company need to audit the total flow of gas coming from the field/rig from all directions (No meter mean no monies baby!).

The rest of your measurement could be used for other applications. Usually they also have gas chromatography as an extra details about the gas flowing through that pipe.

If you are keen, you will have to learn alot about control valve (the eye,mouth and hands of the pipeline), PID software (the brains), DCS (the heart and veins),instrumentation, process simulation software (dynamic and linear) all about control of flow, pressure and temperature.

You cannot believe how much people will cry when things are not flowing!

You be suprised how many people want to suck at OnG tits by blaming us for every fucking global warming.

But the fact that they forgot the very fact that the food that they get on their table is the cause of global warming. Growing population = more people makan. Thus, huge amount of forest make way for agriculture, cow producing more methane than the OnG shale fracking.

Talk about sea food pollution when the world consumes more fish than the rate of fish populating. I wonder which will cause the sea creatures to extinct first, we eating them or OnG pollution?

I am just letting you know things that are related to my job.

One crucial thing I learned in the OnG industry is never be a lalang being blown by the wind. I make up my mind and heart and pursue what I truely love to do.

Take a bit of time. Read and see what you really desire. You dont want to be stuck crawling in a shit hole for 10 years to find out you made a mistake.

This post has been edited by razo2: Apr 14 2015, 11:59 PM

I am in a company that does the instrumentation, DCS and APC.

Just to share my background, I love controls, programming and instrumentation because it is something really challenging in every way you view it. But what really drives me is the love for solving logical problems. I cannot tahan a job that only sit down there and rot without thinking hard, I will die on the spot.

It is a love since young as 12 years old when I first do C programming. So i ask my dad (an Exxon offshore man, geology to be exact) the field and things how the business is done. Unfortunately I didnt enroll into geology, but i know some stuff about it.

Mechanical is interesting as well. Last time i used to think is easy stuff, but fuck me dead i was dead wrong about that. I learned about how hydraulic stuff works, mechanical pumps, compressors, davits, electrical motors is good experience but i prefer something with more controls. Get very interesting when you have to deal with a freaking old equipment and how you need to take them apart without messing up.

This post has been edited by razo2: Apr 15 2015, 12:48 PM

Join downstream. With RAPID going on you might be able to squeeze some space into the wagon.

Is ok. People have different life choices.
I am just inspired by my dad as a field man.

I am sure we will meet one day or another when you had found your dreams of a specialty that you love.

Client squeeze balls and tits till purple. Ask you grow one more tits as well so they can start squeezing it too.

Yes, PLC exp does help it is a level 1 out of the 4 levels.

DCS need more networking and PID controls experience. That is level 2 stuff. With also process simulation which leads to APC. C#,WCF,OPC and OOP also comes in handy in this job.

Level 3 is where all DCS keeps the data that they gathered called the historian. This consist of KPI calculations, Loss, inventory, plant reliability, equipment maintenance management,OMS, mass balance, shipping schedule, lab test data, operator and workflow schedules.

Level 4 is MES where you display data into cloud system via the browser. This includes the whole plant operator display, all of level 3 stuff i mentioned in the browser so the big man can to screw those that fucks up around the plant.

If you are going deeper into integration, you need Java,VBA,C#,C++,SQL/SAP,OOP,HTML,OPC,WCF for higher level (almost every programming language you need to know them all). It moves into IT gradually when you go higher up the level. But all in all the concept of the work is pretty much the same, just that one is factory floor level (aka operators) and the other is business level (aka managers).

Jumping is up to you. But i suggest for DCS Cisco certificate is pretty nice stuff to have. You can program those switch, routers, hubs easily without external contractors. Adds to your resume as well.

If you feel that you are ready, why not jump?

This post has been edited by razo2: Apr 17 2015, 08:16 AM

what to do. oil price drop like that sure kena squeeze.
today schlumberger announce another cut of 11k people out the door.
that will be a total of 20k people fired this year. 1/6 of the company gone liao.

I am just thankful that they still employ people in such hard recession.

Fresh Grad have to offer 4th tits. Smile when interviewers squeeze them and ask for more!

Fresh Grad have to offer 4th tits. Smile when interviewers squeeze them and ask for more!

Yeah Yokogawa. FLNG awarded 1 month ago.

http://www.yokogawa.com/pr/news/2015/pr-ne...015-0325-en.htm

They secure a lot of projects with petronas, shell (SG), exxon (SG). They got Rapid, Shell Bukom upgrade.

12 years exp 4k SGD. Do call me crazy but that is real shit pay. 12 years exp surely can command more like 6 to 7k SGD min.

Shipyard suppose to get 8 months bonus but hell man you have to marry the shipyard if you plan to get a family. Boleh cucuck kapal/rig tiap-tiap hari .No weekend, no public holiday, OT 10 bucks an hour, no time off unless is your annual leave. Dont forget if you take one weekend off without a valid reason be prepared to see your 8 months bonus drop to 6 months, then 4 months then none. Lol.

Alot work after 10 years join suveyor. Better pay and life. If you like to go fab site then this is your whore house. Most of the time they get contractor do the specialist job. Shipyard engineers are like PE and PM.

You are better off working offshore get hardship allowance of USD 100 bucks for starters.

This post has been edited by razo2: Apr 28 2015, 12:53 PM