Guys, is Field Development Engineer is a good position? And do u think this position can help me to hop from one to another company?

Only the person that sitting in that post do the best only the post will be good. If he just sleep in that post, he will be flushed out soon.

is about 45% reduction from current salary.. Haha.. Petronas ohh Petronas... the logic is simple for them..taken as this position is permanent or stay with your high salary but ready for no jobs at all due to slow of economy..

I might think better sell goreng pisang... to rich it not depends which company you been hired but how much money u gets in hand..

Well, that's why I'm willing to get "sacked" and becoming a hawker now but I got under table agreement with my "previous" boss for this
The return is I still can go in as visiting engineer and get paid, tax free.
But as permanent staff, you get some extra benefits that not contract staff can get, so is better you read the bloody T&C properly before decide. Like my friend join MNC just because his son got some sickness and require long term treatment.

Huh? I dont get your point.

You need to contribute to the company, not company contribute money to you only

u dont even answer my question.

Well, is you that never get my point.
As said, any post would be good only if you can perform and contribute.
If your intention is to join a company and get a blind post, guess you only need PLP skills

Yes! But maybe I'm biased since I am working as one now!

It's very interesting to work on developing a new field or redeveloping an existing field, from concept till execution stage. I love the challenges that come with the job.

The potential is there to hop from one to another company. But not at this present time though.

This post has been edited by Stamp: Oct 21 2015, 03:53 PM

FDP-good. But not many new FDP's being approved now.. You will learn a lot about facilities improvement.. Mostly clients have field development engineer..Are you from chemical background?

i would think if you like doing doing conceptual till feed type of work this will be one of the godlike post to grow your cv.
knowledge like reservoir, facilities, process, hardware, piping and cost estimates will be vital where you need to pull most money from the hydrocarbon fields.

if you're an operation type of guy, all these means nothing but heck lot of lengthy meetings with bosses and heck lots of paper work

Conceptual design comes after FEED bro...

Ya meh? In my case, Conceptual > FEED > DD

Services giant Weatherford said Wednesday it plans to lay off 3000 more employees by the end of the year, with cuts targeting support positions.

Oh, perhaps definition changes by organisation. My previous and current project start from FEED where they lock in the optimum concept, followed by CD where the preliminary P&IDs and most importantly, LLI TRPs are issued, then after Petronas's equivalent of MR4, we start DD.

No Im coming from mechanical background.


Ya couldnt agree more..LOTS OF meetings, presentation slides and paperwork...hope it will helps me to climb the career ladder someday....

more like services "ikan bilis" bro. the giant is misconception

Am currently having an interview today with one of Upstream operator somewhere belakang KLCC. Hope to get back to Upstream again...

Yes, same as mine.

from where i came from...
conceptual is a stage by itself, some may interpret it same as pre-feed or a stage before pre feed...

guess diff organization got diff understanding