that last bit of advice is the most important. when you have plenty try to spend less and save more. when you have less you can adjust accordingly. thats what i did after 6-8 months of no offshore and etc.

I'm trying downstream company, any recommendation company???       

You meant the one in Msia? They quit the retail service already (Petron bought their retail business). Which downstream unit you were referring too?

Unfortunately, they just rejected me

Yea, just wondering if there any rules that if they rejected me, how many years I cannot apply for the next position? or I still can apply?

Hi all sifus. Need opinions from all of you. Right now I'm working with MNC oil n gas company but not as engineer. It is just office job and no travel required. Have been working for one and half years and I can say it is secured even the oil price is low since I never heard any one from this company got lay off.

Recently I got offer from SLB for field engineer. So the question is should I take this offer or just stick with my current job because I know most of the engineer got lay off nowadays. But in terms of payment, SLB pays a lot compare to my current salary. 

Fyi, my background is engineering and I would really love a job which needs me to travel and not only do the office job but with the current issue and all the lay off make me confuse whether to stay or to accept the offer. Hope everyone can give honest opinions for me.  

same here. Heard from HR, there is no increment for this year. Perhaps i m lucky enough as i still can secure the job. but seriously quite disappointed with the current paid (3k for 2.5 years exp) and have to remain until end of 2016. Dare not to jump at such a bad timing. Life is tough 

My starting salary is RM2.8K only. But heard from my friend working at RNZ, his starting pay also is 2.8k. Is it because of consultant company gives a lower paid compared with oil company/service company? i m currently working as technical safety engineer.

Folks, is there a new round of layoffs ongoing among the Malaysian PSCs ?

Prayer goes to those in casualties

http://www.oilandgaspeople.com/news/highli...ore-azerbaijan/

Field yang dah produce biasanya reservoir sweep dia tak bagus sangat (in most cases lah) and will akan ada area yang dipanggil unswept oil area. Ni area yang the infill frilling nak target. To recover those oil in the unswept area (most of the time). Sometimes we will also do infill drilling to lessen the pressure on the existing wells etc.

SLB plans to layoff 10 000 more workers in 2016.  

I bet most of you are getting annoyed with McDermott recruiter who are based at Dubai & Mauritania, asking same details all over again via email without reading our CV thoroughly hahahaha

These MPH Global RPO appointed by McDermott really fail big time. I haz kecewa son.

Not a bad one I must say, more than what I calculated.
Is it the best among the industry? Well I don't know certainly!
Thanks! 

Firstly, thank you for the advice. I really appreciate the effort that u made to response to my post.

However, regarding to the absorption to permanent, apologies if this sounds different as compared to what u said, did happened to my friends, within the same company, at around the same level of experience, just different timing. They got the offer just a little earlier before the oil industry turned into what it is today.

Thanks sir for the advice. But if u were in my shoes, will u take the risks of stagnant salary / losing job when u are about to start a family? And with a contract post, the medical benefit does not cover my family as well, not to mention some other benefits that are reduced currently.

Im currently working in national oil n gas company, doing utilities. Despite the oil price fall, my company unit still lunching some new projects. Guess the price fall doesn't hit much on gas n utilities business

We provide steam, electricity, oxygen, nitrogen etcs to the neighbouring plants (optimal, petlin, ammonia). Our nature of business not much like oil or gas processing plant but we are part of it

I haven't looked at the detailed commercial contracts, but how does Petronas get hit worse in today's situation? I thought all the partners including Petronas would be hit equally bad?

Also Petronas as a group has their downstream business which makes money to cover for their PCSB upstream. Many of the PSC aren't integrated companies, just upstream so I would venture that the PSCs are the ones being hit worse.

Even HR being retrenched at Murphy & Bumi Armada...