QUOTE(Sun Nan @ Nov 17 2012, 07:46 AM)
Bro, I need your advice on this.
I am a process engineer with nearly 2 years exp in oil and gas consultancy industry. I nee you to advise me based on your experience which one is best for me... i really need to have clear picture on my situation right now. I've got an offer letter from petronas and another company in KL... can you help me on the following issues:
1) with petronas i will work as a process engineer at one of its plant with basic salary of it freshie ( i think i shud not explain anymore about petronas to you, they are already well known). with the another company, a new company in Malaysia which has just open its office in Malaysia doing consultancy in upstream engineering and project management for project around the world. they are expert in FPSO, Cost reduction analysis, Process simplification and other engineering dicipline. they only have 30-50 staffs which spread through out the world with its based in houston, london and newest (KL). most (about 90%) of its staff have 25 years exp and above. my position there is process engineer and will be under the supervision of one principal process engineer with 33 years exp. ok... comparing these two...which one do you think will benefit me in term of career development and my future as a engineer.
2) to be honest, i love to stay in KL and like to do fundamental engineering analysis compare to operating existing facilities. in case of i choose to work with petronas, do i have any chance to return back to design engineering field which I love most. is there any opportunity for me to return to KL after develop my career at Plant environment.
This third question is open for all... it is true that petronas will increase the basik salary to 5k...because during the interview one of its hr tell me that i will get 5k basic slary...but in the offer letter it turns to be 4k...wahhh...maybe in january or what the 5k salary will be implement???

I'm from the Upstream side of the business so my advice will always be tinged with some Upstream bias. The fact that I'm not that familiar to the downstream side of the business will also render my advice one sided so take it with a pinch of salt.
Listen to your heart. If your love is in design engineering then I would say go with the small company which sounds to me like a dream job.
If you stick with Petronas working in a Plant where the assign you to Kerteh/Gurun/Melaka then you will be there for a minimum of 3-4 years. I'm sure that you can request for a transfer back to KL but then again, you will need to prove to headquarters that the experience you gained in the plant can be used in other OPUs.
Good Luck.