There's a lot of "planner" position in the O&G industry. My experience is in the Upstream side of the business so I'll explain some of the work done by "planners" on that side.

My friend has a degree in Petroleum Engineering and they usually also do some planning in terms of looking at the production profile (i.e. how many barrels of oil can the field produce) and then compiling all those reports from all those fields and then coming up with an analysis on how much production can the company produce quarterly, yearly etc etc. The busiest time will be near the business cycle period (some companies do it in October, some in March, depends on the company)

If you are in the Banking line that I suspect you will be doing what my friend is doing. He's happy doing it, it's not as technical as he likes it to be (he was doing simulation model before) but I guess he's okay with it.

Carigali Hess has a big operation in the JDA area and with the USD15 Billion Sour Gas development project coming up, I guess they will need several planners to come up with their business plans on how much it will cost, how much production the can expect etc etc.

Hope that helps. Change is hard, but once you make it, it's easier to do it again.

Apologies, my knowledge is rather limited with regards to the subsea equipments. All I know is that there are subsea flow meters etc and not much about te industry behind it. I'm a geologist by background so I'm more of the upstream (reservoir stuff etc).

Maybe some other members can assist you in this aspect.

Tq  azraeil. I keep on calling them but they keep on telling me to be patient. What should I do then? Should I just wait for the placement or move to other job?

For me, i called them after 1-2 week from the S.I date. And they gave me the result of that SI

I call them 3 weeks after my SI. It was in September that I've been recommended but until now there is still no any good news from them.Does it mean that if I had been recommended then I will got that job for sure?

I've previously done internship with Petronas, and now just graduating my Mechanical Engineering bachelor end of November, i've applied for a graduate position in Petronas earlier December. I've so far received a call from Carigali HR that they've received my resume and stuff.

How long do you guys think I have to wait for the SI?

Eh not UTP, and I'm also not their scholar.

Yup that's right. Besides their own scholars, they have other applications coming in everywhere. So it would take time. For their scholars, they need to wait a period of 6 months (if recommended). This means that they have to try to allocate vacancies for their scholars as well as other professionals.

what are the chances of being at least called for the aptitude test?

Grats! I've 2 friends who will be going for PIPE that time too!

I wonder when's mine

Have yet to hear anything from them

What are you working as?

process engineer? which plant?

I just got an email from Petronas to submit a declaration form and other documents. I've registered in petronas discovery but did not apply for any specific job because there are no fresh grad position for chem eng listed there. I am looking for a job and is that a good sign?

I was quite surprised as well as i have not attended any interview at all.

Really? HR Manager personally told me no vacancies for freshies for RAPID. They want experienced engineers during planning stage.

Yeah you are right. They will need alot of freshies for later on.

No idea when's PIPE. HR said I'll be able to start work on 2nd of April. But have yet to hear any confirmation or getting any offer letter. :/

Not plant. As for now HR still don't want to release any news cause haven't confirmed. But tell me can report duty on 2nd of April. Haha. I'm confused.

Yea, goin for SI next week.