Chemical engineering

alx said:
I'm employed by a small engineering consultancy firm called Kelton, but immediately was contracted out to work for Centrica in Windsor (covering someone on maternity leave). Come September time I'll most likely move up to Aberdeen, probably still being contracted out to Centrica.
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Ah, I was at a FAT a couple of weeks back with someone from Kelton, metering specialists?
 
Jokester said:
Ah, I was at a FAT a couple of weeks back with someone from Kelton, metering specialists?
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Yep :)

Atm I'm doing allocation engineering but will prob move more into metering once I finish what I'm doing now.

Guessing you're involved in the oil and gas industry, what do you do out of interest?
 
alx said:
Yep :)

Atm I'm doing allocation engineering but will prob move more into metering once I finish what I'm doing now.

Guessing you're involved in the oil and gas industry, what do you do out of interest?
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I'm a instrumentation and controls engineer for one of the big (soon to be bigger) engineering contractors in Aberdeen. Basically a jack of all trades, master of none :p.

Cover pretty much anything, field instruments, control valves, shutdown valves, DCS, ESD, F&G, pneumatics, hydraulics, and metering to a certain degree.
 
Yojimbo01 said:
Wow where abouts over the world can you go?
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Really depends on the company but I work for a consultancy so we travel all over the world, think of any country and we’ve been to it several times, the great thing is we deal with both on and offshore so get to visit all the various offshore installations.

I personally specialise in QRA, BRA and physical effects modelling (since I enjoy doing that the most) using packages such as Phast, Fred, Shepherd, Riskcurves etc but I do loads of other stuff within the industry, blast overpressure and flare radiation modelling for various LNG / LPG and FPSO’s being my most recent favourite job, the other side of the coin being things like HAZID, HAZOP and BowTie meetings which is when we get to do most of our county / site visits.

It really is a cool industry to work in and has some amazing perks, i switched from IT to Oil & Gas 3 years back and I’ve never looked back, over the years i’ve done my share of nuclear work and I can honestly say its not as exciting or interesting imho.

In a few weeks time i will post some details of my latest trip so you can get an idea of what we get upto.
 
been thinking of doing chem eng at uni, looking at louthborough, are there any other uni's which are good for chem eng? (sorry for the slight derailment) :D
 
icysniper said:
been thinking of doing chem eng at uni, looking at louthborough, are there any other uni's which are good for chem eng? (sorry for the slight derailment) :D
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There are many, the most important thing is that the course is IChemE accredited and after that the choice is much more what kind of university you want to study in. Sheffield is one, Swansea another, Heriot-Watt (:D), Brum is another one. ICL definitely deserves a mention too
 
Not a chem engineer, but Im an engineer in the O&G industry. Its a great industry for engineers; so much diversity in the work, as well as the secondments, assignments, meeting different people etc. I spent a year in Thailand and just done a year working in Australia on an LNG project.
 
icysniper said:
been thinking of doing chem eng at uni, looking at louthborough, are there any other uni's which are good for chem eng? (sorry for the slight derailment) :D
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Cambridge is good ;) Department is number 2 in the world, behind MIT I believe. I'm doing my best to bring that down though :p

I did my undergrad at Sheffield and would recommend it, good faculty and a nice place to study.
 
Told you i'd show you the perks so: This is one of the reasons why the Oil & Gas side of things is better than the Nuclear:

First flight on an A380:
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Place of rest for the next 7 hours:
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Pre flight drink, opted for some Orange and Vodka:
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Loads of toys to play with but the wifi touchscreen controller was the best:
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Great service on the A380 as you would expect from Emirates however i think the 777ER is better in several key ways.

So yes get a job in Oil & Gas, or forever be driving to wet powerstations in the dark.
 
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Would you recommend a career in oil and gas over something like dentistry? I'm still undecided on which career part to take and a job in engineering would probably be more interesting than working in a dentists although dentistry has a lot of benefits as well. What's the best thing in your opinion in this field?
 
Firestar_3x said:
It really is a cool industry to work in and has some amazing perks, i switched from IT to Oil & Gas 3 years back and I’ve never looked back, over the years i’ve done my share of nuclear work and I can honestly say its not as exciting or interesting imho.

In a few weeks time i will post some details of my latest trip so you can get an idea of what we get upto.
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How did you switch? Did you re-train and have to gain other qualifications?
 
That would all depend what you want out of your future job, personally i wouldn't have thought someone thinking about doing Dentistry would also consider an Engineering job since they seem poles apart.

Best thing is in the UK it's a small specialised industry which is in high demand, get yourself in with a good company and the skys the limit.

Azza said:
How did you switch? Did you re-train and have to gain other qualifications?
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Option came to move within the same company i was doing IT work in, so it won't be something any other IT person could do i wouldn't have thought.
 
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