Oil&Gas Career Advice?

Surfer · 19 Oct 2013 at 21:10

Begbie said:
I'd assume it depends on the job.

Mate just got a job offshore from previous experience. £57k starting, crazy. He is very very good at 'blagging' though so god knows what he acctually told them.

Ditto this. My brother got a job offshore after working for SEPA and he only has a chemistry degree....he now gets paid a ****load of money....Started at 50k or something but hes on more now around 65k i think.

Elixir · 29 Nov 2013 at 19:20

Slight update, got two assessment centres in the coming weeks for big operators, hopefully I'll be successful in at least one of them so I can confirm this has been a good decision!

alx · 30 Nov 2013 at 09:14

Elixir said:
Slight update, got two assessment centres in the coming weeks for big operators, hopefully I'll be successful in at least one of them so I can confirm this has been a good decision!

Ah cool, good to hear

. Do you mind me asking which operators and what sort of role?

Elixir · 30 Nov 2013 at 13:23

alx said:
Ah cool, good to hear . Do you mind me asking which operators and what sort of role?

Shell and BG Group, well engineer and reservoir engineer respectively.

KaHn · 30 Nov 2013 at 13:34

Haha alx may be your senior.

KaHn

Elixir · 30 Nov 2013 at 14:34

KaHn said:
Haha alx may be your senior.

KaHn

Maybe in 20 years we can all form OcUK E&P.

KaHn · 30 Nov 2013 at 14:39

Elixir said:
Maybe in 20 years we can all form OcUK E&P.

******** to that, I have my own company to grow

KaHn

Dis86 · 30 Nov 2013 at 14:41

Elixir said:
Shell and BG Group, well engineer and reservoir engineer respectively.

BG currently aren't my favourite people. :mad:

KaHn · 30 Nov 2013 at 14:42

Dis86 said:
BG currently aren't my favourite people.

Why? BG group are nothing to do with British Gas.

KaHn

Elixir · 30 Nov 2013 at 15:08

KaHn said:
******** to that, I have my own company to grow

KaHn

Well we'll have to consider a merger deal to form OcUK Group.

Dis86 · 30 Nov 2013 at 15:49

KaHn said:
Why? BG group are nothing to do with British Gas.

KaHn

Where did anyone mention British Gas?!

alx · 30 Nov 2013 at 17:45

KaHn said:
Haha alx may be your senior.

KaHn

Haha, yeah I'm joining BG Group in Jan, but as a Production Performance Engineer - so more production/operations (ie topsides) related than reservoir/well related. Although I'd like to be a Production Technologist at some point.

Elixir, heard lots of good things about BG Group and looking forward to starting there. When is your interview/assessment centre?

alx · 30 Nov 2013 at 17:48

Dis86 said:
BG currently aren't my favourite people.

How come?

Elixir · 30 Nov 2013 at 17:55

alx said:
Haha, yeah I'm joining BG Group in Jan, but as a Production Performance Engineer - so more production/operations (ie topsides) related than reservoir/well related. Although I'd like to be a Production Technologist at some point.

Elixir, heard lots of good things about BG Group and looking forward to starting there. When is your interview/assessment centre?

Yeah I've heard a lot of good things too, would be very happy with it! My assessment centre is on Tuesday.

Dis86 · 30 Nov 2013 at 18:17

alx said:
How come?

**** poor document review cycles. Incompetent inspectors. Adherence to standards even when they've been proven to be technically impossible or completely pointless requirements. Poor control over third party equipment suppliers (in this case FMC) and a reluctance to challenge them over substandard quality bordering on dangerous in some cases (lack of CofCs, unable to supply weld inspection documentation for obviously suspect welds).

-Ad- · 30 Nov 2013 at 19:23

Sounds like they're a fun bunch to work with.

Well we could form OcUK E&P. We have structural, well performance, well intervention and fishing and im sure plenty of others who can chip in our new operator venture.

Elixir · 30 Nov 2013 at 19:52

-Ad- said:
Sounds like they're a fun bunch to work with.

Well we could form OcUK E&P. We have structural, well performance, well intervention and fishing and im sure plenty of others who can chip in our new operator venture.

I'm sure we could whip up a pretty solid IT department too!

alx · 1 Dec 2013 at 14:41

Elixir said:
Yeah I've heard a lot of good things too, would be very happy with it! My assessment centre is on Tuesday.

Their subsurface grad schemes are meant to be very good, and in general they pride themselves on their subsurface teams.

Good luck with it

. Maybe I'll see you around sometime

. If you got the job when would you start, September?

alx · 1 Dec 2013 at 14:42

-Ad- said:
Sounds like they're a fun bunch to work with.

Well we could form OcUK E&P. We have structural, well performance, well intervention and fishing and im sure plenty of others who can chip in our new operator venture.

And forklift driving.....

Amp34 · 1 Dec 2013 at 14:49

-Ad- said:
Sounds like they're a fun bunch to work with.

Well we could form OcUK E&P. We have structural, well performance, well intervention and fishing and im sure plenty of others who can chip in our new operator venture.

Just take my instruction on where to drill and we'll be away! Unless of course those pesky reservoir engineers tell us pointless things like "it won't flow" or "it won't be economical"... :rolleyes:

That is withstanding that the drillers actually drill where they are asked.

Alx, don't become a reservoir engineer, you'll turn into a grumpy old mand and start enjoying crushing people's dreams.