Petroleum engineering
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This is a very good post and I thank you for writing this up.
I also heard that its good to do when young but once you're married and have kids it can become tedious.
Will try to keep my options open as possible, shame that you don't get much time to see family+friends.
I just saw a vacancy for senior petroleum engineer, it is contract work so 6-12 months.
£700-£850 per day
That works out at £168-£204k a year.
However money isn't everything.
No problem, there aren't many posts on here I can offer decent input into so happy to help.
On the pay front, it is tempered slightly in that some people can go 6+ months between jobs, plus your only paid for the hours you do so on this job its 6 weeks on with 2 weeks unpaid back in the UK. Plus a lot of the work is either repetitive, dull (check sheets and tests) or waiting about for stuff to happen.
Your right about the £700 - £850 a day, that is top money and a lot of the guys are non-domicile for UK tax so its tax free!
On the family side of things I guess a lot of guys who are out here in the USA are older and their families have grown up and they are just working on their retirement funds (or their next Aston Martin!). Younger guys with kids tend to work more in Europe, Norway and the North Sea. Libya will be full of work for UK companies in the near future and only an couple of hours flight from the home.
This is a very good post and I thank you for writing this up.
I also heard that its good to do when young but once you're married and have kids it can become tedious.
Will try to keep my options open as possible, shame that you don't get much time to see family+friends.
I just saw a vacancy for senior petroleum engineer, it is contract work so 6-12 months.
£700-£850 per day
That works out at £168-£204k a year.
However money isn't everything.
It really does depend on the job though. You can still do essentially a 9-5 with little travel if you want. Just remember though that if you don't want to travel then the main areas you would be working are either in Aberdeen, Surrey or London so if you don't live near them you will have to relocate.
Don
Best way as a graduate to get into the oil and gas industry is via a graduate training scheme with one of the operators or one of the engineering service companies, but you will pretty much require a MEng. As said, getting your foot in the door is the key, so try and get summer placements with companies, anything that gets you real world experience in the oil and has industry (I use absolutely nothing from my degree on a day to day basis) will put you to the head of the queue when it comes to graduate recruitment.
Companies can't get enough people at the moment and it's likely just to get worse, but outside of graduate roles, without experience they won't even look at you.
Once you've gained a few years experience in what ever discipline you end up choosing, the world is your oyster.
Companies can't get enough people at the moment and it's likely just to get worse, but outside of graduate roles, without experience they won't even look at you.
Once you've gained a few years experience in what ever discipline you end up choosing, the world is your oyster.
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I can give you my perspective currently doing a studenty internshipy kind of thing between years 3 and 4 of my 5 year MEng Chem Eng course -
The best way to get started in the oil and gas industry is by doing internships at school/uni and meeting people. I've been here 8 weeks now and it's really good, but it's also very demanding. Gotta go but will gladly write more tomorrow if you want to read it.
The best way to get started in the oil and gas industry is by doing internships at school/uni and meeting people. I've been here 8 weeks now and it's really good, but it's also very demanding. Gotta go but will gladly write more tomorrow if you want to read it.
Internship is a very good suggestion and not really advertised IMO. Most of the people had done internships no my MSc and that was one of the reasons they were picked i think. That little bit of experience is good for your CV (and great fun if you get the right one as well as paying towards your final year, much better than a standard summer job.)
I'm going either straight Chemistry or Natural Science. Natural Science just because I'd love to do material science and maths along the way. Got no idea about path though, haha. Then again, I probably won't go the engineering route.
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