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Thursday, October 29, 2009
Oilfield Services Segmentation
Here is the graphical explanation for those who were keep asking me about the Oilfield Services segmentation. Hope this helps!
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HeavyOilinfocus: WHOC 09 Special Edition
WHOC 09 Special EditionWorld Heavy Oil CongressNovember 3-5, 2009 Margarita Island, Venezuela Planning to attend the World Heavy Oil Congress 2009 on Margarita Island? Come and see us at the Schlumberger exhibition booth (1006) and hospitality room. If you can't make it, don't worry, we've summarized the technical papers we are presenting at the conference below. Just select a paper of interest to learn more. Technical Paper Summaries
1 C-FER Technologies, co-authored by Schlumberger. 2 PDVSA, co-authored by Schlumberger. 3 TOTAL, co-authored by Schlumberger. Want to know what we are doing at the exhibition? Our team can provide information on the range of services to help you meet the specific challenges of heavy oil recovery. Faja Center of ExcellenceWe have a heavy oil team based at our Faja Center of Excellence in nearby Puerto La Cruz. They engage a range of tools and technologies, including Petrel seismic-to-simulation software and ECLIPSE reservoir simulation software, to build accurate models and simulations for heavy oil projects. With direct links to our network of heavy oil centers around the world, their expertise delivers solutions to help you make the best decisions for your reservoir. Contact us to find out more.Heavy Oil TechnologiesFor more information on the Schlumberger services at the exhibition select a link below:Reservoir and fluid characterization Quicksilver Probe focused extraction of pure reservoir fluid Multiphase meters incorporating Vx well testing technology Well construction PeriScope bed boundary mapper FlexSTONE advanced flexible cement technology Long-term completions FacsRITE downhole sand screens and MeshRITE stainless steel screens Production and monitoring REDA Hotline 550 high-temperature electric submersible pump system WellWatcher real-time reservoir and production monitoring system, including WellWatcher BriteBlue harsh environment multimode fiber | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
You and Your Career: Luck Is Only Part of the Equation
What does it take to have a successful, fulfilling professional career? Effective results are most important, many would say. Others would point to hard work as the key ingredient. Interpersonal skills, a sense of timing and organizational know-how are still other factors. Then there’s luck, which nearly everyone would agree can contribute to the golden career. Good people are with great potential. They succeed because they are good at what they do, and because they possess the capacity to surpass themselves. When good people manage their careers intelligently and communicate well, they take advantage of the many opportunities available within the company—to travel and get to know the world, to work in a variety of different business areas, and to share their time on the job with a uniquely diverse and enriching group of colleagues the world over. Of course, winning what might be called “the career game” necessarily involves playing the game with a certain amount of skill. In addition to making a steady contribution to the business and meeting your objectives, you’ll need to have a sense of how the company works, to persevere in your job, and to learn to seize opportunities and recognize the limits of a given situation.With this issue of you should take an opportunity to test your skill at marrying all of the above factors—hard work, knowledge of the company and Give it a try. The outcome matters less than just having fun.
Evolution of Oil and Gas Supply
What does it all mean?The world uses today nearly four billion tonnes of oil equiva-lent (TOE) of oil and natural gas liquids and 2.4 billion TOEof natural gas. Oil demand is projected bythe International Energy Agency to increase at an average rate of one percent per year over the nexttwo decades, while natural gas is expected to increase at nearly twice that rate because of thesurge in demand from non-OECDcountries. The share of gas within the overall hydrocarbon supplywill increase. The supply of oil is shifting to the Middle East and areas with deepwater basins andunconventional sources. Gas supply will come principally from Russia, Iran and Qatar for conven-tional gas and from North America for unconventional gas. Technologies such as liquefied naturalgas (LNG) will enable increased commercialization of those natural gas resources once consideredstranded assets. † The 30 OECDcountries include North America, most of Europe, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand
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Monday, October 19, 2009
Days off? Vacation? Rotation?
Some people asked me about the days off/vacation for those people in the oilfield services. Generally this system is applicable to most services company and each of them should understand it as most oilfield worker are jumping from one services company to another. I 'll tell you about the Field Engineer (FE)' (IM) rotation( well mostly FEs will be given field breaks and FSs will get rotation).. it depends on your assigned country, your position, your status, business needs..etc..etc...even some countries has few operation bases but there are a lot of differences in few things for each respective base, except the basic salary which will be the same...here are some cases:
1. Fixed rotation---> some get 6 weeks x 3 weeks, some 6x2..depends
2. Field break----> some get 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 field breaks in a year and plus with 1 month annual vacation. For each field break (+/- 2 weeks), they will pay you USD 400 and USD 2K ++(nice if you have family coz u will get more) for your annual vacation.
3. Annual vacations only---> 1 month annual vacation only.
For the case 2 n 3, you can divide and arrange your allotted vacation accordingly every year. If you didn't take any field break for whatever reason within this year for example, company will automatically burn it but on the other hand your annual vacation still can be carry forward to the next year if it is unused.
But as I said just now, it depends on your assigned country, your position, your status, business needs..etc..etc...even because of the economic turndown, it will ruin your field break or rotation.
To share with all of you one story, happened to my senior, on his first day of vacation when he just landed at KLIA while approaching his family who were waited him for a few months,suddenly one stranger came to him showing something and said," Chief, this is your ticket for you to go back to your location right now as we received an emergency call from your boss for something went wrong in the field". Man...can you guys imagine that? How miserable? So..prepare yourself..mind, body and soul..!
Current Hiring!
1. Baker Hughes - Jr Petroleum Engineer, TST Engineer
2. Exxon Mobil - Jr Petrophysist, Project Engineer
3. QSERV (new company from UK) - Field Specialists, HR Manager, Admin
4. MaxEnergy - Various position
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2. Exxon Mobil - Jr Petrophysist, Project Engineer
3. QSERV (new company from UK) - Field Specialists, HR Manager, Admin
4. MaxEnergy - Various position
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New to Oil&Gas? Oilfield services?
Hi all!..introducing a blog to share all experiences, skills, technologies, life and money in O&G industry. Some people still really new and might not really understand very well about O&G. Well as for sharing I will contribute some ideas, opinions and views to those who got some misunderstanding, lack of knowledge about this field to be clear in their mind. Hopefully anybody who’s visiting this blog could try to contribute theirs also for our own good.
For the beginners, generally O&G can be divided into Upstream and Downstream. Either one of it should be divided as the picture below. Client (Oil company) is for PETRONAS..Shell..Exxon..BP...bla2..and Services company are such as Schlumberger...Halliburton...BJ..etc..clients they have oil and gas field and how to produce it..they will ask the services company to do it..so client just collecting money from the oil or gas produced instead of doing hell hard work as what services company does..so..people in services company will earn a lot of money instead of people in client company because of the hardship and highly technical skills..so which want do you prefer..ask yourself..each of them got pros n cons...always keep that in mind. In this blog will focus more on upstream as I started my career there. But those who are from the downstream side are welcome to contribute anything here as to share to everybody.
Joining O&G?
To enter this O&G industry you are not necessary to have only engineering degree (some people still got confuse on this), it’s just like any other companies which has supporting department to the operation department such as IT, Finance, Marketing, Supply Chain, HSE, etc..but most of the people who leads in this department especially in Oilfield Services (OFS) are people from the field (field engineers, specialist, etc..).
Below are some example of pros and cons between both working in oil and services company which should subjected to the company’s terms and policies.
For those who wants to join OFS especially in operation department, if you wanna be in top big five service company such as Schlumberger, Halliburton, BJ, Baker, Weatherford its quite hard because they are looking for 3 pointers fresh grads at the beginning to be selected for an interview...even some of my friends got 2.99 still been rejected, well same goes to oil company...the reason is they expected that 3 pointers candidates can be a fast learner while doing the job and won't fail any kind of training school provided..for instance in Schlumberger, even there are some Schlumberger field engineer trainees were terminated during the training because they failed the exam. Don’t worry about kind of engineering background..once u enter O&G environment or others..you will learn from zero actually no matter in which segment they put you in..they just need your engineering aptitude and of course attitude to start everything..but keep in mind.. 3 pointers doesn't mean you could be 100% accepted in top big companies but no worries..you could try and I think most of local services company would consider something with that pointer..but sorry to say that person would be the last to arrived..simple word..last option..my advice..just give the hit..and try your luck.
How’s life? Money?
Talking about life is something I could say very subjective right? Any industry, working condition, working area, one should determine their own life (work-life balanced) whether goes bad or vice versa. It’s hard to physically judge by the nature of work as people’s life couldn’t be noted into numerical statistics I guess. Those who work in oil company their life would be much easier, safe and clean environment compare to services where risks are everywhere, harsh, dirty and oily condition where small mistake could ruins everything when comes to multiple catastrophic situation. Safety is the greatest priority. If you think it’s not safe, STOP the work! One simple rule of thumb; once, my senior told me on the first day I’m on the offshore platform,”Don’t put your hand where you don’t want to put your dick to”.
Money? Well this is my less favorite question when people ask me about the salary. Well, no pain, no gain right? As you put your ass in this field, simple rules; high risk high pay, hell hard work high pay (but sometimes not). Bear in mind, not only O&G could help you become rich people…a lot of chances out there to be rich dude!
Current situation
Just some info for the current situation in O&G due to economic downturn recently where some companies already and may reduce their manpower as the business seem kind of slow in certain areas. Services company some of them really reduce their employee and some more likely to just keep their employees but freeze the hiring temporarily (goes to top big five companies).
From some trusted source, Shell and Petronas will start laying off their people so soon. What a big surprise for big oil company I guess!
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