switch to oil&gas - interview tips more than welcome 9

[321GO]

Hi to you all!

Well due to circumstances i'm forced to become a member of the job-seekers club and thinking about jumping the automotive ship in the process altogether(fed up).

I'm hessitant to do a touch&go-restart in the same automotive industry for to be layed off again in the (near)future, no thanks. Meanwhile the oil&gas seems to be booming and seems to be a lot more STABLE employment in general.

Furthermore I've always had a interest in oil&gas industry, i'm not much of a watch maker i like the 'bigger stuff', so that's ok also.(some family members where oil&gas too).

Now, are there certain things that would make me less of a noob during my interview(s) so that i can study on those in the meantime?

- certain regulations?
- frequently used DIN/ANSI norms?
- frequently used / popular drilling rigs?!
- current trends?!

Any help/tips more than welcome! I realy want to land this job badly!!!

 

[321GO]

delagina,

particularly drill rig contruction.

 

[delagina]

this is how i understand this...

there's supermajors like chevron, shell, exxon, bp

oilfield services like baker hughes, halliburton, schumberger, etc..

Epc like fluor, kbr, bechtel..


i think you are interested in oilfield services companies

 

[321GO]

delagnia,

yes, correct.

To recap, my former employer went under and as such i'm looking for new employment. Other Automotive jobs are not local, but the rig building is. Since i have a passion for both Industries i was considering the switch.

 

[IRstuff]

Bear in mind that most companies do not do new designs very often, so if you are expecting to do one design after another, in quick succession, you will be very disappointed. The more expensive something is, the less likely there will be a redesign.

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[DannyGlover]

I bumped into a welling drilling electrician on an airplane flight and got talking with him about the industry. Asking them about how deep they drill, how much the guys get paid, the different positions and such. Well, towards the end of the flight he asks me about a problem he is having with an overcurrent device that isn't operating correctly when the pump is in auto. Then he gives me his card with his name and number and tells me how much independent troubleshooters can make. He claims that he knows of a guy that works close to 280 days a year a gets paid close to $3500 U.S for each of those 280 days and on top of that all of the guy's expenses are covered. So, he is pulling in close to a million bucks a year being a hired gun that is flying all over the place from his home in Hawaii. Most of those days are long and the quality of life is crap but it is hard to ignore something like this when if you did it for a few years, you could save up more than you could in a conventional 30 year engineering career.

Oil and gas is a very weird thing where if things are hot, any salary seems possible. Do these numbers line up with what you guys hear about in the industry or was he just blowing me smoke to get an engineer to work as a trouble shooting field tech?

I am too old for this shit.