furthering career into oil and gas

• Sep 23, 2008

• #2

C2it

Petroleum

Jun 27, 2007

504

You might think of a move to Piping with one ofthe major contracting companies, using your structural expertise to get into pipe support design. Maybe then piping design or stress. Many good supporters have made successful stress engineers. Good luck.

 

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• Sep 23, 2008

• #3

BigInch

Petroleum

Jun 21, 2006

15,161

Hey C2it. He says he's got enough stress in his work already.

Sorry. Couldn't resist.

If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?" - Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing
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• Sep 24, 2008

• #4

JLSeagull

Electrical

Feb 19, 2006

2,070

Shot us an email path. We get a finders fee.

 

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• Sep 24, 2008

• #5

BigInch

Petroleum

Jun 21, 2006

15,161

I'd suggest a large engineering company into refineries and chemical plants such as Fluor, WM Kellogg, Brown & Root, or those designing offshore platforms. Not much 3D in pipelines once they get off the platforms.

If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?" - Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing
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• Sep 27, 2008

• #6

gerhardl

Mechanical

Feb 25, 2007

2,025

You don't say anything about location. If you are free to go everywhere, take a look around the world.

One thing about oil and gas: some jobs will be connected to projects, manned up and going as far as the project continues, others wil be in company 'technical base'.

Where do you want to be?

Anyway, we once had an engineer answering one of our advertisments seeking a job away from oil and gas. He had been designing gangways (access bridges) for a project for three years....

The grass is not always greener....

 

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• Sep 27, 2008

• #7

BigInch

Petroleum

Jun 21, 2006

15,161

One thing about oil & gas field jobs, "If you're not in Hell itself, you can probably see it from there."

If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?" - Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing
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• Oct 3, 2008

• #8

Ussuri

Civil/Environmental

May 7, 2004

1,580

You dont like stressful working conditions? I would avoid the service companies then. I think the least stressful positions would be within an operator.

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• Oct 3, 2008

• #9

C2it

Petroleum

Jun 27, 2007

504

Quote .... "I think the least stressful positions would be within an operator"

Unless you work for BP in Houston for instance.

 

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• Oct 3, 2008

• #10

BigInch

Petroleum

Jun 21, 2006

15,161

C2it, Unless the Hi-Hi relief tank level horn has been sounding for the last 10 minutes, you have two buttons, "OPEN" & "CLOSE", neither of which are clearly marked, or are marked in totally unintelligable characters, and you don't even have a coin in your pocket with recognizable heads or tails so you can try to make a flip for it. :-

"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
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