Vacancies: Shell Bussiness Malaysia Walk In Interview This Weekend!!!

Greetings, been busy lately. Just got back from dinner and just found this oppurtunity from Shell Malaysia career website. Listen, all stone heads should bring theirs asses this weekend @ Shell House, Changkat Semantan, Damansara. It's 11th and 12th December 2010. Positions offered various within Bussiness and Finance group. Good luck fellas.

p/s: please ensure you comb your grungy hair whatsoever.

Part I: Exploration & Production (E&P)

Those are phases occuring in E&P bussiness for oil and gas industry. In each of the phases, it consists a lots of major work, execution, management, planning and of course, big bucks. These are the phases that have to go through before and after the field were developed. Before that, one must know the differences of the key players in the industries, and what they exactly do.

Field Owner / Operator / PSC Contractor

Companies that lies in this group is a well-known identities in the industries. They are the one who 'owned', or operate or has a percentage on the profits made out of the specific field. Dang, there is also a difference among these players which can be categorised as NOC or MNOC or JOC.

National Oil Company (NOC)

Companies from this group is a company which controlled by government (subsidiary or government linked). The government of their respective country gave them full rights to developed and dig out every petroleum's shit (including T-Rex shit) from their country. They hold a sole rights on how to develop the fields, either find the oil or gas by their own or invite the MNC to create a production sharing (PSC). Below are some global NOC players.

• Oil and Gas Corporation (ONGC) - India
• Petroliam Nasional (PETRONAS) - Malaysia
• China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) - China
• Saudi Aramco - Saudi Arabia
• Gazprom - Russia

 

Multi National Oil Company (MNOC)

MNOC is the companies that incorporated privately, non-government linked. They are the independent energy company that ventures globally to produce oil and gas. For instance, they are given license by the government or the NOCs to find and develop the potential field. Some of MNOCs player are

Top 5 Deadliest Oilrigs Disaster

5. GLOMAR JAVA SEA DRILLSHIP

Rig: Glomar Java Sea Drillship

Date: October 1983

Operator: Arco

Location: South China Sea

Fatalities: 81

The U.S. drillship GLOMAR JAVA SEA, with 81 persons onboard, capsized and sank in the South China Sea at a position approximately 63 nautical miles southwest of Hainan Island, People's Republic of China and 80 nautical miles east of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Prior to the sinking, the GLOMAR JAVA SEA had secured drilling operations due to the severe effects of tropical storm 'LEX' approaching from the east of the drilling site.

At 2348 local time, the Assistant Rig Manager, onboard the drillship, called Global Marine's office in Houston, Texas and reported that the drillship had a 15 deg starboard list of unknown origin and was experiencing 75 knot winds over the bow. Communications were cut off during the conversation, and all attempts to re-establish contact failed. At about 2351 the GLOMAR JAVA SEA capsized and within minutes sank in 317 feet of water. An extensive search was conducted but no survivors were found. A diving expedition found the wreck in an inverted position approximately 1600 feet southwest of the well site. The wreck was searched and 31 of the 36 bodies found were recovered. The remaining 45 persons are missing and presumed dead.

4. OCEAN RANGER

Rig: Ocean Ranger

Date: February 1982

Operator: Mobil Oil Canada Ltd.

Location: Hibernia Field, North Atlantic

Fatalities: 84

Ocean Ranger was designed by Ocean Drilling and Exploration Company, Inc. (ODECO) and constructed in 1976 by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries's Yard in Hiroshima, Japan. The vessel was a self-propelled large semi-submersible design with a drilling facility and living quarters. She was one of the largest semi-submersibles working offshore in the early 1980s.

Part II: Types of Offshore Platforms

Ladies, here we meet again for Part II. Ok last time I already explained about the introduction of the offshore structures and now we move to the main contents, types of offshore structures. Either fixed or float, as simple as that. Ah, layman terms. Fixed platforms is a platforms that its substructure attached / piled to the seabed while floats platforms does not. However, floating systems normally moored i.e chained or anchored.

Fixed Platforms

Steel Jacket Platform

Semangkok-A Platform

In Malaysia, especially in Peninsular Malaysia (PM) blocks, water depth is range to 50-70 metres (shallow waters). Hence, it is economically feasible to built a steel jacketed platforms. But the application of the jacket platform usually up to 300 metres. Topside of jacket platform are normally built either integrated (alltogether) or modular type (section per section e.g Living Quarters + Power Generation + Booster Compression + bla bla bla). For middle school level of understanding, JACKET PLATFORM = TOPSIDE + JACKET.

Compliant Tower

Compliant Tower Design

Petronius - Compliant Tower Platform

Obviously, the compliant tower platform are designed for water depth more than jacket platform which are normally up to 600 metres. The difference with jacket is that it has more narrowed frame support structure by a piled foundation. Compliant towers are designed to sustain significant lateral deflections and forces. Kids, read this out loud. COMPLIANT TOWER = TOPSIDE + FLEXIBLE TOWER.

Concrete Gravity Structure

Hibernia Platform

Practically, this type of structures are being used in the harsh environments such as North Sea and Scandinavian. Also known as Gravity Base Structure (GBS) platform, it is design to withstand the loads (environment + iceberg) and also for the storage of its base support. Normally GBS is applicable for water depths up to 300 metres. When completed, a GBS is towed to its intended location and sunk. Again kiddos, GBS = TOPSIDE + CONCRETE BASE.

Part I: Types of Offshore Platforms

Hola dudes, feelin' good? Yeah, buckle up ladies cause today I will babbling about types of offshore platforms available in the upstream sector. Ahh before that, should I become a lecturer? First of all, I would like to differentiate between oil rigs and platforms as this will help for a better understanding.

Oil rig is a mobile offshore unit that floats and may placed for temporary works or jobs. It can be categorised as MODU (Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit) or MOPU (Mobile Offshore Production Unit). MODU is basically used for drilling works before the production and processing parts comes in. It can be known as semisubmersible drilling rig, barge rig, drillship etc. For MOPU, it serves on the marginal field, which is not economically viable to put an offshore platforms. Hence, these rigs practically contracted on leasing basis.

MOPU - SBM

Semisubmersible Drilling Rig - Transocean's Nautilus

Malaysia's Oil & Gas Maps

Bros and Hos, you can get the image in .pdf to view it more clearly. Here is the file.

Malaysia Oil & Gas Engineering

Seblum seblum ni kalau aku surfing webpages pasal oil n gas kat Malaysia ni boleh dijadikan hiburan utk mengisi masa lapang bilamana posts or comments regarding careers in this industry. Contohnya, mcm razmahwata and forum lowyat. Yang torrbaikkk dijadikan contoh adalah seperti razmahwata. Most of it were guys who want to involve in the industry. Sekali kene komen pedas wata n jabba, haaa wakakakka la jwbnyaa....I believe some of the people knew a little bit about the industry and some who doesn't know anything at all. Just rushed in the net and pops out their immaturity. Tapi ape yg ak nmpak kebnyakkanyer adelah students2 yg sket lagi jer nk grad..Maybe die xtau nk maximize google nyer capability utk retrieve information. Hmm..back to the topic, for those who want to jump into the engineering environment, you could always refer to these council or associations yg ala2 persatuan mcm kat skolah dulu..

Video: Spar Fabrication from Technip

Just found this video, guess it's dated in 2009. There's a lot more of Technip's Spar vids you can find @ Youtube..Anyway, it's quite interesting..Ohhh, there is one documentary regarding spar also, hmm ahh yeahh Perdido Spar from Discovery Channel and Disney Channel.

Career With Aker Solutions

Good news for those who just thinking to kick start your career with this kick-ass engineering and construction company, Aker Solutions. They are now recruiting for a talent programme which based on international assigments throughout 2 years period of time. It is a damn good opportunity though, considering you will be based on Oslo, Houston and lastly Kuala Lumpur. Port Klang maybe? Also heard vacancies from P. Klang looking for some positions on project team. Mano2 yang tongah cari koje tu, haa apolaei..moh kte terjah...

Bismillahirahmanirrahim....

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