Chief,
I didn't know this happens to be an English tutoring class. I suppose each individual has got his own way of viewing issues and we need not resort to implied insults.
In any case, FPSOs are built mainly to store crude side by side while producing and do some bit of processing. You can drill and complete an offshore well without the need for an offshore platform nor the need for an FPSO. I was part of the team that drilled a good number of the wells in the fields you mentioned (Akpo - Total, Bonga - SnepCo, Erha - Exxon and some others). I repeat, and stand very much to be corrected, FPSOs are classified under the Midstream sector of the industry. The internet is awash with the right info if you care to learn more.

FPSOs are meant for storage, hence outside the upstream sector, but not necessarily in the downstream sector.

On the issue of old Unis, you are essentially saying the same thing I've said all along. Perhaps you should return back and read some of my previous posts.

The reason, I'm here is simply to share experience with the up-coming ones and not to engage in a shouting match with anyone

Stanley4E: am a chemical engineering student currently doing my industrial training in an oil servicing firm surrounded by mostly mechanical n electrical engineers. if there is one thing i've observed and learned in d oil n gas sector it is accepting d fact that the whole conception of engineering is one and how important having lots of certification after ur first degree could boost ur chances in getting job offers.


proud to be a chem Engr most broadest engineering discipline so far.

femishow2005: @ 9ijaman, jpphilips et al.. pls kindly mention some kind of certifications or professional course will you recommend for a fresh graduate in petroleum engineering can embark on in order to boost himself in this competitive market. thanks

Tats:

I'm not trying to tackle you.

Well, I usually don't need to send really shortened text messages as I get unlimited text messages once I pay my monthly fee. So, I can send as many as I want. For international, I mostly make calls home and don't text that much. At most, I write You as U.

Capableben: how do i get dis to frontpage nw?

kika41: @9ija man,which of these applicants have a brighter chance
Mr.A-petroleum engineer 1st class-Uniport
Mr.B-petroleum engineer 1st class-unilag
Mr.C-petroleum engineer 1st class-uniben
Plz,rank dem with reasons!!

GOD AKPAN:
GUY ITS UR MENTAL STRENGHT THAT WILL GET U ANYWHERE U WANT TO BE NOT THE SCH. I WENT TO ONE OF THE SO CALLED WORST SCHOOL BUT HAVE GAT ONE OF THE BEST JOB. DONT JUST STUDY FOR THE SAKE OF EXAMS, GET YOUR SELF PREPARED FOR THE WORLD

kika41: @Godakpan,but sometimes,school matters

Capableben: how do i get dis to frontpage nw?

kika41: @9ija man,which of these applicants have a brighter chance
Mr.A-petroleum engineer 1st class-Uniport
Mr.B-petroleum engineer 1st class-unilag
Mr.C-petroleum engineer 1st class-uniben
Plz,rank dem with reasons!!

femishow2005: @ 9ijaman, jpphilips et al.. pls kindly mention some kind of certifications or professional course will you recommend for a fresh graduate in petroleum engineering can embark on in order to boost himself in this competitive market. thanks

kika41: @9ija man,which of these applicants have a brighter chance
Mr.A-petroleum engineer 1st class-Uniport
Mr.B-petroleum engineer 1st class-unilag
Mr.C-petroleum engineer 1st class-uniben
Plz,rank dem with reasons!!

9ijaMan:

The first criteria at getting a shot into an O&G firm is to finish first with a 2:1. At least a lot of interview doors will easily open for you. UniLag and UniBen have for long ranked among the top schools in Nigeria. UniPort obviously enjoys the advantage of location. I know some here feel schools don't matter, they are very much entitled to their opinion. My almost 15 years in the industry, shows clearly that Schools do really matter. Arguing that they don't matter amounts to self denial. In the UK and the US it's the same. In fact, it does happen too in the middle east.

Back to your questions, those three schools have an almost equal ranking within the industry in Nigeria, once again UniPort enjoys location advantage, hence it just about ranks equal with the other two heavy weights.

Since there will be no significant "school factor" advantage, it then boils down to individual performance, members of the interviewing panel and finally luck.

My response above is based on real life experience and not some "equal opportunity employer" hogwash.

deepwater: 9ijaman, I have an aspiration to be a driller some day, nothing else in this world fascinates me except that ambition, although still in my final year in school, I have attended numerous drilling and opito approved courses, I have passed my well control(intro), mastered my kill sheet preparation(surface stack), but still trying to get my act right with subsea, presently I am studying for my well control(fundamental), but a friend is advising me to switch over to subsea, I mean SWAT, he gave me some moduspec texts and pointed out some interesting things in hydril,
* as a professional in the drilling field, do you think drilling is better off compared to SWAT or otherwise?
* what are the major challenges that stands on one becoming a driller?
*is it advisable for one to progress to tool/tour pusher as a driller or move to the operator side as a company man, which is more preferable?
*since the SWAT guys are not really needed in jack ups and swamp barges due to the nature of their BOP not being submerged, don't you think SWAT guys would be limited to deepwater only and is that not a negativity on its own?
*finally for now, which is more challenging?
So many thanks for the input, we are all learning from you sir.

P S: where you on the Baltic 1 or Adriatic 1, they drilled in the akpo field in the 90s

9ijaMan:

My brother sorry o! Commercially Viable oil reserve was discovered in OML-130 (Akpo field) in the year 2000. In the 90s I was still studying at Ife, left school jsut b4 we entered the 2000s. I did have a few stints in the field though while working with a multinational service provider in the early 2000s, drilling the delineation wells. Besides neither Baltic nor Adriatic 1 (AD-1) could have ever been on Akpo field as both rigs are jack-ups and have a rated water depths less than 400 ft. Akpo field has water depth in excess of 3,000 ft. I was once on rig AD-1 in the Exon field off the coast of Calabar.

Subsea engineers are currently in high demand as there are relatively very few subsea experts in the world today. Their pay is also quite juicy. Drilling Egineering is however more versatile and is not necessarily as restricted to deepwater alone as Subsea engineering is. If you are a young beginner, I'll go the Subsea Engineering route. If you are an experienced hand, drilling Engineering is a safer bet.

If you chose the drilling option (not drilling engineering), most degree holders back then (don't know what is obtainable currently o!) are often employed to start as assistant drillers and you'll work yo

I hope I have managed to answer your question.

deepwater:

Am sorry, I meant to say amena/kpono, not akpo (jack ryan is working on akpo field the last time I checked).
These days, only a few degree holders get the opportunity to come in though the assistant drillers' cadre,majority is being forced to pass the ladder completely starting from the roustabout position but kinda accelerated.
I am not an experienced hand, am still very much young and in my final year, I will consider your advice but will this give room to more suggestions from seasoned personnel like you, so many thanks once again, I am grateful

9ijaMan:

The first criteria at getting a shot into an O&G firm is to finish first with a 2:1. At least a lot of interview doors will easily open for you. UniLag and UniBen have for long ranked among the top schools in Nigeria. UniPort obviously enjoys the advantage of location. I know some here feel schools don't matter, they are very much entitled to their opinion. My almost 15 years in the industry, shows clearly that Schools do really matter. Arguing that they don't matter amounts to self denial. In the UK and the US it's the same. In fact, it does happen too in the middle east.

Back to your questions, those three schools have an almost equal ranking within the industry in Nigeria, once again UniPort enjoys location advantage, hence it just about ranks equal with the other two heavy weights.

Since there will be no significant "school factor" advantage, it then boils down to individual performance, members of the interviewing panel and finally luck.

My response above is based on real life experience and not some "equal opportunity employer" hogwash.

9ijaMan:

The first criteria at getting a shot into an O&G firm is to finish first with a 2:1. At least a lot of interview doors will easily open for you. UniLag and UniBen have for long ranked among the top schools in Nigeria. UniPort obviously enjoys the advantage of location. I know some here feel schools don't matter, they are very much entitled to their opinion. My almost 15 years in the industry, shows clearly that Schools do really matter. Arguing that they don't matter amounts to self denial. In the UK and the US it's the same. In fact, it does happen too in the middle east.

Back to your questions, those three schools have an almost equal ranking within the industry in Nigeria, once again UniPort enjoys location advantage, hence it just about ranks equal with the other two heavy weights.

Since there will be no significant "school factor" advantage, it then boils down to individual performance, members of the interviewing panel and finally luck.

My response above is based on real life experience and not some "equal opportunity employer" hogwash.

9ijaMan:

The first criteria at getting a shot into an O&G firm is to finish first with a 2:1. At least a lot of interview doors will easily open for you. UniLag and UniBen have for long ranked among the top schools in Nigeria. UniPort obviously enjoys the advantage of location. I know some here feel schools don't matter, they are very much entitled to their opinion. My almost 15 years in the industry, shows clearly that Schools do really matter. Arguing that they don't matter amounts to self denial. In the UK and the US it's the same. In fact, it does happen too in the middle east.

Back to your questions, those three schools have an almost equal ranking within the industry in Nigeria, once again UniPort enjoys location advantage, hence it just about ranks equal with the other two heavy weights.

Since there will be no significant "school factor" advantage, it then boils down to individual performance, members of the interviewing panel and finally luck.

My response above is based on real life experience and not some "equal opportunity employer" hogwash.

kika41: thank you very much,m grateful...but as u said u are in the industry....I asked another guy who is a senior project manager for Total,he graduated from unilag,nd he said that Unilag and uniport gradz are most embraced in the oil and gas industry in respect to '''petroleum engineering""...plz make me understand better!!

jp philips:



let us start with shell,
majority of Shell staff come in through the SITP programme at entry level, have you in your "life experience" heard where people pass SITP and shell tells them " sorry we cant take you because you didn't attend an old generation school"? or you are implying that Shell will deny you SITP admission because you didn't attend an old gen. uni.? these people are more interested in the stuff you are made of not some yeye Nigerian old generation school that hasn't made first 50 universities in the world.