Nice thread, i have been an offshore personnel on and off since 2008, av been on the AKPO FPSO AND USAN FPSO all located in the gulf of Guinea which is regarded as deep offshore. When you work offshore trasversing the sea makes you give God more glory, vast sea, different aquatic creatures. Life onboard can be very regimented, you wake up early make sure u have ur breakfast early most cases before 6am for hookup periods, if u miss d breakfast then u can be recompensed with tea break by 9am. Its a challenging enviroment and you must play by the rules or get booted out. When you eat during meals there are no bosses, be u an engineer, a welder a doctor or the OIM, you must queue for ur meals and when u are done u must thrash d remnants urself. Drills (muster drills, fire drills or pirate drills) can be interesting and very annoying if its late lest say 2am. I do 4/4 weeks and it has helped me slow down on booze, its always fun when u call the family and hear ur kids asking daddy when are u coming back? there is harmony onboard most cases. But the disparity in pay hurts so much, caterers take home pay in some instances are a day's pay for others yet they work their asses off. We eagerly look out for timeoff date with joy but God bless u if chopper doesnt come due to one reason or the other. I sign out by saying 90% of offshore workers are flirts

YES!

Adbash:

Please do they employ Agricultural Engineer especially Soil and Water Engineer to work as an Engineer on ofshore too?

Wiinnd: Hey, i'm studying Production and Industrial Engineering in University of Benin. I'm in my Year 4. Production Engine is the best. The Mother of all Engineering. How you dey?

Am great oh bro. Hows uniben like na. cuz here in ATBU, probably due to the crazy combination of mechanical and production things no easy oh.
nobody has ever grad with a first class degree in the course since the existence of the school. very few 2.1 but 2.2 nd 3rd class are like promo

cuteboy2:

Interesting post. So after watching the po**, how did you deal with the resulting conji Please be honest

i have serious self control unlike you

estyann: I wish to be there o but I've never seen them advertise vacancies for production chemist or its equivalent....

you have place. You can function as Drill I fluid Engineer. just find a means of applying for a role a a drilling fluid Trainee. Good luck!

top10nigeria:

32million means that plus tax I am doing about 40. Also, my low 32 has to do with age and not yrs. Age is not on my side. I am 32. I have a colleague on my level who is 46 and on my same level earning 47mil. Also wages grow in "triangles". As you grow, your salary growth stalls. It has nothing to do with Technician or Engineering. Eg. my overall boss who is like the Installation manager earns about 70Mil and he has not had a salary increment for 3yrs because he has maxed out and only gets 5% annual productivity bonus and asset optimization bonus which is undefined depending on how much cost he saves. He is 30yrs in service, now Senior management and looking to retire in 2yrs. So salary is defined by a combination of all kinds of things that HR experts put together. Your first 10yrs, your salary will grow faster but then remember that the company wants to make sure they control how much pension they will have to pay you after retirement, especially considering that Nigeria staff get automatic 11% increase every year due to Nigeria inflation, plus the company is paying a percentage of your salary into your RSA. So there is a conscious effort to manage how much pension you will be due as at the time of retirement which makes also affects your salary growth.

discussions like this drive me crazy. Am a 100level student in ATBU.Bauchi. Mechanical and productions engineering.

@ Top man. you are a motivation. This discussion makes me want to do anything to get that 1st class. Mehn!

Where are the ladies? dem female engineers working shoulder to shoulder with their male counterpart, drilling that rig all day and never breaking a sweat..

What I meant is that I am presently on an FPSO.

upengineer: Yes, i work on one of the FPSOs you listed. You are really vast with FPSO names. As regards babes visiting, well on my FPSO, babes cant visit. Reason been the remoteness of the location and the distance. My location is deep water, Gulf of Guinea. Maybe other locations or BARGES but on a FPSO, i think no. But i stand to be corrected. Drills are normal, no special thing about it. It can happen anytime. Entry Qualification depends on the job you are coming in for and that is determined by the HR. There are different jobs for different people depending on where you belong. There is marine department, there we have 2nd officers, deck hands, riggers e.t.c to welders, to painters to galley hands. Though the galley (canteen) is handled by a third party company to Rope Access guys. Sure, there is job for everybody. Though, am in operations sha. I think i have answered some funny questions

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upengineer: Yes, i work on one of the FPSOs you listed. You are really vast with FPSO names. As regards babes visiting, well on my FPSO, babes cant visit. Reason been the remoteness of the location and the distance. My location is deep water, Gulf of Guinea. Maybe other locations or BARGES but on a FPSO, i think no. But i stand to be corrected. Drills are normal, no special thing about it. It can happen anytime. Entry Qualification depends on the job you are coming in for and that is determined by the HR. There are different jobs for different people depending on where you belong. There is marine department, there we have 2nd officers, deck hands, riggers e.t.c to welders, to painters to galley hands. Though the galley (canteen) is handled by a third party company to Rope Access guys. Sure, there is job for everybody. Though, am in operations sha. I think i have answered some funny questions

broda these rope guys how well is their pay and which department do they fall under & lastly are they in oil servicing or producing.

Wiinnd: was it through mail, they invited you? My Email nor kum dy open again. But even at that, don't u have someone dat works there?

actually a friend of mine told me to apply n i went down to their office at victoria island to drop my letter,the woman incharge of the collection said she will contact us through mail bt till today am yet to recieve any mail

obakovich:
Will dey employ you from Nigeria,witout Visa?

They will send you an invitation Letter, they will do the processing that's if you are qualified for the Job

bokoslayer:

Going from all posts before yours, there has been no single lie. The topic is one of the few things you can't lie about. It's either you have experienced it or not, seemples

ain't saying anyone lied. everyone is entitled to his/her opinion and that is mine. deal with it!

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top10nigeria:

LOL! I saw de dance too and I was lol.

Crazy! He probably found himself on a Tender Platform hooked to a Jack Up somewhere in Congo

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I remember when I nearly fell from the boat while working in offshore when a friend sent me a tweet from http://..com/

I work offshore as an (STC) safety training coordinator. We try our possible best to make employees maintain a safe attitude during their stay offshore so they can go back to their families at the end of their hitch as safe as they came. The working environment in the oil and gas industry is a hazardous one, but we believe safety is everyone's business and that zero incidence is achievable if all the parties involved work as a team watching after each other.

top10nigeria: The good thing about nairaland is you’ll never know me so I can write everything and not worry about my identity.
I work offshore and my Wife works offshore(Sub-sea Engineer). I work 2weeks tour while she works 4weeks tour.
The surest way of working offshore is to graduate first Class Engineering/Geo Sciences. My Wife had a first Class Chemical Engineering and Mine is Electronics. Production Oil companies won’t even invite you for Aptitude test if you do not have a 2-1 that is 4.0 and above. And now we have a lot of Nigerians with masters from UK, so its becoming harder for them to employ people with first degree. Now I am assuming you don’t have connections and your Parents are as broke as mine were when they were sending me to school. So that is one path to working offshore and I will call these people employed directly by the Oil companies as Level 1.
Another path is to be a Technical Non-Pro, eg. Cook, Secretary, medical, laundry, welder, painter, deck hands, etc… To make it easier, I will label this Level 2. Most of these people are on contract so they don’t get same level of compensation.
Eg. The average cook/laundry staff earns 840,000/yr
Average Technical Support eg. Pipe fitter/secretary/Welder etc will earn 4-8million a year
But the level 1 guys earn more.
Eg. Personally I earned a total remuneration of 32million last year and my wife Earned 23million last year. (I work for the majors while my Wife works for a Drilling Company – the majors(Exxonmobil / Total/ Shell / Chevron / Agip) always pay more than the drilling (Schlumberger / Transocean / Halliburton)
So the first thing I want those who want to work offshore to do is decide what type of job they want to do offshore. Do you want to be Level 1 or Level 2?
Personally, I have 15yrs of experience and I work in a production company so I am high paying. I don’t think there is anybody within my team including the 2year olds who earns a TR of less than 20million.
So I will encourage you guys to go back to your books and read them so hard.
For me the best part of working offshore is the 2weeks off. I will not transfer to the office for a 200% increase in wages and maybe its because I started working offshore when I was 18. Plus I work on measurement and control systems, so I don’t do any physical work like my folks in mechanical who have to work on pumps, so I am on the best job in the world right now. Also, the Time off allows me to spend time on my other endeavors and For me that is the best part of working offshore. Note: My Wife hates it, but because I am away half of the time, she is managing the job until she can go back to school for her masters.
I hope this adds a different perspective to the conversation.

Your wife wants to go for masters, do first class do master's lies from the pit of hell

Seeeeeeee: Your wife wants to go for masters, do first class do master's lies from the pit of hell

A friend of mine had first class and she went for masters. Its not a lie u poverty stricken He Goat

Here are course been train in western world for faster job in offshore field for entry level jobs, leasehand, floorhand, motorhand, derrickman, ass.driller and drillers, with these course you can get offshore job fast, you start small and grow up, once you get to assistant driller before driller, you are in $$$$$$$$$.

wish they teach all these course here.

hope my info helps to those looking for offshore jobs.

obakovich:
A friend of mine had first class and she went for masters. Its not a lie u poverty stricken He Goat

Your mother

Really Interesting... hhmmnn
I read Mechanical Engineering and Currently running my Masters Degree in same field but not working yet I have done almost all d offshore trainings n certifications like HSSE, ROUSTABOUT, BOSIET etc.
U guys should help Me out oooooo. I have everything companies require. my email is chimaudei@gmail.com. I will kind appreciate any dat will ask for my CV to help me out. tnx n love U all.

chimaude: Really Interesting... hhmmnn
I read Mechanical Engineering and Currently running my Masters Degree in same field but not working yet I have done almost all d offshore trainings n certifications like HSSE, ROUSTABOUT, BOSIET etc.
U guys should help Me out oooooo. I have everything companies require. my email is chimaudei@gmail.com. I will kind appreciate any dat will ask for my CV to help me out. tnx n love U all.

Just be on the look outn had d same issue did all that in Maritime Academy Ghana and no Job. A friend called me to start as a motorman in a land rig and d rest is history

salamso96:

Am great oh bro. Hows uniben like na. cuz here in ATBU, probably due to the crazy combination of mechanical and production things no easy oh.
nobody has ever grad with a first class degree in the course since the existence of the school. very few 2.1 but 2.2 nd 3rd class are like promo

waoo! Menh production is the best. Mechanical is hell. I did few mechanical frm my 200 to 300 level. I swear,them dy kill G.P. My production courses are the one i had my best grades. By God,s grace 2.1 is sure 4 me.

Seeeeeeee: Your mother

She dey house. I know I had ur mom pregnant and she gave me prick lice

Ur last line was not OK. Pls apologise to the guy.

obakovich:
A friend of mine had first class and she went for masters. Its not a lie u poverty stricken He Goat

segzysexy: actually a friend of mine told me to apply n i went down to their office at victoria island to drop my letter,the woman incharge of the collection said she will contact us through mail bt till today am yet to recieve any mail

Then, how did u now know u've bin invited for the test next week?

udz: Ur last line was not OK. Pls apologise to the guy.

So it gives him d right to curse my mama? Y did he say d guy if from hell

obakovich:
She dey house. I know I had ur mom pregnant and she gave me prick lice

Not funny try harder next time Didn't ask of your dad cos I know you don't have, product of your kobo kobo prostitute mum. Your mum told you that your father died is cover up, ask her of your dad relation. You being born was a mistake.lol

Wiinnd: waoo! Menh production is the best. Mechanical is hell. I did few mechanical frm my 200 to 300 level. I swear,them dy kill G.P. My production courses are the one i had my best grades. By God,s grace 2.1 is sure 4 me.

Please sir, what is the difference between mechanical engineering and product engineering? Or is product engineering a sub department under mechanical engineering?