Petroleum Engineers - Bp, Total, Exxonmobil Or Chevron?

Right from my undergrad, I've always dreamt of working in Chevron and I know I'm close by the special grace of God.

Although, Exxonmobil rates highest amongst the four from PIW ranking of world Oil companies.

@poster

Firstly, all 4 are big companies with 'secure' future I would presume. It is not very smart to pick a company based on who you ran into when you were young or which has the best entry pay. Your choice should rely upon the position the company is offering, opportunities for self development and the little extra that comes with the new job. Most of all, It should be what you want.

Even though our economy has made us have the 'anything' mentality, a job offer from the afore mentioned companies should give you the push to put what you want on the table and weigh it against the offers.

A person can pick Schlumberger over BP just because of the fire brigade approach Slb offers for example. So IMO, I think your personal goals and dreams should be the yardstick to pick the company to go with.

It is very important for us to know the country in which you are domiciled!!

@Kelly

Have u tried Addax?

Addax is ok but not as big as the four mentioned.

I do  NOT agree sir, Vendors ( contractors) offers more in term of career exposure than Operators. That could inform the choice

If you r not in the industry please don't talk.
Restating my point. Schlum is a servicing contractor. I didn't need to include oil producing because schlum does not produce, market or sell crude oil.They are simply contractors. same goes for halliburton.

Mr, u don't know what your talking about. I am giving the guy advice based on career prospects and longetivity in the oil industry. I repeat, why work for a contractor when you can work for the BOSS.
Contractors are the first to go in a recession. Do you know how many people schlum lays off every year. Yes they probably hire over 3000 new grads every year in the U.S but the employment is shortlived. What do you think happens to these employees when projects stop coming from the oil companies.
Do you know that a lot of layoffs are currently going on. So far, the only major oil company to announce layoffs in the U.S is conocophillips. All the others i advised the guy to go for (Exxon, Total, Bp) are not laying off nada. Schlum has been laying off workers way before the recession.

You have just stated in that long hallowed paragraph that the only reason with which you choose an organisation to work for is job security. If that is your reason thats fine as you may like to do a job you hate just because it pays the bills and that you will never get sacked. His career goals may well be working towards improving ER Drilling for example and that my friend is something he can achieve working for a goddam contractor. It is that simple.

People usually choose jobs for a lot more reasons than job security in times of economic slowdown. Back to the slb qualification, slb is a company in the oil/gas industry that provide services to other companies!!! The issue just lies with semantics and not mis-classification and your own interpretation of a company in the petroleum industry. For all you know, a company with no permission to search for and exploit oil/gas reserves should not be called an oil companyy even of all their business interests deals specifically with the industry. If you are bothered with semantics and for the sake of pedantry insist on oil producing than I will call a truce but i still stand by my statement that slb is a company in the oil industry and can be loosely mentioned when talking about jobs in the oil industry.

Your the one playing with words here. The issue did not involve slb in the first place and I only mentioned slb because like I said earlier when scouting for jobs in the oil/gas industry, you would consult companies with business interests in that industry and the companies range from BP to Schlumberger. Arguing about their specific roles and which companies would give you a better fit is another thing. That is even the crux of the thread, which company would better fit him.

He did not state his goals or preferences at work so you can not tell him slb is a freaking contractor and so cannot offer him anything Mobil for example cannot offer. That is an ignorant statement! Schlumberger have research centres and develop tools that improve oil exploration/production. What if the fellow is interested in research interests currently carried out by slb? Would he for the sake of job security drop his dream and take another job because it is a big company? OR you will tell me no one has ever worked till retirement age at slb?

BTW, the guy didn't even include slb. I only brought it in to show an example were someone can take a seemingly (to people like you) daft option just because of personal satisfaction.