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Hello and good day to you.

Please, I'm curious about how abundant employment opportunities are for petroleum engineers (drilling, completion, reservoir and production engineers) as well as what entry level salary looks like. With respect to joining the regulatory bodies or acquisition of license to practice how does the process look like? Do you think it's very important to have Canadian experience/education in order to secure a job opportunity as I've been told that it is? Thank you for your overall contribution to this thread.

Zeus04:
Depends on the firm... Firms would pay around 120k - 140k to developers with like 3-5 years experience... More goes to folks with more experience. Also, Full-stack developers usually earn more.

I know firms based in the US pay way more cos of their market and also due to the USD to CAD conversion rate.

sanyalai:
I received a text message that my passport is ready for collection. However, the pick up date on the enrollment form stated 26th January 2022. Should I go ahead to the passport office or wait till the stated pickup date?
It's DIY, 32 pages (renewal). Captured on the 29th of November, message received 16th December.

Maybe, for starters try checking your passport/application status online through NIS portal and see what the portal says.

Congrats. What's your date of capture and was it fresh application? I'm trying to compare it with my 4th October capture date for renewal although I was not given a collection date.

dex711:
Collected my passport today at Alausa, DIY. The collection date on my slip was 26 Nov, the passport was issued on that day. Had to sit for almost 8 hrs before my name was called. Worth the wait though

Go there with the list of required docs. Check this thread plus the NIS site for the list of the docs.

AmandaBloom:
Abeg make una help me o!
So, I did the DIY online application and it was successful, the payment everything was successful, I picked FESTAC for the immigration office, but in the application form, no interview date was written, it brought out :no interview date available, so, should I hold on and wait a bit or just go to the immigration office.

Congrats. What's the issue date on the passport?

folu500:
Finally got my passport yesterday.

Strictly DIY, it's 32pages 5 years passport. I captured on the 30th of August at Alausa Ikeja.

Had to spend the whole day in their office, we were not attended to until late in the evening.

Thank God my time was not wasted in vain.

Hello guys, I did my capturing at Alausa for 32 pages 5 years DIY renewal on 4th October, but I'm not in Lagos to check if it's ready for pick-up and all of my contacts are working so they cannot check for me. Is there anyone here who did capturing on or after 4th October that has gotten theirs? Or if you know anyone who did capturing on or after 4th October that has gotten theirs? Thank you. O have tried messaging the facebook page but they didn't reply after seeing it.

Nickelodeon93:
them no give me my enrollment number when I did capturing..i told the man I needed my enrollment number so my contact ça use it to print my passport from Abuja. Unfortunately the man said he can only give it to a colleague that I should tell her to call him.. I just say make I free am till maybe Tuesday when I go ask if paper Don show

Dunno why you were not given enrollment number, but I captured in Alausa and so different centers may have different procedures.

smoothblaise:
What day was written for your collection date?

No collection date was written on the slip. It was just my name, enrollment number, capture date and the acronym "VIP".

Hello guys, I did my capturing at Alausa for 32 pages 5 years DIY renewal on 4th October, but I'm not in Lagos to check if it's ready for pick-up and all of my contacts are working so they cannot check for me. Is there anyone here who did capturing on or after 4th October that has gotten theirs? Or if you know anyone who did capturing on or after 4th October that has gotten theirs? Thank you. O have tried messaging the facebook page but they didn't reply after seeing it.

Hello guys, I did my capturing at Alausa for 32 pages 5 years DIY renewal on 4th October, but I'm not in Lagos to check if it's ready for pick -up and all of my contacts are working so they cannot check for me. Is there anyone here who did capturing on or after 4th October that has gotten theirs? Or if you know anyone who did capturing on or after 4th October that has gotten theirs? Thank you. I have tried messaging the facebook page but they didn't reply after seeing it.

Hello guys, I did my capturing at Alausa for 32 pages 5 years DIY renewal on 4th October, but I'm not in Lagos to check if it's ready for pick -up and all of my contacts are working so they cannot check for me. Is there anyone here who did capturing on or after 4th October that has gotten theirs? Or if you know anyone who did capturing on or after 4th October that has gotten theirs? Thank you. O have tried messaging the facebook page but they didn't reply after seeing it.

Hello guys. Please, I am unable to register on the portal and create an account. The "continue" button doesn't click after entering my name and email address. How do I resolve or work around this?

Hello guys. Please, I am unable to register on the portal and create an account. The "continue" button doesn't click after entering my name and email address. How do I resolve or work around this?

Hello all. I will keep this short. Essentially, I am an oil and gas engineering graduate looking for opportunities to add value to a service company and develop my career. I have sent out lots of applications for vacancies in oil and gas, but I don't even get any replies, be it even rejection reply.
My experience is in the sourcing of quotes, project management and a bit of logistics aspects. However, I want more than that. What I want is the field stuff; drilling and production to be precise. Problem is there are no vacant entry level positions. Companies want 4 plus years of experience and I do not have that. Even more limiting are the expensive certifications and courses applicants are expected to have.
I would love to be on a drilling rig and experiencing activities like how the mud system works, tripping in and out, making of connections, pumping of mud into the well, solids control equipment, LWD, MWD, bit changing, casing, cementing, perforation, well completion etc. I'd love to see the different drilling techniques, calculations involved, well control stuff, even something simple like setting up a rig.
I check adverts for other countries and these entry positions abound with amazing benefits, but none such positions are being advertised in Nigeria. Why is that? I can understand that expatriates occupy the top positions, but then why are entry level positions like,motorman, mud engineer, geophysicist, derrick-man, assistant driller, mud engineer not being advertised?
The truth is there are a lot of service companies executing these drilling projects that are unknown to job seekers. Sometimes if you were told the sort of big projects a seemingly small companies handle you would be in disbelief. And these companies do in-house hiring.
So, hiring is strictly based on having someone on the inside who possesses information about the vacancy. No wonder we are living in the IT age. It's all about the information you possess and how relevant and timely it is. But what do we who are qualified for these vacant positions but lack information about them do? You know while studying my dream was to land a good job after my studies and work my way up the ladder, develop myself, grow in rank, take on more responsibility and live a life of meaning. I am not living the dream and it's a sad situation.
I am sad at this 'man-know-man' concept that has crippled a major sector on the country's economy. A barrel of oil costs more to produce in Nigeria than in any other country. Do we drill in the desert or in snow or in an other climatically-challenging environment? Definitely, no. There are many countries who do and incur additional cost due to the terrain where they drill, but they still manage to turn better profit than we in Nigeria, absent of these circumstances, do. Yeah, I understand we drill a lot offshore, but and so what. Our cost of drilling still is above other countries' offshore cost.
Anyways, I would want to conclude that things have to change in this country and soon the change must happen. Well, I am still open to opportunities in the upstream sector in any case and so if you have adverts and vacancies for anything entry-level drilling and production related, kindly do post them here and if you want to PM me or send an email that also works.

It can't be, according to the lady I spoke with. But it may just be a lie to make me spend another 1k. I'll push for the upgrade when I go to the bank.

eben123:
Ask customer care if it can be upgraded,if not then go get another one..the previous one will be deactivated...

It's local low.

eben123:
If you have an email attached to ur account, UBA must have sent u a welcome message when u got the card,just check ur headline of the email...

Also for Pos and atm to decline the card means the card hasn't been successfully activated,Fund your account and try changing your pin again..Check the paper that was use to wrap the card for the default pin,input that pin first then put ur new pin and make sure it's successfully changed..You can try check ur account balance to confirm if it has been successfully changed..

Customer service says It's local low. Sucks.

Apus:
Alright. You might have to get in touch with customer care. Most probably a pin reset issue.

I'm not exactly sure about the international high. UBA has customer service? Will see about that option.

kendoschurrle:
If you are sure you have the international high then maybe you made a mistake in the set up (changing your pin, etc). If so, call UBA customer service to reset the card.

I do have Lesotho.
The card gets declined as well by POS and ATM even if I fund it from my normal account, which makes the situation seem like it's the card problem.

Apus:
Check if your PayPal is actually Lesotho and not SA. That was the same error I used to get with linking my card to my PayPal account till I discovered it wasn't Lesotho PayPal.

"Your card was declined by the issuing bank. Please try a different card or contact your card issuer with questions", error message I got from trying to link Africard to PayPal. I think something wasn't right with how my card was issued because apart from this, I can't use it to withdraw from atm or pos even when I fund it. I need help with this please, guys.