paulista:
I work with end time oil and gas. Can i contribute

bisdam9086:
Hmmmmmmmm

AjanleKoko:


Shuo?
I work for oil company before?

nedie:
Good day all

I saw thread about how to survive as a contract staff in the banking industry and couldn’t help but create one for the IOCs.

Not that I know how to survive but anyone working there can educate the house.

I work in a bank but most times I always wonder if it is the same thing in the oil and gas industry. Maybe because I aspire to work there someday.

The discrimination is real! I can’t help but wonder, in all them oil companies is it the same level of discrimination? Is it as bad as it in banks?

The banks discriminate financially, benefit-wise even when it comes to work, the contract staff get a larger share and the worst part is that there is no hope of being converted to a full staff

So i`m calling on those who have worked in the oil and gas sector, please enlighten the house.

Cc jarus xfire scantee

tollytexy:



U suppose don get church .. welcome to Nairaland prayer ministry

jascon1:
Worked in the oil and gas for three and a half years in Nigeria and nearly two years in Canada. I want to know what you're asking. Physical hazards/dangers or working conditions?

free2ryhme:
Don't expect anyone to divulge useful information. Nigerian youth don't wish each other well

free2ryhme:


Kilode

free2ryhme:


Kilode

nedie:
Good day all

I saw thread about how to survive as a contract staff in the banking industry and couldn’t help but create one for the IOCs.

Not that I know how to survive but anyone working there can educate the house.

I work in a bank but most times I always wonder if it is the same thing in the oil and gas industry. Maybe because I aspire to work there someday.

The discrimination is real! I can’t help but wonder, in all them oil companies is it the same level of discrimination? Is it as bad as it in banks?

The banks discriminate financially, benefit-wise even when it comes to work, the contract staff get a larger share and the worst part is that there is no hope of being converted to a full staff

So i`m calling on those who have worked in the oil and gas sector, please enlighten the house.

Cc jarus xfire scantee

MadCow1:
Being a Contract staff in an International Oil company is nothing like being in the banks. It all depends on whatsssg your job description is.


I started my working career in Nigeria in an IOC as a Contract staff. My job description was good. I was an assistant to a lead engineer.

My salary was ridiculous. Infact, I remember going into the club on a Champagne run after I received my first alert.

Because of my job description and the boss I had at the time, I worked like I was a full staff. No complaints as I was doing the job of a lead. The environment was very professional and really enjoyed my work.

Now the down side I experienced was with my Contractor. Every Contract Staff in an IOC is managed by a Contractor. Your salary is not paid directly to you but through your contractor who then takes a percentage of that salary before paying you the rest. My first contractor was taking 55% of my contract value. It's also very difficult to change who manages your contract as your contractor owns the contract and you work for him not for the IOC. Whereas companies like SPDC has a set percentage overhead any Contractor can take from a Contract Staff, companies like Total does not meddle in such so alot of Contract staff are getting fhucked over by their contractor. A friend of mine was on a day rate of 80,000 Naira and his contractor was paying him just 40%. He was entitled to a Christmas bonus that was being paid to his contractor that he never got. The Christmas bonus was the equivalent of his 1 month salary (22 days pay).

There were a few discriminatory aspects to working as a Contract staff in an IOC, but I couldn't care less. Example is that Contract Staff and Permanent Staff have different lunch feeding Times. After the Permanent staff are done, then the Contract staff can go eat what's left. The food is good but I never bothered. One annoying part was that most Oyinbos in these IOCs are contract staff, but they can go eat with permanent staff whilst we blacks wait for them to finish. There were many cases of Black Expatriates (some of whom were managers) being turned back at the door of the restaurant unknowingly.. Then during the new year when things like Calenders and Diaries come in, only staff anf Oyinbos Expatriate contract staff gets the Diaries .. We black Contract staff only get calenders. So I never had any calenders of my company in my house.


My advise to Contract Staff in IOCS is please be confident in yourself and take pride in your work. If you are of the menial contract staff designation (errand boy/girl), better go asking for real work to be assigned to you voluntarily, learn the ropes and make yourself an asset so when an opening comes up you can move away from that errand boy position into a proper office job.

As a Contract staff, learn to always have a savings as you can be fired anytime with no compensation or renumeration. That's why you are paid on a daily basis. I remember how I lost my job.. I knew it was coming, Ai just didn't expect it on that Tuesday. . keep a saving for the rainy days that can happen upon you at short notice.


Finally... I really enjoy being a contract staff. Apart from the fact that there is no job security, the pay is ridiculous. As a Contract staff, you make sometimes as much as 3 to 4 times the salary of a permanent staff. But if you want a permanent staff job, get all the experience you can out of your contract position and move on.


Hope this helps.


MadCow

ciwi:
Very insightful. Sounds like you really had fun. Hope you have gotten something else

PepsiBoy:
I work in the oil and gas industry and I can confirm to you that regular employees are not treated in the same way as contract employees. Regular employees are direct employees of the multinational companies. As such, their benefits and other compensatory packages are significantly different from those of contract employees. This is NOT discrimination per se.

Also, in most cases, the method of recruitment differs significantly. Most regular or direct employees of IOCs go through a very rigorous recruitment process, and recruitment is based strictly on merit (strong academic qualification, aptitude test, skill test, interviews). The standard for recruiting contract employees is not the same. As a matter of fact, contract employees are recruited by third party contractors, and often, most (not all) contract employees usually do not meet the criteria set for direct recruitment by the IOCs. I must say though that there are some contract employees who are better qualified and more competent than regular employees, but they are somewhat unlucky.

The above notwithstanding, contract employees who work in most IOCs are treated well, even though their compensation is nothing close to what the regular employees get. On the average, depending on the department, and company, a contract employee gets something between 200k and 350k per month.

Contract employees enjoy free lunch, have access to bus service to and from work daily, and a few other benefits. A regular employee cannot look down on a contract employee or harass a contract employee. Doing so will attract appropriate sanctions, including dismissal. The IOCs generally treat contract employees as their own staff, except in terms of remuneration and other benefits. There is no discrimination.

In some cases, some contract employees, with specialized skills, earn more than regular employees.

A contract employee who works hard and distinguishes himself will eventually have his opportunity for conversion or successfully go through the stringent recruitment process.

I hope this has helped clarify issues?

MadCow1:
Being a Contract staff in an International Oil company is nothing like being in the banks. It all depends on what your job description is.


I started my working career in Nigeria in an IOC as a Contract staff. My job description was good. I was an assistant to a lead engineer.

My salary was ridiculous. Infact, I remember going into the club on a Champagne run after I received my first alert.

Because of my job description and the boss I had at the time, I worked like I was a full staff. No complaints as I was doing the job of a lead. The environment was very professional and really enjoyed my work.

Now the down side I experienced was with my Contractor. Every Contract Staff in an IOC is managed by a Contractor. Your salary is not paid directly to you but through your contractor who then takes a percentage of that salary before paying you the rest. My first contractor was taking 55% of my contract value. It's also very difficult to change who manages your contract as your contractor owns the contract and you work for him not for the IOC. Whereas companies like SPDC has a set percentage overhead any Contractor can take from a Contract Staff, companies like Total does not meddle in such so alot of Contract staff are getting fhucked over by their contractor. A friend of mine was on a day rate of 80,000 Naira and his contractor was paying him just 40%. He was entitled to a Christmas bonus that was being paid to his contractor that he never got. The Christmas bonus was the equivalent of his 1 month salary (22 days pay).

There were a few discriminatory aspects to working as a Contract staff in an IOC, but I couldn't care less. Example is that Contract Staff and Permanent Staff have different lunch feeding Times. After the Permanent staff are done, then the Contract staff can go eat what's left. The food is good but I never bothered. One annoying part was that most Oyinbos in these IOCs are contract staff, but they can go eat with permanent staff whilst we blacks wait for them to finish. There were many cases of Black Expatriates (some of whom were managers) being turned back at the door of the restaurant unknowingly.. Then during the new year when things like Calenders and Diaries come in, only staff anf Oyinbos Expatriate contract staff gets the Diaries .. We black Contract staff only get calenders. So I never had any calenders of my company in my house.


My advise to Contract Staff in IOCS is please be confident in yourself and take pride in your work. If you are of the menial contract staff designation (errand boy/girl), better go asking for real work to be assigned to you voluntarily, learn the ropes and make yourself an asset so when an opening comes up you can move away from that errand boy position into a proper office job.

As a Contract staff, learn to always have a savings as you can be fired anytime with no compensation or renumeration. That's why you are paid on a daily basis. I remember how I lost my job.. I knew it was coming, Ai just didn't expect it on that Tuesday. . keep a saving for the rainy days that can happen upon you at short notice.


Finally... I really enjoy being a contract staff. Apart from the fact that there is no job security, the pay is ridiculous. As a Contract staff, you make sometimes as much as 3 to 4 times the salary of a permanent staff. But if you want a permanent staff job, get all the experience you can out of your contract position and move on.


Hope this helps.


MadCow

PepsiBoy:
I work in the oil and gas industry and I can confirm to you that regular employees are not treated in the same way as contract employees. Regular employees are direct employees of the multinational companies. As such, their benefits and other compensatory packages are significantly different from those of contract employees. This is NOT discrimination per se.

Also, in most cases, the method of recruitment differs significantly. Most regular or direct employees of IOCs go through a very rigorous recruitment process, and recruitment is based strictly on merit (strong academic qualification, aptitude test, skill test, interviews). The standard for recruiting contract employees is not the same. As a matter of fact, contract employees are recruited by third party contractors, and often, most (not all) contract employees usually do not meet the criteria set for direct recruitment by the IOCs. I must say though that there are some contract employees who are better qualified and more competent than regular employees, but they are somewhat unlucky.

The above notwithstanding, contract employees who work in most IOCs are treated well, even though their compensation is nothing close to what the regular employees get. On the average, depending on the department, and company, a contract employee gets something between 200k and 350k per month.

Contract employees enjoy free lunch, have access to bus service to and from work daily, and a few other benefits. A regular employee cannot look down on a contract employee or harass a contract employee. Doing so will attract appropriate sanctions, including dismissal. The IOCs generally treat contract employees as their own staff, except in terms of remuneration and other benefits. There is no discrimination.

In some cases, some contract employees, with specialized skills, earn more than regular employees.

A contract employee who works hard and distinguishes himself will eventually have his opportunity for conversion or successfully go through the stringent recruitment process.

I hope this has helped clarify issues?

Mrbigman1:


Good day sire. I have some insight, am busy at work sha but i'd be shabby in my explanation make dem no run me off.

First the oil company is just too large.
It divided into 3.
The producing, services and rig companies.

The producing can be shell, chevron, agip, exxon, total, addax. These are international firms. Local producing are Oando, conoil, seplat and co.

Services are about a billion of them. Including baker huges, Schlumberger, weatherford, haliburton, Eni, franks, Cameron, Nov etc which are d international level, local are now leading, thanks to deziani's policies.

Now, dis are contract staffs here and main staff. People would even prefer to work as contract in any organisation in d oil firm, it depends on ur bargain as an experienced hand to determine what u get. Some people bargain 1k dollars per day on d job, some 5oo dollars and so on. But as a real staff, u can still be dia and not even ve anything. So, the oil industry is only beneficial as experienced hand.
As a normal staff, ur basic salary can be as low as 100k, 50 k, 200k, wia we make our money is when at work, den depending on what ur company is into, how much dey make, dat how dey pay.

As for the rig company is almost a manual labour but dia money be like blood money sha depending on wia dey work.

If u work in d deep ocean on a ship, na blood money, if u work in shallow waters on a jack up, semi sub and the rest, another blood money, if u work in a swamp, small blood money, land rig na suffer head but na practice to get to the right place.

Dey are the only ones who goes in 2 weeks in and out cos of how tedious dia work is.

A drillers over here in a deep ocean get about 2million or more for two weeks.

Na small small, most people spend about 10 years here before dey have a break through, so any work na work, depending on commitment, experience and qualifications.

If u wanna join, start thinking of professional courses and starting small cos only few can start from big.

Ekelem unu ndi biafra

MadCow1:
Being a Contract staff in an International Oil company is nothing like being in the banks. It all depends on what your job description is.


I started my working career in Nigeria in an IOC as a Contract staff. My job description was good. I was an assistant to a lead engineer.

My salary was ridiculous. Infact, I remember going into the club on a Champagne run after I received my first alert.

Because of my job description and the boss I had at the time, I worked like I was a full staff. No complaints as I was doing the job of a lead. The environment was very professional and really enjoyed my work.

Now the down side I experienced was with my Contractor. Every Contract Staff in an IOC is managed by a Contractor. Your salary is not paid directly to you but through your contractor who then takes a percentage of that salary before paying you the rest. My first contractor was taking 55% of my contract value. It's also very difficult to change who manages your contract as your contractor owns the contract and you work for him not for the IOC. Whereas companies like SPDC has a set percentage overhead any Contractor can take from a Contract Staff, companies like Total does not meddle in such so alot of Contract staff are getting fhucked over by their contractor. A friend of mine was on a day rate of 80,000 Naira and his contractor was paying him just 40%. He was entitled to a Christmas bonus that was being paid to his contractor that he never got. The Christmas bonus was the equivalent of his 1 month salary (22 days pay).

There were a few discriminatory aspects to working as a Contract staff in an IOC, but I couldn't care less. Example is that Contract Staff and Permanent Staff have different lunch feeding Times. After the Permanent staff are done, then the Contract staff can go eat what's left. The food is good but I never bothered. One annoying part was that most Oyinbos in these IOCs are contract staff, but they can go eat with permanent staff whilst we blacks wait for them to finish. There were many cases of Black Expatriates (some of whom were managers) being turned back at the door of the restaurant unknowingly.. Then during the new year when things like Calenders and Diaries come in, only staff anf Oyinbos Expatriate contract staff gets the Diaries .. We black Contract staff only get calenders. So I never had any calenders of my company in my house.


My advise to Contract Staff in IOCS is please be confident in yourself and take pride in your work. If you are of the menial contract staff designation (errand boy/girl), better go asking for real work to be assigned to you voluntarily, learn the ropes and make yourself an asset so when an opening comes up you can move away from that errand boy position into a proper office job.

As a Contract staff, learn to always have a savings as you can be fired anytime with no compensation or renumeration. That's why you are paid on a daily basis. I remember how I lost my job.. I knew it was coming, Ai just didn't expect it on that Tuesday. . keep a saving for the rainy days that can happen upon you at short notice.


Finally... I really enjoy being a contract staff. Apart from the fact that there is no job security, the pay is ridiculous. As a Contract staff, you make sometimes as much as 3 to 4 times the salary of a permanent staff. But if you want a permanent staff job, get all the experience you can out of your contract position and move on.


Hope this helps.


MadCow

nedie:
Good day all

I saw thread about how to survive as a contract staff in the banking industry and couldn’t help but create one for the IOCs.

Not that I know how to survive but anyone working there can educate the house.

I work in a bank but most times I always wonder if it is the same thing in the oil and gas industry. Maybe because I aspire to work there someday.

The discrimination is real! I can’t help but wonder, in all them oil companies is it the same level of discrimination? Is it as bad as it in banks?

The banks discriminate financially, benefit-wise even when it comes to work, the contract staff get a larger share and the worst part is that there is no hope of being converted to a full staff

So i`m calling on those who have worked in the oil and gas sector, please enlighten the house.

Cc jarus xfire scantee

Lynuche:
Nna, I'm still upcoming. Haven't even gotten the experience.. Can u please intimate on the type of professional courses you mean?

Mayany:
Sir,i believe all contract staff in most IOCs are praying to become permanent staff. I beg to differ that contract staff receive more than permanent staff maybe that was then, but presently it is incomparable... All PS receives their salary on or before 25th of every month, while a CS can be owed for up to 5 month salary depending on his contractor. however my concern is how to make extra cash from my savings while i am on time off... thanks

Vanquay:
I changed Majors from Petroleum Engineering to Computer Engineering this year, I'm not sure if that's the right choice yet.


But I certainly don't want My Job opportunities to be tied down to a particular Region. Also, if you harbor Office jobs, this could be for you. There's the issue of overexposure and danger to your sperms, but Fvck your Goldigga on time and you should be okay


Overall The Monetary benefits outweigh the disadvantages.

obibob2020:
According to what my elder brother told me. He said that the level of discrimination in oil and gas sector is perturbing. Whenever i pay him a visit in his office, i will over heard people gossiping each other base on who earn higher than the other. They compare their houses and cars. Even the INDIANS do treats Nigerians like slaves. Though i would have started working with STERLING GLOBAL OIL AND GAS but i have been told to hold on till january due to a fall in oil price. And moreuver, permanent staff earn higher than contracts staff.

jascon1:
Worked in the oil and gas for three and a half years in Nigeria and nearly two years in Canada. I want to know what you're asking. Physical hazards/dangers or working conditions?