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techmatas:
Urgently Needed a female sales engineer in a company in Trans Amadi, Port Harcourt.
Send your CV to info@advanxis.com

DevilSignature:


The universe is revolving around science, technology and research. and, in Nigeria our Universities of Agriculture are on strike.

Nigeria on a funky panky education system can never be a match of developing countries in the world.

SU50:
Informative write up. I would like to know what areas of tech (IT) are most in demand or are frequently found in an oil and gas coy?

Kryptomight:
oil and gas is one field i am very keen on. this is incredible

jjxxx:
Pls I studied physics/electronics and graduated with a second class upper division. I can build inverters, fire alarm, automatic pumping machine controller device that controls the on and off of the machine wen empty and wen full, I can also build other electronic devices. I am also into solar power installation. But still searching for a good opportunity in the oil and gas sector. Pls kindly update me of any openings. I love field work as it gives me joy troubleshooting, repairing and installation of anything electrical/electronics. I have don my HUET, HSE 1,2, and 3. I’ve also done swimming test in spdc. If u have any link to one of these oil companies, I will be grateful. Thank u.

updatechange:
Had a brief stint there as an excavator operator... It was a great experience full of adventure and memories.

Autobot05:
I sent you A pm on WhatsApp and I also applied on your website

nectarmama:
can actually vouch for google assistant. it has been very helpful to me

updatechange:
I was part of the team in 2018 ladol.... Shi company.

chiefzebulu:
Robots would do well in the industrial area. I mean look at Japan for example, over 1.5 million robots are already in use in their various industries. Hopefully one day Nigeria would embrace such high tech functionally.
Good thread btw
Very educative
Kudos

simplistical:
thanks

tensazangetsu20:
I don't need it anymore just wondering why it's so hard and you must know someone to be employed.

tensazangetsu20:
You have so much experience in the field. This was my dream as an undergraduate. I did marine engineering but I work as a programmer. Why is it so hard to see jobs in this field. Almost every mechanical, electrical and other forms of engineering students are going into IT cause getting this engineering jobs without knowing anyone is almost impossible. Why is the field like this?

smalldoctor002:
i wonder how much they cost and what it maintenance entails.

saintkeppy:
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Yeah, u gat it
Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) is an area of Specialty in Subsea Engineering.

saintkeppy:
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We should be like Norway or Singapore atleast, we have about the longest coastline in West Africa where Maritime activities like Ship building should be initiated, or is it not wise we bring in either of SHI&HHI or some of those Norwaygian Companies to Nigeria and see how we can synergize? What's your take on this?

deepwater:
The reason this is so is because apart from the technology-know-how, shipyards struggle with soaring steel prices. When compared, the ralative cheaper cost of Grade A steel ( Per ASTM Grading System ) in Asia makes the market more viable for the ASIA market.

some few years ago after the fall of the deepwater market in Nigeria, when the whole driil ships and semi left, I moved into shipbuilding, worked with an European shipbuilding giant. Guess what? while all the techology were complete european however, we worked from an asia yard in vietnam! just to reduce labour and steel cost. even sister projects in romania were being transferred to asian yard. That was about the time the Nigeria FG was building some vessels for the NPA and Nigeria Navy.

Years later, i moved to ULSAN under (Hyundai Mipo Dockyard) HMD not HHI. Still on the same case, while it is the biggest shipyard in the world it boils down to their ability to access cheaper still (not less value though) and their engineering diversity.

Engineering dieversity in the sense that more than half of the critical equipment and machinery on board these assets are built and designed by them. i would have love to showcase what we call owners furnished equipment (OFE) list but cant for obvious reasons. There in you would see clearly the need for Nigeria to have integrated engineering companies to stay afloat in the ship construction business. For it is more than just having shipyards on coastlines which we already have enough!

Our local content in Nigeria is all talk, no blames seriously (dont get me wrong)! Truth is u cant guve what u dont have, our interpretation of local content is all about human resources and not local technology. I have worked entensively with the west atlantic shipyard at Onne, yes we have local resourced personnel trained to handle the machines and read/interprete engineering designs but the day u dont get that spare from overseas, the workers would have to seat and wait for it! if cummis, NIGATA, siemens, RollsRoyce or CAT aint supplying you that engine bro u cant do nothing about it! you cant even rebuild an engine without spares from overseas, so what is the noise about local content. I know some fellow in the hood who worked on the topside for Egina project, those guys have been abandoned since egina left lagos, some don enter street dey press because Nigeria does not have the local technology to keep them engaged. no be to operate sand blasting or chipping abi na to do pipefitting be ship construction o! local content is more to that! a simple example, virtually all the dynamic positioned vessels in Nigeria is working with Konsberg technology. That is what is called local content for the Norwegian people, u cant run a DP vessel in Nigeria without them.

an advise to Nigeria, leave FPSO construction. start now and actively to master dry-docking.... let me ask this stupi.d question:- where would all these FPSO in Nigeria go for their dry docking exercise when due for their mandatory class special renewal Namibia, cape town or back to Ulsan?

I knew what i saw at durign the last symp leg repair at the Sea Eagle, same thing about to happen for the BONGA TAM coming up this year ending circa Oct 2022. I would be participating in BONGA again, buy not in the capacity i honestly would have wished for.

Lastly, its all about business for Nigeria and not about sustainability, otherwise we would have sized the Bull itself and not just taking it by the horn



Presently in Ulsan for my second tour....

saintkeppy:
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FPSO is expensive to acquire, Usan cost Total over $1B or so, my friend's elder bro was in HHI, Ulsan S.Korea procurement &naming ceremony.
Assets on shallow water are being sold to Indigenous Exploration/Producing Companies to handle, e.g ExxonMobil will soon be known as SeplatMobil, Exxon sold off its asset to Seplat Energy.

Angola is doing great.
Yes our Nigerian Engineers do go there to Angola to work, most especially experienced Drillers&Well completions Engineers.

deepwater:
Happy to say I have supported in one way or the other all deepwater projects in Nigeria....


Well there is more to life than that!


Relatively speaking, FPSO work na plug and play...where deepwater gets interesting is the exploration and drilling phase. That andrinaline rush to kill a well when it takes kick and about to blow out!

Choke line and sh#t, pump man go dey misjudged PSI, drill fluid go loose viscosity, return line go flood! Nonsense crew go push everything overboard before Toolpusher and company man go show. OiM go dey write report up and down dey find whom him run-off. How many await Tuesday morning, stay 5 hours for galley still caverton go yarn dust<waiting in weather> chopper no go show, no crew change till Thursday
You are out Thursday evening after a nasty flight between 3 fields, arrive NAF base, groove town small only for u to miss your rig after 7 days !!!!
U need to go back onboard....for a driller is always a driller ! As nothing for town dey interest u again .


Oh! Glory!!!
The long days of Global Santafe

Thetea:
This would go a long way in helping amputees with a passion for drumming

saintkeppy:
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Yeah, thats my focus, Offshore Tech/Subsea Engineering that's where the PetroDollar$ is

Shallow water is not longer profitable. I think Shell sold off their shallow water assets, same as ExxonMobil, infact i heard Exxon have left leaving Mobil, assets sold to SeplatNigeria.
Nigeria account to about 40% or more of Africa's deployments of FPSO mostly from HHI, South Korea &the other one in Singapore. I think Angola should come 2nd in Africa as the highest producer next to Nigeria.

More Deepwater field are being discovered by these IOCs. That's why you need to update yourself academically with the required skillsets to man such sophisticated FPSO in Ultra-deepwaters with unfriendly weather conditions.

MSC in Offshore Tech or Subsea Engineering in foreign Universities will put you in a good position if you can afford the fees.
Attending short courses on these areas can help as well.

saintkeppy:
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Yes I do know about FPSO, It's a Technology deployed by IOCs to explore Oil&Gas in challenging ultra-deepwaters. This is where Subsea Engineers &others comes in.

I took Offshore Technology as an elective course in my 500L then cos I had already keep myself busy with Offshore magazines from 100L.
OK Usan is with ExxonMobil now. ok, never knew, cos ExxonMobil had Erha FPSO, yes Bonga should be Nigeria's first Deepwater Project operated by Shell, Offshore Bayelsa or thereabouts, it was After Akpo, Usan Deepwater Project came still operated by TOTAL.