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Hurst 
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Posted: 13 Jan 2012 at 10:05am |
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So I heard back from the oil field company I interviewed with over the holidays (Schlumberger) and they sent me an offer yesterday. The job they offered was an open hole wireline field engineer. I know there is a pretty good variety of people on this forum, so I am hoping there might be a couple people that can give me some insight into an oil field engineering job, whether it be wireline or something else. I am just looking for some insight into this job. From what they told us, the hours are spontaneous and can be long, but the nice part is you are generally on a 15 days on, 5 days off work schedule and the location for the offered job is just over 4 hours from my house, so that is a big plus to me. The pay is very good for first year out of college, so I am not worried about that aspect of the offer, mainly just wanting feedback from any experience with this type of job, so I figured I'd turn to you all first, as I have yet to get bad advice on this forum for anything from tractor repairs to school projects.
Hurst
Edit: I should mention that the location is Weston, WV, so if anyone knows anything about this town or the surrounding area, that would also be helpful.
Edited by Hurst - 13 Jan 2012 at 10:08am
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Posted: 13 Jan 2012 at 10:17am |
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I knew a a guy that worked for them out of college up in montana about 10 years ago. The are number 2 in oil and gas exploration behind halliburton. He made over 100K a year, but was out on a rig about an hour from the nearest town of about 1500 or so. He stayed with them for about 4 years. He later on went and started his own machine shop business oil field related. I would say it is a good opportunity especially that close to home. Where he was they basically furnished the housing so he was able to save a lot of his money.
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Posted: 13 Jan 2012 at 10:26am |
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Dont know a thing about that line of work but we did subcontract work when Rt 33 was rebuilt through that area about 15 years ago. It is settled enough that you can be near people and services when you want to be and wild enough to be away when you want to be. I liked it there.
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Posted: 13 Jan 2012 at 11:02am |
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It's been a long time since I was a rookie engineer fresh out of college. Unless you have better job offers, take the job. Use it as a learning experience and do the job enthusiastically. Who knows where that might lead.
A couple of years after I first started working at AC, they closed the La Crosse plant where I was working and wanted me to move to La Porte, Indiana. That would take me much farther from my and my wife's Minnesota roots. Minneapolis-Moline offered me a job in Hopkins, and I asked my college adviser (University of Minnesota) about going to work for them. He told me he had seen a lot of people go in their front door and later come out their back door, but he had never seen one harmed by the experience.
And experience is what you need now.
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Posted: 13 Jan 2012 at 11:22am |
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If I were young like you, I would do it. W.Va is pretty interesting country. Job market is pretty tough right now.
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Posted: 13 Jan 2012 at 11:49am |
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If you try it and don't like it then what have you lost? You'll gain experience and a better understanding of the job. If it's not your cup of tea you can find another. Remember you were looking for a job when you found this one and you can do it again. Go for it!
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Posted: 13 Jan 2012 at 12:01pm |
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Take it. I worked in my early days out of college in the Petro Chem Industry (I've got a chem eng BS) and you will get great experience and make some serious money. If you don't like it, move on after a few years.
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Posted: 13 Jan 2012 at 5:11pm |
We just added a kid in our applications engineering group that worked on a rig in ND for Halliburton for 2 years. One of the reasons we hired him was he has some good real world experience, he has "seen the elephant" so to speak. He enjoyed his time on the rig, but now he wants a little more 9 to 5 even if the money isn't as good.
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Posted: 13 Jan 2012 at 6:09pm |
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Thanks for all the replies, and, please, share keep sharing your opinions if you haven't done so. I was always told you were given two ears and one mouth, use them proportionally, so I'm taking in everything you all are telling me. A lot of it is pretty consistent with my thoughts. I didn't want to say what I was thinking right off because I wanted everyone's unbiased opinion on the opportunity. But, I am 95% certain I am going to take the job offer. I figured the worst case is that it's a quick way to learn an oil field engineering job is not for me, but I feel that it will be something I find enjoyable and satisfying. In all honesty, it seems like the same work ethic you pick up from the farm carries over to this type of job. Thanks again for the advice. It's great to have so much knowledge in one place!
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Posted: 13 Jan 2012 at 6:34pm |
I tend to think that in this soft economy, you should take any valid job offer you can, the gift horse doesn't come around much these days. It sounds like a good deal. Remember this these oil companies are global companies, and so are their employees. If they don't want to send you oversees in the first couple of years, they will more than likely move you around the country, not as in making you move, but work sites around the country. They go where the oil is, not where the employees are. They can be just as good to work for, or just as bad as any other company in any other business. My advise would be to take the offer if you have no moral or other principal reason not to, as has been said above, worst thing that could happen is you stay there three four years get some experience, and move into a better gig later.
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Posted: 14 Jan 2012 at 12:31am |
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Things have changed in the oil patch, used to be the joke around here was "What do you call a petroleum engineer in Denver?" "Waiter!"
Hurst, I'm sure it would be an interesting job with interesting people, not to mention decent money. I'd go for it, although I have absolutely no idea what the job entails.
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Posted: 14 Jan 2012 at 9:12am |
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Jump at it. I did similar work with a sub contactor to the same company in the 70's. Mostly in Texas on Oklahoma. We worked 24 0n, 24 off. Very interesting work, I was single way back then, just out of the Army. All we did was monitor the tailings, get samples and maintain the wire log. I worked for the Geologist and had a great time until the industry went bust. I have to agree, in todays economy job offers are hard to come by and there is no substitute for actual experience. Good Luck
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