[AliBabaKhan]

HEY GUYS!

SO...!


Im starting a BSc In Oil and Gas Managment...


PLEASE look into your crystal balls and tell me.


What are my career prospects?

Is it a good field to go into?


How can I advance in the field?

What is the salary expectations?

Where should I job hunt?? Saudi/Qatar/England?


Anybody else done a degree in this?



ANY INFO please guys.!!!

[cl_steele]

Firstly im curious as to where it is?

Well theres always money to be had in oil although the usual route ive heard of people taking is through petrochemical degrees, chemistry and the like but who knows this might be an excellent gateway!

Working in oil always has good starting saleries although again it depends what you want to do, working on the rigs is where the real money is with starting saleries being around £30k for lowly jobs like the rustabout, really depends who you work for and where though... also doing what.

Saudi, North sea, UAE, America, Brazil, Russia, Congo, Nigeria, France, Ireland, Falklands , Israel, turkey well any country with oil/gas fields to be honest and theres a fair few of them although your best bet would be trying out at the north sea first as the oil industry is fairly saturated these days and its bloody hard to get into it unless you already have contacts in it or have good experience behind you i.e. BP, Shell, Schlumberger and the like.

Cant say i have ever even heard of this degree before so no but my dad was in the oil industry for 30years or so, so i have a basic understanding of it

Care to link the degree programme though, sounds rather interesting!

[AliBabaKhan]

Hi

It is at the Greenwich School of Management in London! ( BSc Oil and Gas Manaagement) and you can get a BSc ( Hons) in 2 years instead of 3 in an accelerated course.

I don't think I'll get a job on the rigs...its more on the management side...so probably do the business side of oil like selling etc ...


There is prospect to get an internship with BP after the 2nd year so I'm going to try for that...I think its essential if I want to to get further in this field....


I start the course next month! hopefully its what I think it will be and I will enjoy it.. modules seem interesting anyway...

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[Alfissti]

(Original post by AliBabaKhan)
HEY GUYS!

SO...!


Im starting a BSc In Oil and Gas Managment...


PLEASE look into your crystal balls and tell me.


What are my career prospects?

Is it a good field to go into?


How can I advance in the field?

What is the salary expectations?

Where should I job hunt?? Saudi/Qatar/England?


Anybody else done a degree in this?



ANY INFO please guys.!!!

Is this the program are Coventry? If so than congrats on being in a highly respected program.

I been in this industry for quite a while now and old enough to read TSR as a parent of a soon to be med student. Career prospects will always be there though getting into this industry is a mammoth task as they generally poach talents from other industries and graduate entry into this field is very limited in much of the world other than in SE Asia and China, even then these positions are highly coveted and you pretty much need to be best of the best to stand a chance for just an interview. Once you are in it then it depends on your role, engineering, explorations and research related has always had good prospects and are generally secure if you are good at what you do, corporate type work are a lot less secure and it is very prone to targeted downsizing and outsourcing even big name firms do it as this is a high volume, high efficiency and now high cost but very low margin industry therefore a company needs to be very lean or big in order to survive.

Advancing in this industry? Sorry there are no shortcuts here regardless of who you know. Who you know may get you an interview and possibly a job, but once you're in then it is your own hardwork that matters. Salary? High salaries these days are mostly myths, I won't be in this industry if all you are after is money, engineering roles do pay well but long hours and lots of traveling will be involved. Consultancy roles pay very well but you ain't going to be one straight out of university.

As for where to find jobs, they are everywhere these days depends whether you're into upstream or downstream jobs. Britain isn't a bad place for this field though much of it these days are engineering or research related prospects very high level corporate jobs. Lower down the food chain Singapore is a good place to look, though nothing will beat US and Canada in terms of sheer numbers though competition is very fierce for these jobs. One thing for sure if you want to be in this industry physical fitness is a must.

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[domcz]

Hi Alibaba,

I hope that you have enjoyed the first few months of your course.

I am starting the same course in February and wanted to ask you how are you finding it so far? Is the course meeting your expectations? And also, what is the timetable like?

I tried to get my timetable but no luck, only 1 week prior the start of my course ... Need to organize my part time job and an idea would be really handy.

Many Thanks,

domcz

It is at the Greenwich School of Management in London! ( BSc Oil and Gas Manaagement) and you can get a BSc ( Hons) in 2 years instead of 3 in an accelerated course.

I don't think I'll get a job on the rigs...its more on the management side...so probably do the business side of oil like selling etc ...


There is prospect to get an internship with BP after the 2nd year so I'm going to try for that...I think its essential if I want to to get further in this field....


I start the course next month! hopefully its what I think it will be and I will enjoy it.. modules seem interesting anyway...

Stage 1
» Study Skills» Business Law» Management» Introduction to Accounting» Business Economics» Introduction to ComputingStage 2
» Oil & Gas Management» International Energy Policies» Legal Aspects of the Oil & Gas Industry» Environmental Management for Sustainable Development» Project Management» e-Commerce & MarketingStage 3
» Logistics and Operations Management» Strategic Management» Innovation & Risk Management» Development in Oil and Gas Retail Industries» Oil and Gas Project[/QUOTE]

[Dragonista]

My Dad has worked in oil and gas for over 40 years after leaving school at 16, he now works as country manager for one of the leading oil and gas exploration companies (you'd know the name). You may not go out onto the rigs, but you wont be thrown into a management position either. My Dad is always telling me how difficult to find people in the industry: there's a lot of them, but most of them only have a qualification. He once employed one chap straight from uni (because my Dad's always trying to give someone a chance) who had no hands-on experience and my Dad ended up having to employ someone else to babysit him (because sacking someone is tough!). You need to climb the ladder, like everyone else. So I would keep my fingers crossed you can find a job at all, you can't be that picky.

(I realise this is an old thread so I'd be interested to know what you're doing now)