Oil Comp Engr
38 Years Experience
Houston, TX
Female, 60
I recently retired from a major integrated oil company after 38 years. I have degrees in Civil and Petroleum Engineering. I worked with safety, health and environmental management systems and operations in the upstream (finding and producing oil and gas) and downstream (refining, chemicals and distributions) areas. I travelled all over world, enduring good & bad business cycles and good and bad managers.
A rotator just means someone who works a certain number of days (14 or 28 for example) and then has the same number of days off. Rotators usually work 12 hours per day every day of their shift. There are a variety of rotator jobs on drilling rigs and production platforms. Most of the workers do not have an engineering degree but a handful might such as the drilling rig superintendent, the subsea equipment engineer, the wireline logging engineer, the production platform superintendent and so on. You need to do some research on the websites of various energy companies (Shell, Chevron, Anadarko, etc.) as well as the various service companies (Schlumberger, Halliburton, Baker Hughes, etc.) to see what kinds of positions they are hiring and what the rotation schedules are. Also be aware that the unconventional (oil shale) plays are booming in south Texas and up in North Dakota. Some of those workers also work a rotational schedule.
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I am not aware of any office jobs that allow this type of work except for folks I know who work in some hard to staff locations in the Mid East and Africa. Those folks work 28 days on and 28 days off.
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If you are working at a job in an office as a petroleum (not protroleum) engineer in Houston, you would likely work 5 days a week or possibly have every other Friday off. If you get a position as a rotator to the US Gulf of Mexico, you might be working 14 days on and 14 days off. If you get a position as a rotator to a foreign country, you might be working 28 days on and 28 days off. I can't tell you how this would affect your annual pay as every company has their own set of pay guidelines.
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If you want to send me your email address, I'd be happy to email you my contact information so we can arrange an interview.
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I'm sorry, but I am not familiar with the educational system in Nigeria. I don't know what a "bsc 2.2" is. Ithink you need to seek out some folks at oil companies in Nigeria and talk to them directly.
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That's a pretty broad quesiton. It depends on what speciality you will practice (reservoir, drilling, facility design, etc.). I can tell you that you will be expected to have mastered everything your professors have taught you.
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You will be at a bit of a disadvantage but, that said, the demand for petroleum engineers usually exceeds the supply and so mid size and large companies are prepared to provide some training. You can increase your odds by taking a geology course or two and taking some online or self study training. In the long run, I thimk you are better off with a broad degree like mechanical because it allows you to change industries. Have you checked the price of oil lately? It is down quite a bit and there are lits is stories in the news about how the upstream sector is cutting budgets and reducing hiring.
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