James
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Anybody studied/worked in this field? Considering a radical change of career and after hours of research, this is one area that particularly interests me.
Just curious to hear peoples thoughts and experiences really...
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nibnob21
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I do Mechanical Engineering and really enjoy it, have no experience of Petroleum Engineering though. What exactly does it entail?
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James
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It focuses on upstream oil and gas, so sourcing, drilling etc...
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nibnob21
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Oh right, not really something that particularly grabs me I'm afraid lol.
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James
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There's a bit more to it than that 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum_engineering
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Paul_J
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Why the change of career James?
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James
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Why the change of career James?
Bored of IT. I'm trying to move to a business analyst role to see if I enjoy it more not being so hands on technically.
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tom_simes
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I think AK does something like this?
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James
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I'm surrounded by loads of people that live and breath software development and lately I've realised that I just find it really tedious 
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Paul_J
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fair enough - I think some people love programming and some people just do it for a job. I've been programming since I was about 6 years old and will always do it as a hobby, so doing it as a job is fairly ideal for me.
Although, I do know what you mean, the type of software I write day in day out isn't really exciting me, but then again that's usually due to the business requirements / clients requirements just not being particularly interesting.
I would like to go work down old street at some cool exciting start ups but the pay at the moment is crap. That said, as more investment comes in (Google just bought some offices for UK start ups) the wages will rise as they try to acquire talent.
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James
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I'm not desperate to move to something else, I'd just quite like to do a part-time masters on the 2012/13 intake so trying to work out what interests me most.
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Hammer
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If you are a millionaire with a Porsche in IT why would you then want to alter career so drastically?
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James
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If you are a millionaire with a Porsche in IT why would you then want to alter career so drastically?
I'm not a millionaire, I don't own a Porsche?
I earn good money but money isn't everything. I'd rather do something I really enjoy.
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nibnob21
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^^^ Nice to see that. It annoys me when people chase money. I'd much rather be doing something I enjoy and get paid less than something boring that earns more.
We work for most of our lives so we may as well enjoy it!!!
I admire the fact that you're willing to give up what you're doing to follow something you will be more passionate about.
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Hammer
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If you are a millionaire with a Porsche in IT why would you then want to alter career so drastically?
I'm not a millionaire, I don't own a Porsche?
I earn good money but money isn't everything. I'd rather do something I really enjoy.
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sand-eel
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Same here, rather do something interesting if you spend 1/2 your life working.
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LeeM
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its an option for me next year, may stick with mechanical though
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Matt H
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I believe Stuart Mitchell on here might be able to help, I think he's in a similar line of work. AK works on siesmic vessels IIRC, so that's more exploration than upstream
A lot of money to be made but you might have to look at relocating to somewhere a little closer to Aberdeen, unless you plan to work overseas
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Brett
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Why are people talking like he wouldn't make a mint in oil & gas? Probably more so imo.
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Ellis
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Petroleum / process engineers in Aberdeen can make anything up to £1,000 a day.
A senior document controller up here can earn as much as £500 a day FFS.
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McWillster
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I work for Aker Solutions in Aberdeen and i'm a Trainee Designer, earn £26,000 a year and i'm only 20.
Prospects in oil and gas are massive.
Brother works for Amec as a Senior Piping Engineer (Study Mechanical Engineering at Uni) and he's on £56 an hour.
Make the change. I know for a fact that good Electrical engineers and Structural Engineers are like hens teeth right now and a good route to go down.
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Ellis
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Make the change. I know for a fact that good Electrical engineers and Structural Engineers are like hens teeth right now and a good route to go down.
Agreed, design engineers of all levels are also in short supply.
The subsea industry also needs more staff to grow, again another area of the sector struggling for good engineers.
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James
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Why are people talking like he wouldn't make a mint in oil & gas? Probably more so imo.
I didn't like to point that out, just thought I'd spin the money isn't everything line
But in all seriousness, I work in the energy trading industry at the moment and all the training courses and books I've done/read talk a bit about the upstream processes and it just seems really interesting.
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