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Volume 9 • Issue 2 • March 2009 |
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| Our Perspective | |
This is no time to sit back and be silent. With potentially crippling news coming out of Washington, it is time to stand up and be heard.
A $30 billion tax bill is about to take aim at the
oil and gas industry, and experts who have met with lawmakers on Capitol
Hill report widespread ignorance about the value of our industry to
society. With the exception of lawmakers from oil-producing states, it is
evident, they say, that both Congress and the Executive Branch are blind
to the key role oil and gas must play in true energy independence.
So what do we do? We speak up and speak out. First,
use this
petition to make your voice heard; second, check this list
of representatives to contact your lawmaker, telling him or her
that this tax bill is not only unfair to our industry but also unwise for
our country.
Regardless of where you stand politically, this tax
bill on the table could wipe out a huge number of oil and gas producing
companies. It is THAT
serious. And it is THAT important that you make your voice heard.
Your Friends at Collarini
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| Employer Tips |
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State of Employment in the Oil and Gas Industry
Despite
the current condition of the national economy and the concurrent shrinkage
of the world economy, when compared to other industries, oil and gas is
faring well. Data from the US
Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that national employment in our industry
has held relatively steady from November 2008 through February 2009 and
tended to trend upward. Employer reports showed a decrease of 700 jobs in January
2009 when compared to December 2008; however the 700 job decrease reported
in January was followed by a reported
Many of the larger oil companies are striving to avoid a
repeat of the mass layoffs that tainted the industry in the 1980s and left
it unprepared for the inevitable rebound in prices and need for personnel.
Major oil companies that have managed to build up large cash
reserves due to several years of record profits are now choosing, for at
least the present time, to bear the cost of employing more workers than
they might need during this period of reduced activity.
With an entire generation of technical staff being within 10 to 15
years of retirement, the industry could progress quickly from critical
shortage to full-fledged meltdown should mass layoffs occur causing
ex-employees to leave the industry for good and new graduates to shift
their focus towards industries with perceptually better stability.
According to Mike Ayling of MLA Resources, a provider of industry
and employment data to AAPG and the EXPLORER, this time around, companies
are keeping a big picture focus. “For the most part, what I’ve heard out of companies is
that they’re already running so lean, they can’t afford to lay anybody
off,” said Ayling. Many
larger companies with global operations are choosing to restructure rather
than layoff; moving employees internally from projects that have been
deferred or abandoned into positions that were slated to be filled with
new hires.
Even though companies are choosing to be optimistic and
forego layoffs as long as possible, companies that lack substantial cash
reserves have already deemed it necessary to downsize personnel and the
trend is likely to continue throughout 2009.
Drilling has decreased and oil and gas prices are maintaining a
downward slide. If the
downturn does not maintain for an extended period, however, this may not
be as bad as it sounds. For
the past two years, oil industry employers have had an extremely difficult
time finding qualified candidates and some employers are standing by ready
to take advantage of the shake out of this much needed talent.
Employer job openings confirm that G&G and engineering are
still in high demand.
| Talent Pool | |
The following biographies are just a small sampling of the kind of
talent available in our talent pool of 16,000 experts. Please call
our placement managers
if you are interested in learning more about these professionals, or check
out our website for more candidates.
Production Engineer with a bachelor's degree in petroleum engineering and 30 years of upstream oil and gas experience working for small independents and as a consultant. Experienced in the planning and field supervision of drilling, completion, and workover operations; production operations management, prospect evaluation, drill stem testing, reserve estimating, facility and pipeline construction, lease acquisition, filing regulatory and environmental documents, designing wellbore intervention programs, and serving as an expert witness. Geographic areas worked include south Texas, the Texas Gulf coast, the Illinois basin, and Bolivia. Computer skills include Excel. Registered Professional Engineer in Texas. Ask for P599.
Reservoir Engineer with a bachelor's degree in engineering and 28 years of upstream oil and gas experience working for a major and an independent E&P company and a service company. Experienced in reserves estimation, reserves reporting, artificial lift, nodal analysis, production logging, well testing, reservoir surveillance, economics, reservoir characterization, production surveillance, and production optimization. Geographic areas worked include west Texas, south Texas, and Nigeria. Computer skills include ARIES, NODAL, PEEP, @Risk, SAPHIR, OFM, DSS, ArcView, VIP, DSS, and TOW. Master's degree in systems management. Fluent in Spanish and intermediate knowledge of Arabic. Ask for R912.
Production
Engineer with a bachelor's degree in petroleum engineering and 27 years of upstream oil and gas industry experience working for large independents and a service company. Experienced in production optimization, artificial lift design, risk analysis, well evaluations, tender preparation, personnel supervision, completions, workovers, well service operations, formation testing, well stimulation, waterfloods, and casing evaluation. Geographic areas worked Columbia, Peru, and the country of Georgia. Computer skills include GAP, MBAL, PROSPER, and Subpump. Fluent in Spanish.
Ask for P394.
Drilling and Completions Engineer
with a bachelor's degree in petroleum engineering and 33 years of upstream oil and gas experience working for independent E&P companies and service companies. Experienced in rig installation, horizontal, extended reach, and vertical drilling; underbalanced drilling, completions, workovers, facilities construction, fracturing, artificial lift, well design, writing AFEs, designing drilling and completion programs, casing design, and budgeting. Geographic areas worked include west Texas, south Texas, the Texas Gulf coast, California, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, New Mexico, Alaska, China, South America, and the Middle East.
Ask for DP215.
Project Cost Engineer with
a bachelor’s degree in economics and 35 years of experience with one
major oil and gas company. Experienced
in cost controls, budgeting, forecasting and financial
reporting of capital expenditure and overhead for multiple offshore
development projects including deepwater drilling in the Gulf of
Mexico. Computer skills include MS Project and project lead for SAP
corporate implementation. Ask
for PA302.
Subsea Engineer with
a master’s degree in subsea engineering and 12 years of experience with
engineering and service companies in the oil and gas industry.
Experienced in developing scopes of supply, subsea architecture,
procuring equipment, providing support logistics, authoring, testing,
loadout, installation, commissioning procedures, and design calculations (padeyes,
HPUs, cathodic protection, mudmat skirt requirement, carousel packing
calculations, cost estimation) for project as well as regulatory document
administration, lead the design and manufacture of IWOC system components,
vendor management, close customer aftermarket support, technical
normalization, leading FAT/SIT activities on subsea trees, IWOCS,
multiphase meters, along with writing specifications and procedures, and
monitoring SIMOPS, HAZOP, HAZID and FMECA participation for offshore
installation activities and Workover Control Systems.
Experienced in deck testing, installation and commissioning of
subsea trees and subsea distribution equipment including managing ROV
operations and deepwater installations that include trees, tubing head
spools, umbilical’s, ROV flying leads and subsea distribution equipment.
Computer skills include Autodesk, MAC Applications, and Mathcad.
Ask
for MD118.
Facilities Subsea Project Manager with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and 14 years of experience with engineering, service, and energy companies in the oil and gas industry. Experienced in offshore and onshore construction and oil well operations, technical product applications including drill ship and offshore rig construction and commissioning, down-hole equipment and operations, construction of production and petrochemical manufacturing facilities, commissioning offshore facilities, along with the research, design, purchase, and manufacture of products needed for various applications. Oil field equipment and applications experience includes skidding systems, BOPs’, top drives, subsea-trees, manifolds, riser tensions, ROVs, subsea systems, surface wellhead, fluid control, measurement solutions, separation technology, blend and transfer systems, tie-flow lines, chokes and flow modules, various drilling systems, controls, HMI’s, deepwater trees, mud pumps and all standard operating equipment for exploration or production topside. Computer skills include EDR, Easydrill, and BHA prediction software. Trilingual English, Spanish, and Arabic. Ask for F1180
Senior
Health, Safety, Environmental, and Quality Engineer with
a bachelor’s degree in environmental engineering and 30 years of
experience working with exploration and production, service, and energy
companies in the oil and gas industry.
Experienced in HSEQ and risk management including mitigation, risk
reductions and loss prevention, regulatory compliance, and socio-economic
and cultural issues related to indigenous people.
Certifications include ISO 9000/14000 Internal Auditor/Trainer, DMV
ISO QMS Internal Auditor, and DMV ISO QMS Trainer. Geographic areas worked
include Alaska and Russia.
Ask
for HS471.
Senior
Geoscientist with a master’s degree in petroleum geology and
more than 15 years experience in oil and gas exploration and development
working for domestic and international producing companies.
Experienced in applied basin genetics, sequence stratigraphy, well log
processing, petrophysical interpretation, seismic interpretation,
management, 3-D reconstruction, and mapping in both unconventional and
conventional plays. Additional experience includes leading a geology
team in drilling of delineation core-wells, integration of the core,
integration of old and new well logs and seismic data in the construction
of stratigraphic correlation panels, and then building 3-D geological
model of Pleistocene Tulare and Pliocene Etchegoin formations. Geographic
areas worked include
Geoscientist
with a bachelor’s degree
in geology and 13 years of experience in both geology and geophysics
working for small independent exploration and production domestic
companies. Experienced in exploration, exploitation, 3-D
acquisitions and design, mapping, modeling, cross sections, wellsite
geologic support, seismic interpretation, seismic processing support, and
processing flow oversight. Additional experience includes conducting
regional geologic studies incorporating subsurface data with seismic
attributes in expanding analog field studies. Geographic areas
worked include the
Geoscience
Technician with
more than 20 years of oil and gas industry experience working for major
upstream and service companies supporting geophysicists, geologists,
engineers, and petrophysicists. Experienced in prospect generation,
designing and implementing clerical programs, arranging data for database
input, and analyzing and evaluating software packages considered for
purchase. Additional experience includes gathering, cleaning, and
loading data, creating overlays, preparing spreadsheets for the engineers,
and preparing a montage and PowerPoint presentations. Computer
skills include OpenWorks, UNIX, LINUX, GeoFrame, GeoGraphix, Oracle,
ArcGIS, PEEP, ARIES, Finder, ZMap, PetCom, PI/Dwights , Lexco OWL, and
Geolog.
Geophysicist
with a bachelor’s degree in geophysics and more than 25 years experience
in large and small oil and gas companies. Experienced in prospect
generation, exploration, and development, which include seismic
interpretation, mapping, AVO studies, reserve evaluation, field
acquisition, volume purchase agreement negotiations, and strong subsalt
experience. Additional experience includes the generation
of offshore prospects for lease sales resulting in discovery of new gas
fields, and creating sales presentations to partners. Geographic
areas worked include the
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| Career Advice |
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Tips for
How to Submit a Resume
You’ve probably thought long and hard about what content
to include in your resume that will present you in the best possible
light; but have you given any thought to the mechanics of getting your
resume to the right people? What
are the things that, if done right, can greatly increase the chances of
someone actually reading your resume?
Resumes are submitted almost exclusively via e-mail, and far too
often we see tactical errors committed by candidates with excellent
credentials. Below are some
insights you may want to consider before pressing the send button.
· Submit
your resume as an original e-mail with a personalized text and address
line. If you copy and paste, be sure to read it every time to be
sure the personalization is addressed to the right person. It is embarrassing to see see names and references in an
e-mail from a submittal to someone else.
This might indicate to a potential employer a lack of attention to
detail.
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Avoid the
forward function when sending an e-mail.
Doing so may leave telling and distracting “>>>” signs
on the left margins.
· Avoid
sending your resume to the same person multiple times.
Filters are fairly sophisticated and may cause your e-mail address
to be categorized as spam. For
that matter, is it always best if possible to know the person to whom you
send your interest in a position.
· Avoid
using a prepared mailing group to send your resume.
It does not leave a good impression when the ‘cc’ line shows
many e-mail addresses or an email to yourself with hidden email addresses
as blind copies. That undoes
some of the personal aspect. There
are software programs that can personalize groups of mail that could
change the person’s name, company, and other information.
Utilizing a job site can be helpful.
There are good sites focused on our industry, but using them
correctly takes a little bit of knowledge.
Carefully read the instructions regarding resume submittals, or
these things could happen to you:
· Your
resume is sent accidentally. Since
your resume represents you, you want it sent in response to only those
positions for which you are qualified and interested.
In this context, make sure that you know how the send button works!
You want to avoid mistakenly sending your resume while clicking
around in the website.
·
You establish a
reputation as less than professional.
Avoid falling into a ”couldn’t hurt” mentality about sending
your resume. You are a
professional, and you want to be sure you do not apply to positions that
are levels below your last position or that require a skill set you do not
possess. If your resume is
viewed too frequently in response to positions that you do not match, it
may be discarded without consideration for an opportunity that it does
match. This is especially
relevant to staffing agencies.
· You
appear to not take your job search seriously.
Most job sites now offer an automatic send function where your
resume is submitted for a particular job title.
The problem is that the position, albeit titled the same, may
differ greatly by employer. Avoid
using this function as it may dilute, or even harm, your chances for an
interview. For this reason,
we recommend you use a one-at-a-time submittal process where you maintain
control.
Being careful to treat your own resume as an important
representation of you can get you in front of the hiring managers and away
from the trash bin!
| About Us | |
Connecting the Industry's Experts...
Collarini
Energy Staffing Inc. is a full-service agency specializing
in the placement of energy and EPC personnel and including the disciplines
listed below (other supporting personnel are managed upon request):
| Accountants and finance
personnel Administrative and clerical personnel Business analysts Civil and architectural engineers Drilling engineers Drilling operations supervisors Executives Geologists, geophysicists, and petrophysicists Health, safety, and environmental personnel Human resources personnel Instrument and electrical engineers IT professionals Land, legal, and supporting personnel Materials and corrosion engineers |
Naval architects Operations supervisors Pipeline, riser, and subsea engineers Process engineers Procurement engineers Production engineers Project managers and support personnel Quality control and inspection personnel Reservoir engineers Sales and marketing professionals Technical writers Technicians, drafting and graphic Technicians, engineering and geoscience |
Reservoir Solutions the Industry Trusts...
Collarini Associates are petroleum engineers and geoscientists that specialize in evaluating oil and gas reservoirs. Specific projects include integrated field studies, acquisition evaluations, independent reserve appraisals, and exploration and exploitation prospect generation and assessment. Our full divestment services include creation and hosting of electronic and physical data rooms in addition to the technical evaluation. Our teams in Houston and New Orleans are very experienced and stand ready to help you on projects of any size. Try us!
Guiding Careers to the Next Level...
Collarini Career Management applies its deep understanding of the career paths of technical professionals in the E&P and EPC communities to help companies and professionals build successful organizations and careers. We leverage Collarini's unique combination of industry knowledge and technical expertise to guide companies and individuals during transition, training existing employees for high performance, and designing customized technical training plans for companies and individuals.
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