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Reflections
on OTC 2007
OTC
2007 closed its doors May 3, and an impressive conference it was, in both
size and quality! The
largest offshore event in the world welcomed over 67,000 visitors, a
25-year high and a 13% increase over 2006.
Approximately 530,000 square feet of space was used by nearly 2,400
exhibiting companies from more than 30 countries, up from 2,229 in 2006.
The final number is not in, but it is estimated that visitors will
have brought in well over $50 million to the Houston economy.
As
impressive as the numbers, were the quality of technical presentations and
the level of technological advancement displayed by the exhibitors.
Through its “New Technology” awards program, OTC highlighted 14
products and companies on the cutting edge of industry technology.
Check them out here
if you missed them originally. Walking
down each aisle of the exhibits, it was easy to observe the enormous
complexity of our business. From
the smallest tubes, hoses, and connectors to the largest top drives and
subsea trees, it takes an incomprehensible coming together of multitudes
of technical components to accomplish the simplest tasks: drill wells and
separate oil, gas, and water. Fly
me to the moon!
We
want to thank everybody who visited our booth.
We continued to hear that the need for people is foremost on
everybody’s minds. To help you see the kinds of people who are available
today, we have increased the number of featured candidates in our talent
pool for this issue. You will
find the list here.
Let us know if we can introduce you to any of them.
Your
friends at Collarini.
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The following biographies are just a small sampling of the kind
of talent available in our talent pool of over 12,000 experts.
Please call
our placement managers if you are interested in learning more about these
professionals, or check out our website for more candidates.
Geoscientist
that is articulate and detail oriented with 15 years of experience and a MS in Geology.
This candidate has strong analytical skills and a diverse technical background in the oil & gas industry.
Demonstrated ability to work productively and resourcefully in a proactive, results oriented team environment.
Over fifteen years of domestic and international experience in basin evaluation, prospect generation and wellsite
operations. Ask
for G432.
Exploration Geophysicist with a Master of Science and 14 years of experience in prospect generating and management.
Extensive knowledge in geoscience and project management work, with expertise in reserve evaluation and seismic interpretation using volume techniques.
Developed, evaluated and acquired dozens of leases through MMS OCS Lease Sales in the GoM shelf.
Areas of expertise include offshore Texas, Gulf of Mexico and offshore Gabon. Workstation skills include UNIX, GeoFrame, Paradigm VoxelGeo, Hampson-Russell and SMT.
Characterized as a strong team player and an excellent communicator in both English and Japanese.
Ask for GG411.
Geologist
with a Master's Degree and over 12 years of exploration and development experience with a major oil company.
Experienced working individually and as part of multidiscipline teams integrating geology, 3-D seismic, and engineering data for field studies, development projects, acquisitions, and divestitures.
Comfortable with carbonate and sandstone formations, oil and gas reservoirs, and primary and tertiary recovery in a variety of fields.
Skilled in risk and reserve assessment, fault seal analysis, 3-D seismic interpretation, and well planning and execution.
Geographic experience includes the Gulf of Mexico, the Permian Basin, the Rocky Mountains, and the mid-continent area.
Workstation and PC experience includes Landmark StratWorks, SeisWorks, Z-map+, Geographix, and SMT Kingdom products.
Ask for G1045.
Geologist/Petrophysicist
with a BS and 20+ years of experience in planning and implementing reservoir characterization projects and well-site geology.
Experienced in application of cross-plotting to develop relationships between different populations, core description of carbonate and clastic lithologies.
Knowledge of interpretation of conventional and special core analysis.
Workstation experience using Geolog, Multimin, Landmark Openworks, Petroworks, Stratworks and Z Map+, SDI Montage, Basinmod, Petcom Log Analysis, Powerlog, and Petra.
Proficient in speaking and writing the Spanish language. Exhibits excellent presentation and writing skills.
Ask for GS302.
Mechanical
Engineer with a Bachelor's Degree and 30 years of domestic and international experience.
Skilled at the project management of design, production, operation, and maintenance projects.
Experienced in pipelines, pump stations, facilities, rotating equipment, and project economics.
Geographic areas worked include Texas, Libya, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen. Proficient in various computer programs including Microsoft Office, Pipeflow, Pipeline tool boxes, Fathom, and Score Card.
Ask for F369.
Senior Construction Engineer with a Master’s degree in mechanical engineering and 35 years of experience in the petroleum, power, and industrial construction industry.
Areas of expertise include project development, execution, scheduling deliverables, overall management, construction, quality assurance (ISO 9000), commissioning, and start-up.
Experience include grassroots construction, revamps and modernizations for petrochemical plants, refineries, cogeneration facilities, gas plants, and oil and gas facilities, developing and approving construction planning, procurement strategies, assigning key construction personnel, monitoring construction costs and schedules; managing quality and safety aspects of all projects and managing constructability program. Projects executed in the US, the Middle East, South America, the Former Soviet Union, and China.
Language skills include English and Arabic.
Ask for TI121.
Construction Manager with a Bachelor of Science and over twenty years of experience in project scheduling, cost engineering, field engineering for power plants, seawater plants, and offshore platform construction projects.
Experiences further include offshore LPG plant start-ups and helicopter developmental engineering scheduling.
Major project accomplishments include over $1 Million savings in projects to one client, effective crisis management for other employers.
Created a viable new business in Mexico. Computer skills include Primavera P3E, P3, MS- Project, and MS-Office.
Languages English, Spanish.
Ask for PM18.
Mechanical Engineer with a Master’s degree in mechanical engineering and a Bachelor’s degree in naval architecture and marine engineering and 11 years of experience.
Areas of expertise include rotating machinery equipment, system and marine structure including design, operation, repair, and maintenance and project management.
Experience includes design review of rotating machinery, equipment, systems for rig, offshore platform, and ships. Detailed experiences include marine applications, project engineering, diesel engines, gas turbines, generators / motors, compressors, pipe elevators, rotating tables, pressure vessels, air conditioning systems, piping systems, offshore cranes, launch and recovery systems, offshore elevators, deck machinery, torsional vibration, and shaft alignment.
Working experience with the ASME, ABS, API, IACS, IMO LSA, IMO NOx etc. codes and rules.
Previous experience includes work in naval dockyards, including design and different repair projects, such as tug boat and small harbor craft, designing and reviewing stability, tonnage and stress calculations. Software skills include C, C++, MS-Windows, ME, NT, XP, Vista, Pro-E (Wildfire), AutoCAD, ANSYS, RISA-3D, MathCAD and others.
Ask for F1118.
Engineering Technician with over 26 years of experience with oil companies and consulting firms.
Experience working with drilling, production, and reservoir engineers, preparing regulatory filings for state agencies, AFE tracking, and data retention of all wells, operated and non-operated, from date of inception until depletion.
Computer skills include ARIES, Landmark, MS Office, PEEP, and
WellView. Ask for TE179.
Drilling Operations Manager with over 25 years of experience in drilling, completion and production operations. Experienced in wellsite supervision, writing programs for gas lift and jet pump applications and planning drilling and completion projects. Geographic areas worked include, Colorado, Texas, Kansas, and Wyoming.
Ask for D315.
Petroleum Engineer with a Master's in Petroleum Engineering and over 20 years of experience. Highly skilled at reservoir simulation/reservoir engineering (Black Oil, Compositional, and Fractured Reservoirs – Dual Porosity and Dual permeability models). Geographic areas worked include the United States, Europe, Russia, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa. Computer skills include Eclipse (100 and 300 Fractured and Compositional), Saphir, Gap, Prosper, and
Mbal. Ask for R131.
Engineering Technician with 9 years of experience in the oil and gas industry.
Geographic experience includes California, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Wyoming, and Arkansas.
Computer skills include Lotus 1-2-3, Excel, Access, Word, ARIES, Acrobat, PowerPoint, and various software used for production reporting.
Background also includes database management and heavy use of Access.
Ask for TE202.
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Resumes
Redux
As a staffing company, we read a
lot of resumes! In
doing so, we have observed characteristics that make a resume easier for a
recruiter to understand and evaluate and those that make it more
difficult. Recruiters and hiring managers in all companies are very busy
in this environment; now it is more important than ever to make changes
that increase the chance that your resume is found and read by the right
people.
A
resume is the one chance for a first impression.
Mistakes in a resume are the equivalent of spinach on your teeth
when going to an interview! You may think your resume is in good shape, but here are some
tips that recognize that recruiters have to read a LOT of resumes every
day.
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State your country of origin and work status in
other countries. If you
are interested in working in the U.S., you should state your
eligibility to work with or without a sponsor.
This will allow a recruiter to expedite forwarding your resume
in the right direction.
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Capitalization should be reserved for proper names
or for words at the beginning of a sentence.
Lots of capital letters in the middle of paragraphs are
distracting; job titles, department names, technologies, and other
similar items do not need to be capitalized.
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Keep to a clean and simple format.
Complex fonts and formats may look good but may make your
resume hard to read; they also might not translate well between
different versions of word processors.
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Can you believe we have to say this? DO spell check
the final document, and carefully accept or ignore each change
suggested by the software. And
always read the final document. Spell
check, for example, turns “GeoQuest” into a “bequest” and
“bbls” into “bibles”… and, be sure that all changes that
were tracked are accepted permanently in the final document.
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Be sure to include dates for each of the positions
you have held. We tend to
set aside resumes without time lines, because they are difficult to
understand and match with positions.
You can always explain oddities about your assignments in the
interview, and we can’t hide our age forever….
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Avoid verbosity. Even the most experienced professional should have a resume no
longer than two to three pages. Special
technical expertise can be handled in an attachment.
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Concerning acronyms, remember that the resume is
read not only by experts in your field but often first by professional
recruiters who also have to understand your expertise in full. Also, some acronyms and abbreviations may NOT be picked up in
a keyword search even though you have the perfect qualifications.
“HPHT” is clear to a large segment of our industry, but the
computer search may use the words “high pressure / high
temperature.”
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There is no need to itemize the software in the
Microsoft Suite. MS
Office will generally do, and most people don’t need to mention it
at all; working knowledge is assumed.
Do not list software that is obsolete; it does not matter, and
it clutters the resume. Do
include current technical hardware and software abilities.
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Is English your second language?
Find somebody to proof read your resume, or have it
professionally completed. How
well your resume is translated directly reflects your reading and
writing ability in English. Be
sure it is done correctly.
There are lots of other ways to
improve a resume and have it stand out from hundreds recruiters receive
every day. The above examples
we found in just an hour of reading the resumes of technical and
managerial personnel. We
would be happy to hear your thoughts on how to make additional
improvements, too!
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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
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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
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Technicians, drafting and graphic
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Reservoir Solutions the Industry
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The Collarini
Associates petroleum engineers and geoscientists
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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