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Volume 12 • Issue 4 • July 2012 |
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You know how much can fit
into an Exabyte? That would be
1,000 Petabytes which in turn is 1,000 terabytes.
(As a quick reference I am being told that two Petabytes could hold
the entire catalog of academic publications in the US.)
Those are volumes hard for our minds to comprehend!
But the oil and gas industry must begin to think in these terms.
Processing and analyzing seismic data is just one of the
applications.
For many, the avalanche of
data hitting our screens and minds every day constitutes one of our
biggest challenges in this industry. How
can we possibly make sense of this much data and still lead productive
company lives? We took a quick
look at this phenomenon and the opportunities
it might present to the career planning professional.
Meanwhile, back on the
ranch we are taking another fresh look at the interviewing
process. An
oldie but goodie, we still have old and new problems in this area as the
market changes, which makes it a real challenge for hiring in this tight
job market!
Call us if we can help with
more details about any of the articles or our people.
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The Fine Art of Attracting a Good Candidate During the Interview
A
great candidate may lose his or her interest in a company or a position
because of one or more inadequacies in preparing for the interview on the part
of the hiring company. In this tight job market, every good candidate is
sought after, and the best presented company will win.
Here
are a few thoughts to include in your interview checklist. Here are some key
factors that will affect your hiring and retention success.
Job identification
Give
the candidate an accurate job description so he or she may decide whether the
position is a good fit and of interest.
Be
sure the future supervisor takes time with the experienced recruiter, whether
internal or from an outside agency, to explain your requirements and desires
for the future employee. The more the recruiter understands your needs, the
better he will be able to identify the right candidates.
The perfect first impression
You
and the company are being interviewed by the candidate at the same time. In a
tight job market, candidates will be interviewing with other prospective
employers. Some things the candidate will want to know about:
· What
is the employee turnover rate and what are some supporting facts for the rate?
If it is relatively high, for example, then be prepared to explain.
· Highlight
your company's good reputation in the industry. Do you have any data that
benchmarks you against your competitors? Emphasize that you are
technologically current and ahead of the curve in the areas where that is your
advantage.
· Give
examples of good training and communication processes. If it is practical,
bring a member of your staff to talk about personal experiences with the
company's training programs. Everybody touts ethical behavior; be sure that
you always know what the industry is saying about you before you conduct the
interview. Have you searched through the public media your company's record
recently? You can bet that the candidate will have done so. You don't want to
be found unprepared and not be able to respond to questions.
· Give
the candidate your undivided attention. Block out your schedule to devote your
full attention to the interview. You will surely want the candidate to know he
or she has your complete attention.
· Unless
dire circumstances arise, be on time to the meeting. If you need to arrive
late to the interview, let the candidate know and send your apology.
Branding
Be
comfortable telling the company's story. An employment brand is the way your
organization's applicants, candidates, and employees perceive you as an
employer. Those with a strong employment brand benefit from a number of
advantages such as:
· a
higher quality candidate pool;
· more
candidates who match the role requirements, meet or exceed the expectations of
the hiring manager, and relate to the organization's culture;
· increased
attraction and closing of passive candidates;
· a
lower rate of offer rejection;
· and
a greater likelihood for future employees to be brand-ambassadors for your
company.
Responsiveness/Follow-up
· The
current job market in the oil and gas industry is as competitive as ever. In
addition to moving quickly, make your best fair offer first, and don't try to
make an offer expecting to counter. That portrayal of your company will make
good candidates believe the philosophy will continue throughout their
employment. People are relatively lesser expensive resource in oil and gas,
where wells cost millions to drill. Excellence in skills and experience saves
and earns lots of money. It is not where you should skimp.
· There
are candidates who know where they want to work before any offers get made,
and candidates who will wait until all options are laid out in front of them.
If they're willing to risk losing an offer to see the rest of their suitors'
offers, then the first offer wasn't their first choice anyway.
· If
you know that the candidate has potentially other offers, then it shows
confidence and interest to be the first company to extend an offer. Making the
first offer also shows your decision making abilities; how a company hires is
a good indicator of how they manage.
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The following
biographies are just a small sampling of the kind of talent available in
our talent pool of over 20,000 experts. Please call our placement
managers if you are interested in learning more about these
professionals, or check out our website for more candidates.
Facilities Engineer
with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering and 30 years of oil and gas
industry experience working for a major E&P company.
Experienced in upstream oil and gas project engineering and
management, FEED design, deepwater construction and installation, and
startup and commissioning. Additionally
experienced with downstream refinery expansions, gasification, permitting,
and LNG plant operations. Geographic
areas worked include Australia, Brazil, Kazakhstan, Peru, and Texas - Gulf
of Mexico. Ask
for CS387.
Mechanical Engineer
with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering technology and more
than 30 years of experience in
the offshore and onshore oil and gas industry.
Expert in LNG facilities, offshore platform and subsea pipeline
design and petrochemical operations. Experienced
with project management holding senior level positions, static equipment
and piping analysis, full life cycle facilities engineering and
construction from FEED through mechanical completion and client
acceptance. Geographic areas
worked include the Gulf of Mexico, Malaysia, Singapore, Algeria, Korea,
Indonesia, and Japan. Ask
for F1724.
Project Controls Administrator with a master's degree in chemical engineering and
30 years of experience in the oil and gas industry.
Expert in upstream and downstream capital cost management projects,
resource management, multi discipline estimating, risk analysis, and
progress monitoring. Experienced
in cash flow definition, scope change and cost/schedule trend management,
progress monitoring, performance evaluation, T.I.C. forecasting, and bid
packaging. Geographic areas worked include the western and Southern United
States and Canada. Certifications include Project Management in Primavera
6. Ask
for PA309.
Facilities Engineer
with a degree in chemical engineering and 40 years of advanced production
facilities engineering experience. Expert
with process simulations, commercial aspects involving large scale LNG,
gas gathering, compression and processing facilities, conceptual
design, and detail engineering of onshore and ultra-deepwater offshore
production facilities and pipelines. Experience
with project upstream tie-ins, cryogenic plant and pipelines for LNG
facilities, all aspects of project management and contracts.
Geographic areas worked include the Gulf of Mexico, North Sea,
Arctic, Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina, far east, Australia, and Saudi
Arabia. Ask
for F502.
Geologist with a master's
degree in geology and eight years of experience working for mid-sized and
large oil and gas companies. Expert
in seismic interpretation. Experienced in prospect generation, mapping,
and petrophysical and volumetric analysis. Geographic areas worked include
Alaska, New Mexico, Texas, Wyoming, offshore California, and the Gulf of
Mexico. Software proficiency
in Petrel, PETRA, SMT Kingdom, GeoGraphix, StratWorks, and ECLIPSE.
Ask
for G1466.
Geoscientist with a master's
degree in geology and nine years of experience working for small and
mid-sized oil and gas companies and as an independent consultant.
Experienced in both geology and geophysics in conventional and
unconventional plays. Experience
includes booking reserves, mapping, stratigraphy, sedimentology, 3-D
modeling, 3-D seismic interpretation, data integration, and acquisitions.
Geographic areas worked include shelf and deepwater Gulf of Mexico,
Haynesville shale, Woodford shale, Barnett shale, and west Africa.
Software proficiency includes Petrel, SMT, Landmark, PETRA,
GeoQuest, Hampson-Russell, and GoCAD.
Ask for G2181.
Geophysicist with a master's
degree in geology and more than 20 years of experience working for large
and mid-sized oil and gas companies. Expert
in exploration and technology of the shelf and deepwater Gulf of Mexico.
Experienced in structural analysis, stratigraphic analysis, subsalt
data interpretation and analysis, 2-D and 3-D seismic interpretation,
mapping, prospect generation, development, seismic amplitude and attribute
analysis, and integrated field studies.
Geographic areas worked include the Gulf of Mexico, onshore Texas,
West Virginia, Ohio, and Kentucky. Software proficiency includes Landmark
SeisWorks, GeoProbe, ZAP, FZAP, PostStack, Syntool, and SMT.
Ask for
GP1057.
Geologist
with a master's degree in petroleum engineering, bachelor's degree in
geology, and over 25 years of experience in small and mid-sized oil and
gas companies and as an independent consultant.
Experienced in exploration, development, regional studies,
subsurface mapping, cross-sections, regional correlation, and
presentations. Geographic
areas worked include the Texas and Louisiana Gulf coast, east Texas,
Cotton Valley, D-J Basin, Powder River Basin, Permian Basin, and Uinta
Basin. Software proficiency
includes Petra and GeoGraphix. Ask
for G300.
Drilling Engineer
with a bachelor's degree in mining engineering and over 30 years of
experience working for major operators. Experienced in drilling and
completions design, well control, execution of deepwater development
projects, and evaluation of well design alternatives to balance drilling
risk and project economics. Geographic areas worked include the Gulf of
Mexico, California, Colorado, Louisiana, Alaska, West Africa, Indonesia,
and China. Software proficiency in Landmark Well Plan. Certifications
include IADC surface and subsurface well control.
Ask for D335.
Production Engineer
with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and 22 years of
experience working for operators and a service company.
Experienced in operations management, contract negotiations, budget
oversight, and new business development.
Additionally experienced in procedure design, on-site engineering
supervision, risk assessment, regulatory compliance, AFE design, and
permitting. Geographic areas
worked include Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and New Mexico.
Ask for P295.
Production Operations Engineer with a bachelor's degree in petroleum engineering
and 30 years of experience working for small to large operators.
Experienced in well planning; drilling, completion and workover
operations; and governmental, regulatory, and safety compliance.
Additionally experienced in job planning and logistics, vendor hire
and oversight, and employee mentoring.
Geographic areas worked include Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and
the Gulf of Mexico. Software
proficiency in CTG SMART, SMART+, Enertia, and IS Networld Contractor
Management Database. Ask
for PO170.
Engineering Manager
with a bachelor's degree in petroleum engineering and 27 years of
experience working for small and large independents and a major operator.
Experienced in budgeting, cash flow analysis, contract
negotiations, partner relations, and economic analysis.
Additionally experienced in reserve reporting, production
monitoring and optimization, acquisition evaluation, and remedial well
work. Geographic areas worked
include Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, the Gulf of Mexico shelf
and deepwater, Brazil, and Indonesia.
Ask for P542.
Geoscience Technician
with management and technical training and 11 years of experience in the
oil and gas industry. Extensive
background in data management, IT support, troubleshooting systems, data
issues and workflows, and staff training, presentations, and management.
Skilled in well log data, research, and depth calibration.
Broad based computer experience in the following: Petra, A2D
Longline and Workshop, Microsoft Office Suite, SONRIS, Landmark-Smart
Section, ArcView GIS, NDS Digitizing, and P-2000.
Geographic history working with projects located in the Gulf of
Mexico deepwater, Texas, Colorado, Canada, UK, and Libya. Team player;
readily establishes rapport with company personnel.
Ask for TG710.
Geoscience Technician
with an associate's degree in biology and 20 years of experience working
for major and mid-size oil and gas companies and service companies.
Experienced in log correlations, seismic maps, digital files,
maintaining databases, cross-sections, 2-D and 3-D navigation, generating
computerized structure maps, creating databases for in-house geophysical
base map and seismic inventories, and creating montages.
Additionally experienced in preparing Landmark OpenWorks and
SeisWorks projects to migrate from R2002 to R5000.
Software proficiencies include Velocity Data Bank, Energy Graphics,
MicroStation SE/J, Zeh Montage, GMA, UNIX, GeoGraphix, P/I Dwights, and
OpenWorks, and Geolog. Ask
for TG490.
Engineering Technician
with more than 10 years of experience working for various oil and gas
companies. Experienced in fiscal year-end reporting, improvements and
implementation of ARIES, and assisting various teams such as land,
accounting, reservoir, and exploration teams. Software proficiency in
ARIES, PEEP, VolTS, Oracle and SQL tables, Excel, Hyperion Essbase,
PetroLook, and TOW. Ask
for TE501.
Reservoir Engineering Technician with over 25 years of experience working for
E&P and service companies in the oil and gas industry. Experienced in
analyzing LOS, budget, and financials, and maintaining well test databases
and flowing tubing/casing pressure graphs. Additionally experienced in
preparing and maintaining year-end and mid-year reserve reports, monthly
EIA and FERC reports, year-end reserve reconciliations, and preparing
wellbore diagrams and well histories. Software proficiency in ARIES, PI
Dwights, OpenWells, PHDWin, Spotfire, and Wellview.
Ask for TE312.
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| Career Advice |
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The
Industry is Drowning in Data - and That is Good for a
Career as Lifeguard!!
Faster and more
powerful computers allow us to collect amounts of data at a much larger
rate than ever before. Seemingly,
while we were blinking, we smoothly moved from referring to data in terms of terabytes to petabytes.
From talking to many oil and gas professionals, we gather that
integrating and efficiently processing this massive wall of data coming
from operations can take up a larger and larger portion of a
professional's day.
Data this massive, coming in fast and
furious, creates ample opportunities for those individuals who are
thinking creatively about their careers.
Type "big data in oil and gas" into your search engine
and you will see how much interest this subject is generating not just in
the oil and gas industry but in other industries as well.
Consider these following examples in
this context as a future source of employment opportunities:
- A seismic vessel operating with eight to 20
streamers shooting every 15 to 20 seconds could easily generate 10
terabytes of raw data over a period of just a few weeks.
The largest datasets generated by the oil and gas industry are
these vast seismic surveys that delineate geological formations and
may be strong indicators of hydrocarbon presence.
- Cloud technology has been steadily gaining
popularity with many companies already using this technology and
others planning to adopt it in the near future.
Industry leaders view this technology as paramount in managing
the flood of data to be processed, because a single company's
computing center may no longer be able to handle the sheer volume of
data.
- Today's oil and gas professionals are
demanding quick and easy access to the information they need to make
decisions regardless of their locations at the time.
They want access through "apps" on mobile devices in
order to have the data at hand. Being
able to effectively retrieve, process, and act on this information
24/7 is a key priority regardless of location or time zone.
- In a typical operations department of the oil
and gas business, data comes in from multiple sources such as base
camps, platforms, and headquarters.
The complaint of "too much information yet not enough to
go on" can be heard. Who
can possibly handle all of this data without critical analysis to make
wise decisions? In the
future, we will see more development of "dashboard"
applications. These tools
can perform the task of bundling and analyzing massive amounts of data
from various sources and will display the data in such a way that the
human mind can make sense of it and act upon it in an educated
fashion.
- A particular area of interest will be the HSE
and regulatory domain. Professionals
working in this field place especially stringent demands on
understanding the many data points they have to work with to quickly
alert them of potential problems as they occur on platforms, in
refineries, and in plants. Solid
information, presented clearly, can make all the difference in
safeguarding life, property, and the environment.
These are just a few areas that will
affect a company's staffing plans and an individual's career choices.
All of these areas will require professionals who understand the
end user's field of expertise and who at the same time, are interested and
capable of working in or with IT.
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