Schlumberger

[frisco anconia]

please post here pexers who work at Schlumberger. i was recently hired and need to ask questions from pinoys who work there :confused:

[sneaky]

where is your office located, and what is the nature of business of Schlumberger? :)

[frisco anconia]

they only have a small satellite office here in alabang. the main offices are in the US and France. Schlumberger is an oilfield services company :)

[mac_bolan00]

hi frisco, this is hugh akston. :D

i used to work with oil&gas of the DOE. many of my colleagues got jobs as geophysicists and core loggers in companies like geoservices, ex-log and, for a time, schlumberger.

are you a geologist?

[Spyfrat]

congrats :)
rinig ko sa mga oil rigs raw ang lakiiiii ng sweldo. my pop used to work in aramco and agoco. balita sa mga pinoy dyan 15 days sa rig, 15 days bakasyon with pay. sa agoco 2 months work, 1 month paid vacation kaya swabe dyan sa inyo :).

[Ice Burn]

They are located near Alabang. I went there a few times since they were one of the clients I handled. I thought it was a nice office and the people were real friendly. I love the gym they have for their employees. :lol:

[frisco anconia]

thanks for the replies :) and medyo ok nga yung pay :)

to the one who asked: i'm an industrial engineer.

i've been to their office in alabang quite a number of times. kung meron ditong nag-w-work dun, i want to ask sana if the rate of increase in salary is ok :)

thanks again :)

meron pala ditong fan din ng Atlas Shrugged :)

[el_pogito]

hi frisco,

i work for an oilfied service company in the same line as schlumberger.

are you going to be a part of the operations team (meaning are you going to be based offshore in drilling rigs)? or are you going to stay in the office?

if you'll be part of the former then read on:

1- you'll have a 7-day 12hour work sched for 4-6weeks.

2- if you'll be part of the wireline logging team then prepare to work for 24-36hrs straight during logging operations.

3- you'll be meeting different kinds of people: racist sons of *****es, etc. learn to adapt quickly and you'll be alright.

schlumberger is renowned for giving equal opportunities to everyone. the only problem they (and most service companies in the oilfield industry) have is the fast turnover of people.

[frisco anconia]

to el pogito: thanks man! yung assignment ko daw will cover both offshore and office work. wireline (reservoir evaluation) division.

if i may ask, what company did work in before? halliburton? and if it's alright to ask (sorry makulit), around how much yung pay?

frisco

[frisco anconia]

how much pala yung starting? (if it's alright to ask :)

[dudelish]

i work for a hotel that handles schlumberger events in the US. holy cowpie, the events that they have, they really take care of their employees.

full spa treatments, 18 hole golf on 2 courses in 3 days, banquet dinners, the works.

[el_pogito]

hey frisco,

sorry i can't give you exactly how much is how much. but here's a salary range just to give you an idea of how much schlumberger or any other oilfield service company (MWD, Wireline, Mudlogging, Cementing, etc.) pays its trainee-employees:

trainee level
daily rate (while on the rig): $20-$75+
basic (monthly pay): $300-1500+
daily meal allowance (while travelling): $20-30+

*schlumberger has a profit sharing-scheme with their employees which i am not familiar with. but i think the crew gets 1% for every completed contract. so if the contract is worth $1M ... you do the arithmetic .... :D

good luck.

[neobe]

Who among you have worked (or still working, knows someone who's working) as engineer for Schlumberger? Any feedbacks on the work environment and compensation in that company?

[leopold]

malaki ang schlumberger...meron schlumberger electric, meron schlumberger equipment for semicon industry, meron schlumberger na motor parts....alin ka ba dun...kung schlumberger electric, ok yan...one of the suppliers ng napocor and meralco...kung schlumberger equipment, ganyan ang gamit ngayon ng mga semicon industry like intel, amkor and cypress..

[spicyham]

I know two people working for Schlum exploration, one is stationed in Egypt and the other has disappeared from the face of the earth since I last saw her..these are not your typical underpaid contract workers btw, they earn 4K USD a month in training before deployment...Tho training is very gruelling, physically and mentally from what I understood. What the company does is contract oil drilling services from upstream oil companies and the job is like what Bruce Willis does in Armageddon, stationed in an oil rig in the middle of the ocean for 6 months with workers and your supplies are brought in by a helicopter.

They hire one per year for that position and one other each in Malaysia/Thailand/Indonesia and you should be below 28 yo. The guy in Egypt is really good, has the technical aptitude and outstanding people skills. The other guy (a girl) is well-rounded, smart and artistic at the same time. I guess what I'm saying is, if they offer in exploration and you don't mind an Indiana Jones type existence..I suggest you take the job :-)

[JENSIE_G]

Back in college, I remember doing a paper on Schlumberger-Sena.

Sila ang responsible for Smart Communication's 64K SIM Card.

Wala lang.

:D

[frisco anconia]

Neobe: i'm working for SLB and am currently assigned in Egypt. The work is as SpicyHam described it. It is grueling and really intense but you do get properly compensated for it. you also get to travel a lot. i've been to 4 different countries in the past 4 months. I worked for a while in P&G before and I can tell you that in terms of workload, nothing compares to Schlumberger...well, that is if you're in Wireline Segment (I'm not too sure how tough it is if you're assigned to other segments). they only hire one or two people from the Philippines ever year. if you have any questions, just send me a private message.

SpicyHam: do i know you? =)

[neobe]

Actually it's my friend who's interested in joining Schlumberger. She's the kind of person who doesn't realy care about earning too much. What's important to her is that she gets to enjoy what's she's earning.
Reading from your comments, I guess she better think twice.
Thanks a lot. :)

[spicyham]

Hmm..6months naman ata bakasyon sila after 6months sa field so pwede nyang ma-enjoy yung kita nya..And look at it as an opportunity for your friend, not everyone can get the chance to expand their horizons as much and as early and the experience will make her extremely marketable in the future.
After all, how many people can say they ride a helicopter to work? :-) Papatok yan sa grad school interviewers...

frisco: HaHa andito ka pala!

[neobe]

Hi guys. Thanks a lot sa inputs ninyo. I let my friend read your comments and as I've expected, she wasn't interested. She wanna stick to the 8-5 kind of job daw where she's in the city and can enjoy a lot. Tsaka she doesn't wanna do a guy's job daw. Medyo kikay rin kasi yun eh. :) Gusto nun pumapasok siya nang nakaporma. :)
She'a looking into a plant-design type of job now.
Thanks again. :)

[hIgHeR]

may office ba ang schlumberger **? saan?

[boogerflicker]

hayup a. sana nag-engineering na lang ako.