@dabriggs,How can somebody from a physics background and NDT break into the industry?Like what are the prospects?

dabriggs:



Ehen, I don come back. I am back

Sorry for the late reply. I am completing my program here and there are just a lot of things to do related to graduation and convocation.
You studied Civil Engineering. That is good. Let me start by saying this:

Generally the business can informally be split into two 2.

1. There are Oil Producing Companies which are either International Oil Companies (IOCs e.g. Shell, Chevron, Mobil, Total) OR Indigenous/Local Oil Companies (Pan Ocean, Moni Pulo, Conoil,).

2. There are Oil Servicing Companies (OSCs) and these offer a very long list of services from rudimentary supplies to highly specialized technical services to the IOCs. The IOCs do not have all the skills and some of these services are required maybe once in 3 or 5 years. It is cheaper and better to outsource such to servicing companies. In the past they used to be many international servicing companies. But now, the Nigerian local content laws have made most of these international servicing companies merge with local companies or ''indegenize''. International servicing companies include Technip, SUBSEA 7, Baker Hughes, Fugro, Schlum., NALCO, etc. Some of these companies might claim to be local. But believe me there is a foreign company pulling the strings from overseas. Local servicing companies include Makon, Tenoil, AOS Orwell, Clairgold, etc.

So why this long digression? You have a choice to work with any of the two groups. Within the core oil producing companies as a Civil Engineer, I will see you in:

1. Facilities or
2. Safety Engineering

Facilities guys manage the structures offshore or on land. They are involved in design, maintenance and management of the design life of oil producing and exporting assets. Within Safety Engineering you will be involved in asset integrity management and risk based inspection. Usually you will work closely with the Facilities guys on matters life design life extension, fatigue, corrosion control and corrosion prevention and protection, ageing and obsolescence, etc. The facilities will include stuff like FPSO Hull, mooring chains, SBM/SPM export buoy, pipes, vessels, risers.

With regards to servicing companies, you could work with the drilling and well completion companies, the design companies for facility designs.Pipeline construction, a host of technical issues related to civil /Structural works, platform construction, detailed Engineering for Civil/ Structural works as per Project specifications and applicable International codes and standards, subsea soil foundation and stability tests, technical review of design documents and method statements etc.

The courses will depend on which area you are interested in. Are you concerned with Design? Asset Integrity? Life Extension? Courses on STAAD Pro, some specialized training of fire resistant and blast resistant structures, training on Cathodic and Corrosion Protection, UTM and Non Destructive Testing (NDT) Systems and training on to be conversant with international codes and standards will also be good. ASTM, ASCE/ANSI, API, etc. With regards to loss prevention and asset integrity management you can Try PHAST, SAFETI, IFS, SYNERGI, VisualAIM etc.

You can also check the web to see where your discipline is heading and where to focus on developing yourself.

Loving all your expert inputs on this thread.I can see you know your onions and a no push over in this industry.Despite coming from the safety arm,your firm grasp of other areas of expertise all around the industry is amazing. I dey follow you closely.Kudos Bro!!!

Bollinger:


I have almost shouted myself hoarse about this issue on NL. Most just hear "5k" and they lose all sense of reasoning. It can never work. Not with the infrastructure on ground. All they will do if they implement it, is create another avenue for looting funds. Want another head cracker? How will the government sustain it? Nobody is asking that question. The govt can't even pay salaries for God's sake. In America, when you are born, or become a citizen/resident, you are issued a number which follows you till the day you die. This number is relevant from going to school to buying a car. It identifies you to pretty much everything you do in life. So, if the government wanted to help the unemployed, all they need to do is pull up your number and it will tell if you have a job or not. Too easy. Say you are looking for a job, the first thing that is asked of you is your number which the company will input into their system which the government can access at anytime. It makes everyone's life so much easier. Until Nigeria implements something like this, all talk of social welfare should be put in the back burner. The govt does not even know how many unemployed live on a street and they want to track the whole country. Well, good luck with that.

In other words they have failed before the programme commences.SMH for this administration!

bestower:
What a damsel! Waoh,what is going to be the hope of this young lady in the family? Has she been married legally to this man before his death? Is she leaving with the 2nd wife nd children?oh no, madam olivia u re on ur own.lemme ask, am i first to comment.....i feel nothing and i got nothing been first to comment...so y d bustlin nd hustlin...craps.

If you ask me na who I go ask?

I love the French intelligent gathering network.How I wish my country would take a cue from this?

adjoviomole:
Mods anybody dat types end time again. Abeg make una dash d person end time ban

It is not a small something o!!!!

Bia Vanguard and co.!!! you guys must tender an apology to Nigerians for misinformation.

SMH!!!

JoshRDWM:
Web directories are great too...

What do you use that for?

jammeyboy:

I won 3houd.com but i am not sure if it is a good domain to register or not.
Whats ur pick on this domain people

IMO,Bro that domain has no PR,the Alexa ranking is too high.Even the name with a numeral infront looks somehow .ItsNot advisable to buy.I stand to be corrected by the gurus in the house.
#selah

9niceguy:
Cute baby..... What's that rising beneath that nigga Trouser? That thing long o

Boil ni

djkellyu:
How a stolen / missing phone can be tracked

http://www.learnerstools.com/2015/11/how-stolen-phone-can-be-tracked.html?m=0

That stuff doesn't work!!!
#selah

rusher14:


I'm tired of all this ethnic play.

Even if, and I'm not saying it's so, must you echo what you believe is their thoughts?

Aren't you guys tired?

Business and profit doesn't follow ethnicity but the money path.

For the lure of lucre brothers kill brothers and mothers have sold their own children into slavery.

My opinion about the business is that, it probably wasn't even illegal but one might say the structure may not have been in the best interest of the nation and it did not encourage competition.

This Tribal e-fight is getting out of hand by the day.I pray it doesn't breakdown the servers of this platform.

Buhari:Amaechi

Amaechi:Baba

Buhari:Abeg I no wan hear say that mono rail project u run leave for pH dem no complete am oo

Amaechi: Chai!!!I don die.Come collect this post sef I no want again.

Amaechi please you'll do well to use your good offices while working in conjunction with nyesom to ensure that the port Harcourt mono rail project is completed.

U did all these and you posed for a shot?

*pukes*What a life!

Bia dis man make dat broom no enter person eye o!!!

klexycole:
GOAL NUMBER THREE!!!!!

Brazilian keeper dey stand dey sleep no for the third goal

Osihme with a goal and an assist

Its 2-0...The eaglets are soaring.

For her left mind,she is sexy?

*puke*

Hmm!See oloshos dem o!Seems a very organized body.