Well Control Course Bangkok?

[choppychugger]

Can anyone help........

I am an offshore engineer, and am looking into doing my I.O.D.C or I.W.C.F well control courses/exams.

I will be doing this course off my own back and would like to know if there is somewhere I can do this course in Bangkok.

If so roughly how much does it cost?

Thanks in advance.

[pieeyed]

Can anyone help........

I am an offshore engineer, and am looking into doing my I.O.D.C or I.W.C.F well control courses/exams.

I will be doing this course off my own back and would like to know if there is somewhere I can do this course in Bangkok.

If so roughly how much does it cost?

Thanks in advance.

Contact Sarat Pongpitak, Managing Director, Petrokeum Training. You can take sub surface or surface IWCF. The courses are held in a nice Bangkok hotel where you can book a room. He probably has a couple courses a month depending on demand. I think the course is about $1500.00 USD. Here is his contact (sararit [at] pttco [dot] org). Hope this helps.

[choppychugger]

Can anyone help........

I am an offshore engineer, and am looking into doing my I.O.D.C or I.W.C.F well control courses/exams.

I will be doing this course off my own back and would like to know if there is somewhere I can do this course in Bangkok.

If so roughly how much does it cost?

Thanks in advance.

Contact Sarat Pongpitak, Managing Director, Petrokeum Training. You can take sub surface or surface IWCF. The courses are held in a nice Bangkok hotel where you can book a room. He probably has a couple courses a month depending on demand. I think the course is about $1500.00 USD. Here is his contact ([email protected]). Hope this helps.

cheers ,, that will do nicely.

[elkangorito]

Just a quick question - how does one get into this oil rig business? I know a bloke who is possibly the worst electrician I've ever met & he works on these rigs. He doesn't seem to know his backside from his bald patch, yet he always seems to be getting jobs everywhere. I've tried before to get into this industry but the catch-22 is that you have to have some experience before you can get work. How can one get experience in the industry if one can't get a job in the industry?

[choppychugger]

Just a quick question - how does one get into this oil rig business? I know a bloke who is possibly the worst electrician I've ever met & he works on these rigs. He doesn't seem to know his backside from his bald patch, yet he always seems to be getting jobs everywhere. I've tried before to get into this industry but the catch-22 is that you have to have some experience before you can get work. How can one get experience in the industry if one can't get a job in the industry?

It is not always what you know,,, but who you know,,, and I guess, being in the right place at the right time.

I had the same problem, as I had the engineering knowledge and experience, but no Off shore time. My persistance paid off, an engineering firm took me on and paid for all tickets to start work off shore.

Australia like the rest of the world is booming at the momment, and I beleive that now is as good a time as any to get into it.

Don't waste your time with the internet companies that want a monthly subscription with the promise of sending your resume to 1,000 companies a week or whatever...

Do your H.U.E.T ( helicopter & safety training ),and rig awareness course off your own back, and start writing to the different agencies and drilling companies. You will stand out from the other hopefuls if you laready have some of the tickets.

You will get your off shore experiance through an agency.

I am not sure what your back ground is, but if you have youth on your side and an engineering ( mech/elec ) back ground of some sort, then you stand a good chance.

The last rig I was on there was they had just taken on 3 green hands, one was an ex chip fryer, an ex P.E teacher, and an artist.

[tuky]

Definitely who you know. Sometimes your next job comes from the bloke you met the other night at the pub.

I have asked around, and people who I have asked have also asked around and nobody seems to know anyone who has got a job through the internet type agents...

Be interested to know what project your mate is working on at the moment, hope it is not mine

[JimsKnight]

Elk, you can't just walk into a job offshore unless you are course-qualified/experienced to at least do the job first. There are exceptions, like cleaning for example. Do you want to be a cleaner?

Greenhand courses for Drill crews is about the best I can suggest to you without knowing what you can do.

What Choppy dude says is bang on!

I got my first contracts through agencies (and still do now!).

The sparky guy. Sparkys are a law unto themselves, the may be crap, but they are still tolerated because they are hard to replace (shortage of sparkies wanting to work offshore).

Typically if your crp at what you do offshore then either the have to be family related or have a sympathetic boss (rare offshore).

If you work through agencies and are crap, you'll be sht canned and NRB'd (not required back) from the platform.

For a single dude on the prowl for jobs, its agencys that offer the best prospects. But its usually seasonal (summer and autumn)

For married guys, a company position.

Offshore Companies are very very hard to get into. Typical core crews do not like newbies. They like people as experienced as themselves and are old dinosaurs at times too!

Agency guys like myself and others are tolerated more cause we come and go and don't hang around too long.

But be warned even agencies nowadays are having to get picky on guys (because the clients are clamping down on newbies!)

I'd need to know you're complete background before

I'm on a North Sea Platform now. Think of it like a castle door, very hard to get in from the front, but much easier through the back door or under the walls; Either you need to self-sponsor yourself through the offshore medical, survival etc and be really lucky (like I was:)) OR know someone on the inside who will get you in through the back door.

You gotta take the step and be prepared for money wasted. As you may be the guy who is waiting for the phone to ring for months on end without anything. I know of a guy still waiting for the phone to ring and that was 8 months ago.

Forget Thailand for offshore work, If you ain't drill crew or a specialist engineer you've got no chance. If you're a Brit or Aussie then the North Sea is your best bet.

You may not take to the life offshore though, it can be 2 weeks++++ and you need to have a 'face that fits.' Otherwise you'll just be binned and thrown out with the trash. It sounds harsh, but it happens.

The North Sea is in its last swan song (so they say) so either get your groove on and take the plunge or just keep dreaming.

Good luck, you'll need it!

It's that simple I'm afraid. It's a good life offshore and very few people give up the life, hence jobs so hard to get in from the outside anyway.

I've argued time and time again that having stagnant nepotism is a bad trend in the long term, but the trouble is, if you stand out from the crowd and speak the voiceof reason you're making yourself a big target.

I know vessels that have almost the entire crew related in some way to each other!

The nepotism thing has got its good points and bad points. One of the main ones being hard to get into for a newcomer.