Shell Career Talk organized by Technology Education Career (TEC) by Nur Zahidah

Shell Career Talk organized by Technology Education Career (TEC)

By Nur Zahidah Kamarudzaman, 3^rd Year 1^st, CVE

Seminar Room 7, 25^th March 2015 – Once again, TEC had successfully organized a career talk. This time around, the guest from the industry was Shell. The talk started with the arrival of guests from Shell. After registration at 2.30pm, the talk started at about 2.50pm. The talk was firstly started with the MC  welcoming the speakers from Shell.

     After the welcoming speech from the MC, Mr. Harith Azhar was called upon to recite the Du’a. Officially the talk started and the guest is called upon to deliver his talk.

   The special guest was Mr. Steve Johnstan, a senior well engineer (discipline advisor). He had B.Eng Mechanical Engineering degree from Bristol, UK and joined Shell in the year 1992. Over the years, he had assisted Shell with recruitments and had oversight on many developments with Shell.

     Firstly, he introduced the objectives of his speech. The objectives were to improve students understanding of wells in Shell and the industry and for further understanding he had clarified what is exactly Well Engineering (WE) and Completion and Well Interventions (CWI) and its differences.

     According to Mr. Steve Johnstan, WE job scopes are to design and construct the well, re-enter wells to drill new side tracks and lastly to permanently abandon well after the job is done. Usually the wells are permanently abandoned after 1 months up to 2 years after the completion of the wells. Whereas CWI job scopes is to maintain well integrity, functionality of the wells, design and install the completion of the wells, and to remediate and solve problems regarding the wells.

      With such detailed speech given by Mr. Steve Johnstan, students should be able to determine whether Well Engineering is the right career path for them and also whether Shell is the right company for fellow internships and fresh graduates from UTP. His speech ended at 4.25pm and the floor was given to the representative from Shell Human Resource Department to answer questions regarding internships and potential job placements for fresh graduates. Finally, the talk officially ended at 5.00pm. Even though the talk was only for 3 hours duration, however, I have obtained many new information and I am sure other students experienced the same too. Therefore I reckoned other students to keep their selves up to date with industry trends by attending all the talks organized by TEC.

                                                         Up to 250 students attended the talk