If you are an American Exxon employee would you rather be in engineering or some other role outside of engineering?
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Definitely not engineering. Good ones stay so busy they can’t think. Management on the other hand or process is where you want to be. Either is so dense it’s easy to outshine them. Management is impervious to pip also
Flow assurance is important. Witness the asphaltene problems at CHSU, a Denbury CO2 flood with horizontal wells. Oops!
“Flow assurance engineer”
This is an actual title and job function?
No offense, but if I see this on a resume or job application, I’m not going to know what to do with it. It sounds like sitting and staring at graphs all day.
So I am a flow assurance engineer. Basically a glorified plumber. My job is to make sure fluids keep flowing down pipes without gunk getting deposited. Periodically I have to use what is effectively Drano. So right now I wish I was a real plumber. When your toilet breaks, you get it fixed. You pay what you have to, to get the job done right. Real plumbing jobs can’t be offshored.
Stay close to the pellet. You do that by staying in operations. We don’t need people to design or have engineering recommendations here but it takes us d-mb uneducated guys to run it. And we make way more than those engineers with college loans to pay off in 2 - 3 years unless they become managers. They stop paying I stop working. Instantly lose 20 years experience. Engineers sc--w up all the time and say things are supposed to do this but they sc--w up calcs all the time. We use our experience to make it work. We don’t need them. They need us.
@OP Depends on whether someone actually wants to do engineering.
Social engineering is engineering too lol
BTC Engineering??? Okie dokie, Mabel!
If you want to do real engineering work get away from exxon. Engineers are nothing but project managers. No real engineering goes on here. Go to BTC they do engineering work.
I want to be the CEO
Rather be outside of exxonmobil