SLB reviews

The only good thing about working here is compensation. Even though your base salary will be around 60 K you receive bonuses for each day spent on a rig, so you can potentially end up making twice as much. The job is extremely easy, besides a few days when you're running around trying to troubleshoot or rig up/down. I am not exaggerating when I say the job requires minimal brain power. You're pretty much being compensated for the lifestyle, because you're really out here in an executive assistant/ operator capacity and no engineering goes into this what so ever. So if you're ok with not seeing your family and friends, having no personal life or development, and flushing your engineering degree down the toilet this could be a great career for you.

(This entire review mostly applies to the internship) -Truly incredible people all around. There's no other way to put it -Tons of responsibility right away -Great training for people who don't know much about the oilfield -Intense pampering in the first couple of weeks -You are not treated as an intern, but as a full member of a crew I interned for SLB in the summer of 2010. It is definitely a great internship and even if you don't think that this is something you'll want to do in the future you should do the internship for the experience alone - I guarantee that it will change your priorities and plans for the future as it did for me. The internship is broken down into 2 parts: training in Houston (a week) and Tulsa (2.5 weeks) and actual work at your district anywhere in the US for 6 weeks. School in Kellyville (outside of Tulsa) is geared toward people who don't know much about the oilfield and is more on the technical/operational side rather than teaching basics about oil and the entire business. Out of the entire intern class (about 80 people) only 6-8 had any kind of petrotechnical background from school. The vast majority were chemical and mechanical with a few civil and aerospace. The instructors in were all Field Engineers and were able to explain what it is that they do in a very accessible manner. At the end of 2.5 weeks there, I had a good understanding of what exactly SLB does and how they do it. After that I went to Arkansas to well services. The experience there was incredible. It's a very busy district. Be ready to work... Basically when you're in the field, you will be treated according to how you act. You earn respect and when the guys see you working and doing everything you can, they will treat you like an equal. Developing good relationships in the crew is very important and once you do, you'll feel like you're part of a big family. If you're competent and want to do the work, the supervisor will trust you to run equipment and you will basically be on the same shift rotation schedule as all of the other operators. Finishing a 3 day job definitely feels very different if you did the work as opposed to just "observing". In terms of the people - you won't find better, more down to earth people than here. The intern class is nothing like your typical gathering of engineers. I've made great friends in the short time that we spent together, which is something I didn't really expect to take away from this internship. We all worked hard and any free time was party time - again not your typical engineering crowd. In the field, you won't survive if you're not personable and someone other people want to be around. Everyone is very outgoing, accepting, and surprisingly open minded (didn't expect that from southerners). You'll have the most ridiculous and interesting conversations about the most random and unexpected things in the world. You'll be exposed to things you never even imagined and truly bond with the people you work with. The people you meet and spend time with are what really makes this job great.