The company didn't reimburse my travel spends. I think it is quite unworthy. Don't repeat my mistake. Ask them to pay for your travel before an interview. My interview was on 25 of January 2023. Today is 20 of June 2023.
I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Saudi Aramco (Houston, TX) in May 2022
Interview
It tooks around 3 months, I applied in Saudi Aramco website , after that , a person from HR kept in touch with me 2 o 3 times, She sent me different options for the firt interview
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The first interview was around 1 hr about my skills, background and experience, it was videoconference with two coordinators 2nd interview was in Houston, In the same way my experience, skills and background, they asked me about some situations and whats should I do. the interview was with the Manager the questions were with a good level, but If you have experience in oil and gas , you must to pass it easily
The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Saudi Aramco (Houston, TX) in Jun 2021
Interview
Interviewed in Downtown Houston office. One of the worst interviews of my life, but neither of us was really at fault. My entire work history has been at the smallest of the small oil companies where his experience was at Aramco, the biggest on earth. When he was asking me technical questions, something I've never had a problem with in my life, he thought my answers were wrong. And when I asked him what he thought the solution was. it sounded equally insane in my view. Unfortunately, it only dawned on me after the interview what the disconnect was (I imagine). Every well failure issue (after confirming it was real )involved me shutting the well down and loading it up with water to kill it. This is standard, safe operating proc.edure. He was suggesting some frankly wild ideas like measuring the gas effluent from the casing gas to compare with the mudlog on a dual completion zone to try to figure out approximately where the tubing leak is. He can't turn off his wells. He can't shut them off. When you have wells making 40k barrels per day ($2-4 million/day) it starts to make more sense. On a certain line of thinking its worth spending money gathering information of minimal value or that you can use to make slightly more educated decisions to reduce the probability of a 2 day job becoming a 10+ day job. If that happens to a US onshore oil and gas company, oh well that sucks but it happens. As long as no one was negligent or fraudulent, it's understood as a non-rare event. In Aramco, I'd not be shocked if it was a fireable offense. You just shaved $40 million off the company revenue.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Draw a wellbore diagram. (This was in the first 5 minutes. It was strange, 45 minutes into a half hour interview, we could tell the other person was intelligent and capable but our experiences were on the polar edges of the oil and gas industry.
