Electrical Engineer-Oil and Gas

Yes. you can join as a Electrical Design Engineer in Oil and gas sector after getting the required experience.

Try to work atleast 2-3 years in construction site and gain all the knowledge and required stuff to excel as a good design engineer.

Best of luck......... Kishore.

YES! since you are already in the construction field, you are already on the right path, next focus your job search on EPC companies and EMCs, the are key link to O&G careers since they operate in those areas.

Exactly what I did - what a mistake. The oil/gas well analysis companies love engineers - it is easier to teach an engineer some geology than to teach a geologist how to run/trouble shoot electronics they use for analysis. I spent 11 miserable years as a well paid slave. Once they get you, you are put to work at at least 100 hours per week and make just enough money you can't justify quitting, nor do you have the time to job search. (I still have the log books from 1983 to show my shortest week all year was 98 hours) The thing that finally got me out was the moving - they don't like you to sink in roots too deep and try to move you yearly. This is fine for a young single guy, but when you have a family, it becomes a problem. (wife finally said I could quit when I over heard the plans for me for the next 2 years and all the bases I was to be assigned to, to teach others what I knew of the latest computer system I had been trained on)

Note that this was in the 1980's - perhaps things have improved since then - but I doubt it.

I had a friend in my training class who was young and single and a mechanical engineer right out of college. He went from the analysis service company to Exxon within a few years. Last I heard they had him in SE Asia somewhere and making tons of money - he loved that kind of work and moving. (that is another reason for hiring engineers - they didn't think big oil would snap us up like they did geologists - he proved them wrong on that point, as did 3 others in my training class of 10)