Here’s a thought for you. Some O&G production companies don’t like their former staff coming back and interfacing with their current workforces for a number of reasons:
- morale: staffer is doing the same (or less!) work for more pay.
- dilemma: would a recently departed staff member be as loyal to the project, she’s already shown a tendency to grab opportunities regardless of timing.
And I guess it would be logical that the longer the time between departure and returning to the ex-employer fold, the less the pain of reconciliation.
In addition, there have been discussions in the past about production companies (aka PSCs) pinching staff from each other.
Now, PETRONAS / PCSB has tentacles into all PSCs in Malaysia. If there is such a policy, doesn’t that mean that any staff who leave PNAS are discriminated against when applying for work with a production company? Sure, they could apply to work with the service providers, but I would think that really isn’t where their strengths lie.
So, what do you do? Some staffers join a ‘stop gap’ company to reset their CVs as it were before working for (notice I didn’t say applying to) a PSC.
Another option is to get out of Malaysia altogether. If you agree to the above logic, or a variant of, you would stop wondering why PNAS staff go overseas once they decide to leave the ship. There’s a push and pull factor involved here.
Wata - Malaysian Oil and Gas Engineer 
The policy do exist and it is practice within Petronas affliated company. Based on my experiance, one of my candidate got his interview cancalled because he was a permenant staff of MMHE, what I can’t understand here is that he quit MMHE before Petronas took over and he is still penalised. There is also a letter from PMU to all PSC on the staff pinching. Will sent a copy to Wata as it would be good for us to understand the matter.
There should be a remedy. Both lose-lose situation maa….
To PNAS HR. Need to reconsider new salary. PNAS salary is the lowest in the bsness. That’s why staff deicide to leave the ship to sunk.
Actually, PETRONAS’s starting salary for new grads is quite high now. You can tell when ex-PETRONAS scholars apply for jobs, their expected salary is much higher than the (current) market average.
Anyway, with the current market conditions, don’t expect anyone other than the big majors offering a comparable salary.
Short answer to the question:
NO.