M’sia key player in new oil, gas discovery

February 28, 2013

Man, ASEAN is up Via Merda if Malaysia is the leader.

FMT, Dateline 2013-02-20:

Malaysia is the key player in Southeast Asia’s upstream hydrocarbon sector with estimated discoveries of 1.4 billion BOE (barrels of oil equivalent last year, or 72% of the total discoveries in the region.

At least six new gas fields with combined estimated reserves of 7.3 trillion cubic feet (tcf) discovered in Malaysia were included in the top-10 largest discoveries in Southeast Asia, according to the report.

Malaysia’s state-owned energy company, Petronas Carigali, Swedish oil and gas firm Lundin Petroleum and US-based Murphy Oil were among the most successful players in Malaysia.

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Shamsul Azhar’s award ‘a tribute to Petronas’

February 27, 2013

From the Malaysian Chronicle, dateline 2013-02-19:

The current Petronas team has brought back excitement to the Malaysian oil and gas sector over the past three years.

Petronas president and chief executive officer Tan Sri Shamsul Azhar Abbas said this as he received The Man of the Year Award from The Oil & Gas Year Malaysia 2013 publication yesterday.

Shamsul Azhar said while he was pleased with the recognition, the award is a tribute to the organisation and his Petronas colleagues.

“This award serves as a timely reminder of what we have achieved together in the last three years. Within this period, we have reinvigorated and brought the excitement back to Malaysia’s oil and gas industry.”

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From the Engineering Floor – Meme

February 26, 2013

Something you don’t want to hear when meeting a client:

“All your (design) base(s) are belong to us!!”

If you don’t get it, look up definitions here and here. If you still don’t get it, my humour is too highbrow and ancient for you.

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Saturday Star 2013-02-23 – Job Opportunities

February 25, 2013

Buy my recommendations, or through my Amazon store. Where are those corporate sponsors? Or throw donations at me. I need money to purchase a dive light.

If you need my help to submit your CVs, donate to the blog, and I’ll review your CV to see if it is worthy of my (and my associates’) expectations. If you can’t figure out how to donate, no need to ask.

This week, it looks like you (the advertisers) are recycling last weeks adverts. Since it’s a holiday today (Monday), I guess you are justified

  • I’m looking for a senior process engineer, 7+ years experience. Send your cv here. Also looking for process safety persons, lead piping designer, lead instrument engineer, and other seniors you think will catch my eye.
  • Leighton Asia, India and Offshore (LAIO) is looking for Senior Engineers and Engineers in Civil (Onshore) disciplines. Apply here.
  • ExxonMobil is looking for an automation engineer, recent graduate chemical engineer, experienced distillation and gas processing engineer, experienced control applications engineer  lead safety facilities engineer (can I be given that job?), experienced instrument engineer, real time optimization engineer. Apply here.
  • Aker Solutions wants you in the deep end of the oil & gas talent pool. Visit them here if you want to see if you are woman enough to meet the challenge.
  • There’s a general add for ‘careers in petrochemical industry, riyadh, Saudi Arabia’. Send an email here.
  • I see Petrofac is looking for engineers. They are ‘career opportunities in offshore projects’. Hmm, is that a hint that they are not getting more acreage? Also, I notice that the email is for Petrofac Engineering, not Petrofac operations.  Send your cv here.

How about some local food? Alisara at Puchong Indah. Specialises in Thai food, and has mango with stick rice.

Break the Low Yat stranglehold! Support Newegg Malaysia.

Here’s a switch, a fiction novel combining diving, welding, oil & gas and family.

  

The Underwater Welder, Welding: Principles and Applications, Professional Diver’s Manual on Wet-Welding

LNG: A Nontechnical Guide, Fundamentals of Natural Gas Processing, Second Edition (Dekker Mechanical Engineering), Gas and Oil Reliability Engineering: Modeling and Analysis

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Marketing Rounds – Shell Lego

February 19, 2013

Had to visit 4 stations in Miri to get complete sets. Anyone desperate to purchase a complete set for their kids? I’ll sell them at oil & gas prices.

Next, I want the oil & gas set. Drilling rig, welder, DCS…

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Saturday Star 2013-02-16 – Job Opportunities

February 18, 2013

Buy my recommendations, or through my Amazon store. Where are those corporate sponsors? Or throw donations at me. I need money to purchase a dive light.

If you need my help to submit your CVs, donate to the blog, and I’ll review your CV to see if it is worthy of my (and my associates’) expectations. If you can’t figure out how to donate, no need to ask.

This week, it looks like you (the advertisers) are recycling last weeks adverts. Since it’s a holiday today (Monday), I guess you are justified

  • I’m looking for a senior process engineer, 7+ years experience. Send your cv here. Also looking for process safety persons, lead piping designer, lead instrument engineer, and other seniors you think will catch my eye.
  • Nothing else to see here.

How about some local food? Alisara at Puchong Indah. Specialises in Thai food, and has mango with stick rice.

Break the Low Yat stranglehold! Support Newegg Malaysia.

Here’s a switch, a fiction novel combining diving, welding, oil & gas and family.

  

The Underwater Welder, Welding: Principles and Applications, Professional Diver’s Manual on Wet-Welding

LNG: A Nontechnical Guide, Fundamentals of Natural Gas Processing, Second Edition (Dekker Mechanical Engineering), Gas and Oil Reliability Engineering: Modeling and Analysis

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Shell gives green light to Malaysian oil

February 13, 2013

From UPI, dateline 2013-02-05:

A final investment decision with a consortium of energy companies makes deep-water work in Malaysia a reality, said Shell Malaysia Chairman Iain Lo.

Shell Malaysia announced it made a final investment decision with a subsidiary of ConocoPhillips and state-owned energy company Petronas to development the Malikai oil field in the deep waters of Malaysia.

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Marketing Rounds – Piasau Business Park

February 12, 2013

Looks like quite a few oil & gas companies here.

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Saturday Star 2013-02-09 – Job Opportunities

February 11, 2013

Buy my recommendations, or through my Amazon store. Where are those corporate sponsors? Or throw donations at me. I need money to purchase a dive light.

If you need my help to submit your CVs, donate to the blog, and I’ll review your CV to see if it is worthy of my (and my associates’) expectations. If you can’t figure out how to donate, no need to ask.

This week, it looks like you (the advertisers) are recycling last weeks adverts. Since it’s a holiday today (Monday), I guess you are justified

  • I’m looking for a senior process engineer, 7+ years experience. Send your cv here. Also looking for process safety persons, lead piping designer, lead instrument engineer, and other seniors you think will catch my eye.
  • JX Nippon Oil & Gas Exploration (Malaysia) Ltd is looking people. Send your cv here. Or visit http://www.nex.jx-group.co.jp/english → RECRUIT → Employment at Tower 3 (Malaysia).
  • Uzma Engineering (not to be confused with Unza) is looking for Lead Engineers for Process, Mechanical – Static, Mechanical – Rotating, Structural, Electrical, Instrumentation, Piping. And (bribe-prone) Buyers, Expeditors, Document Controller, Project Engineer. Apply here, or visit here.

Support your local bookshop!  Bookalicious at The Summit Subang is a good choice. I think they focus on trilogies, quadrilogies, and other ologies. Tell them I sent you, and enjoy the look of perplexity on their faces. Those of you who have dropped my name, thanks!

Break the Low Yat stranglehold! Support Newegg Malaysia.

Here’s a switch, a fiction novel combining diving, welding, oil & gas and family.

  

The Underwater Welder, Welding: Principles and Applications, Professional Diver’s Manual on Wet-Welding

LNG: A Nontechnical Guide, Fundamentals of Natural Gas Processing, Second Edition (Dekker Mechanical Engineering), Gas and Oil Reliability Engineering: Modeling and Analysis

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February 8, 2013

Not Malaysian news, but interesting because “The case was unique in that it was the first time a Dutch multinational had been taken to court in Holland over environmental damage caused abroad”. Is the door opening such that we can sue the parent companies of the multi-national subsidence operating in Malaysia? Hello, class-action lawsuits.

Dateline 2013-01-30:

A Dutch court ruled on Wednesday that a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell was partly responsible for oil pollution in the Niger Delta, but said the company was not liable for four of the five charges brought against it.

In relation to one spill it ordered the Shell subsidiary to pay compensation to a local farmer, saying the company had neglected its duty of care.

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