I received this notice from multiple parties. My initial reactions were ‘where is Telok,’ and ‘who was the design contractor? Was it sole sourced to a favourite blue-eyed entity?’ I know Technip didn’t get the contract.
Dateline 2013-03-11, for the Malaysian Insider:
ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Malaysia Inc, a subsidiary of Exxon Mobil Corp, has started natural gas production from the Telok field to meet increasing demand for natural gas in Peninsular Malaysia.
The field is located 200 kilometres offshore the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia in the South China Sea.
ExxonMobil in a statement today said the Telok A platform marked the first phase of the Telok gas development project under a gas production sharing contract between ExxonMobil as the operator and PETRONAS Carigali Sdn Bhd (PCSB).
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Wata - Malaysian Oil and Gas Engineer 
Salam & good day Encik Wata!
I did received the same notice too, earlier this week. Hopefully it will be a good news for us (Malaysian-owned contractors), otherwise, well, maybe we have to ‘explore’ the outside market…. 🙂 it feels like we are so unwanted in our own ‘tanah tumpahnya darahku’ 😛
And my other hope is for the PRU to not have political effects on oil & gas industry…
Aishah: unfortunately, PRU (Pemilu as they say in a neighbouring country) will have effects on everything. I suspect that petrol prices go up, PLCs will become more prominent, and all contractors will have to charter their own boats to go offshore 🙂
About chartering the boats, I wonder why the barge/accommodation contractors are approaching the other contractors directly. Shouldn’t they approach the operator instead of contractors? Hahaha macam betul jer contractors nak kena charter boat sendiri lepas ni.
S@ni,
Emailed.
Aishah, i have a question regarding handal resources :p
bila bleh jumpe? TQ
official or unofficial? 😛
unofficial laaaa… kalo official tu namenye mintak keje… hahahaa
hahaha set time & place.. Wednesday preferably.. 😛
encik wata xmo join ke? alang2… haha.. next wednesday, masa kul2 (after lunch, tp kita gi lunch la kot), lokasi er… which 1 is ok for u.
yg paling convenient? usj/pj? haha. anyway, i tak confident boleh keluar time office hour. (sini lunch break 12:30-1:30)
kena tanye boss dulu. 😛
s@ni: not in the country on Wed.
yela yela… just email me bila2.. adeh…
s a n i o s c [a t] g m a i l
sesiapa yang disini boleh tolong tak? saya tak dapat interns lagi.
course ape?
Course mekanikal engineering, tahun 3, utm skudai. Thanks sebab reply!!
All: I’m back. For 2 days. Then out again.
Busynye Encik Wata. Apa-apa pun, jaga kesihatan dengan baik! Cheers.