Marketing Rounds – Umrah 2016/02 Pt 1

April 20, 2016

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M’sia Still Preferred For Oil & Gas Industries

April 19, 2016

What technical symposium?

Dateline 2016-03-01, Malaysia Digest:

Malaysia remains a preferred location for business operations, especially in the petrochemical and oil & gas (O&G) related industries.

This is despite facing global headwinds, said Malaysian Investment Development Authority (Mida) Chief Executive Officer Azman Mahmud.

He said Malaysia had the infrastructure for these industries and was still fundamentally strong with the economy expected to grow between 4.0% and 4.5% this year.

“With the implementation of the Pengerang Integrated Petroleum Complex and the Petronas Refinery and Petrochemical Integrated Development project, Malaysia has now been placed on the world map for building opportunities for growth in this ecosystem,” he told reporters after officiating the Schmidt + Clemens Group Technical Symposium here today.

Schmidt + Clemens is a producer of special steel components and a supplier of services for plant operators and mechanical equipment manufacturers.

The company has invested more than 14 million euros in a new production plant at the Sendayan Tech Valley in Seremban, while planning to add a few more machines this year.

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Shout Out – Technical Visit to Aker Solutions Manufacturing Centre, Port Klang

April 19, 2016

My Technical Division will be arranging a Trip to visit Aker on the 5th May, 2016. It is worth some CPD points (don’t know why the page says 0).

Aker Solutions is a global provider of products, systems and services to the oil and gas industry. Their engineering design and technology bring discoveries into production and maximize recovery from each petroleum field. They employ approximately 15,000 people in 20 countries. Aker Solutions portfolio of oilfield stretches all the way from the reservoir to the wellstream processing systems generating marketable and valuable hydrocarbon products.

The Aker Solutions Manufacturing Centre in Port Klang assemble oil and gas production equipments and systems. Some of the items that have been manufactured are topsides process packages, subsea structures, subsea christmas tree, subsea control module, subsea wellheads, and drilling and production risers. In this visit, visitors will be able to learn how the manufacturing centre is operated and maintained.

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Register here, and you can download the form here.

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Saturday Star 2016-04-16– Job Opportunities

April 18, 2016

Happy Miri week. Donate to your favourite charity (me), buy my recommendations, or through my Amazon store. Or get the Young Turks series (3 books until I can get YTP republished). Where are those corporate sponsors? Or throw donations at me, my camera dive case flooded, and I need a new replacement. Heck, if you want to send me a Canon 5D Mk III plus dive case, I will not say no.

  • I’m looking for jobs for 3Q2016. Send me your POs.
  • Nothing in the papers this week.

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!

Food choice of the week? Any weight loss diet.

Let’s get a bit nostalgic with the book selection.

Wetter, Louder, Stickier: A Baby Blues Collection (Baby Blues Scrapbook), BBXX: Baby Blues: Decades 1 & 2, Bedlam

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Petronas posts $704 million fourth-quarter net loss, confirms spending cuts

April 17, 2016

Dateline 2016-02-29, Reuters:

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Malaysia’s Petroliam Nasional Bhd, or PETRONAS, reported a fourth-quarter net loss on Monday and announced spending cuts for the next few years, as the state oil company braces for a prolonged period of low oil prices.

Petronas reported a net loss of 2.96 billion ringgit ($704.3 million) for the October-December period, compared with a loss of 7.3 billion ringgit a year ago. The company attributed the net loss to impairment of assets caused by low oil prices.

Revenue for the quarter was 60.1 billion ringgit, down nearly a quarter from 79.4 billion ringgit for the corresponding period a year ago.

The 70 percent slump in crude oil prices since mid-2014 has been squeezing the finances of unlisted Petronas, which accounts for about a third of the Malaysian government’s oil and gas revenue.

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Conquering the fear of failure

April 16, 2016

Inspirational stories, for these tough times in the O&G sector.

Dateline 2016-02-29, FMT:

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Since then, two very enterprising Malaysian firms from my native oil and gas sector have come forward to share their experiences.

ProEight started as an engineering consultancy. After thoroughly understanding their position in the market and identifying gaps, the firm developed their own products. Today, their portfolio of mechanical seals and pumps is not only one of the best in class, their after sales service in the region is unparalleled.

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Malaysia’s Bumi Armada 2015 Revenue Down 9% to $516M, Posts $56M Net Loss

April 15, 2016

I guess with net loss being about 10% of revenue, last years obscene profits make up the shortfall?

Dateline 2016-02-29, Rigzone:

Malaysia’s offshore energy facilities and services provider Bumi Armada Berhad posted a net loss of $55.5 million (MYR 234.6 million) for financial year 2015 (FY 2015) ending Dec. 31, 2015, compared to a net profit of $51.7 million (MYR 218.7 million) in the previous year, the company said when releasing its financial results Friday.

Revenue during this period reached $515.5 million (MYR 2.179 billion), down 9.1 percent from $694.6 million (MYR 2.937 billion) in 2014, with the decline attributed to lower contributions by the company’s offshore support vessel (OSV) and transport and installation (T&I) business, which recorded a decline of 17.8 percent and 57.7 percent, respectively.

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MALAYSIA As jobs dry up, oil and gas workers rely on Petronas’ Pengerang project for a lifeline

April 14, 2016

As the song says, “So true, funny how it seems..“, and matches my call for classical engineering degrees, rather than needle-sharp niche ones.

Dateline 2016-02-28, Malay Mail Online:

State oil giant Petronas’ flagship project in Johor’s south-eastern tip of Pengerang has become a life raft for many oil and gas workers as contracts and new job opportunities dried up across the board over the past year.

The building of a new oil refinery and petrochemical plant, for which work started in 2012 and started picking up pace beginning last year, has taken in a growing number of oil and gas workers from all over the country.

“I took a pay-cut to work in Pengerang. It was either this or nothing at all for me,” said Thilak Jaganathan, a 28-year-old safety inspector.

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From the Engineering Floor – IGL’s Logo

April 13, 2016

Taa-daa!

IGL logo

Actually, this is IGL Services’ logo. We have another one for IGL Process Solutions, and IGL Group. Vote if you want to see them. Or burn this one.

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Dividend plays pay?

April 12, 2016

Dateline 2016-02-27, The Star:

 

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The only company that has bugged the trend is Petra Energy Bhd (PEnergy).

The company has in total declared a dividend of 10 sen per share, including a special dividend of six sen per share, for the financial year (FY) ended Dec 31, 2015. This compared with a total dividend of only two sen per share in the preceding year.

The increase in PEnergy’s dividend payout is in line with the company’s earnings, which grew 47% year-on-year (y-o-y), and cash position, which swelled five times to RM165mil, in FY2015.

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