Petronas to lead industry-wide effort involving 25 PACs

July 11, 2015

… And the rat race continues anew.

Dateline 2015-07-02, TMI:

Petroliam Nasional Berhad (Petronas) is leading the Cost Reduction Alliance, Coral 2.0, an industry-wide effort towards cost discipline which involves 25 petroleum arrangement contractors (PACs).

The aim is to inculcate a cost-conscious mindset that will ultimately embrace a structural change Malaysia’s upstream business environment.

“This is not a mere cost cutting exercise. Beyond that, it is about ensuring the robustness and sustainability of our business,” Petronas’ chairman Tan Sri Sidek Hassan said in his speech at the opening ceremony of 15th Asian Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Engineering Exhibition (OGA 2015) today.

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Anniversary – Seveso Disaster

July 10, 2015

Process Safety Engineers never forget.

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IEM Shout Out – One-Day Workshop on Rock Blasting and Explosive Engineering

July 9, 2015

This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will hosting the above seminar on Wednesday the 11th Aug, 2015 by Mr. Mohamad Razif Kemat, Mr. Yap Hong Hor, and Ir. Look Keman Sahari.

This Workshop will be a series of Courses on the Application of Explosives in mining, quarrying and Construction industries tailored to the engineers and other professionals such as Safety personnel who need to know how explosives are used safely and efficiently in rock blasting operation, mining, quarrying, and construction industries.

The Workshop will introduce the various types of explosives used in the commercial application and suitability of particular explosives for a particular application. The right choice of an initiation system, for example, will determine the degree of disturbance to the public and the potential complaints from them which may cause delays in a blasting project. This may also help the project manager to understand the proposal made by the consulting engineer or blasting engineer for a particular blasting project instead of just depend on blasting contractor’s proposal which purely focus on the cheapest costs.
The Workshop is also a good introduction to those who wish to learn about the productive use of explosives in our life. It includes lectures and demonstration of explosive products (dummy samples) used in our industries.As a result of fast pace development housing, business centres, factories etc are being built near existing structures. Development within city areas for examples requires firm foundation below the surface where underground space are also used as car parks, LRT stations, bus station etc. Excavation of underground space requires the removal of soil and also rocks. In both Selangor and Penang Island the need for building new houses for expanding population requires the cutting and levelling of hilly areas. All these require the use of explosives.

 

You can register here. Flyers may be obtained here.

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UPM Final Year Poster Presentation 2015

July 8, 2015

Meet the judges. I was so busy during the morning, I didn’t get a chance to take poster photos.

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IEM Shout Out – Full-Day HAZOP Training For Team Members – A Practical Approach

July 7, 2015

My technical division will be hosting a 1 day seminar on the 13th August, 2015. It is worth 6.5 CPD points, and held at Wisma IEM. Since I’m giving it, I expect hoards will have to be turned away at the gates. And it’s a big room, so I need to fill the seats.

A Hazard and Operability study is a formal and systematic and detailed examination of the process and engineering intentions of new or existing facilities which assesses the hazard potential and effects on the facility as a whole when operation is outside of the design envelope, or individual items of equipment malfunction.

This course is designed to educate participants in the HAZOP process from the perspective of a HAZOP team member. It is meant to provide both instruction and workshop sessions so that the participants:

  • Are familiar with the concept of ‘risk’
  • Are familiar with the theory behind HAZOP
  • Are familiar with the actual HAZOP workshop process
  • Have expectations as to what the HAZOP will (and won’t provide)
  • Understand what deliverables can be expected from a HAZOP
  • Have the opportunity to participate in HAZOP exercise in a safe environment
  • Opportunity to share HAZOP experiences

At the end of the session, the participants should:

  • Understand the responsibilities of all parties in the HAZOP
  • Have experience in a HAZOP session.
  • Understand the outcomes from a HAZOP session

Wata has 19 years of experience in the oil and gas industry, in both design and operations.

Register here, or download the form here.

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Saturday Star 2015-07-04– Job Opportunities

July 6, 2015

Ramadan Kareem. May Allah accept my efforts, and your. Donate to your favourite charity, buy my recommendations, or through my Amazon store. Or get the Young Turks series (all 4 books). Where are those corporate sponsors? Or throw donations at me.

  • I’m looking for jobs for 4Q2015. Send me y0ur POs.
  • An associate of mine is looking for a technical safety part-time adviser. Needs to be needle sharp with respect to QRAs, and HSE safety cases. A calm demeanor to handle nonsensical questions from young engineers helps as well. Either that, or a drinking problem.
  • Nothing much in the news.

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? Go visit the mee bandung / asam pedas stall in front of the Petaling Jaya Police Station (don’t ask).

Seen the Episode VII new trailer? Ff you say “What is episode Vii?”, I disown you.

Join the Star Wars Fever:

Star Wars Trilogy Episodes IV-VI (Blu-ray + DVD), Star Wars Trilogy Episodes I-III (Blu-ray + DVD), Heir to the Jedi: Star Wars

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Shout Out – Talk on Managing Onshore Process Plant Piping Rejuvenation Challenges

July 6, 2015

This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will be  hosting a talk on the 11th July, 2015 by Ir. Lee Chang Quan. It’ll be at 5:30 pm  (no makan-makan).

Onshore process plants are normally designed with a certain design life. Towards the end of initial design life, a business decision would be made either to decommission or continue operating. In order to continue operating safely, one approach is to extend plant life with plant rejuvenation that involves major repair, equipment replacement, and/or system upgrade.

Piping rejuvenation work is one of the critical activities throughout the process plant rejuvenation due to its volume and resources required to get the work done safely. The work requires detail planning and execution not only to work safely within a live operating plant condition, but also to minimize the shutdown duration for plant shutdown activity. The talk will provide an overview in managing the piping rejuvenation scope of a process plants, starting from early planning, asset life study, engineering design, procurement, installation and construction. The key challenges and lesson learnt in managing the piping scope of process plant rejuvenation will be shared.

Ir. Lee Chang Quan is a PE, started his career as a mechanical engineer with a design consultancy, and moved on to join a national oil company. His experience in the oil and gas industry includes piping and mechanical engineering design, procurement, installation and construction activities in gas processing plants and co-generation facilities. He has led a few feasibility studies, engineering management work and managing brownfield projects. He is a trained internal auditor and an active trainer in-house piping engineering training courses. He was the lead engineer in one of the major plant rejuvenation projects. He has recently taken a new role as Health, Safety and Environment Manager with one of PETRONAS subsidiaries.

Ir. Lee Chang Quan graduated from University Teknologi Malaysia with a Bachelor Degree in Mechanical Engineering. He also has a Masters Degree in Business Administration from University of Nottingham. He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP®). He is also a committee member of the Oil, Gas and Mining Technical Division of IEM.

Register here or download the form here.

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Anniversary – Piper Alpha Disaster

July 6, 2015

Oil & Gas Engineers never forget.

View the video ‘ Remembering Piper Alpha’ here.

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Malaysia’s Petronas posts 39 pct drop in Q1 profit on global oil slump

July 5, 2015

If I were PETRONAS, I would consider that during this slow cycle, perhaps we should dump the highly paid pekerja asing, and train up the local young punks. Projects could take the pace of the early 1990s (remember 10 day HAZOPs? for a compressor train?), and learning on the job meant mentor, not ‘deep end – swim’. And coupons for Episode VII.

Dateline 2015-05-22, Reuters:

Petroliam Nasional Bhd , Malaysia’s state oil company more commonly know as Petronas, reported on Friday a 39 percent drop in quarterly net profit due to a drop in benchmark crude prices.

Net profit was 11.4 billion ringgit ($3.18 billion) for the January-March period, compared to a profit of 18.8 billion ringgit in the same period in 2014, Petronas said.

Revenue for the quarter was 66.2 bln ringgit against 84 bln ringgit in the prior year period.

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Oil And Gas Sector To Add 52,300 Jobs By 2020 – Wahid

July 4, 2015

And, most of these jobs will be done by pekerja asing?

Dateline 2014-05-19, MalaysiaDigest:

The oil and gas sector is expected to add 52,300 jobs, mostly highly-skilled workers, by 2020, Minister in Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Abdul Wahid Omar said.

He said the government is building a significant human capital in the sector by churning out more than 16,000 highly-skilled and highly-paid technical professionals.

The number of skilled employees in the sector is also expected to grow when the Pengerang Integrated Petroleum Complex in Johor comes on stream in the near future, he said at the launch of Schlumberger’s Asia Centre for Reliability and Efficiency (ACRE) at the Port Klang Free Zone, here Teusday.

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