Malaysia will be Asia’s biogas hub by 2030

June 5, 2015

Time to dust of those old cvs, and update your chem knowledge.

Dateline 2015-04-29, The Chemical Engineer IChemE:

MALAYSIA’S minister of science, technology and innovation, Datuk Ewon Ebin, has told a major conference that the country will be Asia’s biogas hub by 2030.

Datuk Ewon Ebin was speaking at the opening ceremony of the Biogas Asia Pacific Forum 2015, held from 28–29 April 2015 in Selangor, Malaysia, where industry majors met to discuss development strategies in the Asia Pacific Forum. Topics this year included commercialisation, feedstock management, anaerobic digestion and biogas upgrading. The minister said that Malaysia will become the region’s lead biogas exporter to the global market.

According to The Star, Datuk Ewon Ebin said that Malaysia has huge potential biogas resources, particularly from its palm oil industry, which covers 5m ha of land. Biogas generated from palm oil mill effluent can be upgraded to fuel cars and industrial applications, although Malaysia must aim to prove the viability of the upgrading process, he added. As the industry adopts biotechnology, he expects production to grow. At present, the industry is worth RM1.46bn (US$410.1m).

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ETP : OGE NKEAs Met Its 2014 KPIs

June 4, 2015

Dateline 2015-04-2015, The Malaysian Reserve:

The oil, gas and energy (OGE) National Key Economic Areas (NKEAs) has met all its 2014 key performance indicators (KPIs) due to closer collaboration between various stakeholders.

“The clear aim of meeting the year’s KPIs drove relevant agencies to work collaboratively to address and resolve issues within aggressive timeframes,” Economic Transformation Programme (ETP) 2014 annual report said.

Under the OGE NKEAs, the report has outlined key takeaways for 13 entry point projects (EPPs) including rejuvenating existing fields via enhanced oil recovery (EOR), developing marginal fields, intensifying exploration activities, encouraging investments in the oil and gas (O&G) services and attracting multinational companies (MNCs) to set up operations in Malaysia.

Under the EPP 1: Rejuvenating Existing Fields, the KPI achieved for 2014 was 37.9 million stock tank barrel (MMstb) from 15 MMstb targeted in addition resources.

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Chem E Car 2015 – Pit Stop

June 3, 2015

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Gas Malaysia partners Sime Darby Offshore

June 2, 2015

Interesting… (while stroking white cat). My next venture.

Dateline 2015-04-28, The Star:

Gas Malaysia Bhd has partnered with Sime Darby Offshore Engineering Sdn Bhd to undertake a biogas compressed natural gas distribution business extracted from the palm oil mill effluent.

In a statement to Bursa Malaysia on Tuesday, Gas Malaysia said the joint venture would involve the provision of the sale, supply and transportation of BioCNG to customers and carrying out of the design, construction, installation, commissioning and operation of pressure regulating unit at each customer’s premises.

Gas Malaysia said the tie-up was formed as both parties seek to optimize the combined strengths of each partner.

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Saturday Star 2015-05-30– Job Opportunities

June 1, 2015

Happy Stay in Malaysia week. 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 2H2015. Send me y0ur POs.
  • An associate of mine is looking for a well completion engineer, 10 years in the position (no, not position 23b, second variant). Send your CV to me. As per my Facebook posting, idiotic applications, straight to /dev/null.
  • 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.
  • An associate of mine is looking for an offshore structural engineer, senior engineer, 5+ years experience, permanent post. Relevant applications + bribery fee can be sent to me, not relevant applications get posted to facepalm.com.
  • An associate of mine is looking for a Senior process engineer, more than 5 yr experience in oil and gas industry, for assignment at PPMSB for approximately 7 months. Tentative duration is to start mid May, ends on 31 Dec. Again, I am running a bribery bid.
  • Nothing much in the news. What, with petrol going up by 10sen?

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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Anniversary – Flixborough

June 1, 2015

Process Safety engineers never forget.

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Bar Petronas execs from entering Sarawak to end royalty impasse, state DAP tells Adenan

May 31, 2015

Ah, click bait. And is he asking to ban GST execs as well?

Dateline 2015-04-27, TMI:

Sarawak DAP chief today suggested that Chief Minister Tan Sri Adenan Satem to use the state’s immigration powers to bar Petronas executives and managers from entering the state to break the deadlock on demand for an increase in oil and gas royalty.

Chong Chieng Jen, who is also Kota Sentosa assemblyman, also urged Adenan to cancel work permits of those employed in the offices of Petronas, Malaysia Liquefied Natural Gas (MLNG) and their subsidiary companies in the state.

In urging the state to resort to strong arm tactics against the national oil and gas company, Chong said that the state “needs to use more drastic and harsher means” to push its demands for the increase in royalty.

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Malaysia committed to cut oil revenue dependence, says minister

May 30, 2015

Note to self – search for new career.

Dateline 2015-04-23, TMI:

Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Abdul Wahid Omar said Malaysia had continued its effort to reduce national dependence on crude oil revenue, amid lower prices of the commodity.

Wahid, who is in charge of economic planning, said the country hoped to reduce dependence on oil to below last year’s contribution of about 30% to national income.

He said the country had been diversifying its economy.

“We have been consistently diversifying the economy to reduce dependence on the oil and gas sector,” Wahid said at the Invest Malaysia 2015 event in Kuala Lumpur today.

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Petronas: New vessels cuts cost

May 29, 2015

Save costs, at the expense of cutting out local companies, we see, hmmm? Or were some technical services people due for company sponsored holidays in Korea?

Also, the electical system of the PFLNG cost USD50M alone. The whole PFLNG is at least USD2billion. Compare that to the cost savings in the article.

Dateline 2015-04-23, Daily Express:

Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas), which is building two floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facilities, said the new vessels would lower the production cost of smaller gas fields.

“With the Petronas FLNG 1 (PFLNG 1), we are looking at US$500mil (RM1.85bil) cost saving for a marginal gas producing field,” said Petronas vice-president and venture director LNG project (domestic) Datuk Abdullah Karim.

The first such vessel in the world, which is expected to enter production early next year, is designed to operate near an offshore gas field where it will produce, liquefy, store and transfer LNG at sea to bigger ships for exports.

A conventional way to produce LNG requires gas to be pumped through underwater pipelines to an onshore facility and processed.

“We will save on the cost of building a pipeline. For instance, 180km would cost US$400mil to US$500mil, as well as a jetty and a berth onshore that would cost US$100mil to US$150mil more,” he said.

Abdullah said the PFLNG 1 would open new opportunities to better access small and remote offshore gas field in the country.

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Petronas to deliver LNG cargo from world’s first floating facility in early 2016

May 28, 2015

Dateline 2015-04-21, TMI:

The world’s first floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) project, built by Petronas, is expected to supply its first cargoes in the first quarter of 2016, senior officials from the Malaysian state-oil firm said on Tuesday.

The 365m long Petronas Floating LNG 1 (PFLNG1), with a capacity of 1.2 million tonnes per annum, would be completed by March next year, the firm’s vice-president and venture director LNG Projects (Domestic) Abdullah Karim told reporters.

“We expect the first cargo of LNG to be available in the first quarter of 2016,” Abdullah said, adding that the gas supplies will likely be used for domestic consumption.

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