I remember flying toasters, but this?
Dateline 2015-03-25, Malay Mail Online:
A 27-year-old man died after he was struck by a flying fire extinguisher at the Cakerawala Gas Platform about 167km from the coast of the state, yesterday.
Kelantan police deputy chief Datuk Rosli Abdul Rahman said in the 3pm incident, the victim Mohd Saiful Sufri Ruslan from Ajil, Terengganu was replacing the fire extinguisher.
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Ever since the leaked letter about PCSB staff pay cuts (thrust and counter news articles), I assume the Management eventually had to find other income pipelines.
Disclaimer: I did not freaking set up this shot.
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This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will be having a talk on the 9th May by Ir. Benjamin Ng Chong Jin. It’ll be at 9:00 am (makan-makan at 8:30) at Wisma IEM. That’s right people, as part of the new health drive you are required to walk up 3 flights of stairs to get your 2 CPD points.
This talk draws attention to the fuel diversification in a power market (e.g. Malaysia) and the different fuels which determine the fuel specific electricity tariff. The talk aims to shed lights on how a regulated market’s electricity tariff is being computed with respect to the different type of power plant technologies from oil-fired power plant to combined-cycle power plant to coal-fired power plant. Each power plant technology has its advantages in supporting the electricity grid and also its drawbacks. This will be elaborated in the talk.
Ir. Benjamin Ng Chong Jin is the Loss Prevention Consultant at FM Global Insurance specializing in power generation market. He has been involved in numerous power plants development from conceptualizing, financial modeling, tendering and design evaluation when he was in one of the IPP’s in Malaysia. He has been technically trained in a reputable Gas Turbine manufacturer and has good commissioning experiences. Ir. Benjamin Ng holds a Bachelor (Hons) Degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2003. He is also a Professional Engineer (Mechanical) registered with BEM, a Corporate Member of IEM and a certified accountant with ACCA.
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Happy Happy Week. Sorry, was in Tenggol last week. Also, 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.
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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This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will be hosting a seminar on the 19th May, 2015. It’ll start at 9:00 and is worth 6.5 CPD hours, presented by Ir. Razak Yakob.
Ir. (you gotta stress the Ir.) Hj. (even worse, you gotta spell it out) Razak Yakob has been in the oil and gas industry for 19 years working for companies such as ExxonMobil, Halliburton, Talisman Energy, Petronas Carigali and EnQuest/Uzma Engineering. His core expertise is in Drilling Engineering with the working experience spans from development and exploration, technical support, training, finance and consultancy. As a consultant, he has worked in countries such as China, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Algeria and others. Currently, he is an independent consultant. He was a graduate of Colorado School of Mines in the United States with a degree majoring in Petroleum Engineering and a minor in Mechanical Design.
Drilling discipline in the oil and gas industry tends to be seen as the hard-core engineering and operations in the hostile environment that many potential engineers avoid tapping into. This one-day overview course shall try to answer some of the questions that many people have, such as how is the drilling operations conducted, what is it like to be a drilling engineer and those jargons – what are they talking about? The design process explanation shall take you from the Conceptual Design, Detailed Design and Final Design stages. Some highlights of the course are designing the well trajectory, directional design, casing design, drilling fluids formulation, cementing formulation, perforation, securing and completing the well to ensure that production (oil & gas) reaches the surface safely. This course has been offered by IEM annually since 2008.
Register here or download the form here. A map to Wisma IEM is presented here.
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Dateline 2015-03-26, The Sidney Morning Herald:
Santos has reported a “significant” oil discovery in its deep-water exploration campaign in Malaysia, providing a welcome piece of good news for investors.
The Bestari-1 well, drilled with Malaysian national operator Petronas, comes just two months after Santos completed a deal to buy a 20 per cent stake in the Block R Production Sharing Contract containing the exploration prospect.
Santos’s vice-president for Asia, John Anderson, said Santos was “very encouraged” by the find, which he said had similarities to “some of the other world-class fields in the area”.
Block R, located offshore East Malaysia, lies in an area where large fields have been discovered, including Murphy Oil’s Kikeh and Shell’s Gumusut-Kakap oilfields.
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Old news, but… I feel the need for (sea)weed.
Dateline 2015-03-25, new.com.au:
THIS is the abandoned oil rig that has been transformed into a scuba diving hotel.
Seaventures Dive Rig Resort, located next to Mabul Island, Malaysia, is the perfect getaway for those looking to enjoy the sea breeze from the comfort of their hotel room.
The incredible site, previously used for oil and gas exploration, offers a range of diving experiences to guests who can enjoy a stay in one of 25 fully-furnished rooms as the rig.
It also boasts a movie room, a karaoke lounge and bar, pool tables, table tennis, a souvenir shop and a conference room.
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Spectacular as “we lost a pocket lining income pipeline”, or “we managed to get hit with GST on the royalty?”
Dateline 2015-03-19, FMT:
Sarawak Chief Minister Adenan Satem, just back from a visit to Sabah from where he came away “impressed”, has disclosed that oil talks with Petronas and the Federal Government have failed and spectacularly at that. “We don’t want people to take away our oil and gas with us being onlookers,” said Adenan. “We want an equal partnership.”
“We don’t want to be spectators. We want to be active participants.”
He pledged that the Sarawak Government would pursue the revised oil royalty demand until “we achieve what we want”.
The talks, based on an unanimous resolution passed by the Sarawak Assembly, was about raising the oil royalty to a respectable 20 per cent cash payout. Sabah and Sarawak, at present get a measly 5 per cent.
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Yeah, baby. Someone let me know when I can buy shares lots with the money in my pocket.
Dateline 2015-04-19, Malay Mail Online:
Investors looking for bargains among Malaysia’s tumbling energy stocks say it’s too early to buy as oil’s slide to a six-year low pummels an industry that accounts for about a fifth of the nation’s exports.
SapuraKencana Petroleum Bhd, the country’s biggest oil and gas services company, has tumbled 46 per cent in Kuala Lumpur trading in the past 12 months as peers Bumi Armada Bhd and UMW Oil & Gas Corp both lost at least 48 per cent. Analysts have cut recommendations on the stocks to the lowest levels since at least 2013, while Malaysia’s state energy company announced spending cuts of as much as US$8.1 billion (RM29.78b) last month.
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This is a shout out for the IEM. The Chemical Engineering Technical Division (know as CETD to friends) will be having a talk on Wed afternoon, 6th May, 2015, by Dr. Hiroyuki Yoshida .
Dr. Hiroyuki Yoshida obtained B. Eng. Degree in 1969 and Dr. Eng. in 1977 in Chemical Engineering from Osaka Prefecture University, Japan. He worked for this University from 1974 to 2013. He became a professor in 1995. From 2013, he has been working for Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, UPM as a contract professor.
Sub-Critical water is high temperature and high pressure water but lower than those of critical points (647 K, 22.1 MPa). It shows three typical characteristics. Firstly, sub-critical water (sub-CW) has a great hydrolysis power at around 520 K and organic solids quickly decompose into low-molecular-weight valuable materials. Secondly, sub-CW works as a strong solvent and can extract oil almost perfectly at once. Thirdly, when the temperature is higher than about 600 K, hydrolysis power becomes small and pyrolysis power becomes great. The pyrolysis reaction can convert organics to liquid oil (alternative heavy crude oil) and/or solid char.
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