Saturday Star 2015-04-04 – Job Opportunities

April 6, 2015

Happy Last Service Tax week. Please don’t audit me. 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.

  • White Quest is looking for a Principal Eng, HSE & Risk Manager, and a Senior Eng. Email them here.
  • Oh yeah, Wood Group Kenny is looking for a GM /MD. What happened to your old one? I’d like to join the company he went to. Email them here.
  • 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.
  • Vestigo is here, Vestigo is here. Are they so ashamed that they are a PETRONAS linked company that they didn’t use .com.my for their web presence? If you think you are a hotshot Safety Manager, apply here. But I can’t get a ping at their web address, so snail mail to The Human Resources Department, Vestigo Petroleum Sdn Bhd, Level 3, Bangunan Getah Asli, 148 Jalan Ampang, 50450 Kuala Lumpur. Oo, and if you check the advert, your use of ‘incumbent’ is wrong.
  • Hess is still looking for a measurement and allocation engineer. I saw that the ITB is still floating around. If you want me, you know where to find me. Not Celebrity Fitness, if you need a hint.
  • Nothing else 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? How if you visit Vietnam, how about visiting Alai in Melaka?

As crude prices are low, you need all the help you can get to nail that elusive 2k job:

Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking, Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker, The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security

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Malaysians paid over RM1b in hidden fuel taxes since December, MP claims

April 5, 2015

And the problem of hidden fuel taxes is?

Dateline 2015-01-30, Malay Mail Online:

Malaysians have unknowingly paid more than RM1 billion in taxes to Putrajaya over the past two months as pump prices remain on a controlled float, an opposition lawmaker claimed today.

PKR’s Pandan MP Rafizi Ramli alleged that road users across the country have been paying above market price for the commodity, even after the complete removal of subsidies, due to the plunge in global crude oil prices.

“Because the rakyat continue to pay higher than market price, Barisan Nasional received a windfall by collecting petrol tax without announcing it to the rakyat,” he said in a statement, referring to the ruling coalition.

“For the month of January 2015, the rakyat paid RM307 million in petrol taxes for RON95 and RM209 million for diesel,” he added.

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Santos bags 20 per cent interest in Malaysia deepwater block

April 4, 2015

Dateline 2015-01-30, Oil & Gas Technology:

Inpex Corporation has announced that through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Inpex Offshore South West Sabah, Ltd., it has reached an agreement to transfer 10 per cent of its participating interest in the Deepwater Block R to Santos Sabah Block R Limited

Inpex Corporation has announced that through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Inpex Offshore South West Sabah, Ltd., it has reached an agreement to transfer 10 per cent of its participating interest in the Deepwater Block R to Santos Sabah Block R Limited

The block is located in offshore East Malaysia covers an area of 672 square kilometres with a water depth ranging from 100m to 1,400 metres

Santos Sabah Block R Limited also separately agreed to acquire a 10 per cent participating interest in the block from JX Nippon Oil & Gas Exploration (Deepwater Sabah), Limited (JX), bringing its total participating interest in the block to 20 per cent upon fulfilment of due procedures.

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Murphy Closes Sale of 30% of its Malaysian Oil, Gas Assets to Pertamina

April 3, 2015

Apa khabar, Bapak2 dan Ibu2?

Dateline 2015-01-30, Rigzone:

Murphy Oil Corporation announced Thursday that its wholly owned subsidiaries, Murphy Sabah Oil Co., Ltd. and Murphy Sarawak Oil Co., Ltd. (collectively Murphy), have closed on the second phase of the sale of 30 percent of Murphy’s Malaysian oil and gas assets to PT Pertamina Malaysia Eksplorasi Produksi (Pertamina).

The second phase covers the remaining one-third of the transaction or 10 percent of Murphy’s Malaysian oil and gas assets. The first phase for two-thirds of the transaction closed on Dec. 18, 2014. The total transaction for 30 percent of Murphy’s Malaysian oil and gas assets had an aggregate sale price of $2.0 billion, subject to normal closing adjustments, with an effective date of Jan. 1, 2014.

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Maslan confident oil won’t dip below US$40/barrel

April 2, 2015

Pick up your Lumia 530, and Cortana “oil price”. Then Cortana “who sells seashells by the seashore?”

Dateline 2015-01-29, FMT:

Deputy Finance Minister Ahmad Maslan has expressed his confidence that the crude oil price will not fall below US$40 a barrel this year. He said instead, it would not exceed the crude oil price assumption of US$55 a barrel used by the government in the 2015 Budget revision as announced recently.

“If the price of oil were to fall below US$40 a barrel, oil companies will not be able to produce oil because the cost will be higher than the revenue.

“I am confident that the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) will also not allow the price to fall below that level,” he told Bernama after an interview on the ‘Dalam Radar’ programme over Radio24.

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Marketing Rounds – Food in Lahat

April 1, 2015

More food in Lahat.

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‘Low oil price needs relook at strategies’

March 31, 2015

Dateline 2015-01-29, Borneo Post Online:

With the high supply, advancement of technology and slowing demand in the crude oil industry, it is necessary for industry players to relook at their strategies and approaches.

According to Mazuin Ismail, vice president of Technical Global, Upstream Business, Petronas Malaysia, demand is slowing and Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is not being able to control it too much.

As such, the period of low oil price is likely to persist over the next few years.

“When we look at the prolonged period of oil price, we believe this will ‘stress test’ the industry because of the lower price. We have seen how it is reported that capital flight as much as US$500 billion has taken place.

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Saturday Star 2015-03-28 – Job Opportunities

March 30, 2015

Happy GST day. Please don’t audit me. 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.

  • Nothing in the papers today.
  • 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.
  • Hess is still looking for a measurement and allocation engineer.
  • Nothing else 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? How if you visit Vietnam, how about visiting and updating GoHalalVietnam! for your food needs. For your other needs, talk to your local tour guide/ concierge / man on the street.

As crude prices are low, you need all the help you can get to nail that elusive 2k job:

Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking, Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker, The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security

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Malaysia hab ERCS di Asia Tenggara

March 29, 2015

Who is Wild Geese? And do I see an OIMS badge?

SYARIKAT Wild Geese Group Sdn. Bhd. (Wild Geese) yang menyediakan pusat perkhidmatan maklum balas kecemasan (ERCS) khas untuk pemain industri minyak dan gas dunia membuka habnya di negara ini baru-baru ini.

Perkhidmatan yang berpangkalan di Kuala Lumpur itu merupakan yang pertama di Asia Tenggara dan kedua di seluruh dunia dijangka memberi kelebihan kepada pelantar minyak dan gas di sekitar Malaysia serta negara serantau.

Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif Kumpulan Wild Geese, Tim Allsop berkata, kewujudan hab itu berfungsi sebagai perkhidmatan luaran untuk tindak balas kecemasan di pelantar bertujuan meminimumkan jumlah kecederaan dan menyelesaikan kecemasan pada kadar segera.

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Malaysia’s diversified economy can cushion lower oil price impact

March 28, 2015

Really?

Dateline 2015-01-25, TMI:

Malaysia’s diversified economy provides a significant cushion so that the magnitude of the impact from lower oil prices is relatively limited, said the World Bank.

Senior country economist for Malaysia, Dr Frederico Gil Sander, said the impact of weakening oil prices would also be offset by the implementation of the Goods and Services Tax and raising revenue from other taxes that were not related to oil and gas (O&G).

“Of course, the oil price slump still creates challenges, but these are much more manageable compared to countries where oil revenues reach 95% of government receipts,” he told Bernama.

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