From The Star – Don says Johor coastline has good O&G potential

October 29, 2010

I don’t think he meant you should be conducting 2-D seismic studies in the area, though.

Those of you who have been and didn’t like Teluk Ramunia in the past, I believe the place has gotten better. Has the highway to JB been opened yet? Has Desaru come back to life?

Taken from the Star, dateline 2010-10-21:

Teluk Ramunia and Pengerang in south-east Johor have the potential to be a new regional oil and gas (O&G) hub.Professor Dr Ariffin Samsuri, dean at the Faculty of Petroleum and Renewable Energy Engineering (FPREE), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, said more feasibility studies needed to be conducted on the potential exploration activities in those areas.

He said the coastlines at the east of the peninsula, stretching from the Thailand-Kelantan border to Pengerang, offered opportunities for O&G-related activities.

Ariffin said the stretch could be the country’s newest O&G reserve fields, as many parts of the areas were not totally explored except off-Terengganu waters.

“The Teluk Ramunia and Pengerang areas will benefit from the O&G-related activities and could be like Kerteh in Terengganu,” he told a press conference at the opening of the two-day O&G Symposium 2010, jointly organised by FPREE and the Society of Petroleum Engineers UTM Student Chapter, on Tuesday.

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HDR Photos

October 26, 2010

I’ve been trying out some HDR techniques. What do you think?

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Saturday Star 2010-10-23 – Job Opportunities

October 25, 2010

Support me by purchasing my recommendations, or buying through my Amazon store.

First off, if you need my help to submit your CVs, donate to the blog, and I’ll review your CV to see if it is worthy of my (and my associates’) expectations. If you can’t figure out how to donate, no need to ask.

  • There’s a full page ad for Saudi Aramco Total (SATORP). Maybe I should drop by when I am in-country next month. The positions are too numerous to list here. You can apply via email here or here. Or key in your resumes online here. Login under candidate login and password at the website.
  • I see that QatarGas is looking for people.They are looking for a Head of Shutdown, Snr Mech Tech, Snr Instrument Tech, Snr F&G Tech, Snr Elec Tech, Snr Metering Tech,  Meridium Function Support (CMMS) Eng. Apply here. or snail mail to No. 68 & 70 Fraser Business Park, Jalan Metro Pudu 2, Off Jln Yew, 55200 Kuala Lumpur.

 

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Saturday Star 2010-10-17 – Job Opportunities

October 18, 2010

Support me by purchasing my recommendations, or buying through my Amazon store.

First off, if you need my help to submit your CVs, donate to the blog, and I’ll review your CV to see if it is worthy of my (and my associates’) expectations. If you can’t figure out how to donate, no need to ask.

  • AkerSolutions ads say ‘it takes extraordinary talent to see possibilities in impossible surroundings’. A good quote to pick up. Visit them here if you want to see if you are woman enough to meet the challenge.
  • Murphy is looking for a snr deepwater completion engineer, shelf drilling team leader.  Send your applications here.

This week, my book recommendation is unusually not available from Amazon.us, though it is available on the Amazon.co.uk site. It’s a guide called Hajj Made Easy, a useful book I plan to use next month.

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From Bernama – Compassionate Payment, Oil Royalty Won’t Affect BN Chances In Galas

October 15, 2010

Taken from Bernama, dateline 2010-10-09:

Issues on the compassionate payment and oil royalty for the people of Kelantan will not affect the chances of Barisan Nasional (BN) to win the by-election for the Galas state seat, said Kelantan Umno Liaison chairman Datuk Seri Mustapa Mohamed today.

He said these issues would not affect the BN chances in the by-election because they were national issues.

“What is important is that at the state level, we have distributed the compassionate payments and the people have already received the money, so this issue is no longer relevant,” he told reporters after attending the Hari Raya gathering organised by the National Chamber of Commerce and Industry Malaysia (NCCIM), here.

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Bernama’s making hard to copy text from their site, but not impossible.

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IEM Shout Out – One Day Seminar on Drilling Engineering Overview

October 14, 2010

This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will be hosting a course on the 27th October, 2010. It will be held at Room 2, 2nd Floor, Wisma IEM, Petaling Jaya.  The course is worth 6.5 CPD or PDP points.

Drilling Engineering Overview shall present the audience with the knowledge and art of drilling wells, especially in Malaysia. It shall be presented in a way that is comprehensible to the engineers who are with or without the oil and gas background. The objectives of the seminar are to provide exposure to audiences the drilling practices and issues as well as to assert the audience with an appreciation of a Drilling Engineer’s work scope.

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 try to shy away from. This one-day seminar shall try to answer some of the questions that many people have, such as how is the drilling process done, what is it like to be a drilling engineer? The design process explanation shall take you from the Conceptual Design, Detailed Design and Final Design stages. From designing the well trajectory, directional design, casing design, drilling fluids formulation, cementing formulation, perforation, securing and completing the well to ensure that the production reaches the surface safely.

 The course will be presented by En. Razak Yakob. He has been in the oil and gas industry for 14 years working for companies such as ExxonMobil, Halliburton, and Talisman Energy. As a consultant, he has worked in countries such as China, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Algeria and others. Currently, he is an independent consultant providing consultancy for Drilling Engineering to PETRONAS Carigali Sdn Bhd. He graduated from Colorado School of Mines in the United States with a degree majoring in Petroleum Engineering and a minor in  Mechanical Design.

 

Flyers for the above and other events may be obtained here. A map to Wisma IEM is presented here.

I appeal to readers, come on and send yourselves and staff to these courses. I need the support.

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Saturday Star 2010-10-02 – Job Opportunities

October 13, 2010

Okay, so I’m late one week. It’s the jobs that count, right?

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First off, if you need my help to submit your CVs, donate to the blog, and I’ll review your CV to see if it is worthy of my (and my associates’) expectations. If you can’t figure out how to donate, no need to ask.

  • FMC Technologies has posts available for contracts engineer, assistant manager – document management subsea systems Asia, Australia, Middle East (AAME) (Singapore), Assembly Engineer, Assistant Production Manager, System/ Field Development engineer, Snr/ lead product design engineers (Singapore). Send your CVs to here or here. Actually, applications for the last two positions should be sent to the second email address, and other applications sent to the first email address. Complicated enough for you?
  • Cool, Emerson’s looking for people. Actually, it’s Daniel Measurement, a company near and dear to my heart (hear that, Daniel folks?). They are looking for a senior instrument engineer, mechanical engineer, test engineer, software engineer. Dynamic applicants to apply here.
  • Technip is looking for an intermediate planning engineer, senior offshore / senior planning engineer, senior rotating equipment engineer, senior mechanical engineer (package), senior HVAC engineer, senior static equipment engineer. Visit here soon.

The week’s food was catered for by Petroserve.

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IEM Shout Out – Strategic Management Thinking Process Workshop

October 12, 2010

This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will hosting a course on the 19th and 20th October, 2010. You’ll get to visit TNB’s Integrated Learning Solution – ILSAS at Bangi in addition to getting 13 CPD or PDP points.

Strategic Management Thinking Process will

  • help guide to find the solutions in a systematic way
  • Help to answer the logical questions of What to Change and How to Make the Change
  • Define those actions necessary to improve an organization using current issues or problems
  • Analyse underlying assumptions, logical relationships and develop solutions
  • Consider any issues and its effects which manifest themselves.

The Thinking Processes has been successfully implemented globally to achieve Profitability, Productivity and Accelerated Process of On Going
Improvement in:

  • Manufacturing
  • Services
  • Military and
  • Education

The course will be presented by HJ MOHD FUAD BIN HJ AHMAD
M Sc Statistics, San Diego State University, California, USA, B Art Mathematics (Minor Bus Admin), Chico State University, California, USA Jonah (Theory of Constraints), Avraham Y Goldratt Institute, New Haven, USA

Career

  • Career spans over 19 years in manufacturing industry local and
    overseas
  • Held positions as Business Improvement Consultant, Director of
    Assembly Operations and Human Resources, Theory of
    Constraints’ (TOC) Jonah Licensee and Staff Statistician
  • Involved in achievement of TQM and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) awards, ISO 9001, ISO18000, ISO14001 certifications

Flyers for the above and other events may be obtained here.

I appeal to readers, come on and send yourselves and staff to these courses. I need the support.

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Saturday Star 2010-10-09 – Job Opportunities

October 11, 2010

Sorry bout last week. Was in a rush, and headed offshore. Needless to say, the job opportunities column got shuffled to the bottom of the list.

Support me by purchasing my recommendations, or buying through my Amazon store.

First off, if you need my help to submit your CVs, donate to the blog, and I’ll review your CV to see if it is worthy of my (and my associates’) expectations. If you can’t figure out how to donate, no need to ask.

  • I see that Qatar Petroleum is looking for people for their production department Dukhan. They are looking for a maintenance planning and scheduling engineer, field production supervisor, field operator, electrical technician, instrument technician, mechanical technician. You can visit  at AP‘s site for more information. Apply here.
  • AkerSolutions ads say ‘it takes extraordinary talent to see possibilities in impossible surroundings’. A good quote to pick up. Visit them here if you want to see if you are woman enough to meet the challenge.
  • Sabic has an advert. They are looking for analyzer engineer, DCS & CS engineer, electrical engineer, field instrument engineer, instrument and analyzer engineer, and a whole mess of other stuff. You can apply via email here or here. Or key in your resumes online here. Login under candidate login and password at the website.
  • Transocean ‘the world’s largest offshore drilling contractor and leading provider of drilling management services worldwide’ is looking for Operations, Marine & Maintenance personnel. Applicant can expect demanding supervisors, challenging work conditions, strenuous physical labour, equal work schedule, a rewarding career, competitive remuneration and benefits. Send an email to recruitment.kul@deepwater.com
  • Here’s a new one. Eastern Pacific Industrial Corporation Berhad (EPIC) is looking for Senior Manager, Corporate Communication, Legal & Secretarial, Manager, Marketing, Manager/Senior Executive, Corporate Finance Investment Liason, Senior Executive, Technical Service. Visit them at their website, or email to ghr@epicgroup.com.my.

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From Bernama – 12 Entry Point Projects Identified In Oil, Gas & Energy Sector

October 1, 2010

Taken from Bernama, dateline 2010-09-21:

The National Key Economic Area (NKEA) laboratory on oil, gas and energy today identified 12 entry point projects (EPPs) that will meet Malaysia’s energy demand for the next 10 years.

These EPPs will be developed across the main areas of sustaining oil and gas production, enhancing growth in downstream activities, making Malaysia the number one Asian hub for oil field services and building sustainable energy platform for growth.

The EPPs identified are deploying nuclear energy for power generation, building solar power capacity, attracting multinational companies to bring their global oil field service and equipment operations to Malaysia, consolidate domestic fabricators, develop engineering, procurement and installation capabilities through strategic partnerships and build a regional oil storage and trading hub.

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