Disclaimer: the job is NOT with Synergy.
A friend of mine is looking for a Mechanical Engineer. The permanent job will be with a multi-national production sharing contractor. Requirements: 10 years experience, no PE status necessary (grumble, grumble). I will vet the CVs before passing them on.
Send your CVs and bribes to fpso[attt]igl.com.my. Sorry, I meant send your CVs to the email address, send your gifts and trinkets to the Paypal button on the right.
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As an engineer, I’ll start with my definition: an activity whereby a party seems to legitimately seek offers to do or perform an act which the party offering. The party is expected to select a winning offer based on unbiased technical or commercial evaluations.
However, the activity is a sham, as the winning party has been pre-selected, and exercise has been rigged such that the wanted party is selected.
How would one go about maneuvering the tender to award the selected party?
However, it may be difficult to distinguish whether it is a tailored tender exercise or an inexperienced, unqualified scapegoat was assigned to prepare the tender package.
Share your experiences, here or on wikileaks.
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Food recommendation? Saturday’s lunch was provided by the IEM’s AGM, and the annual dinner was held at the Sime Darby Convention Centre.
As for a book recommendation, how about something from Terry Pratchett? I think I own all the Discworld novels, as they appeal to my sense of humour. Go pick up the latest book, Unseen Academicals (Discworld)
, though I think Sir Pratchett’s writing is tending towards dark humour. His earlier writings are the literal equivalent of Black Adder
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Here’s a sign that PETRONAS is definite that there will not be enough local gas production offshore Peninsular Malaysia. And hopefully, our solution is to get gas from East Malaysia. But is it still uneconomical to pipe the gas, rather than convert to LNG, stuff into carriers and ship to the Peninsular?
Or, is this a ploy to increase MISC’s worth? Supply your comments here.
Taken from The Star, dateline 2010-04-12:
AS part of an effort to address the rising demand for gas amid a diminishing natural gas supply in Peninsular Malaysia, it has been revealed that a new LNG (liquefied natural gas) regassification plant will soon be built.
Analysts who attended a recent briefing session with PETRONAS Gas Bhd learnt of the plan from its managing director, Samsuddin Miskon.
No formal announcement about the plan has been made yet by parent company Petroliam Nasional Bhd (PETRONAS), but it is understood that the main reason for the regassification plant is to ensure the continuity of gas supply in the peninsula.
How does that equation come about?
Well, the regassification plant will enable PETRONAS Gas to take in more gas supply from third parties as the capacity to convert liquefied gas into gas for end- users will be enhanced.
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You can subscribe to an online version of the paper at the Bluehyppo site, follow links to e-browse.
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This description isn’t only apt for programmers, I would apply it to engineers who regularly write programming code for their applications. It describes a journey of a programmer who goes through the following stages:
On second thought, I think the journey describes any engineer.
If you’re looking for programming books, I tend to like the O’reilly series. Good editing, clear examples, and they really cover the gamut. Check out the cover of the Learning Perl, 5th Edition
, and see if you aren’t attracted to the retro look.
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Yup, there is another dive spot in Redang that is really called Sharon Stone, so sue me. I can make up a whole lotta word innuendos from this one.
A book I like to use to identify fish is Asia Pacific Reef Guide, 3rd REVISED EDITION 2007. Nice clear descriptions, photos, and a few war stories thrown in.
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This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will be organising a visit to SGL Carbon on April 24th, 2010.
SGL Group – THE CARBON COMPANY – is the largest producer of carbon and graphite products worldwide. The business portfolio of SGL Group consists of three Business Areas which are Performance Products (BA PP), Graphite Materials & Systems (BA GMS) and Carbon Fiber and Composite (BA CFC) respectively
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The purpose of this visit is to have an overview of the integrated production processes for graphite electrode and graphitized cathode and the high level of engineering and technology employed in the project which is currently in its Phase 2.
Flyers for the above and other events may be obtained here.
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The AGM will be held at 3rd Floor, Tan Sri Prof Chin Fung Kee Auditorium, Wisma IEM, 21 Jalan Selangor, Petaling Jaya.
It will be held at 9am on Saturday, 17th April 2010.
Flyers for the above and other events may be obtained here. A map to Wisma IEM is presented here. It’s the building identified as ‘Puteri Nursing College.’
IEM 51st AGM
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Of course, we didn’t expect PETRONAS to list any of their star entities. My comments: Can someone tell me if MMHE is the preferred fabricator of choice, esp for deep water structures? As for the Petrochemical entity, I expect profits to drop once PETRONAS Gas goes ahead and finds the guts to revise gas prices.
Now, if they listed PETRONAS Carigali Sdn Bhd, Putrajaya Holdings, PETRONAS NGV, Institute Teknologi Petroleum PETRONAS, these would be game changers.
Dateline 2010-04-09:
KUALA LUMPUR: The proposed listing of Petroliam Nasional Bhd’s (Petronas) petroleum chemicals business and its heavy engineering arm will bring about a potential rerating of O&G supporting companies, says OSK Research.
The research house said on Friday, April 9 that currently, the O&G sector is trading at an attractive average PER of 13x FY10 EPS and 11x FY11 EPS.
“We believe that if Petronas floats these 2 businesses at a higher PER valuation, this would bring about a potential rerating of O&G supporting companies, some of which are still trading at single digit valuations due to the nature of their business and the lack of excitement in the sector,” OSK Research added.
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You can subscribe to an online version of the paper at the Bluehyppo site, follow links to e-browse.
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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, you are definitely Autom8 fodder.
This week’s food recommendation is Paya Serai, PJ Hilton. This is where the IEM Oil, Gas and Mining Technical Division relax after having our daily smoking session where we discuss the cricket scores, the affairs of Brunei, state of the Commonwealth and toast to the health of King Edward.
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