From Reuter, dateline 2010-02-04, article with facts on PETRONAS.
No mention the Jabba runs the place, and has hidden pleasure domes and torture chambers? Hidden torture chambers, heck he has them out in the open, though he calls them ‘service station rest rooms’.
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This is a shout out for the IEM. A Technical Division will hosting the above talk on the 9th February, 2010. It’ll be at 6:00 pm (makan-makan at 5:30) 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.
The full title of the talk is An Evening Talk, “Introduction of Electrical Reliability Mindset to The Petrochemical, Oil, and Gas Plant Industries”. The speaker, MR. JIM WARDHAUGH graduated from University of Liverpool, is a Chartered Engineer, and spent about 10 years in utilities then about 30 years with Shell. He has demonstrated success in senior management and hands-on positions in many different roles (projects, construction, maintenance, technical, inspection, warehousing, transport, quality, and training) in a number of different countries; in each a step-change improvement in performance was achieved.
Fliers 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.’
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Another day, another scan of The Star.
Here are some photos of a typical Synergy supper at Dragon Restaurant, Miri.
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Photosynth views of places I visited during by Yokogawa Functional Safety Engineer course:
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Taken from the New Straits Times, dateline 2010-02-03:
Shamsul Azhar is new PETRONAS president and CEO
PUTRAJAYA: Datuk Shamsul Azhar Abbas has been appointed president and chief executive officer of Petronas effective February 10 2010, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak announced today.
He has also been appointed Acting Chairman of the Petronas Board of Directors.
Shamsul Azhar, 57, who served as MISC President and Chief Executive Officer between 2004 and 2009, will replace Tan Sri Mohd Hassan Merican whose contract ends on February 9.
We welcome the new PETRONAS president, which ends the uncertainty surrounding who will step up to the plate. Those of you who have Datuk’s ear, please whisper the word ‘Synergy Oil & Gas – bagus” once in a while.
I hope this means that Datuk’s signature will soon flow from his pen, signing all those projects I presume have been put on hold until the succession issue was sorted out.
You can subscribe to an online version of the paper at the Bluehyppo site, follow links to e-browse.
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This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will hosting the above seminar on the 6th February, 2010. It’ll be at 9:30 am (makan-makan at 9:00) 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.
Process simulation is a model-based representation of chemical, physical and other technical processes and unit operations in oil, gas and petrochemical plants. The fundamentals are a thorough knowledge of chemical and physical properties of pure components and mixtures and of process reactions. All these are combined with mathematical models which allow the calculation of a process in computers.
Shahrul Azman Zainal Abidin is a Principal Engineer in Process Simulation and Optimization. Shahrul Azman graduated as a Chemical Engineer from California State University, Long Beach, USA in 1988. He obtained his MSc in Gas Engineering degree from University of Technology Malaysia in 1996.
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Both Shahrul Azman and Zalina are serving Group Technology Solutions, Research & Technology Division of PETRONAS.
The speakers are very passionate about their work, and would welcome any questions you care to bring up. Heck, bring along your copy of iCon if you have one.
If you want to see what Synergy does, please come and bring up our name in the question and answer session.
Fliers 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.’
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As I had some time after the last class and exam, I thought I might as well head into town, to avoid those questions along the lines of ‘You were in Bangkok for 4 days, and didn’t go to town?!’
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This is a shout out for the IEM. My tech division, in conjunction with ILSAS will be running a course on Maintenance management. It will be held on the 9th & 10th February, at the TNB Integrated Learning Solution in Bangi.
The objective of this course is:
I applaud organisations that treat maintenance as an integral part of asset operations, and not as a sacrificial lamb that is the first to get struck of when the going gets tough.
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Nothing much this week, the papers were kinda thin on O&G adverts.
If you are looking for an alternate career, MJ’s been seen at Amcorp Mall, PJ.
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In our continuing saga to improve the skills and products available to our clients, I was sent to attend a training course entitled ‘TÜV Rheinland Functional Safety Program – Yokogawa course provider for the Safety Training’, from 26th – 29th January, 2010. The course climaxes with a 4 hour exam, upon which a pass mark (> 75%) enables me to call myself a ‘TÜV FS Engineer’. Needless to say, I walked out of the exam at about the 1 1/2 hour mark, reckoning that staring at the paper for another 3 hours won’t improve matters much.
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