Second time I’ve been in Bintulu in 3 weeks. Place must be growing on me. I thank the people at MLNG for being kind enough to see me at such short notice.
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Here’s a neat device that takes a 3G signal, and uses it to create a Wifi hotspot. See it on Amazon, and read about it on Leo Laporte’s site. Read endgadget’s review for more info.
When will we get a similar device here? I can create a wifi site that starts off with a splash page advertising my, hmmm, services.
BTW, have you calculated how much SMS costs? Say you send a 140 character text message. Assuming you get a 0.5 sen/sms offer, then one SMS (140 bytes) is o.5sen, and the cost for 1kb is 3.5 sen. The cost of 1MB is Rm35. Kinda expensive, don’t you think?
Other end of the spectrum, assuming 1 message is 20 bytes long, and one SMS is 10sen, then the cost for 1MB is Rm5000.
If you are a serious texter, get unlimited 3G broadband, and use a free sms service.
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First of all, I would like to say: Ramadhan Mubarak.
For this week, I would suggest eating at Sindbad’s, a Middle Eastern restaurant located on the East Wing, Subang Square Business Park, SS15.
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A few videos to keep you entertained, while working on my next topic.
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Yes, ladies & gentleman. RON of the ’95 vintage is here (well, Sept 1st, 2009) replacing the ’92 vintage. It will be sold at prices not exceeding RM1.8/liter (Paul Tan says RM1.75). Obviously, the price of RON ’97 will go up, Mr Tan saying it will break the RM2.00 barrier and be unsubsidised.
Do you think Shell’s V-Power will come down to RON 97, or will it keep to the higher standards?
Time to break out those old car manuals, and figure out what RON your car wants to partake of.
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Anyone happened to be flying overhead, and got great shots of the incident?
From Bernama:
PORT DICKSON, Aug 19 (Bernama) — The Liberia registered tanker which caught fire after a collision with a bulk carrier last night has not caused an oil spill.
Port Dickson police chief Supt Mazlan Othman said although there were no oil spills, the Department of Environment (DOE) would continue to monitor the waters.
“As of 6pm, the fire on the MT Formosa Product Brick is still intense. The tanker is listing and rescue workers have yet to board it,” he told reporters here Wednesday.
The bulk carrier MV Ostende Max had been towed away while its three injured crew had been sent to Port Dickson Hospital for treatment.
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An engineer with an oil refinery here told Bernama MT Formosa Product Brick was laden with 58,000 tonnes of inflammable naptha fuel.
And you just have to juxtapose the above story with this, “Analysts: Proposed RM44bil bridge will be tough to see through.”
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The Oil, Gas and Mining Technical Division of the IEM hosted a one day ‘Drilling Engineering Overview’ seminar on August 5, 2009. It was conducted by Mr. Abdul Razak Yakob and held at the Wisma IEM, attracting 21 participants.
Razak started out with an icebreaking session with the participants, enquiring as to their backgrounds and what the participants wanted to get out of the course.
He then kicked off his seminar with an overall background to the topic. He described the differences between onshore and offshore drilling, and presented photos of various drilling rigs available in the market. He introduced the rig management structure, showing a slide summarizing the various personnel manning the drilling operations.
Razak then discussed the different mechanical parts that make up the drilling equipment, whether on the rig floor or the support peripherals. Among the different equipment that were described was the Christmas tree, drill bit, drilling fluids, casing and cementing. An introduction to interpretation of logging results formed a part of the seminar, giving the participants a taste of analyzing well data. To provide some feel as to the information technology involved in drilling, the software suites used for data management, engineering and facilities integration was shown.
He then moved on to describe the well life cycle stages, which is construction, implementation, analysis and improvement.
Razak introduced the participants to the economical side of the operations, showing some shocking numbers. He then scared the living daylights out of us by providing some insight into the hazards associated with drilling.
Directional drilling was the next topic of the day.
A quick overview of drilling analysis was provided. Participants were reminded of their undergraduate statics courses, where force balances, and torque plays an important part of the analysis.
Casing design was touched upon. This section covered the types of casing integrated into a well, and design considerations. The importance of a correct cement job was discussed, as well as the analytical tests to ensure the cement has the correct properties for the job.
Last but not least was more detail into the drilling fluids, and the required properties for different types of jobs.
The participants were from a mix, covering well grounded engineers who wanted to network and share experiences, to water wellbore engineers looking to see how different types of drilling technologies may be applicable to similar circumstances. And it is always a delight to see Razak in full flow.
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Another unfortunate end to an accident. Again, no blood and guts here.
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Strange I have to go to an overseas website to get the news. It was reported by Bernama as well.
At the Malaysian Liquefied Natural Gas plant in Tanjung Kidurong, Sarawak, 3 workers were overcome by gas while inspecting a large gas pipeline there, 1 of them has died, the condition of the other 2 in hospital remains unknown. 5th August 2009.
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Hmm, no particular place to recommend this week. So, let’s go back to the ever faithful Chee Meng’s. Last fling before Ramadhan?
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