Another week, another scan of the Saturday Star newspaper. Here’s a list of job ads in the paper:
- None for O&G engineers.
So, it’s an employers’ market. I’m thinking of paying SOGE’s next engineer a pound of salt, and some garlic-flavoured peanuts.
Saturday Star 2009-05-02 – Job Opportunities
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The SOGE Office – Full to the Brim
April 30, 2009Another Photosynth view of the office. We’re getting a bit more fuller, and I suppose we have enough money to pay for the rent and the lights. We’d like some more work during these trying times.
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IEM Shout Out – Managing Information
April 28, 2009Okay, I survived the talk I gave last week, though I’m not sure the audience did. My apologies for a bit of rambling. Contact me, and I’ll give you a private taste.
Back to business. This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will be having a talk on the 28th April. It’ll be at 5:30 pm (makan-makan at 5:00) 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.
Business decisions requires information to be at your finger tips. Many giant companies globally have started to implement Real-Time Information Management Systems to facilitate decision making. PETRONAS Carigali Sdn Bhd (PCSB) has pioneered the development and implementation of its own information management system known as PCIM to manage Life Cycle Data and Documents based on Neutral Data Format. This facilitates in
realizing Integrated Operation or Smart Field which will enable instant business decisions. Part of PCSB Neutral Data Format and Data Model has been adopted as International Standard (ISO 15926 : Integration of Life Cycle Data for Process Plants including Oil and Gas Production Facilities) to support “interoperability” which is important elements of Information Management System.
Lots of words. Further elaboration will be provided by En. Wan Hassan Wan Mamat:
He serves in the Board of Directors of POSC-CAESAR Association, Norway as Co-Chairman, championing Integrated Operations and Standardization. He drives the implementation of life-cycle information management with software integrations and interoperability for PETRONAS based on ISO15926 towards realizing “Integrated Operations of SMART Field”.
He is also Advisor to Malaysian Oil and Gas Services Council on Information Management and Deployment of ISO15926 for the Malaysian Oil and Gas Industry.
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Saturday Star 2009-04-25 – Job Opportunities
April 27, 2009Another week, another scan of the Saturday Star newspaper. Here’s a list of job ads in the paper:
- Oo, PETRONAS has a full page advert. Those of you who believe you are worth the skewed starting salary PETRONAS offers (and PETRONAS doesn’t pay engineering companies enough to offer the same skewed salary), please apply. Note that this time round, they are looking for 7 years plus experience. Send your CVs to talent@petronas.com.my.
- Technip, with the tagline ‘Engineer your Future @ Technip’, is looking for structural, subcontract (!), senior contracts (!) engineers. G’won girl, engineer the heck out of that paperwork. Visit http://careers.technip.com.my if you are interested.
- As Jabba reminds me, Synergy is recruiting Lead and Senior Safety Engineers. Send an email to Synergy if you have the qualifications. Very short listed applicants will be contacted. Others: submit at your peril.
Ah, Chee Meng, Chee Meng, the chicken rice shop. Sigh, since I have moved with Synergy out of KL, will you patronise Chee Meng in my memory? I’ll probably be there next Wednesday.
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Safety – A Reminder
April 23, 2009As people associated with offshore activities, safety plays a large part in our work culture. Among basic ingredients are:
- Be aware of risks, and the associated events / initiators.
- Plan to eliminate/ reduce the probability of an event happening, and minimise the consequences of such events (good old Risk Matrix).
- Implement the actions recommended above.
- Implement the actions AS recommended above.
- Continuous monitor of the risk and improvement to actions (feedback, another familiar ChemEng concept).
You can translate the list to almost any aspect of work / life, even something as complicated as a SIMOPs procedures.
Now, here’s a real life scenario. As I was driving down Jln. XXX next to the USJ Intergrated School, I see that they have a zebra crossing, and a person posted to direct people to cross the street while he holds back traffic.
So far, so good.
Just as I am about to drive across the zebra crossing, this person, while standing on the right CURB (from my viewpoint), holds back the oncoming traffic flow, doesn’t tell me to stop, and BECKONS a father and son team on my left to cross the road.
See where the failure is? I blame management and apathy, myself.
No participants were harmed in the making of this scenario, though a few choice thoughts hummed through my head.
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Saturday Star 2009-04-18 – Job Opportunities
April 21, 2009Another week, another scan of the Saturday Star newspaper. Here’s a list of job ads in the paper:
- SABIC is recruiting. It is looking for a maint mech eng, mechanical engineer, mech insp eng, instrument and controls engineer, comm eng, stress analysis eng, corrosion / metallurgy eng, process eng, advanced process control eng, SHE eng, fire eng. You can apply via email here.
- Synergy is recruiting Lead and Senior Safety Engineers. Send an email to Synergy if you have the qualifications. Very short listed applicants will be contacted. Others: submit at your peril.
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Tales from the Engineering Floor – Aye, Arghh
April 19, 2009I was at the Intitution of Engineer‘s AGM yesterday, and was surprised that members of that august body call the ‘Ir.’ title eye-are. You would have thought that they knew better.
I suppose I should be calling doctors De-Are. Or should that be Dear?
Good morning, Dear
Good morning, Aye, Arghh. How are things?
I’ve got this pain, Dear.
Okay, I Are. Let’s have a look.
Thank you, Dear.
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Exxon CEO Compensation Package
April 18, 2009For all you Exxon and ex-EPMI wage slaves, here’s how much you made for your leader. Source article here.
April 13 (Bloomberg) — Exxon Mobil Corp., the largest oil company, raised Chief Executive Officer Rex Tillerson’s compensation by 34 percent last year to $22.4 million.
Tillerson’s salary rose 6.9 percent to $1.87 million and his bonus increased 19 percent to $4 million, the Irving, Texas- based company said in a filing today with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
The 57-year-old Tillerson’s restricted stock awards were $7.81 million, and the value of his pension and other deferred compensation rose $8.29 million. Other compensation, including personal security and use of the company’s aircraft, totaled $446,826.
Tiger at Lost World of Tambun
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IEM Shout Out – Wata’s Talk at the IEM
April 18, 2009Here’s some self promotion. This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will be having a talk on the 23rd April. It’ll be at 5:30 pm (makan-makan at 5:00) at the IEM , Bangunan Ingenieur, PJ.:
This presentation will provide a quick introduction into the engineering of oil production. It will start with an introduction to important oil properties to consider when producing an oilfield, and how this data is used. It then moves to a generic offshore production facility, pointing out the salient points, design considerations and major equipment used in oil production. It closes out with a quick look at downstream facilities.
For my background, you can hunt around somewhere on this site.
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Saturday Star 2009-04-11 – Job Opportunities
April 14, 2009Another week, another scan of the Saturday Star newspaper. Here’s a list of job ads in the paper:
- Oo, PETRONAS has a full page advert. Those of you who believe you are worth the skewed starting salary PETRONAS offers (and PETRONAS doesn’t pay engineering companies enough to offer the same skewed salary), please apply. Note that this time round, they are looking for 7 years plus experience. Send your CVs to talent@petronas.com.my.
- Dialog is looking for you to ‘further your ambition in the oil & gas industry’. There are positions for IT support, network, tech sales, project. Send an email here or snail mail to Humarn Resources Department, Dialog Group of Companies, 109, Block G, Phileo Damansara 1, No. 9, Jalan 16/11, 46350.
- Petrofac is looking for a reservoir engineer, junior petroleum engineer, junior reservoir engineer. Email to vacancy.kl@petrofac.com, or snail mail to Human Resource.
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Wata - Malaysian Oil and Gas Engineer 