IEM Shout Out – Talk Fire And Gas Detection Systems On Offshore Platform

September 8, 2015

My technical division will be hosting a talk seminar on the 12th September , 2015. It is worth 2 CPD points, and held at Wisma IEM. The course will be presented by Ir. Gan Chun Chet. Safety practitioners, fill up the seats, please.

Offshore platforms are equipped with a fire and gas detection technology to mitigate a hazardous situation. Calculated risk analysis (through simulation) has improved the risk of a catastrophic fire incidents around the region. An analysis by utilizing fire and gas mapping calculates the chances of a fire risk. This technique is widely used today and is still continuously being developed for improvement purposes. With proper forecasting or predictive technique, a failure can be avoided.

In an uncertainty situation, the risks among the people working on an offshore platform increase when there is a fire and gas detection system failure. An investment in a reliable fire and gas detection system is a necessity. A fail-safe system design which shutdowns the platform to protect the assets, environment and people, when a fire or gas leakage occurs must be available, be reliable and be dependable when required.

CENTRIFUGAL PUMP THEORY AND APPLICATION shall provide the audience with the knowledge and principles of pump design, sizing, selection and performance analysis. The course will be beneficial to engineers dealing with pump and will 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 course are to provide exposure to the audiences on understanding of fundamental design of centrifugal pump, the critical pump parameters when evaluating pump selection and making the best decision on specification.

Ir. Gan Chun Chet is a Mechanical Engineering graduate from the University of Manchester, United Kingdom in 1996. He also has a Masters of Science in Operations Management awarded by University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), United Kingdom in 1997.

He started his career with the General Industry, and later moved to the Oil and Gas Industry where he has accumulated 17 years of working experience. In the general industry, he worked together with an engineering team to resolve daily Plant issues encountered. Some of the problems consisted of noise problems, and compressor/pumps vibration problems. Monitoring the progress and taking actions are vital to resolve the issues.

In the oil and gas industry, he works with other engineers in the area of predicting equipment failures. Practices such as redundancy, field voting, review check activities, are some examples of practices in failure mitigations.

Register here, or download the form here.


IEM – Training for new PI process

September 2, 2015

Good day. I attended training for the new Professional Interview process from the 12th to 14th September. Look of a more streamlined application process.

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IEM Shout Out – Talk Fire And Gas Detection Systems On Offshore Platform

September 1, 2015

My technical division will be hosting a talk seminar on the 12th September , 2015. It is worth 2 CPD points, and held at Wisma IEM. The course will be presented by Ir. Gan Chun Chet. Safety practitioners, fill up the seats, please.

Offshore platforms are equipped with a fire and gas detection technology to mitigate a hazardous situation. Calculated risk analysis (through simulation) has improved the risk of a catastrophic fire incidents around the region. An analysis by utilizing fire and gas mapping calculates the chances of a fire risk. This technique is widely used today and is still continuously being developed for improvement purposes. With proper forecasting or predictive technique, a failure can be avoided.

In an uncertainty situation, the risks among the people working on an offshore platform increase when there is a fire and gas detection system failure. An investment in a reliable fire and gas detection system is a necessity. A fail-safe system design which shutdowns the platform to protect the assets, environment and people, when a fire or gas leakage occurs must be available, be reliable and be dependable when required.

CENTRIFUGAL PUMP THEORY AND APPLICATION shall provide the audience with the knowledge and principles of pump design, sizing, selection and performance analysis. The course will be beneficial to engineers dealing with pump and will 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 course are to provide exposure to the audiences on understanding of fundamental design of centrifugal pump, the critical pump parameters when evaluating pump selection and making the best decision on specification.

Ir. Gan Chun Chet is a Mechanical Engineering graduate from the University of Manchester, United Kingdom in 1996. He also has a Masters of Science in Operations Management awarded by University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), United Kingdom in 1997.

He started his career with the General Industry, and later moved to the Oil and Gas Industry where he has accumulated 17 years of working experience. In the general industry, he worked together with an engineering team to resolve daily Plant issues encountered. Some of the problems consisted of noise problems, and compressor/pumps vibration problems. Monitoring the progress and taking actions are vital to resolve the issues.

In the oil and gas industry, he works with other engineers in the area of predicting equipment failures. Practices such as redundancy, field voting, review check activities, are some examples of practices in failure mitigations.

Register here, or download the form here.


IEM Shout Out – Technical Visit to Chocolate Museum by Fidani

September 1, 2015

This is a shout out for the IEM. My technical division will be hosting a trip to Fidani. It will be a ‘technical’ visit (hint, hint) on the 28th September, 2015. You will be anointed with 2 CPD / PDP hours.

Chocolate Museum by Fidani is proudly owned and operated by DR Group Holdings Sdn Bhd, a diversified Malaysian company that among others specializes in manufacturing and retailing of chocolate and confectionery products. The Chocolate Museum has been designed to be interactive using attractive displays and simple language which provides the best learning experience for all ages. Chocolate Museum by Fidani also is the latest, most interactive, one-of a kind chocolate museum in South East Asia with interactive digital displays, fascinating facts, state-of-the-art equipment’s and more than 100 chocolate brands available. The visitor will learn about how the chocolate is made in the industrial scale from cacao bean until the end consumer product. Some important agenda of the visit includes the visitor will learn the characteristic of cacao plant, origins of chocolate from the cacao plant, the inventions that revolutionized the chocolate industry and the industrial manufacturing process of chocolate from cacao beans.

 

Register here and get the flyer here.


IEM Shout Out – One-Day Course on Centrifugal Pump Theory And Application-Basic Principles

August 28, 2015

My technical division will be hosting a 1 day seminar on the 28th September , 2015. It is worth 6.5 CPD points, and held at Wisma IEM. The course will be presented by Ir. Hassanazhari Ahdi. Process engineers, can you please attend?

CENTRIFUGAL PUMP THEORY AND APPLICATION shall provide the audience with the knowledge and principles of pump design, sizing, selection and performance analysis. The course will be beneficial to engineers dealing with pump and will 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 course are to provide exposure to the audiences on understanding of fundamental design of centrifugal pump, the critical pump parameters when evaluating pump selection and making the best decision on specification.

 

Ir. Hassanazhari Ahdi has been in the oil and gas industry for 25 years working for companies such as Technip, TPVN, KPOC and SDE. His core expertise is in design works, erection, testing, hook-up and commissioning.  Currently, he is an independent consultant providing consultancy for various design offices. He graduated from University of Malaya with a degree in Mechanical in year 1987 and a Masters in Engineering from UTM in year 2006. He has served many major Oil and Gas Companies locally and abroad such as PETRONAS, SHELL, EXXON-MOBIL, QATAR PETROLEUM, QATAR MEARSK OIL, TOTAL, CONOCO-PHILIPSs and CUU LONG.

Register here, or download the form here.


MOGEC Shout Out – Full-Day HAZOP Training For Team Members – A Practical Approach

August 21, 2015

MOGEC will be hosting a 1 day course (our second in my memory) on the 9th September, 2015. It is worth 6.5 CPD points, and held at Saloma Bistro. Since I’m giving it, I expect hoards will have to be turned away at the gates.

A Hazard and Operability study is a formal and systematic and detailed examination of the process and engineering intentions of new or existing facilities which assesses the hazard potential and effects on the facility as a whole when operation is outside of the design envelope, or individual items of equipment malfunction.

At the end of the session, the participants should:

  • Understand the responsibilities of all parties in the HAZOP
  • Have experience in a HAZOP session.
  • Understand the outcomes from a HAZOP session

Contact MOGEC directly, Apparently, I don’t rate a space on the site.

HAZOP Training flyer


IEM Shout Out – One-Day Workshop on “Essential Soft Skills for An Engineer to Fast Track the Career Ladder”

August 18, 2015

My technical division will be hosting a 1 day seminar on the 29th September , 2015. It is worth 6.5 CPD points, and held at Wisma IEM. The course will be presented by Ir. Low Chew Eow (Rocky). Those who want to figure out why there aren’t communicating as efficiently as they should, attend

The seminar will address some of the important soft skills needed to be acquired and sharpened such as:
–  Communication skills
–  Good attitudes to have and to focus on
–  Producing high quality e-mail
–  E-mail ethics
–  Reporting skills to various stakeholders
–  Planning skills
–  Task identifications and delegation skills

Ir. Low Chew Eow (Rocky) graduated from the University of Glasgow with a degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1990. He has more than 24 years of working experience in various roles. He is appointed as Industry Advisor of Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Faculty of Engineering and Science.

He is currently the Head of Package Equipment Department in Technip Consultant (M) Sdn. Bhd. He is also the Member of Expert Network specializing in Pneumatic Conveying System within the Technip group. He has presented talks at the Institution of Engineers, Malaysia.

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Why Are Malaysia Gas Prices Are So Different From Other Countries?

August 16, 2015

Dateline 2015-06-26, Establishment Post:

Malaysian Iron & Steel Industry Federation (MISIF) wants the government to maintain Malaysia gas subsidies (link below):

Steel makers oppose gas price hike, wants govt to step in

As anybody who follows the global natural gas industry will know, there are massive discrepancies in gas pricing across the world. Gas prices in the US have been sub-USD3 for many years, while prices in Europe have averaged around USD8-USD12. Asia? More like USD12. That is right, as much as four times higher, and that is after coming down from USD15-USD16 last year. Even with the price adjustment, nearly half the price of local gas is subsidised.

Part of these price differentials is due to multiple methods of pricing gas, while another part is the dominance of long term contracts, which essentially divorce the bulk of gas actually bought and sold from spot market prices.

 


IEM Shout Out – One-Day Course on Centrifugal Pump Theory And Application-Basic Principles

August 14, 2015

My technical division will be hosting a 1 day seminar on the 28th September , 2015. It is worth 6.5 CPD points, and held at Wisma IEM. The course will be presented by Ir. Hassanazhari Ahdi. Process engineers, can you please attend?

CENTRIFUGAL PUMP THEORY AND APPLICATION shall provide the audience with the knowledge and principles of pump design, sizing, selection and performance analysis. The course will be beneficial to engineers dealing with pump and will 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 course are to provide exposure to the audiences on understanding of fundamental design of centrifugal pump, the critical pump parameters when evaluating pump selection and making the best decision on specification.

 

Ir. Hassanazhari Ahdi has been in the oil and gas industry for 25 years working for companies such as Technip, TPVN, KPOC and SDE. His core expertise is in design works, erection, testing, hook-up and commissioning.  Currently, he is an independent consultant providing consultancy for various design offices. He graduated from University of Malaya with a degree in Mechanical in year 1987 and a Masters in Engineering from UTM in year 2006. He has served many major Oil and Gas Companies locally and abroad such as PETRONAS, SHELL, EXXON-MOBIL, QATAR PETROLEUM, QATAR MEARSK OIL, TOTAL, CONOCO-PHILIPSs and CUU LONG.

Register here, or download the form here.


Shout Out – One-Day Course on Safety Integrity Levels (SIL) Training For Workshop Participants

August 11, 2015

My technical division will be hosting a 1 day seminar on the 10th Sovember, 2015. It is worth 6.5 CPD points, and held at Wisma IEM. Since I’m giving it, I expect hoards will have to be turned away at the gates. And it’s a big room, so I need to fill the seats.

In the Layer of Protection methodology, a Safety Instrumented Function (SIF) designed to eliminate the cause of a risk or minimize the consequence of an event. The expectation of the SIF’s reliability to perform upon demand must be defined so that it is designed appropriately. The Safety Integrity Level (SIL) study is a tool used this.

This full day course is designed to educate participants in the SIL process from the perspective of a SIL team member. It is meant to provide both instruction and workshop sessions so that the participants:

  • Are familiar with the concept of ‘risk’
  • Are familiar with the theory and terminology behind Layers of Protection, SIS, SIF, SIL and LOPA
  • Are familiar with the different SIL methodologies: risk graph, risk matrix, LOPA.
  • Have expectations as to what the SIL workshop will (and won’t) provide.
  • Understand what deliverables can be expected from a SIL workshop.
  • Have the opportunity to participate in SIL exercise in a safe environment.Opportunity to share SIL experiences.

Wata has 19 years of experience in the oil and gas industry, in both design and operations.

Register here, or download the form here.