IEM Shout Out – Brief Look at an Offshore Project Journey – Engineering Roles Beyond Detail Design

March 12, 2015

This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will hosting the above talk by Ir. Tg. Fadziliaton on the 14th  March, 2015. Turn up by 8.30 to obtain nasi lemak.

The talk will gives a brief look on the journey of a typical oil and gas offshore project from FEED, Detail Design, Procurement, Fabrication up to the Commissioning.

Typically, a design engineer involvements is limited to the initial one or two stages of the project before they move on to the next project, more often due to end of their contract. The next stage of project is handled by a different group / team which does not have design engineers from the previous stages.

The design will usually evolve during each stage of the project even right up to the commissioning stage. It is very essential to keep every change to the minimum while maintaining the intended purpose of the design and to ensure a smooth information flow of these changes throughout the project. An awareness of the impact on change to the design beyond detail design stage i.e. procurement and fabrication needs to maintained.

Therefore, the design engineer should be involved and attached to a project up to and perhaps beyond the Commissioning stage, to support the above aims.

The objective of the talk is to familiarize with the stages of a project, the process and challenges of each stages and emphasis the important of information flow and the roles of the design engineer during each stage of the project.

Ir. Tengku Fadziliaton graduated from Loughborough University of Technology with degree in Chemical Engineering in 1997. She has started her career in the upstream oil and gas industry 17 years ago and has experience in detail design, fabrication, commissioning and operation in process engineer capacity. She has involved in projects for wellhead platforms, processing platforms and FPSOs as well as being part of operation support team for the same.

She is currently Senior Process Engineer in Engineering and Commissioning department in Kebabangan Petroleum Operating Company.

Register here, and pick up the brochure here.

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O&G industry sees opportunities next year

March 10, 2015

Same body text, different headlines for different readers. BTW, I guess “The Company” means someone is doing a CYA.

Dateline 2014-12-27, Sin Chew:

The global oil and gas industry is expected to see a bumpy road next year with declining crude oil prices, and the local scene is no exception.

Malaysia’s hydrocarbon resources custodian, Petronas, has already announced a cut in capital expenditure and other industry players, especially those who rely on the national oil company, are expected to follow suit.

Petronas said given the current excess supply, most industry experts expect oil prices to stay low for next year.

“This will definitely be challenging for the oil and gas industry to sustain especially their capital expenditure (Capex),” the company told Bernama.

It said the indication so far is that the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is unwilling to give up its market share by not cutting production, and to let the market fend for itself.

“No one really knows what OPEC’s next move is,” it said.

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Saturday Star 2015-03-07 – Job Opportunities

March 9, 2015

Happy Happy Week. Buy my recommendations, or through my Amazon store. Or get the Young Turks series (all 4 books). Where are those corporate sponsors? Or throw donations at me.

  • I hear Hess is looking for a number of metering and measurement engineers. Heck, I should be a shoe in.
  • Nothing else this week

Support your local bookshop!  Bookalicious at The Summit Subang is a good choice. I think they focus on trilogies, quadrilogies, and other ologies. Tell them I sent you, and enjoy the look of perplexity on their faces. Those of you who have dropped my name, thanks!

Food choice of the week? How if you visit Vietnam, how about visiting and updating GoHalalVietnam! for your food needs. For your other needs, talk to your local tour guide/ concierge / man on the street.

As crude prices are low, you need all the help you can get to nail that elusive 2k job:

Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking, Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker, The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security

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Malaysian Oil Project Set to Rival Rotterdam

March 8, 2015

Dateline 2104-12-22, The Maritime Executive:

Petronas, Royal Vopak and Dialog Group Berhad have agreed to develop an industrial terminal for Petronas’ Pengerang Integrated Complex in the Johor district of Malaysia. The agreement is part of a larger plan to establish Malaysia as a rival to global oil hubs such as Rotterdam, Houston and Singapore.

The terminal, developed under the Pengerang Terminal Phase 2 project, will have a storage capacity of up to 2.1 million cubic meters (cbm) for crude, refined products, petrochemical products and LPG. The marine infrastructure includes 12 berths with a jetty facility with water depths of up to 24m capable of handling VLCCs. Berths for unloading and reloading of LNG vessels up to QMax-sized are also included in the plans

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IEM Shout Out – Brief Look at an Offshore Project Journey – Engineering Roles Beyond Detail Design

March 3, 2015

This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will hosting the above talk by Ir. Tg. Fadziliaton on the 14th  March, 2015. Turn up by 8.30 to obtain nasi lemak.

The talk will gives a brief look on the journey of a typical oil and gas offshore project from FEED, Detail Design, Procurement, Fabrication up to the Commissioning.

Typically, a design engineer involvements is limited to the initial one or two stages of the project before they move on to the next project, more often due to end of their contract. The next stage of project is handled by a different group / team which does not have design engineers from the previous stages.

The design will usually evolve during each stage of the project even right up to the commissioning stage. It is very essential to keep every change to the minimum while maintaining the intended purpose of the design and to ensure a smooth information flow of these changes throughout the project. An awareness of the impact on change to the design beyond detail design stage i.e. procurement and fabrication needs to maintained.

Therefore, the design engineer should be involved and attached to a project up to and perhaps beyond the Commissioning stage, to support the above aims.

The objective of the talk is to familiarize with the stages of a project, the process and challenges of each stages and emphasis the important of information flow and the roles of the design engineer during each stage of the project.

Ir. Tengku Fadziliaton graduated from Loughborough University of Technology with degree in Chemical Engineering in 1997. She has started her career in the upstream oil and gas industry 17 years ago and has experience in detail design, fabrication, commissioning and operation in process engineer capacity. She has involved in projects for wellhead platforms, processing platforms and FPSOs as well as being part of operation support team for the same.

She is currently Senior Process Engineer in Engineering and Commissioning department in Kebabangan Petroleum Operating Company.

Register here, and pick up the brochure here.

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Saturday Star 2015-02-28 – Job Opportunities

March 2, 2015

Happy Happy Week. Buy my recommendations, or through my Amazon store. Or get the Young Turks series (all 4 books). Where are those corporate sponsors? Or throw donations at me.

  • I hear Hess is looking for a number of metering and measurement engineers. Heck, I should be a shoe in.
  • ExxonMobil is looking for persons of interest. For a change, they are looking for EMRE fresh meat. So, you chem engs, mech eng, heat transfer eng, optimization eng, safety facilities eng, instrumentation eng, apply at the site.
  • Wood Group has a teeny tiny advert. They are looking for mech eng (static and rotating), process, structural, electrical, instrument, pipe stress, piping, tech safety and other high muckity muck titles. Send a loving email here.

Support your local bookshop!  Bookalicious at The Summit Subang is a good choice. I think they focus on trilogies, quadrilogies, and other ologies. Tell them I sent you, and enjoy the look of perplexity on their faces. Those of you who have dropped my name, thanks!

Food choice of the week? How if you visit Vietnam, how about visiting and updating GoHalalVietnam! for your food needs. For your other needs, talk to your local tour guide/ concierge / man on the street.

As crude prices are low, you need all the help you can get to nail that elusive 2k job:

Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking, Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker, The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security

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Sarawak queries oil, gas PSCs for Sabah

February 28, 2015

Dateline 2014-12-11, Free Malaysia Today:

The Opposition wants to know why Sabah is being given stakes in Production Sharing Contracts (PSC) in the oil and gas industry and Sarawak being given “the short-end of the stick”.

“Sabah has done better than Sarawak in asking for PSCs,” said Batu Lintang Assemblyman See Chee How in a statement implicitly criticizing Sarawak Chief Minister Adenan Satem for his weak leadership on the issue. “We are getting a raw deal.”

“Sabah has entered into upstream petroleum development.”

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Umrah 2014 – Engineering Works

February 25, 2015

And… looking at the trip as an engineer.

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Saturday Star 2015-02-21 – Job Opportunities

February 23, 2015

Happy Happy Week. Buy my recommendations, or through my Amazon store. Or get the Young Turks series (all 4 books). Where are those corporate sponsors? Or throw donations at me.

  • I hear Hess is looking for a number of metering and measurement engineers. Heck, I should be a shoe in.
  • Kebabangan Petroleum Operating Company (KPOC to friends) has an itty-bitty spread. Operations is looking onshore and offshore operations, project engineer (mechanical), offshore installation manager, production supervisor. Apply here, or snail mail to: Kebabangan Petroleum Operating Comp Sdn Bhd, Level 52, Tower 2, PETRONAS Twin Towers, KLCC, 50088 KL, Malaysia.

Support your local bookshop!  Bookalicious at The Summit Subang is a good choice. I think they focus on trilogies, quadrilogies, and other ologies. Tell them I sent you, and enjoy the look of perplexity on their faces. Those of you who have dropped my name, thanks!

Food choice of the week? How if you visit Vietnam, how about visiting and updating GoHalalVietnam! for your food needs. For your other needs, talk to your local tour guide/ concierge / man on the street.

As crude prices are low, you need all the help you can get to nail that elusive 2k job:

Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking, Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker, The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security

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Umrah 2014

February 18, 2015

If you were wondering where I was.

And the obligatory photosynths are here, here, here.

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