IEM Shout Out – Overview of Gas Turbine Overhaul in Power Plant

March 12, 2014

This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will be having a talk on 15th March 2014. It’ll be at 9 am (makan-makan at 8:30) at Wisma IEM.

A Gas turbine is an essential machine in power plants to drive generators for producing electricity. To maintain its efficiency and reliability, a planned overhaul is required. The overhaul is carried out in the plant in a specified duration involving specialists, manpower, material and equipment while maintaining high safety standard. Thus, this overview talk will explain the participants on the basic activities involved in gas turbine overhaul in a Power Plant. It will cover the preparation, execution, commissioning, and closing out of the overhaul including the gas turbine main components.

The above will be presented by Ir. Roznan, who has been working in the power plant industry for the past 9 years as Technical Support, Project Manager, Contract Management and Customer Service.

You can register for the event here, and get the flyer here.

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Saturday Star 2014-03-08 – Job Opportunities

March 10, 2014

This week has a somber note, a Service your Aircraft public reminder.

Buy my recommendations, or through my Amazon store. Where are those corporate sponsors? Or throw donations at me. I need RM360 to get The Star ePaper

  • I’m looking for a senior process engineer, 7+ years experience. Also looking for technical safety persons, metering / measurement engineers and other seniors you think will catch my eye.
  • Here’s a old sheep in new clothing. Prodigy is opening to new graduates for petroleum engineering, project management, drilling, process and operation. Find the new sheep here.
  • Talisman is looking for people. Go and bug them here, or send a snail mail your cv here.
  • Nothing else going on today

Here’s a quick list of tech podcasts I follow:

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!

Since Sir Terry Pratchett has a new volume out, here’s an opportunity to complete your collection :

  

Raising Steam (Discworld), Dodger, Snuff (Discworld)

The IEM has a coffee table book out, Engineering Heritage of Malaysia (no, it is not Datuk Seri Samy Vellu’s bio). Visit here for details.

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Oil firms concerned over rising costs

March 5, 2014

Obviously, the aren’t concerned with the rise of consultants’ fees, seeing what they still shell out and force us to play by their rules.

Dateline 2014-01-21, Malaysian Reserve:

Rising operational costs and uncertainty over oil prices are the biggest barriers for growth for oil and gas (O&G) firms, according to most senior professionals in the sector in Asia Pacific, a study from O&G adviser DNV and Germanischer Lloyd (DNV GL) said.

A survey of more than 430 O&G professionals and interviews with more than 20 industry executives found that 90% were confident about the industry outlook in 2014 and 41% were concerned about the costs.

“As a result, operators are having to keep a tighter rein on capital expenditure, with operators undergoing pressure to extend the life of existing assets and increase the return on these investments,” the study “Challenging Climates: The outlook for the O&G industry in 2014” published by DNV GL said yesterday.

Only less than a quarter (22%) of operators in Asia Pacific believe they are on track to hit their targets this year, according to the report.

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IEM Shout Out – Overview of Gas Turbine Overhaul in Power Plant

March 5, 2014

This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will be having a talk on 15th March 2014. It’ll be at 9 am (makan-makan at 8:30) at Wisma IEM.

A Gas turbine is an essential machine in power plants to drive generators for producing electricity. To maintain its efficiency and reliability, a planned overhaul is required. The overhaul is carried out in the plant in a specified duration involving specialists, manpower, material and equipment while maintaining high safety standard. Thus, this overview talk will explain the participants on the basic activities involved in gas turbine overhaul in a Power Plant. It will cover the preparation, execution, commissioning, and closing out of the overhaul including the gas turbine main components.

The above will be presented by Ir. Roznan, who has been working in the power plant industry for the past 9 years as Technical Support, Project Manager, Contract Management and Customer Service.

You can register for the event here, and get the flyer here.

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Saturday Star 2014-03-01 – Job Opportunities

March 3, 2014

Happy Attend Flow Measurement Conference 2014 Day (if they pay me, I’ll link to the site at some point).

Buy my recommendations, or through my Amazon store. Where are those corporate sponsors? Or throw donations at me. I need RM360 to get The Star ePaper

  • I’m looking for a senior process engineer, 7+ years experience. Also looking for technical safety persons, metering / measurement engineers and other seniors you think will catch my eye.
  • JX Nippon Oil & Gas Exploration (Malaysia) Ltd is looking people. Click through to the site → RECRUIT → Employment at Miri (Malaysia).
  • Nothing else going on today

Here’s a quick list of tech podcasts I follow:

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!

Since Sir Terry Pratchett has a new volume out, here’s an opportunity to complete your collection :

  

Raising Steam (Discworld), Dodger, Snuff (Discworld)

The IEM has a coffee table book out, Engineering Heritage of Malaysia (no, it is not Datuk Seri Samy Vellu’s bio). Visit here for details.

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Report: Petronas invites bids for Besar gas field

March 2, 2014

Dateline 2014-01-20, The Edge:

 

Petronas Carigali Sdn Bhd has invited bids for its Besar gas field (for two wellhead platforms), according to international oil & gas news portal Upstream Online.

Besar gas field is located offshore Peninsular Malaysia.

This piece of news was reported on the official website of Upstream Online. Alliance Research, quoting Upstream Online in its research note today, reported the bids are due at the end of February.

It said the initial contract award is slated for the end of this year, with a separate tender for installation to emerge later on.

“The contract value will be RM100 million to RM150 million for both wellhead platforms. Malaysian players might have advantage for the Besar project,” said Alliance research analyst Arhnue Tan.

She continues to rank the oil & gas (O&G) sector as ‘overweight’ as robust contract flow is expected to come from marginal fields, enhanced oil recovery projects and new gas developments.

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Keel work begins for floating LNG facility

February 27, 2014

Oil & Gas Journal, dateline 2014-01-14:

Petronas said keel work has begun for its first floating LNG facility.

The first block of the keel was laid in the presence of representatives of Petronas, Technip, and Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering at the shipyard in Okpo, South Korea.

“The keel laying signifies yet another significant achievement of the project in its construction phase,” said Petronas Vice-Pres. Datuk Abdullah Karim.

The PFLNG 1 facility is slated for completion in fourth-quarter 2015. The 365-m long facility will weigh 125,000 tonnes. Construction began in June 2013 with the cutting of steel for its hull.

The facility will be installed in Malaysia’s Kanowit gas field, 180 km offshore Sarawak. It will produce 1.2 million tonnes/year of LNG. Petronas said it will play a significant role in efforts to unlock gas in Malaysia’s remote and stranded fields currently deemed uneconomical to develop (OGJ Online, June 6, 2012).

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Saturday Star 2014-02-22 – Job Opportunities

February 24, 2014

Happy Recover from the Flu day.

Buy my recommendations, or through my Amazon store. Where are those corporate sponsors? Or throw donations at me. I need RM360 to get The Star ePaper

  • I’m looking for a senior process engineer, 7+ years experience. Send your cv here. Also looking for technical safety persons, metering / measurement engineers and other seniors you think will catch my eye.
  • Nothing else going on today

Here’s a quick list of tech podcasts I follow:

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!

This week, my theme is, you need to be a better all round engineer. Hence, some selections for the process engineer:

A Simple Guide To Understanding Jet Engines, Process Plant Instrumentation: Design and Upgrade, Mechanical Design of Process Systems: Piping and Pressure Vessels

The IEM has a coffee table book out, Engineering Heritage of Malaysia (no, it is not Datuk Seri Samy Vellu’s bio). Visit here for details.

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MTEM calls Petronas CEO names for purported mistreatment of Dr M

February 23, 2014

I missed the ranting and name-calling.

Dateline 2014-01-09, The Malay Mail:

In an expletive-ridden rant today, the Malay Economic Action Council (MTEM) castigated Petronas chief Tan Sri Shamsul Azhar Abas over the alleged mistreatment of the state oil firm’s former adviser Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

The Malay business lobby group later retracted part of their emotional descriptions of Shamsul in a news conference, but related allegations of high-handed action against the former prime minister within 24 hours of Dr Mahathir’s departure from the Petronas office here last month.

“Is this how a national oil company treat a man who was very instrumental at turning Petronas into a Fortune 500 company and equipped with undeniable contribution in his 27 years and to date tenure?

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Murphy Oil Corporation Updates Production Guidance

February 19, 2014

Dateline 2014-01-07, WSJ:

Murphy Oil Corporation (NYSE:MUR) announced today updated production guidance information related to field development activities offshore Malaysia.

Production guidance in the fourth quarter of 2013 has been increased from 199 thousand barrels of oil equivalent per day (mboepd) to approximately 205 mboepd. This fourth quarter production increase is a result of a further shift of the shut-in work on the Kikeh FPSO for the tie of the new Siakap North-Petai (SNP) field offshore Malaysia until later this month.  The revised tie-in schedule is due to weather and execution delays experienced in the fourth quarter of 2013.  The installation contractor has been in the field executing the tie-in work for some time with work continuing today.

The production at Kikeh will also be impacted in 2014 by a recent isolated fire on a contracted tender supported rig moored to the Kikeh Spar. The fire will necessitate rig repair work resulting in a delay of new wells to be drilled under the Kikeh Field Development Plan. The fire did not impact any Murphy-operated production wells or equipment. There were no injuries or pollution associated with this incident.
This shift in the SNP tie-in work into 2014 along with mechanical repairs to the contracted Kikeh spar tender supported drilling rig is expected to reduce our 2014 production range by approximately 5,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day.  Our full-year 2014 production guidance is now being revised to a range of 235 to 240 mboepd.

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