IEM Shout Out – Half-day Course on A bird’s Eye View On Intellectual Property Law-Practical Approach On protection of your IP Rights

April 22, 2013

This is a shout out for IEM. The Chemical Engineering Technical Division will be organizing a Half-Day Course on Half-day Course on A bird’s Eye View On Intellectual Property Law-Practical Approach On protection of your IP Rights on 18th May, 2013 (Thursday & Friday) at Wisma IEM, PJ. The session is scheduled to start at 9 a.m. (registration at 8.30 a.m.) and end around 1 p.m. Participant will be granted 3.5 CPD/ PDP hours at the end of the course.

This half-day course is designed to expose the participants to IP law and/or to create a continuous IP awareness and provide an overview on IP law (selected areas). It provides a springboard to educate participants in way to protect their branding, trade marks, patents, copyright and confidential information. It gives the participants a platform to understand and discuss critical issues (whether their own IP rights or others) faced by them in their day to day dealings.

At the end of the session, the participants should:

Understand the basic concept of trade mark copyright, patents, confidential information;

  • Aware of ways to protect their IP rights (selected IP rights);
  • Be exposed to some tips on how to avoid any infringement or potential infringement of IP rights of others;
  • Understand how to enforce their IP rights when there is infringement

Mr. Bahari heads the Intellectual Property practice group and became a partner of Lee Hishammuddin Allen & Gledhill in January 2009. His background is in corporate and commercial dispute resolution and litigation. He has extensive experience in disputes resolution in respect of land law, companies insolvency and banking litigation.

Ms. Eunice Chan Wei Lynn is a Senior Associate at Lee Hishammuddin Allen & Gledhill. She graduated from Cardiff University, Wales, United Kingdom and was called to the English Bar and Malaysian Bar. Her main area of practice is in intellectual property law and advise and assist clients on all aspects of IP protection and ownership including portfolio management and IP related agreements and transactions. She is also involved in transactional and advisory work in the areas of biotechnology, information technology and franchising

Register here or download the form here. A map to Wisma IEM is presented here.

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What is GBU?

April 16, 2013

Here’s an new acronym I learnt, PETRONAS’s GBU. It’s the Gas Business Unit of PETRONAS. Those of you familiar with the GPPs (Gas Processing Plant), yup, they under the GBU.

I heard about this Unit because of a situation where information had to be obtained from them. Information could not be obtain officially directly between staff of the same business / technical rank, but the request had to be flown up to flag country, across the BUs, then back down again.

Does anyone know where the PGB resides in this organization?

I give you some information I obtain from the Internets:

Is it a coincidence that if the GBU lost a leg, it woud be the GRU?

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Saturday Star 2013-04-13 and 2013-04-06 – Job Opportunities

April 15, 2013

Thanks for hanging round. Been busy and travelling round the past month, and it isn’t going to get any better.

Buy my recommendations, or through my Amazon store. Where are those corporate sponsors? Or throw donations at me. I need money to purchase a dive light.

If you need my help to submit your CVs, donate to the blog, and I’ll review your CV to see if it is worthy of my (and my associates’) expectations. If you can’t figure out how to donate, no need to ask.

This week, it looks like you (the advertisers) are recycling last weeks adverts. Since it’s a holiday today (Monday), I guess you are justified

  • I’m looking for a senior process engineer, 7+ years experience. Send your cv here. Also looking for process safety persons, lead piping designer, lead instrument engineer, and other seniors you think will catch my eye.
  • Here’s a new one. No shame in their title, Nationwide Oil & Gas. They are looking for Sales and Application Engineers. Send your cv here.
  • ExxonMobil is looking for an experienced mechanical engineer. Apply here.

Hey, its kinda short this week. How about I include last week’s adverts?

  • There’s a new body agency in town, Jerry Varghese, who is recruiting for Saudi. They are looking for ‘Petrochemical Professionals!’ Email them here, or visit their fb site. Me, I’m not going to like their page anytime soon.
  • Carigali Hess is looking for a principal drilling engineer, SHE officer drilling / well services, Adviser (HSE drilling and operations), senior process safety engineer, reservoir engineer, lead / senior facilities engineer, marine engineer,  lead / senior well integrity engineer, reliability engineer. Send your cv here,  with a detailed resume stating references, expected remuneration, contact telephone and email address, before 20th April, 2013. Whoopsie.
  • JX Nippon Oil & Gas Exploration (Malaysia) Ltd is looking people, in the Project Team, Production Operations, Development, Exploration. Send your cv here. Or visit http://www.nex.jx-group.co.jp/english → RECRUIT → Employment in Miri (Malaysia)

How about some local food? Alisara at Puchong Indah. Specialises in Thai food, and has mango with stick rice.

Break the Low Yat stranglehold! Support Newegg Malaysia.

Here’s a switch, a fiction novel combining diving, welding, oil & gas and family.

  

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LNG: A Nontechnical Guide, Fundamentals of Natural Gas Processing, Second Edition (Dekker Mechanical Engineering), Gas and Oil Reliability Engineering: Modeling and Analysis

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IEM Shout Out – Overview Of Aboveground Atmospheric Storage Tanks In Oil And Gas Facilities

April 9, 2013

This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will be having a talk on 13th April. It’ll be at 9:00 am (makan-makan at 8:30) at Wisma IEM. We do have a lift, so no excuse. I have bad knees, and still manage to crawl up 2 flights.

Storage tanks are common equipment found in oil and gas facilities. They are used for temporary storage of products prior to being transferred to the next process activity. Atmospheric Storage Tanks operate under no or very little pressure, distinguishing them from pressure vessels.

The talk will provide an overview on the types of Aboveground Atmospheric Storage Tanks commonly used in the Oil and Gas industry. Some of the common types will be Fixed-Roof type and Floating-Roof type. The talk will also explain in more details the accessories associated with the tanks such as the Breather Valve, Floating Roof Drain, Floating Roof Seal, Rolling Ladders, Liquid Level Indicator, Anti Rotation Device and Roof Legs.

Some common failures in Aboveground Atmospheric Storage Tanks such as Pontoon leaks, Roof Drain puncture, Bottom Plate leak, Shell thinning and others will be shared, followed by typical types of Non Destructive Tests (NDTs) and Inspection carried out during erection and scheduled maintenance of these tanks.

The above will be presented by Ir. Alzakri B. Ekhwan. He is a Principal Engineer for Static-Unfired Equipment. He was graduated in 1993 from the University of Bath, UK in Mechanical Engineering. He is currently based in PETRONAS Penapisan Melaka Sdn. Bhd. (PP(M)SB) and has more than 19 years of experience in maintenance, design, fabrication, inspection and construction of Static Equipment in the Oil and Gas industry.

You can register for the event here, and retrieve the flier here.

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Tales from the Engineering Floor – Part Time Job

April 9, 2013

I was standing outside Madam Kwan’s at Suria KLCC, waiting for a contact to do some afterhours dealings. Not wanting to be caught holding the bag alone, I invited a couple of engineers to come with me.

As we were early, I told my engineers to book a table inside, and gestured to them to go in first. I happened to be standing in front of the restaurant podium.

My gesturing must have been something, as after I send my engineers in, I turn around, and there’s this lass who says to me:

Table for two, please.

Good thing I didn’t charge her a RM20 booking fee and legged it. I pointed into the interior, she waltzed in, and probably gave hell about where her promised table was.

Restaurant host is now a new category in my CV.

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IEM Shout Out – Overview Of Aboveground Atmospheric Storage Tanks In Oil And Gas Facilities

April 2, 2013

This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will be having a talk on 13th April. It’ll be at 9:00 am (makan-makan at 8:30) at Wisma IEM. We do have a lift, so no excuse. I have bad knees, and still manage to crawl up 2 flights.

Storage tanks are common equipment found in oil and gas facilities. They are used for temporary storage of products prior to being transferred to the next process activity. Atmospheric Storage Tanks operate under no or very little pressure, distinguishing them from pressure vessels.

The talk will provide an overview on the types of Aboveground Atmospheric Storage Tanks commonly used in the Oil and Gas industry. Some of the common types will be Fixed-Roof type and Floating-Roof type. The talk will also explain in more details the accessories associated with the tanks such as the Breather Valve, Floating Roof Drain, Floating Roof Seal, Rolling Ladders, Liquid Level Indicator, Anti Rotation Device and Roof Legs.

Some common failures in Aboveground Atmospheric Storage Tanks such as Pontoon leaks, Roof Drain puncture, Bottom Plate leak, Shell thinning and others will be shared, followed by typical types of Non Destructive Tests (NDTs) and Inspection carried out during erection and scheduled maintenance of these tanks.

The above will be presented by Ir. Alzakri B. Ekhwan. He is a Principal Engineer for Static-Unfired Equipment. He was graduated in 1993 from the University of Bath, UK in Mechanical Engineering. He is currently based in PETRONAS Penapisan Melaka Sdn. Bhd. (PP(M)SB) and has more than 19 years of experience in maintenance, design, fabrication, inspection and construction of Static Equipment in the Oil and Gas industry.

You can register for the event here, and retrieve the flier here.

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Saturday Star 2013-03-30 – Job Opportunities

April 1, 2013

Buy my recommendations, or through my Amazon store. Where are those corporate sponsors? Or throw donations at me. I need money to purchase a dive light.

If you need my help to submit your CVs, donate to the blog, and I’ll review your CV to see if it is worthy of my (and my associates’) expectations. If you can’t figure out how to donate, no need to ask.

This week, it looks like you (the advertisers) are recycling last weeks adverts. Since it’s a holiday today (Monday), I guess you are justified

  • I’m looking for a senior process engineer, 7+ years experience. Send your cv here. Also looking for process safety persons, lead piping designer, lead instrument engineer, and other seniors you think will catch my eye.
  • Shell is looking for (many) drilling rig supervisors. Visit here. Have all their best and brightest been recruited by PETRONAS?
  • I see Petrofac is looking for a development manager. Send your cv via snail mail to Human Resource Department, Petrofac (Malaysia-PM304) Limited, Level 21, Menara 3 PETRONAS, Persiaran KLCC, Kuala Lumpur City Centre, 50088 KL, or you can try here.
  • McDermott are looking for people, project engineering managers, structural lead engineers, mechanical lead engineers, instrumentation lead engineers, subsea lead engineers, all with 10+ year experience. Visit the website, or submit your CV  here.

How about some local food? Alisara at Puchong Indah. Specialises in Thai food, and has mango with stick rice.

Break the Low Yat stranglehold! Support Newegg Malaysia.

Here’s a switch, a fiction novel combining diving, welding, oil & gas and family.

  

The Underwater Welder, Welding: Principles and Applications, Professional Diver’s Manual on Wet-Welding

LNG: A Nontechnical Guide, Fundamentals of Natural Gas Processing, Second Edition (Dekker Mechanical Engineering), Gas and Oil Reliability Engineering: Modeling and Analysis

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From The Engineering Floor – HAZID Keywords

March 31, 2013

When a Hazard Identification (HAZID) exercise is conducted, a multi-skilled team of experienced persons come up with credible hazards that could have a safety, health or environmental (SHE) impact.

One thing that you may forget, if you have a large, onshore facility is that in the process of creating your cash cow (aka plant/ facility), you may have impacted the local ecology to a large extent.

I have the privilege of watching what may go wrong if a HAZID hazard is not addressed properly. Look here and here.

Yes, this is not in Malaysia, but I was there. So there.

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RHB Research says 2013 “will be a good year” for Malaysia’s oil and gas industry

March 29, 2013

Dateline 2013-03-19, The Star:

RHB Research Institute believes 2013 “will be a good year” for the local oil and gas (O&G) industry on the back of improving jobs visibility.

Sectoral analysts Danny Chan and Mohd Faisal said in the industry upgrade report that the next focus for Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas)is its push on domestic production growth which would likely benefit local service providers.

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Saturday Star 2013-03-23 – Job Opportunities

March 25, 2013

Buy my recommendations, or through my Amazon store. Where are those corporate sponsors? Or throw donations at me. I need money to purchase a dive light.

If you need my help to submit your CVs, donate to the blog, and I’ll review your CV to see if it is worthy of my (and my associates’) expectations. If you can’t figure out how to donate, no need to ask.

This week, it looks like you (the advertisers) are recycling last weeks adverts. Since it’s a holiday today (Monday), I guess you are justified

  • I’m looking for a senior process engineer, 7+ years experience. Send your cv here. Also looking for process safety persons, lead piping designer, lead instrument engineer, and other seniors you think will catch my eye.
  • Shell wants you to experience world-class engineering in Malaysia. Visit here. Have all their best and brightest been recruited by PETRONAS?
  • Genesis is apparently looking for people, and contributing to Malaysia’s brain drain. Apply here.
  • Technip is looking for their next biggest ass et: You. Visit here soon. Apply to Synergy first.
  • Talisman (aren’t they leaving Malaysia?) is looking for a mess of people? Can I own the bid document control assistant, maybe get her to lose a few bids? Visit their site.
  • Murphy is looking for a senior area engineer, snr project eng, snr development engineer, snr structural eng, snr mechanical eng, snr field engineer (you see a trend here?), mech engineer, construction eng,  . Send your cv here.

How about some local food? Alisara at Puchong Indah. Specialises in Thai food, and has mango with stick rice.

Break the Low Yat stranglehold! Support Newegg Malaysia.

Here’s a switch, a fiction novel combining diving, welding, oil & gas and family.

  

The Underwater Welder, Welding: Principles and Applications, Professional Diver’s Manual on Wet-Welding

LNG: A Nontechnical Guide, Fundamentals of Natural Gas Processing, Second Edition (Dekker Mechanical Engineering), Gas and Oil Reliability Engineering: Modeling and Analysis

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