From The Borneo Post – KBB eyes future oil and gas related contracts with strategic partnership

December 15, 2011

Why am I interested in this, you wonder…

Dateline 2011-12-02:

KKB Engineering Bhd (KKB) is on track to some possible oil and gas (O&G) related contracts in the pipeline as the company has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Brooke Dockyard & Engineering Works Corporation (Brooke Dockyard) to set out its intention and mutual understanding in connection with a proposed strategic alliance and joint-venture.

The collaboration includes a lease of the deepwater river front yard by KKB to Brooke Dockyard for its O&G substructure and other works, with the exclusive rights given to KKB to undertake such works to the extent its service can meet Brooke Dockyard’s client requirements.

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PETRONAS Tackles Malaysia’s Gas Problems as Net Rises

December 14, 2011

Dateline 2011-12-01:

Petroliam Nasional Bhd., Malaysia’s state oil company, announced plans to tackle the Southeast Asian nation’s gas supply shortage as it reported a 48 percent jump in quarterly profit.

The Kuala Lumpur-based group, which manages all the country’s energy reserves, will build a fourth gas import terminal and a second floating liquefied natural gas plant, Chief Executive Officer Shamsul Azhar Abbas told reporters today. It also agreed to partially absorb extra costs incurred by power producer Tenaga Nasional Bhd. due to supply disruptions, he said.

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From Bernama – Restaurant Gas Blast Believed Due To Shoddy Maintenance – Fire Department

December 10, 2011

I like it that an opinion for a Maju Junction blast is out, but not for the Subang Empire blast.

Dateline 2011-11-29:

The gas explosion two days ago at a restaurant at the Maju Junction shopping centre is believed to have been due to shoddy maintenance, said Malaysian Fire and Rescue Department director-general Datuk Wan Mohd Nor Ibrahim.

He said restaurant operators or building owners who opted to use piped gas need to regularly maintain the system to prevent gas leaks that might cause explosions.

“Such a process is necessary for safety; piped gas is different from a normal gas tank as the pipe can leak without continuous maintenance,” he told reporters after the launch of a seminar on fire safety engineering design here Tuesday.

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IEM Shout Out – Talk on Gumusut-Kakap Project

December 9, 2011

This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division (Not) will be  hosting a talk on the 17th December, 2011. It’ll start at 9:00am and is worth 2 CPD hours. You still gotta climb those steps at Wisma IEM.

If you wanted to heckle G-K team members, now’s the chance.

The Gumusut-Kakap Project is one of the largest deepwater oil and gas developments in Malaysia. In this talk, an overview of the Gumusut-Kakap Project will be given. The Development Concept will be shared and the key technical features and challenges of the Subsea Infrastructure and the semi-submersible Floating Production System will be explained. The speaker will also update current progress pictures and brief the participants on the HSE requirements.

Mr. Milan Hendrikse (MSc. Eng.) is currently the Gumusut-Kakap Project Manager. In June 2007 he joined Shell in Malaysia and managed HSE and the Offshore Part of Gumusut-Kakap, before he took over as Project Manager in December 2010.

Mr. Milan completed his Aeronautical Engineering study in Delft and National Service in the Air Force before he joined Shell in 1990 as a Field Engineer. He had various assignments in project engineering/management, business development, HSE and Construction. He has more than 15 years working experiences in related field.  Key career highlights are listed below:-

  • Pohokura Project Manager, New Zealand
  • LNG & Domestic Gas Supply Co-ordinator, Australia
  • North Rankin B Opportunity Manager, Australia
  • Angel Lead Engineer, Australia
  • Head of Corporate HSE Audit, Oman
  • Head of Construction, LNG Upstream Facilities, Oman
  • Various Project Engineering Positions, UK

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

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ROC Oil eyes more projects in Malaysia

December 8, 2011

Dateline 2011-11-29:

Australia’s ROC Oil Co Ltd is keen to bid for more Malaysian projects after clinching a deal to develop the Balai cluster marginal oilfield, offshore Sarawak, with partners Dialog Group Bhd and Petronas Carigali Sdn Bhd.

ROC general manager for corporate affairs and planning Mathew Gerber said Balai is an initial entry and the company aims to increase its presence in Malaysia’s oil and gas sector, if given the opportunity.

“We have a lot more to offer,” he said, adding that the project award is a vote of confidence in ROC’s abilities as an operator of small fields.

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Lundin Petroleum Discovers Oil Offshore Malaysia

December 6, 2011

Dateline 2011-11-23:

(Lundin Petroleum) is pleased to announce that it has discovered oil in the Janglau-1 well that was drilled in Block PM308A, offshore Peninsular Malaysia.

Janglau-1 was drilled to a total depth of 3,820 metres by the jackup rig “Offshore Courageous”. The objectives of the well were Oligocene intra-rift sands and the underlying fractured pre-Tertiary section.

During drilling below 3,153 metres, oil was found in multiple pay sand units in an intra-rift sand/shale section that extended over a gross interval of approximately 300 metres. Oil samples were recovered at surface during drilling.

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Saturday Star 2011-12-03 – Job Opportunities

December 5, 2011

Support me by purchasing my recommendations, or buying through my Amazon store. I need the money to pay for running this site. Corporate level sponsors are encouraged.

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.

  • 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.

May I suggest that readers install the Waze app on their phones? And use it as much as possible? It says its a “a social mobile application providing free turn-by-turn navigation based on the live conditions of the road. 100% powered by users, the more you drive, the better it gets. Join the community of drivers in your area today!” The more you use it, the better info I get in planning my journey round KL, and hopefully the rest of Malaysia

If you are fans of classic gaming, support those old time PC classics at Good Oil Games. I wish they had a local setup here.

Support your local bookshop! Visit Bookalicious at The Summit Subang, good selection of imported books. I think they focus on trilogies, quadrilogies, and otherologies. Tell them I sent you, and enjoy the look of perplexity on their faces

Let’s talk a bit about deepwater books:

  

Deepwater Petroleum Exploration & Production, A Sea in Flames, Disaster on The Horizon

This week’s food recommendation is Mee Bandung in Jalan Abdullah, Moooor (Bandar Maharani to you non-natives)

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Winds Of Change For Lun Bawang, Thanks To Petronas

December 4, 2011

Dateline 2011-11-21:

The winds of change are bringing greater development to the Lun Bawang, one of Sarawak’s minority ethnic communities, thanks to the 512km Sabah-Sarawak Gas Pipeline project now underway.

The US$500-million project, which spans Malaysia’s two largest states by passing through this remote enclave, will pipe natural gas from the Sabah Oil and Gas Terminal (SOGT) in Kimanis to the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) complex in Bintulu.

Alfred Padan, a Lun Bawang community leader, told Bernama of his role in persuading local communities to assist in implementing Malaysia’s largest gas pipeline project undertaken by Petronas, the national oil corporation.

“Initially, the locals were not informed about the objectives of the project and some were opposed to it. But we were soon able to dispel talk that the project would bring more hardship than benefits.

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Malaysia centre for testing oil and gas software

December 3, 2011

We have a testing centre? Has iCON been sent there? Actually, did you know there was an autobiography of the late Steve Jobs entitled iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business?

Dateline 2011-11-17:

Oil and gas software company IDS has set up a testing centre for oil and gas software in Malaysia, working together with the Malaysian Software Testing Board (MSTB), Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS), and Swinburne University of Technology, Sarawak.

The centre is called “the Sarawak Chapter of the Malaysian Software Testing Hub (MSTH).”

It is part of the Malaysian Software Testing Hub initiative, which begin in 2009, with government stimulus money, aiming to make Malaysia and South East Asia a ‘centre of excellence’ for software testing.

‘This is a hugely significant step in confirming Malaysia as a centre of digital excellence. IDS will be an integral part of this effort, with initiatives to further develop product innovation and the skill level of software professionals in Sarawak, and Kuching in particular,” said Reuben Wee, Chief Technology Officer for IDS.

The signing ceremony was witnessed by YB Datuk Haji Fadillah Yusof, Deputy Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation of Malaysia.

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Petronas accelerating efforts to enhance production of oil and gas for M’sia

December 1, 2011

Dateline 2011-11-16:

THE excitement in the oil and gas (O&G) sector just gets better, with oil giants Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas) and Royal Dutch Shell plc joining forces to further develop oilfields in Malaysia using the enhanced oil recovery (EOR) technology.

The duo had last week signed a heads of agreement for two 30-year production-sharing contracts (PSCs), which would entail a total investment of US$12bil (RM37.8bil), for projects using the EOR technology a technique to boost the extraction of crude oil and natural gas from existing fields off Sabah and Sarawak.

Involving four oilfields in the North Sabah area and nine in the Baram Delta off Sarawak, the EOR projects on a combined basis could be the biggest in the world in an offshore environment.

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