From Borneo Post – Energy gluttony wasting millions

November 20, 2011

Dateline 2011-11-06:

IN the face of persistent economic volatility, Malaysians seem to be constantly tightening their fiscal purse strings even as costs of basic necessities soar ever higher with no end in sight.

Under these current conditions, few people in their right minds would set their pay cheques on fire or flush the contents of their wallets down the toilet.

Yet, as consumers, we are figuratively casting millions of our hard-earned ringgit to the wind every year without realising it’s due to wasteful energy consumption habits and energy inefficient household appliances

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KLIA2 – Photos

November 19, 2011

I had the opportunity (as part of Synergy’s business) to visit the site on a wet, rainy day.

Maybe someone will want to publish these pictures for posterity.

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PETRONAS Licensing – Conceptual and Detailed Design Work

November 18, 2011

Have you renewed your PETRONAS license recently? There’s been a change which seems to me shouts out ‘grow big or go home,’ and now shuts out small companies from bidding for multi-disciplinary engineering work.

From my point of view, there are two Standardised Work and Equipment Categories (SWEC) categories you need to be registered under to get the above work:

  • SE201010000 – ENG. DESIGN, ARCH. & DRAUGHTING SERVICES -Engineering Design- Conceptual Engineering Design/FEED
  • SE201020000 – ENG. DESIGN, ARCH. & DRAUGHTING SERVICES -Engineering Design- Detailed Design

However, the Minimum Technical Requirements (MTR) are so onerous that you can’t get these categories if you are small and don’t have a multidisciplinary team in your company (us small companies have tie-ups that would be technically capable of executing projects of the appropriate size, but we don’t have a single vehicle that would meet the requirements below).

What do you think? Are you affected by this change?

C’mon PETRONAS, lighten up.

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From Bernama – Musa Hails Petronas’ Focus On Sabah O&G Firms

November 17, 2011

Do you get the impression that us small folks in the Peninsular will be marginalized?

Dateline 2011-11-03:

Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman today expressed his appreciation to Petronas chief executive officer Datuk Shamsul Azhar Abbas for his sincere efforts to ensure business opportunities are given to local contractors in the oil and gas industry.

He said this was evident from Petronas’ commitment to award contracts worth RM600 million to Sabah firms in the Sabah Ammonia-Urea Plant (Samur) in Sipitang.

Musa said apart from this, investments worth billions of ringgit in downstream projects would create huge multiplier effects and offer diverse opportunities to locals.

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From Bernama – MMHE Secures RM1.4 Billion Contract From EMEPMI

November 16, 2011

Dateline 2011-11-03:

Malaysia Marine and Heavy Engineering Holdings Bhd (MMHE) has secured the RM1.4 billion Tapis Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) project from ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Malaysia Inc (EMEPMI).

The contract from the subsidiary of Exxon Mobil Corporation is for the construction and installation of the main structure for the Tapis R topside, which is the main structure of the Tapis EOR project.

EMEPMI chairman and president, Hugh W Thompson said the contract was part of the company’s long-term commitment to work closely with PETRONAS and their co-venture partner PETRONAS Carigali to develop Malaysia’s full energy potential.”

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(Cancelled) Shout Out – 2 Day Course on Quality Improvement Via Statistical Process Control

November 15, 2011

This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will be  hosting a seminar on the 5th till 6th December, 2011. It’ll start at 8:30 and is worth 13 CPD hours. You still gotta climb those steps at Wisma IEM. They promise up that the elevator will be ready by the next AGM.

Statistics are tools used to make predictions on performance. There are a number of simple methods for analysing data and, if applied correctly, can lead to predictions with a high degree of accuracy. Statistical Process Control, SPC is a branch of applied statistics for quality control. It is statistical analysis of the predictability and capacity of a process to give a uniform product. SPC is a popular industry tool for the collection, analysis and interpretation of data for use in quality control activities. This module covers the basic concepts of statistical analysis and their application to practical problems in process control.

The concept of SPC is then further extended for multivariate process. Multivariate Statistical Process Control, MSPC procedures allow production personnel to simultaneously observe several variables on one consolidated chart. Second part of the workshop focuses on multivariate extensions for all kinds of univariate control charts, such as multivariate control charts. In addition, we review unique procedures for the construction of multivariate control charts, based on multivariate statistical techniques such as principal components analysis (PCA) and Hotelling’s T2 method.

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Engr. Dr. Lam Hon Loong, is an Assist. Professor with University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus. He pursued double PhD in Chemical Engineering, 2010 (University of Maribor, Slovenia) and Information Technology, 2011 (University of Pannonia, Hungary).    His research topics are process quality control and supply chain synthesis. He has completed his Bachelor Degree, 2000 and Master Degree, 2004 in Chemical Engineering, both from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia with specialisation in process system engineering.

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

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Saturday Star 2011-11-12 – Job Opportunities

November 14, 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.
  • Here’s a new one. There’s a company called S2V Consulting. They are looking for 10+ years engineers. Apply here. Agents need not apply. What kind of agents we talking about here?
  • Technip is looking for a mess of engineers. Visit here soon. Apply to Synergy first.
  • Equate is looking for people. They are looking for a aromatics operator, styrene operator, ethylene operator, ethylene glycol operator, polyethylene/ butene operator, polypropylene operator, utilities operator, aromatics production engineer, analytical specialist, process analytical specialist, ethylene glycol production engineer, utilities production engineer, polyethylene production engineer, utilities process engineer. Send your application here. Or key in your resumes online here. Login under candidate login and password at the website
  • I see that Qatar Petroleum is looking for people. They are looking for safety engineer (loss prevention), senior safety engineer (halul and marine operations), safety officer (projects), safety officer (marine), safety trainer, fire instructor, technicians. Apply here or visit the website.

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.

Here are some hard boiled detective novels for a change.

Storm Front (The Dresden Files, Book 1), Fool Moon (The Dresden Files, Book 2), Grave Peril (The Dresden Files, Book 3)

This week’s food recommendation is Padi restaurant in Taman Puchong Utama

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Labuan Gives Tax Incentives For Oil And Gas Trading

November 13, 2011

Dateline 2011-11-02:

At the launch of the Global Incentives for Trading (GIFT) programme and the newly-formed Labuan International Trading Commodity Company (LITC), the Director-General of Labuan Financial Services Authority (FSA) Encik Ahmad Hizzad Baharuddin announced that a range of incentives have been initiated to attract oil and gas traders to Malaysia.

The new scheme will be operated by the LITC out of Labuan International Business and Financial Centre (IBFC), and is intended to diversify further the products and services of Malaysian’s financial services sector.

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Borneo Post Online – Local players ready for deepwater O&G fields with PETRONAS

November 12, 2011

Dateline 2011-11-01:

The oil and gas (O&G) industry is expected to eventually venture forth into exploration for oil fields and gas fields in deeper waters on the back of Petroleum Nasional Bhd’s (Petronas) reiteration of its licensing policy for the industry.

The national oil corporation stated last week that there was no change in its licensing policy related to companies engaged in Malaysia’s upstream O&G industry in response to media reports speculating that Petronas would do away with the policy.

Specifically, under the Petroleum Regulation 1974, both local and foreign companies wishing to commence or even carry out any business or services related to Malaysia’s O&G upstream operations must apply for a licence from Petronas.

OSK Research Sdn Bhd analyst Jason Yap told The Borneo Post, “We note that Petronas has embarked on a long term plan to nurture the local O&G service providers – with the first few being Kencana Petroleum Bhd (Kencana), SapuraCrest Petroleum Bhd, and Dialog Group Bhd (Dialog) – which have been awarded marginal oilfields to expose these companies to upstream O&G activities.

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New incentives to make M’sia O&G international hub

November 11, 2011

…at the expense of SME home-grown companies?

Dateline 2011-11-01:

 The Labuan Financial Services Authority (Labuan FSA) and the Malaysia Petroleum Resources Corp (MPRC) have launched a slew of incentives to attract oil and gas traders to Malaysia.

The key incentives, aimed at turning Malaysia into an international hub for the oil and gas industry, was offered to the Labuan International Trading Commodity Company (LITC) under the Global Incentives for Trading (Gift) Programme by MPRC and Labuan FSA.

Those incentives include a flat corporate tax rate of 3% of chargeable income, 100% exemption on director fees paid to non-Malaysian director, 50% exemption on gross employment income for non-Malaysian professional traders and others in managerial capacity of the LITC companies, and other various tax exemptions and fiscal incentives.

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