Wata – Malaysian Oil and Gas Engineer

Dateline 2011-08-08:

AGR Field Operations has developed and delivered two subsea engineering training courses for PETRONAS Management Training Sdn Bhd (PERMATA), the management and technical training subsidiary of Malaysia’s national oil company Petroliam Nasional Berhad (PETRONAS).

Held during June and July 2011, these courses are designed in collaboration with Institut Teknologi Petroleum PETRONAS (INSTEP), one of PETRONAS’ training institutions.

The training programme was targeted at experienced engineers, providing them with even more specific knowledge on Subsea Installation, Hook-Up and Commissioning, and Subsea Intervention. The programme covered in detail the applicable codes, standards, operations, equipment, tooling, vessel spreads, procedure development and engineering analysis.

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I see Maurice Stewart has some new books:
  

Gas Dehydration Field Manual, Gas Sweetening and Processing Field Manual, Gas-Liquid And Liquid-Liquid Separators

This week’s food recommendation is Seri Menanti Resort in … Seri Menanti? Makan Negori berlado

Don’t think I’m working on any Sabah fields…

Dateline 2011-08-08:

Jeffrey Kitingan today claimed that state Barisan Nasional leaders stopped making a fuss about the meagre oil royalties from Petronas once their ‘associates’ had been awarded lucrative contracts by the national oil company.

Disclosing this, Borneo Heritage Foundation (BHF) leader Jeffrey said: “Sabah BN leaders should also stop paying lip service and for once seriously consider the interests of the state and the plight of the poor citizens.

“The time is up for these leaders and for patriotic leaders to rise and demand for the rights of Sabah and its people to be the paramount criteria, especially for the sake of the future generations of Sabahans.”

Stressing his views in a statement issued today, Jeffrey said the Umno-led BN state government and its leaders needed to re-examine and re-think their strategies on the oil and gas resources located in Sabah and its territorial waters, especially in view of new oil finds in the state.

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Please, submit those CVs to Lundin NOW. Maybe I should as well… Anyone I know there?

Dateline 2011-08-05:

Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum) [CA:LUP -4.03%] (omx:LUPE) is pleased to announce that it has made a second gas discovery with the Cempulut-1 well that was drilled in Block SB303, offshore Sabah, East Malaysia.

Cempulut-1 was drilled with the Offshore Courageous rig in a water depth of approximately 75 meters. The well was drilled to a total depth of 1,095 meters.

The Cempulut-1 well intersected a large Late Miocene carbonate reef with excellent reservoir properties.

The gross total vertical pay thickness encountered is approximately 50 metres. The deeper targeted oil leg however proved to be water bearing.

An extensive data acquisition program was completed including pressure measurements, sampling and a mini flow test.

The data recovered from the well will be analysed further in order to determine a range of resource estimates.

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Dateline 2011-08-04:

Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum) is pleased to announce that it has made a second gas discovery with the Cempulut-1 well that was drilled in Block SB303, offshore Sabah, East Malaysia.

Cempulut-1 was drilled with the Offshore Courageous rig in a water depth of approximately 75 meters. The well was drilled to a total depth of 1,095 meters.

The Cempulut-1 well intersected a large Late Miocene carbonate reef with excellent reservoir properties.

The gross total vertical pay thickness encountered is approximately 50 metres. The deeper targeted oil leg however proved to be water bearing.

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Dateline 2011-08-03:

Malaysia’s state-owned oil company Petronas was willing to increase the price of gas it buys from Natuna block B by more than 100% to $6/MMBtu, Indonesian upstream regulator BPMigas’ communication head, Gde Pradnyana, said Wednesday.

But the deal still needs to be approved by Indonesia’s energy and mines minister, Darwin Zahedy Saleh, he added.

“We have reached a deal with Petronas to increase the gas price. Petronas is willing to pay more than $6/MMBtu for the gas,” Pradnyana said.

Petronas did not reply to an email on whether it had agreed to the gas price hike.

Negotiations between Malaysia and Indonesia on a higher price for gas from the offshore Natuna block B operated by ConocoPhillips has been going on since 2009.

Dateline 2011-08-01:

Malaysia’s government has ordered seven floating storage facilities anchored off the south-eastern port of Pasir Gudang to leave by the end of this month, industry sources said on Monday.

The floating storage facilities have a combined capacity to hold about 1.9 million tonnes of crude or fuel oil.

These players must find alternative homes for their vessels either at nearby Tanjong Pelepas – also a floating storage hub – Indonesia’s Karimun island, or in international waters.

Some could destock their cargoes and exit the floating storage market, due to higher costs at the alternative locations, they added.

Dateline 2011-08-01:

Malaysia’s official selling price for Tapis crude, a benchmark contract in the Asia-Pacific region, is set to rise for the first time in three months, reflecting a rebound in London-traded Brent futures.

The low-sulfur, or sweet, crude will be set at $123.38 a barrel for July, up 1.2 percent from June, according to a Bloomberg News calculation based on a trade formula. State-owned Petroliam Nasional Bhd., or Petronas, will announce the price today, said a company official who asked not to be identified because of internal rules.

Brent crude futures climbed 3.8 percent in July, snapping a two-month losing streak, as concern over the U.S. economybolstered the investment appeal of commodities. The contract for September settlement on the ICE Futures Europe exchange traded above $118 a barrel today.

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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.

First off, 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, and other seniors you think will catch my eye.
• Kencana Petroleum is looking for design engineers, designers and draftspersons, project planners, project engineers and project managers.  Send an email here.

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.

Also, if you have spare CPU cycles, consider donating them to boinc, open-source software for volunteer computing and grid computing.

I see Maurice Stewart has some new books:
  

Gas Dehydration Field Manual, Gas Sweetening and Processing Field Manual, Gas-Liquid And Liquid-Liquid Separators

Dateline 2011-07-27:

Malaysia’s state oil companyPetroliam Nasional Bhd. said that a group including Sinopec Petroleum Services Corp. didn’t participate in any review for the development of marginal fields in the country.

State-owned China Petrochemical Corp., known as Sinopec Group, Sabio Oil & Gas Sdn. and International Oil Design & Construction Sdn. said on July 25 that they plan to develop a field off the coast of Terengganu in Malaysia, without identifying the area. Sabio’s executive chairman, Ahmad Sukimi Ibrahim, wasn’t available in his office to comment on Petronas’s statement, according to his secretary

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