Wata – Malaysian Oil and Gas Engineer

This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will be  hosting a seminar on the21st June, 2011. It’ll start at 9:00 and is worth 6.5 CPD hours. You still gotta climb those steps at Wisma IEM. They promise up that the elevator will be ready by the next AGM.

Drilling Engineering Overview shall present the audience with the knowledge and arts of drilling wells, especially in Malaysia. It shall be presented in a way that is comprehensible to the engineers who are with or without the oil and gas background. The objectives of the seminar are to provide exposure to audiences on the drilling practices and issues as well as to familiarize the audience with an appreciation of a Drilling Engineer’s work scope.

En. Razak Yakob has been in the oil and gas industry for 15 years working for companies such as ExxonMobil, Halliburton, and Talisman Energy. His core expertise is in Drilling Engineering but the working experience spans from development and exploration, technical support, training, finance and consultation, As a consultant, he has worked in countries such as China, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Algeria and others. Currently, he is an independent consultant providing consultancy services for Drilling Engineering at PETRONAS Carigali Sdn Bhd. He was a graduate of Colorado School of Mines in the United States with a degree majoring in Petroleum Engineering and a minor in Mechanical Design.

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

Dateline 2011-05-22:

A News Commentary By Siti Hawa Othman

A long-overdue review of the heavily subsidised natural gas price is crucial as demand for cheap gas in Malaysia is far outstripping supply.

Analysts said that if this market-distorting situation is not corrected by the government soon, then Malaysia will run out of gas reserves which will jeopardise future generations.

As it is now, the government continues to subsidise gas by as much as 71-77 per cent, which means lost opportunities for the country and the economy not being cost efficient.

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For those of you who suffered withdrawal symptoms on Monday, here are some job postings in Kertih (all in the same company), that li’l backwater in Terengganu. The job is to “provide Engineers for Migration to SAP ECC6 Upgrade”

• Rotating Engineer 2 persons
• Instrument Engineer 1 person
• Static Engineer 2 persons
• Control System / Safety System Engineer 1 person
• Analysis Engineer 1 person
• Electrical Engineer 2 persons

Requirements are:

• With minimum qualification of degree in respective discipline
•  Working experience minimum of 3 years on Plant Environment
•  Able to read and extract data from technical drawings.

(I didn’t set the requirements, so interpret as you will)

Your scope of work will be:

1. Organizing data for Functional Location Hierarchy aligned with PETRONAS design
2.  Identify the Equipment class
3.  Determine MPLAN compliance to PETRONAS design
4. Determine Task List compliance to PETRONAS design.
5. Duration of Contract is estimated at 12 months.

Send CVs here. Now. You can attach a check if like.

And if there are 5 yr+ process engineers who want me to interview them, send your CVs to the same location as well.

This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will be  hosting a talk on the 11th June, 2011. It’ll be at 9:30 am  (makan-makan at 9:00). You still gotta climb those steps at Wisma IEM.

Developing an oil field is never a one-woman task. Regardless of the field’s size or setting, an integrated team approach is inevitable. The talk will touch on the integrated team make-up and briefly discuss the role of each team member in the various phase of a field life including identifying a potential reservoir for development utilizing fit-for-purpose techniques. Whilst having the core disciplines in the team, who are armed with experienced and knowledge, equipped with the IT-know-how, is critical, a proven work process is also important to ensure effective implementation of the proposed field development plan. The talk will then elaborate on how a reservoir engineer contributes to the formulation of an optimum field development plan.

Allida Muhammad Said has more than 20 years of experience in the oil & gas industry working at the various phases of a field life, an experience critical in formulating an optimum field development plan. A reservoir engineer in a multinational oil company for 15 years, she then became a pioneer in the setting-up of a local company which provides upstream consultancy service throughout the oil and gas E&P life cycle, from the exploration phase to the tertiary production phase.

As a Head of the Engineering Department and a Project Manager, she manages both the technical and commercial aspects of a project which include locating by-passed oil in a complex field with historical production via dynamic simulation, quantifying asset value leading to block acquisition, evaluating a real development plan for massive investment and maximizing profit of a marginal field development. She has worked in the different areas including the basins in Iran, Bangladesh, Vietnam and Indonesia. Allida is also as an adjunct lecturer with the University Teknologi Petronas (UTP) and serves as the external examiner as the industry representative for the UTP students Final Year Project.

A mother of three, she advocates positive parenting via active participation in her children activities; hence her involvement as a Vice President of the Malaysian Rare Disorder Society and a Green Consultant for Yayasan Anak Warisan Alam, a youth environmental group.

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

My apologies, my ebrowse subscription had run out, and the darn credit card payment system is still down. If I can get a copy of The Star, we’ll publish the openings as usual.

Thank you for your patience.

Dateline 2011-05-22:

When it comes to controlling prices, it is always a headache for government policy makers, for it is not an easy task to mitigate the global impact on daily necessities such as food and energy.

One must understand that this is something beyond their control. External implications on local prices are not something that can be tackled easily without incurring huge costs.

For example, a government can contain discontent by cushioning prices locally through subsidies, one of the most popular ways to minimise the threat of rising prices on items like fuel and food.

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Dateline 2011-05-21:

Petronas Gas Bhd (PTG) is expected to be the indirect beneficiary of gas subsidy cuts given that it would make it more palatable for Petronas to import liquefied natural gas (LNG) via PTG’s terminal for transmission around Peninsular Malaysia.

“While PTG does not directly benefit from lower gas subsidies or higher gas prices, the potential cut in gas subsidies next week does mean that the Government is resuming its subsidy review programme which should eventually see gas subsidies cut completely within some five to seven years,” said OSK Research Sdn Bhd (OSK Research) in a research note yesterday.

The research firm expected the increase in Petronas’s gas share price of 2.3 per cent over the last two days higher than average volume to be attributed by tPetronas Refinery and Petrochemical Integrated Development (Rapid) project in Pengerang, Johore and rumours of a cut in gas subsidies in June.

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Dateline 2011-05-17:

KUALA LUMPUR: Oil and gas (O&G) brownfield services provider Petra Energy Bhd does not expect further losses to come from its Kumang Cluster project in Sarawak, which had resulted in the company losing some RM26.3mil in the fourth quarter of last year.

The losses stemmed from the rejection of pipes due to quality issues, leasing and delays in the delivery schedule but the cost overruns were expected to be fully contained in the 2010 books, Petra Energy executive director Ahmadi Yusoff told reporters yesterday after the company’s shareholders meeting.

He added that the company was looking at pursuing legal action against the company it had sub-contracted the job to, Coral Alliance Sdn Bhd, as the loss amount was not a small quantum.

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This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will be  hosting a talk on the 10th June, 2011. It’ll be at 5:30 pm  (makan-makan at 5:00). You still gotta climb those steps at Wisma IEM.

There are several benefits of using hydrocarbon as refrigerant. Utilizing environmentally-friendly refrigerants and clean agents exceeding Malaysia’s commitment to the Montreal & Kyoto will earn the user 2 points under The Green Building Index scores.

More importantly user will benefit from reduction in the energy demand by improvement of chiller performance and in a long run a longer compressor life.

The talk will explain on the concept of hydrocarbon refrigerant, the application of the system with some case studies using Hychill Hydrocarbon Refrigerants. The speaker will clarify the myth surrounding the refrigerants and the benefits that the industry will get by using Hydrocarbon as the refrigerant

Ir. Al-Khairi Mohd Daud, PEng, M.I.E.M, C.Eng. MBA has nearly 20 years of experience in engineering projects, reliability and maintenance management with multinational companies in cement, oil and gas, oleo chemicals, petrochemicals and specialized building facilities including high technology research facilities, hospital and factory. Currently he is the principal consultant for Faqeh Management. He is passionate in helping the industry to improve the maintenance standard towards reliability and continuous improvement. He is also a Committee member of Oil, Gas and Mining Technical Division for IEM. Ir Al-Khairi is a Registered Electrical Energy Manager (REEM) as well as the country expert and local trainer for Energy Management Gold Standard (EMGS) under ASEAN ENERGY CENTRE/Greentech Malaysia. He is also a surveyor for Malaysian Society for Quality in Healthcare.

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

I’m involved in designing a liquid filled fuel delivery pipe network, buried 3m underground. I am considering NOT to install thermal relief valves, but this is dependent on how big thermal fluctuation temperatures are at that soil depth over a given period, say 4-, 12- and 24-hours.

Anyone know where I can access public domain information or purchase QC’d data for Malaysia?