Saturday Star 2015-04-11 – Job Opportunities

April 13, 2015

Happy Last Service Tax week. Please don’t audit me. Buy my recommendations, or through my Amazon store. Or get the Young Turks series (all 4 books). Where are those corporate sponsors? Or throw donations at me.

  • I say that when the design houses execute a mass firing campaign, the trade papers should pick it up. What say you, R?
  • An associate of mine is looking for a senior level instrument engineer, 10 years in the position (no, not position 23b, second variant). Send your CV to me. As per my Facebook posting, idiotic applications, straight to /dev/null.
  • An associate of mine is looking for:  Project Control Manager ( 15 years’ experience in Oil and Gas and 5 years in respective function), Lead Construction Engineer -Mechanical Static ( 10 years’ experience in
    Oil and Gas and 3 years in respective function) 3. Lead Construction Engineer -Mechanical Piping ( 10 years’ experience in Oil and Gas and 3 years in respective function) 4. Lead Construction Engineer –Electrical ( 10 years’ experience in Oil and Gas and 3 years in respective function) 5. Lead Construction Engineer -Civil ( 10 years’ experience in Oil and Gas and 3 years in respective function).
  • An associate of mine is looking for a technical safety part-time adviser. Needs to be needle sharp with respect to QRAs, and HSE safety cases. A calm demeanor to handle nonsensical questions from young engineers helps as well. Either that, or a drinking problem.
  • Hess is still looking for a measurement and allocation engineer. I saw that the ITB is still floating around. If you want me, you know where to find me. Not Celebrity Fitness, if you need a hint.
  • Nothing else this week

Support your local bookshop!  Bookalicious at The Summit Subang is a good choice. I think they focus on trilogies, quadrilogies, and other ologies. Tell them I sent you, and enjoy the look of perplexity on their faces. Those of you who have dropped my name, thanks!

Food choice of the week? How if you visit Vietnam, how about visiting Alai in Melaka?

As crude prices are low, you need all the help you can get to nail that elusive 2k job:

Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking, Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker, The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security

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O&G consolidation should be in the works

April 12, 2015

Is this part of CORAL 2.0.1? And, no, this company hijacked the name, pretty much like that dark horse IGL.

Dateline 2015-02-21, The Star:

JUST over six months since the oil price collapse, the industry should be entering its consolidation phase.

For those still believing that the oil price collapse is not having any major changes to the industry, consider the following: speculation is rife that oil giant BP could be a takeover target for ExxonMobil, something that would have been unlikely just a while ago. And in China, officials are hatching a plan to form mega-mergers among the big state oil companies there, partly to produce greater efficiencies at a time of low oil prices.

In Malaysia, the many oil and gas (O&G) service providers that have mushroomed over the years were built on assumptions of a much higher oil price.

In other words, their cost structure does not suit the current environment.

Ideally, they should be restructuring themselves by drastically reducing their cost structure. But business owners will tell you that this is far from an easy endeavour.

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RM2.1bn Petronas ang pow just for Sarawak

April 11, 2015

Really? I am looking forward to the RM2.1bn ang pow to support local, bumiputra SMEs and young engineers, and payouts to whistleblowers as to which foreign worker engineer is not registered with the BEM.

Dateline 2015-02-21, Free Malaysia Today:

Oil and gas contractors in Sarawak have been given a RM2.1 billion “ang pow” from Petronas, to be given every year.

The figure is the value of yearly contracts that will be set aside by the national oil corporation exclusively for oil and gas contractors in the state, Star Online reported today.

Assistant state communications minister Lee Kim Shin was reported to have disclosed this at the Chinese New Year open house of Sarawak United People’s Party.

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New man Wan Zulkiflee to helm Petronas in challenging times

April 10, 2015

Dateline 2015-02-10, The Malay Mail (I loved the old printed editions):

Malaysia named Datuk Wan Zulkiflee Wan Ariffin, a long-time company veteran, to lead its state oil producer, handing him the job of dealing with the slump in crude prices that’s eating into revenue the government needs to narrow its budget deficit.

The plunge in the price of crude since June has left Malaysia exposed as oil and natural gas products make up about 22 per cent of exports. That means belt-tightening at the company, known as PETRONAS, and by extension, the government.

About 30 per cent of the government’s 225 billion ringgit revenue in 2014 was oil related, including a RM29 billion dividend from Petronas, according to the finance ministry.

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Oil and gas man ready to spill details on Tanjung Offshore

April 9, 2015

Dateline 2015-02-09, Malaysian Insider:

Low-profile oil and gas player Tan Sri Tan Kean Soon, who shot to prominence for the wrong reasons, has broken his silence over certain allegations at Tanjung Offshore Bhd.

In refuting reports in the media the last fortnight, Tan said he would soon tell his side of the story so that shareholders would get the full picture.

Tan, a non-independent director of Tanjung Offshore, has been suspended from his executive position in the largely oil and gas company along with another senior official, Muhammad Sabri Abdul Ghani, after the latter’s independent committee completed its findings over possible conflicts of interests and breaches of fiduciary duties.

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IEM Shout Out – Half Day Course on Incorporating CDIO (TM) framework through Project based learning (PBL)

April 7, 2015

This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will be having a course on 13th May, presented by Ir Assoc. Prof. Dr. Satesh Namasivayam . It’ll be at 9am at Wisma IEM.

Ready to engineer. So it is said. But what is engineer and how do you engineer? What are the barriers to engineer and what are the key factors necessary to educate engineer? How to think like an engineer? Incorporating CDIOTM framework through Project based learning (PBL) can be one of the solutions. The CDIOTM initiative has been developing as more collaborators from all over the globe are taking this initiative as a base for their educational institutions adopting what so-called the “active learning” policy which includes, but not limited to, a complete system of a well-designed syllabus covering the skills and characteristics of graduating engineers.

Throughout CDIOTM phases, the learning process has changed from passive-note taking to more active-project-based education. This half-day workshop is designed with three (3) objectives as follows

  • Introduce participants to Conceive-Design-Implement-Operate initiative
  • Integrate CDIO initiative in curriculum to address complex, value added engineering products, processes, systems in modern and team-based environment;
  • Review the know-how of conceiving, designing, implementing and operating complex engineering systems of appropriate complexity.

Ir Assoc Prof Dr. Satesh Namasivayam BEng (1st Class Hons) PhD (London) FIMechE MIEM CEng PEng CIT (HRDF) is a Chartered and Professional Mechanical Engineer, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Deputy Dean from the School of Engineering at Taylor’s University, Malaysia.

You can register here, and get the flyer here.

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Saturday Star 2015-04-04 – Job Opportunities

April 6, 2015

Happy Last Service Tax week. Please don’t audit me. Buy my recommendations, or through my Amazon store. Or get the Young Turks series (all 4 books). Where are those corporate sponsors? Or throw donations at me.

  • White Quest is looking for a Principal Eng, HSE & Risk Manager, and a Senior Eng. Email them here.
  • Oh yeah, Wood Group Kenny is looking for a GM /MD. What happened to your old one? I’d like to join the company he went to. Email them here.
  • An associate of mine is looking for a technical safety part-time adviser. Needs to be needle sharp with respect to QRAs, and HSE safety cases. A calm demeanor to handle nonsensical questions from young engineers helps as well. Either that, or a drinking problem.
  • Vestigo is here, Vestigo is here. Are they so ashamed that they are a PETRONAS linked company that they didn’t use .com.my for their web presence? If you think you are a hotshot Safety Manager, apply here. But I can’t get a ping at their web address, so snail mail to The Human Resources Department, Vestigo Petroleum Sdn Bhd, Level 3, Bangunan Getah Asli, 148 Jalan Ampang, 50450 Kuala Lumpur. Oo, and if you check the advert, your use of ‘incumbent’ is wrong.
  • Hess is still looking for a measurement and allocation engineer. I saw that the ITB is still floating around. If you want me, you know where to find me. Not Celebrity Fitness, if you need a hint.
  • Nothing else this week

Support your local bookshop!  Bookalicious at The Summit Subang is a good choice. I think they focus on trilogies, quadrilogies, and other ologies. Tell them I sent you, and enjoy the look of perplexity on their faces. Those of you who have dropped my name, thanks!

Food choice of the week? How if you visit Vietnam, how about visiting Alai in Melaka?

As crude prices are low, you need all the help you can get to nail that elusive 2k job:

Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking, Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker, The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security

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Malaysians paid over RM1b in hidden fuel taxes since December, MP claims

April 5, 2015

And the problem of hidden fuel taxes is?

Dateline 2015-01-30, Malay Mail Online:

Malaysians have unknowingly paid more than RM1 billion in taxes to Putrajaya over the past two months as pump prices remain on a controlled float, an opposition lawmaker claimed today.

PKR’s Pandan MP Rafizi Ramli alleged that road users across the country have been paying above market price for the commodity, even after the complete removal of subsidies, due to the plunge in global crude oil prices.

“Because the rakyat continue to pay higher than market price, Barisan Nasional received a windfall by collecting petrol tax without announcing it to the rakyat,” he said in a statement, referring to the ruling coalition.

“For the month of January 2015, the rakyat paid RM307 million in petrol taxes for RON95 and RM209 million for diesel,” he added.

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Santos bags 20 per cent interest in Malaysia deepwater block

April 4, 2015

Dateline 2015-01-30, Oil & Gas Technology:

Inpex Corporation has announced that through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Inpex Offshore South West Sabah, Ltd., it has reached an agreement to transfer 10 per cent of its participating interest in the Deepwater Block R to Santos Sabah Block R Limited

Inpex Corporation has announced that through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Inpex Offshore South West Sabah, Ltd., it has reached an agreement to transfer 10 per cent of its participating interest in the Deepwater Block R to Santos Sabah Block R Limited

The block is located in offshore East Malaysia covers an area of 672 square kilometres with a water depth ranging from 100m to 1,400 metres

Santos Sabah Block R Limited also separately agreed to acquire a 10 per cent participating interest in the block from JX Nippon Oil & Gas Exploration (Deepwater Sabah), Limited (JX), bringing its total participating interest in the block to 20 per cent upon fulfilment of due procedures.

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Murphy Closes Sale of 30% of its Malaysian Oil, Gas Assets to Pertamina

April 3, 2015

Apa khabar, Bapak2 dan Ibu2?

Dateline 2015-01-30, Rigzone:

Murphy Oil Corporation announced Thursday that its wholly owned subsidiaries, Murphy Sabah Oil Co., Ltd. and Murphy Sarawak Oil Co., Ltd. (collectively Murphy), have closed on the second phase of the sale of 30 percent of Murphy’s Malaysian oil and gas assets to PT Pertamina Malaysia Eksplorasi Produksi (Pertamina).

The second phase covers the remaining one-third of the transaction or 10 percent of Murphy’s Malaysian oil and gas assets. The first phase for two-thirds of the transaction closed on Dec. 18, 2014. The total transaction for 30 percent of Murphy’s Malaysian oil and gas assets had an aggregate sale price of $2.0 billion, subject to normal closing adjustments, with an effective date of Jan. 1, 2014.

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