Saturday Star 2015-03-07 – Job Opportunities

March 9, 2015

Happy Happy Week. 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 hear Hess is looking for a number of metering and measurement engineers. Heck, I should be a shoe in.
  • 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 and updating GoHalalVietnam! for your food needs. For your other needs, talk to your local tour guide/ concierge / man on the street.

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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Murphy Oil Corporation Closes First Phase Of Partial Divestiture Of Malaysian Assets

March 7, 2015

Dateline 2014-12-18, Marketwatch:

Murphy Oil Corporation MUR, +2.82% announced today that its wholly owned subsidiaries, Murphy Sabah Oil Co., Ltd. and Murphy Sarawak Oil Co., Ltd. (collectively “Murphy”), have closed on the first phase of the sale of 30% of Murphy’s Malaysian oil and gas assets to PT Pertamina Malaysia Eksplorasi Produksi (“Pertamina”) that was originally announced on September 30, 2014. The first phase covers two-thirds of the transaction or 20% of Murphy’s Malaysian oil and gas assets with the remaining portion scheduled to close in the first quarter of 2015. The transaction has an aggregate purchase price of $2.0 billion and an effective date of January 1, 2014.

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2H Offshore To Deliver Lightweight Conductor-Supported Platform Offshore Malaysia

March 6, 2015

Dateline 2014-12-16, Oil and Gas Online:

2H Offshore, an Acteon company, will deliver a lightweight conductor-supported platform for EQ Petroleum Developments Malaysia Sdn Bhd for installation in the Tanjong Baram field, offshore Malaysia. EQ Petroleum Developments Malaysia Sdn Bhd is a subsidiary of EnQuest PLC. The award follows completion of a competitive tender process, in which 2H successfully developed a jack-up installable platform design to meet EnQuest’s project timeline and budget.

Installed in 10 m water depth, the platform has three decks with a subsea template and will host two wells with spare capacity for future additions. The decks will be supported by three 30 in. well conductors. A boat landing and crane will also be provided. The platform will be tied back with an 8 km long flexible pipeline to the existing West Lutong-A facility, and will be fabricated locally in Malaysia. Installation is planned for Q1/Q2 2015.

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Petronas to Boost Training Enrollment at Instep, Unfazed by Oil Prices

March 5, 2015

Are you at Instep now? Do you have a job after?

Dateline 2014-12-12, Rigzone:

Instep training center, owned by Petroliam Nasional Berhad (Petronas) is ramping up its student intake to 1,700, a sign of the Malaysian national oil company’s (NOC) commitment towards recruitment and training even under the current unfavorable oil price environment. Responding to a question from Rigzone, Instep CEO, Chandramohan Saminathan said Petronas has not signaled any cuts in staff training for now. Conceding however, that cost cutting measures could be implemented across the industry, Chandramohan said the bigger picture remains unclear for other oil and gas companies.

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Hit by oil price slump, Malaysia’s Petronas says open to SELLING assets in Africa

March 3, 2015

Not local new, but hey. Anyone want to go Dutch?

Dateline 2014-12-11, Malaysia Chronicle:

Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas), Malaysia’s state oil company, said it is ready to divest certain assets in Africa if growth prospects are limited. “We are looking at where we can divest in Mauritania and Cameroon,” Sharbini Suhaili, vice-president for Petronas’ international upstream operations, said at a media briefing on Thursday.

Petronas has one block in Mauritania producing 6,000 barrels of oil a day, and several gas assets in Cameroon, he said.

Unlisted Petronas, which accounts for most of the Malaysian government’s oil and gas revenue, previously said the fall in oil prices could have a short-term impact on its projects.

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IEM Shout Out – Brief Look at an Offshore Project Journey – Engineering Roles Beyond Detail Design

March 3, 2015

This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will hosting the above talk by Ir. Tg. Fadziliaton on the 14th  March, 2015. Turn up by 8.30 to obtain nasi lemak.

The talk will gives a brief look on the journey of a typical oil and gas offshore project from FEED, Detail Design, Procurement, Fabrication up to the Commissioning.

Typically, a design engineer involvements is limited to the initial one or two stages of the project before they move on to the next project, more often due to end of their contract. The next stage of project is handled by a different group / team which does not have design engineers from the previous stages.

The design will usually evolve during each stage of the project even right up to the commissioning stage. It is very essential to keep every change to the minimum while maintaining the intended purpose of the design and to ensure a smooth information flow of these changes throughout the project. An awareness of the impact on change to the design beyond detail design stage i.e. procurement and fabrication needs to maintained.

Therefore, the design engineer should be involved and attached to a project up to and perhaps beyond the Commissioning stage, to support the above aims.

The objective of the talk is to familiarize with the stages of a project, the process and challenges of each stages and emphasis the important of information flow and the roles of the design engineer during each stage of the project.

Ir. Tengku Fadziliaton graduated from Loughborough University of Technology with degree in Chemical Engineering in 1997. She has started her career in the upstream oil and gas industry 17 years ago and has experience in detail design, fabrication, commissioning and operation in process engineer capacity. She has involved in projects for wellhead platforms, processing platforms and FPSOs as well as being part of operation support team for the same.

She is currently Senior Process Engineer in Engineering and Commissioning department in Kebabangan Petroleum Operating Company.

Register here, and pick up the brochure here.

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Saturday Star 2015-02-28 – Job Opportunities

March 2, 2015

Happy Happy Week. 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 hear Hess is looking for a number of metering and measurement engineers. Heck, I should be a shoe in.
  • ExxonMobil is looking for persons of interest. For a change, they are looking for EMRE fresh meat. So, you chem engs, mech eng, heat transfer eng, optimization eng, safety facilities eng, instrumentation eng, apply at the site.
  • Wood Group has a teeny tiny advert. They are looking for mech eng (static and rotating), process, structural, electrical, instrument, pipe stress, piping, tech safety and other high muckity muck titles. Send a loving email here.

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 and updating GoHalalVietnam! for your food needs. For your other needs, talk to your local tour guide/ concierge / man on the street.

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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Petronas to spend US$1 bln to develop gas field

March 1, 2015

Before or after the oil crash of ’14?

Dateline 2014-12-12, Borneo Post Online:

Petronas, through its upstream arm, Petronas Carigali Sdn Bhd, will invest between US$500 million and US$1 billion to develop the K5 high carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration gas field off the coast of Sarawak until 2018.

For this purpose, Petronas Carigali has entered into an agreement with four companies, namely Technip Consultant (M) Sdn Bhd, UOP Malaysia Sdn Bhd, Twister BV and Generon Asia Sdn Bhd to provide the technology for the gas extraction.

Petronas Carigali head technology, technical global (sic) Dr Nasir Darman said Petronas would develop the world’s first offshore CO2 cryogenic distillation facility to enable it to recover four trillion square cubic feet (TSCF) of hydrocarbon gas from the 21 TSCF gas reserve at the field.

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Tok Bali port to become supply base for oil and gas offshore sector

February 27, 2015

Election coming round?

Dateline 2014-12-07, The Malaysian Insider:

Tok Bali Port at Pasir Puteh will expand a step further with the proposal to make it a supply base for offshore support activities in the oil and gas (O&G) sector.

Minister of International Trade and Industry Datuk Seri Mustapa Mohamed (pic) said Tok Bali is seen as having big potential to be transformed into the supply base, after Kemaman, Terengganu.

“We understand that Kemaman is fast developing and is very compact to the point of having no further room for expansion. Thus, we see Tok Bali as having the ability to become a support base.

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M’sia still strong enough to fend off falling oil prices

February 26, 2015

Dateline 2014-12-03, Free Malaysia Today:

Malaysia’s underlying economic fundamentals continue to be strong despite the apparent free fall in global crude oil prices which roiled markets worldwide including the local equity and currency markets.

“The economy remains strong but the country does not operate in isolation, making its markets vulnerable to falling oil prices,” CIMB Group’s Chief Executive, Zafrul Tengku Abdul Aziz, said here today.

He said Bursa Malaysia’s bearish performance – particularly oil and gas-related counters yesterday, was mainly due to Malaysia being a major investment destination for oil and gas (O&G) players.

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