Saturday Star 2013-06-22 – Job Opportunities

June 24, 2013

Buy my recommendations, or through my Amazon store. Where are those corporate sponsors? Or throw donations at me.

Help me (and you) increase my cloud presence. Pleease use some form of cloud storage, so if you lose your laptop with those oh-so-important reports, be assured that (with Internet access) the files are still accessible. Use my referrals for Dropbox, MiMedia,  SpiderOak, MediaFire, Ubuntu One, Sugar Sync.

  • 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.
  • Talisman (aren’t they leaving Malaysia?) is looking for a mess of people. Can I own the bid document control assistant, maybe get her to lose a few bids? Visit their site.
  • Side note: My mechanic complains that there are not enough trained mechanics are being extruded from our schools. If you know of any idle ones, he’s looking for some. Ask them to contact Kong Ming Chai at +60122951023. On another note, has this shortfall hit the news? Can I get the contract for 1Repair?

Help me (and you) increase my cloud presense. Pleease use some form of cloud storage, so if you lose your laptop with those oh-so-important reports, be assured that (with Internet access) the files are still accessible. Use my referrals for Dropbox, MiMedia,  SpiderOak, MediaFire, Ubuntu One, Sugar Sync.

Break the Low Yat stranglehold! Support Newegg Malaysia, or check Amazon’s International Shipping. Yeah, baby!

  

If you are interested in oil and gas surface facilities, I would recommend getting Surface Production Operations, Volume 2:, Second Edition: Design of Gas-Handling Systems and Facilities and Surface Production Operations, Volume 1, Third Edition: Design of Oil Handling Systems and Facilities. And don’t forget the Coulson & Richardson classic, Chemical Engineering, Volume 6: An Introduction to Design (Chemical Engineering Technical Series)

The IEM has a coffee table book out, Engineering Heritage of Malaysia (no, it is not Datuk Seri Samy Vellu’s bio). Visit here for details.

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PETRONAS Upbeat On Malaysia’s Oil And Gas Industry With Advent Of New Technologies

June 23, 2013

Dateline 2013-06-05 from Bernama:

PETRONAS is optimistic on Malaysia’s oil and gas industry with the emergence of new technologies that facilitate greater oil and gas field explorations.

Chairman Tan Sri Mohd Sidek Hassan said industry players in the region were investing billions of ringgit to develop new technologies.

“There are more deepwater reserves discoveries (of late) as new technologies have aided previously uneconomical reserves to be revisited,” he told reporters at the opening of The 14th Asian Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Engineering Exhibition (OGA 2013) here today.

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Malaysia Pushes Joint Development to Solve Asia Sea Disputes

June 22, 2013

Dateline 2013-06-03, Business Week:

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak called for claimants in the South China Sea to jointly develop resources to avoid conflict and prevent “extra-regional states” from becoming involved.

Najib cited a joint development zone in waters claimed by Thailand and Malaysia as a precedent that could be applied in the South China Sea. Vietnam and the Philippines reject China’s map as a basis for joint development in the waters, part of which are also claimed by Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan.

“Agreeing to share prosperity, rather than let it divide us, is infinitely preferable to the alternative,” Najib said in a speech yesterday in Kuala Lumpur.

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THE HOLE IN PETRONAS: Slide in index shows BN ineffective in governing our resources

June 21, 2013

Dateline 2013-05-30, Malaysian Chronicle:

Malaysia fares worse than Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Iraq in the latest Resource Governance Index published by Revenue Watch Institute.

Malaysia ranks 34th out of 58 countries with a score of 46 out of 100 in Resource Governance Index (RGI) published on 8 May 2013 by Revenue Watch Institute (RWI), a non-profit organization that promotes effective, transparent and accountable management of natural resources. Malaysia is categorized as ‘weak’ among the four standards of governance – satisfactory, partial, weak and failing while our neighboring countries Indonesia and Philippine are categorized as partial with better rank of 14th and 23rd respectively. We also tail behind 8 African countries – Ghana (15th), Liberia (16th), Zambia (17th), Morocco (25th), Tanzania (27th), Botswana (30th), Gabon (32nd) and Guinea (33rd) as well as countries like Indonesia Kazakhstan (19th), Venezuela (20th), Azerbajian (28th) and Iraq (29th).

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Played with your Wolfram Lately?

June 20, 2013

You should try Wolfram Alpha. Here’s a few searches you may want to do:

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IEM Shout Out – Technical Visit To Gas Malaysia Berhad

June 18, 2013

This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will be visiting Gas Malaysia Berhad, No.5 Jalan Serendah 26/17, Shah Alam, Selangor on Tuesday 25th June, 2013.

Gas Malaysia is a natural gas distribution company in Malaysia. The company headquarters is located in Shah Alam. It has three regional offices, located in Prai, Gebeng and Pasir Gudang, and seven branch offices located throughout Peninsular Malaysia.

The company was incorporated on 16 May 1992 to construct and operate the natural gas distribution system within Peninsular Malaysia. In December 2000, Gas Malaysia expanded its business to include the reticulated liquefied petroleum gas.
As of July 2005, the company had 452 industrial customers, more than 600 commercial customers and over 3,000 residential customers.As of February 2011, Gas Malaysia had 33,707 residential and commercial customers as well as 691 industrial customers. In 2010, total gas sold by Gas Malaysia was 117.8 million British thermal unit throughout Peninsular Malaysia. As of February 2011, its network of gas pipelines covered a total of 1,726.6 kilometers (1,072.9 mi)

Register for this event here. Download the brochure here.

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IEM Shout Out – Technical Visit To Selinsing Gold Mine Manager Sdn Bhd

June 17, 2013

This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will be visiting Selinsing Gold Mines Manager Sdn Bhd, 157 Jalan Bukit Bius, 27200 Kuala Lipis, Pahang on Saturday 22nd June, 2013.

The Selinsing Gold Mine project is located at Bukit Selinsing near Sungai Koyan, approximately 65km north of Raub and 30km west of Kuala Lipis. A trip to Selinsing from Kuala Lumpur may take between 2 to 3 hours depending on traffic and weather condition.

Selinsing has a long mining history. Mining commenced prior to 1888 and has operated intermittently through to 1966. Underground and open cut mining, together with tailings treatment has produced an estimated 85,000 ounces of gold during this period. Fast forward to present day between 2003 and 2005, treatment of the tailings using heap leach extraction produced 6,624 ounces. In October 2008, a new gold treatment plant was built resulting in the first gold poured from the gravity circuit 12 months later. July 2009 saw open pit mining started at the location and began hauling ore material to the ROM pad for production and by February 2010 the projects’ own carbon-in-leach (CIL) circuit commenced commissioning.

The Selinsing deposit occurs along the north striking Raub, Bentong Suture, and a major tectonic feature that runs through peninsular Malaysia. The deposit is hosted by a series of auriferous quartz veins and stockworks of quartz veinlets in a package of sheared calcareous epiclastic sediments. Gold mineralization at Selinsing is associated with high grade quartz veining and associated sericitization and silification within a major shear zone.

The Selinsing gold mine project contains a resource comprised of an indicated mineral resource of 4.82 million tonnes at 1.49 gpt Au, using a cut-off of 0.59 gpt Au for contained ounces of 231,000 ounces of gold, and an inferred mineral resource of 10.32 million tonnes at a grade of 1.17 gpt Au for contained ounces of 388,000 ounces f gold at similar cut-off grade. The resource is a near surface, open pitable deposit containing gold bearing material amenable to CIL treatment, with comprehensive metallurgical test work showing 92% to 95% recovery by CIL.

Register for this event here. Download the brochure here.

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Saturday Star 2013-06-15 – Job Opportunities

June 17, 2013

Buy my recommendations, or through my Amazon store. Where are those corporate sponsors? Or throw donations at me.

Help me (and you) increase my cloud presence. Pleease use some form of cloud storage, so if you lose your laptop with those oh-so-important reports, be assured that (with Internet access) the files are still accessible. Use my referrals for Dropbox, MiMedia,  SpiderOak, MediaFire, Ubuntu One, Sugar Sync.

  • 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.
  • SapuraKencana is looking for warm bodies to fill up offshore constuction and subsea services, fabrication and hook up commissioning, drilling, geotech and maintenance services, energy and JVs. “Interested candidates are invited to visit our website for details…” blah blah.
  • Lundin‘s looking for an oil and gas procurement lawyer. Umm, what creature doth they seek? Anyhow, if your genus matches this requirement, send your cv here. And if you are a procurement executive, contract management/ compliance executive, procurement assistant, you can apply as well. Send me your bride scale of rates, please.
  • Here’s something interesting. Petroleum Industry of Malaysia Mutual Aid Group (PIMMAG) is looking for a manager, Operations and Training. Visit their website to find out more.
  • IEV is looking for a senior installation / structural engineer – Mooring, Tendon and TLP Installation, draughtsman, HSSE manager. Send your CV here.
  • Side note: My mechanic complains that there are not enough trained mechanics are being extruded from our schools. If you know of any idle ones, he’s looking for some. Ask them to contact Kong Ming Chai at +60122951023. On another note, has this shortfall hit the news? Can I get the contract for 1Repair?

Help me (and you) increase my cloud presense. Pleease use some form of cloud storage, so if you lose your laptop with those oh-so-important reports, be assured that (with Internet access) the files are still accessible. Use my referrals for Dropbox, MiMedia,  SpiderOak, MediaFire, Ubuntu One, Sugar Sync.

Break the Low Yat stranglehold! Support Newegg Malaysia, or check Amazon’s International Shipping. Yeah, baby!

  

If you are interested in oil and gas surface facilities, I would recommend getting Surface Production Operations, Volume 2:, Second Edition: Design of Gas-Handling Systems and Facilities and Surface Production Operations, Volume 1, Third Edition: Design of Oil Handling Systems and Facilities. And don’t forget the Coulson & Richardson classic, Chemical Engineering, Volume 6: An Introduction to Design (Chemical Engineering Technical Series)

The IEM has a coffee table book out, Engineering Heritage of Malaysia (no, it is not Datuk Seri Samy Vellu’s bio). Visit here for details.

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Oil and gas have reason to be optimistic in Malaysia

June 16, 2013

Dateline 2013-05-29, Bikya News:

 Oil and gas companies in Malaysia are seeing a future full of optimism. The positive energy comes on the heels of better reports for the market after fears of a potential recession wracked the country late last year.

The latest set of financial results released by these counters have been mixed as the first three months of the year has usually been a slow period due to the seasonal monsoon weather patterns but analysts pointed out that this time around, political risks had also played a part in having an impact on the industry.

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IEM Shout Out – Technical Visit To Selinsing Gold Mine Manager Sdn Bhd

June 15, 2013

This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will be visiting Selinsing Gold Mines Manager Sdn Bhd, 157 Jalan Bukit Bius, 27200 Kuala Lipis, Pahang on Saturday 22nd June, 2013.

The Selinsing Gold Mine project is located at Bukit Selinsing near Sungai Koyan, approximately 65km north of Raub and 30km west of Kuala Lipis. A trip to Selinsing from Kuala Lumpur may take between 2 to 3 hours depending on traffic and weather condition.

Selinsing has a long mining history. Mining commenced prior to 1888 and has operated intermittently through to 1966. Underground and open cut mining, together with tailings treatment has produced an estimated 85,000 ounces of gold during this period. Fast forward to present day between 2003 and 2005, treatment of the tailings using heap leach extraction produced 6,624 ounces. In October 2008, a new gold treatment plant was built resulting in the first gold poured from the gravity circuit 12 months later. July 2009 saw open pit mining started at the location and began hauling ore material to the ROM pad for production and by February 2010 the projects’ own carbon-in-leach (CIL) circuit commenced commissioning.

The Selinsing deposit occurs along the north striking Raub, Bentong Suture, and a major tectonic feature that runs through peninsular Malaysia. The deposit is hosted by a series of auriferous quartz veins and stockworks of quartz veinlets in a package of sheared calcareous epiclastic sediments. Gold mineralization at Selinsing is associated with high grade quartz veining and associated sericitization and silification within a major shear zone.

The Selinsing gold mine project contains a resource comprised of an indicated mineral resource of 4.82 million tonnes at 1.49 gpt Au, using a cut-off of 0.59 gpt Au for contained ounces of 231,000 ounces of gold, and an inferred mineral resource of 10.32 million tonnes at a grade of 1.17 gpt Au for contained ounces of 388,000 ounces f gold at similar cut-off grade. The resource is a near surface, open pitable deposit containing gold bearing material amenable to CIL treatment, with comprehensive metallurgical test work showing 92% to 95% recovery by CIL.

Register for this event here. Download the brochure here.

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