Saturday Star 2012-05-21 – Job Opportunities

May 21, 2012

Support me by purchasing my recommendations, or buying through my Amazon store. I need the money to pay for running this site. C’mone, where are those corporate sponsors?

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, lead piping designer, lead instrument engineer, and other seniors you think will catch my eye.
  • I see Petrofac is looking for engineers. They are ‘offering exciting and inspiring career opportunities in the onshore and offshore oil & gas industry’. Hmm, is that a hint that they have onshore acerage in Malaysia? Also, I notice that the email is for Petrofac Engineering, not Petrofac operations.  Send your cv here.
  • Ah, on the next page, I see Petrofac operations is looking for an operations manager.  Send your cv 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!” It’s definitely getting better for the Klang Valley area, though we need more users from East Malaysia.

Support your local bookshop! Visit Bookalicious at The Summit Subang, good selection of imported books. I think they focus on trilogies, quadrilogies, and otherologies. Tell them I sent you, and enjoy the look of perplexity on their faces. Those of you who have dropped my name, thanks!

BTW, did I tell you that I am the Secretary of MOGEC?

For those of you who have a healthy skepticism to my industry, these books are for you:

  

Why We Hate the Oil Companies: Straight Talk from an Energy Insider, The Party’s Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies, Barbarians of Oil: How the World’s Oil Addiction Threatens Global Prosperity and Four Investments to Protect Your Wealth (Agora Series)

This week’s food promotion is … masak asam pedas. If you find nice places around PJ, let me know. I’ve tried the one across from the PJ State Police Station, and the shop next to Dewan MPSJ in PJ State.

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Kencana Petroleum secures EPCC contract from Murphy Sarawak

May 20, 2012

Dateline 2012-05-10:

Kencana HL Sdn Bhd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Kencana Petroleum Bhd (Kencana) has won a RM460 million to RM474 million engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning (EPCC) contract from Murphy Sarawak Oil Co Ltd (Murphy Sarawak) for the fabrication of offshore topsides.

According to OSK Research Sdn Bhd (OSK Research) the EPCC contract was for Serendah Production topsides facilities of the SK309/311 SPSA development project, which was part of Murphy Sarawak’s SK309/SK311 oil fields development located offshore Bintulu, Sarawak.

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Murphy contracts McDermott for deepwater Malaysia oil development Mc

May 19, 2012

How do I get in touch with Berlian  McDermott? How big is their cubicle in Regis?

Dateline 2012-05-09:

McDermott International Inc. (NYSE: MDR) subsidiary Berlian McDermott Sdn Bhd has won a contract for subsea engineering, procurement, construction, transportation, installation, and commissioning in deepwater offshore Malaysia.

The subsea infrastructure work is on Murphy Sabah Oil Co. Ltd’s Siakap North – Petai development and covers rigid flowlines, flexible risers, an umbilical, and subsea hardware and controls. Siakap is northwest of Labuan Island in waters 3,900 – 4,900 ft (1,189 – 1,494 m) deep.

Field architecture consists of two rigid, insulated, pipe-in-pipe production flowlines, one rigid water injection flowline, and one main umbilical connecting eight new manifolds and subsea distribution units to existing riser slots on the Kikeh FPSO. The development calls for five water injection and eight production wells, drilled from the manifolds at each of the four drill centers.

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Petronas’ Rapid project to meet high demand

May 18, 2012

Yes, this is outdated.

Dateline 2012-05-10:

The US$20 billion refinery and petrochemical integrated development (RAPID) project to be undertaken by Petronas in southern Johor will be timely in meeting burgeoning demand for energy and petrochemical products especially in Asia in the next 20 years.

To be launched by His Royal Highness the Sultan of Johor, Sultan Ibrahim Ibni Almarhum Sultan Iskandar on Sunday, the project would also enhance both Malaysia’s and the region’s petrochemical industry, attracting investments from world class oil, gas and petrochemical firms.

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Malaysia’s Gas Supply-demand Gap Will Start Growing 2013, Says IGU

May 17, 2012

Sorry, ‘start growing’?

Dateline 2012-05-08:

Malaysia’s gas supply-demand gap will start growing next year at the time whereby contracted production declines, says International Gas Union (IGU) President, Datuk Dr Abdul Rahim Hashim.

He said Malaysia faced supply challenges with declining indigenous gas production in Peninsula Malaysia, increased extraction rates, commercially challenging reserves, which are smaller in size and in scattered locations and an overall increase in exploration and production costs.

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Subsidy leads to gas issue

May 16, 2012

Yes, it does.

Dateline 2012-05-04:

Subsidised gas and the inflated demand it encouraged are some of the factors that led to the severe gas shortage faced by Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB), said International Gas Union (IGU) president Datuk Abdul Rahim Hashim.

“We started the subsidies after the Asian financial crisis, and we should not have continued doing that. We should have weaned ourselves off it and gone back to market prices after the economy picked up again.

“We have a system whereby one end is fixed (electricity tariffs), and generators are looking for the cheapest source of fuel. Gas is the cheapest of the lot, and since generators tend to use the cheapest resource available, that has pushed the system to the limit,” he told StarBiz in an interview.

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IEM Shout Out – Talk on Plasticizers For Plastics – What, Where, How And Why

May 14, 2012

This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will be hosting a talk on the 1th June, 2012. It’ll start at 5.30pm and is worth 2 CPD hours.

Plasticizers are additives used in the plastic industry especially for polyvinyl chloride (PVC) manufacturing. It is the softening agent added to polymers to induce flexibility and improve processability. Initially, the plasticizer application is limited to the plastic industry, until the issue boom from Taiwan bubble tea industry, where plasticizer is used as clouding and thickening agent to induce smooth tastes of the beverages. This issue becomes so serious because plasticizers can cause serious health hazard when consumed orally. The most commonly found plasticizer is phathalate-based type. This type of plasticizer includes Diisononyl phthalate, Bis (2-ethylhexyl) phthalate, dioctyl phthalate, etc., and has been banned in Europe and western countries, mainly due to its high dose exposure has shown change of hormone levels and cause birth defects. In addition, adding large amount of plasticizer in plastics can increase its fire risk, because plasticizer itself is a high flammable substance. Nevertheless, plasticizers are not added in every plastic product. Some of the plasticizers are produced from the renewable resources such as soy bean oil which has found its usage in medical products as well.

Ir. Dr Tee Tiam Ting is an associate professor in Chemical Engineering Department of Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR). He has more than 30 years of teaching and research experiences in the university. He was the former vice president of IEM and currently the fellow member of IEM.

Dr Lee Tin Sin is an assistant professor in Chemical Engineering Department of Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman. He graduated from the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia with First Class Honours in Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical-Polymer) and PhD in Polymer Engineering.

Register here or download the form here.

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Solving oil and gas subsidy problem

May 12, 2012

Ah, near election time.

Dateline 2012-05-05:

THE argument against subsidising the country’s oil and gas has been made time and again, yet the decision to do away with it remains one that no government would be glad to make in a hurry.

One need only point to the recent examples of mass riots in Nigeria and Indonesia, where thousands took to the streets after their governments removed subsidies for fuel, as evidence that no matter the logic, this is hugely unpopular.

Nonetheless, it is a situation the Government has to resolve, and soon, as demand for gas heats up in the region.

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Sabah varsity to set up petroleum faculty

May 11, 2012

Been there. And what’s this ‘soon become a rich state’? I thought it already was.

Dateline 2012-05-02:

A petroleum engineering faculty will be set up soon in Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS).

Former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said it was about time that UMS established a new faculty focusing on oil and gas as Sabah would soon become a rich state because of its natural resources.

With the setting up of the petroleum engineering faculty, Dr Mahathir was confident that Sabah would benefit from its oil resources.

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Petronas says not involved in Terengganu oil royalty settlement

May 10, 2012

Yup, you heard it here.

Dateline 2012-04-26:

Petronas confirmed today that the Terengganu government has withdrawn its RM2.8 billion oil royalty suit against oil company and Putrajaya, but stressed it has no links to any out-of-court settlement over the matter.

According to The Edge Financial Daily on Monday, the Barisan Nasional Terengganu government had withdrawn its civil suit against Petronas and the federal government on March 21 but did not provide details of its out-of-court settlement.

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