As I do my marketing rounds, you have to make a pit stop once in a while. This particular building (okay, it wasn’t the client’s exclusive washroom) felt a tad … exposed.
Marketing Rounds – Facilities
December 16, 2011
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Blast from the Past
December 13, 2011Anyone seen this caterer lately? Especially onshore?
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Saturday Star 2011-12-10 – Job Opportunities
December 12, 2011Support me by purchasing my recommendations, or buying through my Amazon store. I need the money to pay for running this site. Corporate level sponsors are encouraged.
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.
- Oh, PETRONAS is looking for RAPID candidates. Visit http://www.discoverpetronas.com.
- Total is looking for an HSE engineer, night drilling supervisor. Send your CV here, or visit 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!” The more you use it, the better info I get in planning my journey round KL, and hopefully the rest of Malaysia
If you are fans of classic gaming, support those old time PC classics at Good Oil Games. I wish they had a local setup here. And they just started their Xmas 50% off drive!
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
Let’s talk a bit about deepwater books:
Deepwater Petroleum Exploration & Production, A Sea in Flames, Disaster on The Horizon
This week’s food recommendation is anything strawberrish from Cameron Highlands. And that’s why this weeks posting is late.
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From Bernama – Restaurant Gas Blast Believed Due To Shoddy Maintenance – Fire Department
December 10, 2011I like it that an opinion for a Maju Junction blast is out, but not for the Subang Empire blast.
Dateline 2011-11-29:
The gas explosion two days ago at a restaurant at the Maju Junction shopping centre is believed to have been due to shoddy maintenance, said Malaysian Fire and Rescue Department director-general Datuk Wan Mohd Nor Ibrahim.
He said restaurant operators or building owners who opted to use piped gas need to regularly maintain the system to prevent gas leaks that might cause explosions.
“Such a process is necessary for safety; piped gas is different from a normal gas tank as the pipe can leak without continuous maintenance,” he told reporters after the launch of a seminar on fire safety engineering design here Tuesday.
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IEM Shout Out – Talk on Gumusut-Kakap Project
December 9, 2011This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division (Not) will be hosting a talk on the 17th December, 2011. It’ll start at 9:00am and is worth 2 CPD hours. You still gotta climb those steps at Wisma IEM.
If you wanted to heckle G-K team members, now’s the chance.
The Gumusut-Kakap Project is one of the largest deepwater oil and gas developments in Malaysia. In this talk, an overview of the Gumusut-Kakap Project will be given. The Development Concept will be shared and the key technical features and challenges of the Subsea Infrastructure and the semi-submersible Floating Production System will be explained. The speaker will also update current progress pictures and brief the participants on the HSE requirements.
Mr. Milan Hendrikse (MSc. Eng.) is currently the Gumusut-Kakap Project Manager. In June 2007 he joined Shell in Malaysia and managed HSE and the Offshore Part of Gumusut-Kakap, before he took over as Project Manager in December 2010.
Mr. Milan completed his Aeronautical Engineering study in Delft and National Service in the Air Force before he joined Shell in 1990 as a Field Engineer. He had various assignments in project engineering/management, business development, HSE and Construction. He has more than 15 years working experiences in related field. Key career highlights are listed below:-
- Pohokura Project Manager, New Zealand
- LNG & Domestic Gas Supply Co-ordinator, Australia
- North Rankin B Opportunity Manager, Australia
- Angel Lead Engineer, Australia
- Head of Corporate HSE Audit, Oman
- Head of Construction, LNG Upstream Facilities, Oman
- Various Project Engineering Positions, UK
Register here or download the form here. A map to Wisma IEM is presented here.
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ROC Oil eyes more projects in Malaysia
December 8, 2011Dateline 2011-11-29:
Australia’s ROC Oil Co Ltd is keen to bid for more Malaysian projects after clinching a deal to develop the Balai cluster marginal oilfield, offshore Sarawak, with partners Dialog Group Bhd and Petronas Carigali Sdn Bhd.
ROC general manager for corporate affairs and planning Mathew Gerber said Balai is an initial entry and the company aims to increase its presence in Malaysia’s oil and gas sector, if given the opportunity.
“We have a lot more to offer,” he said, adding that the project award is a vote of confidence in ROC’s abilities as an operator of small fields.
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Vendor Engagement Session – December 2011
December 7, 2011I attended a VES held at the PETRONAS Learning Centre, Bangi. A scan of the handout is here.
More interesting might be my notes of the Q&A session:
- Payment for licensing & registration fees will be done via over-the-counter deposit at CIMB. Payment may be made via BizChannel, and by mid-2012, maybe CIMBClicks and Maybank2u.
- Since the process is now self-guided, unlikely to be refunded the processing fee to due vendor errors during submission.
- Announcements will be made on the website, but sufficient lead time between announcement and change/activity will be provided. Critical information will be sent via email to registered addresses.
- You can appeal for unapproved SWEC. Who you contact? Beats me.
- The requirement for agencies will still be on an exclusivity basis.
- RETRO! The interface has been tested on IE8 (or lower) or Firefox 3.6 (or lower). No guarantees for Safari, Webkit, Opera, Lynx, Chrome or higher versions of IE or Firefox.
- There will be a SWEC initiative review in 2012.
- Frozen categories are still frozen categories. VDPs will be revamped next year.
- Minimum Technical Requirement – If an MTR requires certification by an external body, but that body no longer provides said certification, then the requirement will be reviewed on a case by case basis
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Lundin Petroleum Discovers Oil Offshore Malaysia
December 6, 2011Dateline 2011-11-23:
(Lundin Petroleum) is pleased to announce that it has discovered oil in the Janglau-1 well that was drilled in Block PM308A, offshore Peninsular Malaysia.
Janglau-1 was drilled to a total depth of 3,820 metres by the jackup rig “Offshore Courageous”. The objectives of the well were Oligocene intra-rift sands and the underlying fractured pre-Tertiary section.
During drilling below 3,153 metres, oil was found in multiple pay sand units in an intra-rift sand/shale section that extended over a gross interval of approximately 300 metres. Oil samples were recovered at surface during drilling.
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Saturday Star 2011-12-03 – Job Opportunities
December 5, 2011Support me by purchasing my recommendations, or buying through my Amazon store. I need the money to pay for running this site. Corporate level sponsors are encouraged.
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.
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!” The more you use it, the better info I get in planning my journey round KL, and hopefully the rest of Malaysia
If you are fans of classic gaming, support those old time PC classics at Good Oil Games. I wish they had a local setup here.
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
Let’s talk a bit about deepwater books:
Deepwater Petroleum Exploration & Production, A Sea in Flames, Disaster on The Horizon
This week’s food recommendation is Mee Bandung in Jalan Abdullah, Moooor (Bandar Maharani to you non-natives)
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Winds Of Change For Lun Bawang, Thanks To Petronas
December 4, 2011Dateline 2011-11-21:
The winds of change are bringing greater development to the Lun Bawang, one of Sarawak’s minority ethnic communities, thanks to the 512km Sabah-Sarawak Gas Pipeline project now underway.
The US$500-million project, which spans Malaysia’s two largest states by passing through this remote enclave, will pipe natural gas from the Sabah Oil and Gas Terminal (SOGT) in Kimanis to the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) complex in Bintulu.
Alfred Padan, a Lun Bawang community leader, told Bernama of his role in persuading local communities to assist in implementing Malaysia’s largest gas pipeline project undertaken by Petronas, the national oil corporation.
“Initially, the locals were not informed about the objectives of the project and some were opposed to it. But we were soon able to dispel talk that the project would bring more hardship than benefits.
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