Saturday Star 2011-03-12 – Job Opportunities

March 14, 2011

Support 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.

First off, 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.

  • SBM are looking for a looot of people, so I guess the international FPSO/floating solutions market is growing. They want principal engineers, senior engineers, operations people, and the non-tech people termed ‘support’. Send email here, or snail mail to SBM Malaysia Sdn Bhd, Suite 2B-09-01, Block 2B, Level 9, Plaza Sentral, Jalan Stesen 5, 50470 KL, or call +603 2773 5300.
  • MECIP is advertising for engineers to work in Bintulu. Find the advert here.
  • Newfield is  looking for a Senior Geophysicist, Senior Reservoir Engineer, Junior Reservoir Engineer, Production Engineer, Static Equipment Engineer. Email your resume in before 31 March, 2011.
  • Petrofac has a four page (count ’em, four!) spread of opportunities. She’s looking for a Commissioning Manager, Offshore Integration Superintendent, Lead Instrument Engineer, Lead Marine Engineer, Lead & Senior Structural Engineer, Senior Electrical Engineer, Assistant Marine Engineer, QA/ QC Engineer.  Contact them here.
  • Scomi is looking for Drilling Fluid Engineers, Drilling Waste Management & Solid Control Engineers (we talking industrial or municipal waste here?), and Service Engineers – Production Chemicals (whew, thought it was other kinds of services). Snail mail to SCOMI KMC Sdn Bhd, Human Resources Department, Level 11, 1 First Avenue Bandar Utama, 47800 Petaling Jaya, or email them here.
  • Talisman is looking for a Senior Geophysicist, Senior Drilling Engineer, Reservoir Engineer, Drilling Supervisor, Night Drilling Supervisor. Apply here, and visit their site.

Here are some ChemEng books selected by Amazon:

Troubleshooting Process Operations, 4th Edition, Process Technology Troubleshooting, Fundamentals of Natural Gas Processing, Second Edition (Dekker Mechanical Engineering)

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From The Star – Drilling for Future Opportunities

March 13, 2011

Dateline 2011-02-26:

THE recent US$800mil risk-service contract (RSC) awarded by Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas) to a consortium formed by two local parties and a foreign player for the development and production of the Berantai marginal oil field, located 150km offshore Terengganu, has drawn enormous interest for more than one reason.

Firstly, it marks the adoption of a new contract, RSC, for development and production of local marginal oilfields (as oppose to the production-sharing contract used for exploration and production works).

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From Bernama – Success Runs Deep In Malaysia’s Oil & Gas Sector

March 12, 2011

If success runs deep, use some of that money to allow our universities to instill a sense of appreciation of engineering in their students, as opposed to creating automatons that give blank (or panicked) looks when asked a tech question.

Dateline 2011-02-24:

As Malaysia enters a new phase in its oil and gas industry, the country received heartening news in mid-February with a large discovery off the shores of eastern Sarawak.

“This is very good news for a sector that is facing declining annual production and the prospect of running out of hydrocarbons that fuel its economy in a space of 15 years and its Economic Transformation Programme (ETP),” said the Oxford Business Group (OBG), a business intelligence consulting group.

It said the discovery should help to temporarily halt Malaysia’s slow declining oil and gas output, dovetailing nicely with moves to boost exploration and production from marginal and deep-water prospects.

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From The Star – RON95 Remains Steady

March 11, 2011

Dateline 2011-02-24:

Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob said here on Thursday that fuel prices would not be raised despite the escalating global oil price.He stressed that the current situation could still be handled without increasing the price of RON95 and diesel in Malaysia, which is now at RM1.90 and RM1.80 per liter.

Meanwhile, the ministry would discuss with the Finance Ministry to work out alternative measures to cushion the increase including increasing government spending on oil subsidy, he said.

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IEM Shout Out – 2 Day Course on Welding Codes and Standards for Engineering Applications

March 9, 2011

This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will hosting a course on the 23rd and 24th March, 2011. It will be held at TUS room, Wisma IEM, Petaling Jaya.  The course is worth 13 CPD or PDP points.

This course is designed to provide an appreciation of ASME and ISO welding codes and standards to those engineers involved in manufacturing and fabrication industries using arc welding technologies. Its objective is to help engineers understand how to apply these welding codes and standards to ensure the welds meet the quality requirements set by these codes and standards. This course will provide general guidelines in applying and interpreting the rules along with case study. It will also benefit participants through the following:

  • receive overview of ASME and ISO welding codes and standards
  • understand the importance of qualification test in ensuring weld quality
  • understand the background of rules and qualification range
  • understand the background of destructive and non-destructive tests required for qualification test
  • understand the process and approach to qualify a welding procedure specification and welder in the most cost-effective and practical way
  • understand the background of qualification range of welding procedure specification and welder qualification
  • application of qualification range to maximise the benefit of welding procedure specification and welder qualification
  • understand the approach to validate a welding procedure specification with respect to welding and fabrication standards and project specification
  • understand the weld quality requirements to improve effectiveness of inspection and reduce reject or repair rate
  • improve communication between design engineer and welding engineer (Wata’s note: and we don’t mean using a welding torch as a semaphore).

Please register here. You can download the registration form here.

A map to Wisma IEM is presented here. It’s the building labelled ‘Putri Nursing College.’

I appeal to readers, come on and send yourselves and staff to these courses. I need the support.

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Shout Out – Talk on Information Management Solutions for the Oil and Gas, Energy and Process Industries

March 8, 2011

This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will hosting a talk on the 10th March, 2011. It’ll be at 5:30 pm (makan-makan at 5:00). You still gotta climb those steps at Wisma IEM.

Information management (IM) solutions are developed to drive inefficiencies and inadequate processes out of the process industry supply chains by providing early visibility of quality, fully validated information – Supply Chain Content, to all parties in the plant life cycle.

An IM solution improves information on existing facilities to give a true picture of the physical plant configuration, linked through the bill of materials to inventory spares, and maintains the quality of supply chain information throughout the life of the plant. A correctly applied solution accelerates facility start-up, minimises capital expenditure on inventory, and delivers major improvements in procurement, operations and maintenance that maximise the owner’s Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) investment.

The speakers for this event are Mr. Dag Pettersen and Mr. Yngve Nilsen.

 

You can register for the event here or download a registration form here.  A map to Wisma IEM is presented here. The F***book event is here.

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Saturday Star 2011-03-05 – Job Opportunities

March 7, 2011

Support 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.

First off, 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.

  • Hmm, nothing of interest this week. Though there is a position for QA’s in the oil & gas industry (!!) at Turner & Townsend. If interested, send your CVs here.
  • MECIP is advertising for engineers to work in Bintulu. Find the advert here.
  • Foster Wheeler is looking for Process Engineers, Civil/ Structural Engineers, Piping Layout Engineers, Rotating Machinery, Static Equipment, HVAC Engineering, Instrument Engineers, Electrical Engineers, Designers, Fresh Meat (Graduate/ Trainees). Apply here. Please indicate the source-date-position applied for. Make sure my blog address in in their somewhere.

 

The Safety Relief Valve Handbook: Design and Use of Process Safety Valves to ASME and International Codes and Standards (Butterworth-Heinemann/IChemE), HAZOP: Guide to Best Practice, 2nd Edition – IChemE, Liquid Hydrocarbon Tank Fires (BP Process Safety Series) – IChemE
. Buy these books from here.

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From Bernama – MMHE Q3 Pre-tax Profit Rises 5.5 Per Cent To RM133.3 Million

March 6, 2011

Are you surprised?

Dateline 2011-02-22:

Malaysia Marine and Heavy Engineering Holdings Bhd’s pre-tax profit rose 5.5 per cent to RM113.3 million for the third quarter ended Dec 31, 2010 from RM107.4 million in the same quarter of 2009.

Its revenue, however, declined to RM1.3 billion from RM1.5 billion previously.

In a filing to Bursa Malaysia today, the company said the higher pre-tax profit was mainly contributed by its engineering and construction business.

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From Bernama – Petronas Gas Tops RM1 Billion In Profit For Nine Months

March 5, 2011

Dateline 2011-02-22:

Petronas Gas Bhd has reported a jump in pre-tax profit for first nine months ended Dec 31, 2010 to RM1.549 billion from RM966.287 million in the previous corresponding period.

Revenue rose to RM2.633 billion from RM2.419 billion, the company said in a filing to Bursa Malaysia Tuesday.

“The increase in profit was mainly due to higher revenue and lower cost of revenue,” it said.

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From The Star – Kencana starts to recoup investment in Berantai oil field in 2 years

March 4, 2011

Dateline 2011-02-21:

 Kencana Petroleum Bhd hopes to start recouping its portion of investment, estimated at US$200mil, in the Berantai marginal oil field development within two years, says chief executive officer Datuk Mokhzani Mahathir.

Kencana is part of a consortium, which includes SapuraCrest Petroleum Bhd and Petrofac Energy Developments Sdn Bhd to develop and operate an oil and gas field in Berantai, Terengganu estimated to cost a total of US$800mil.

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