Saturday Star 2010-12-18 – Job Opportunities

December 21, 2010

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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.

  • ExxonMobil has a position for a Chemical Engineer. Go “develop ‘knowledge of proprietary ExxonMobil Design Practices.”
  • Carigali Hess is looking for a Head Structural Engineer, Senior Process Engineer, Senior Process Safety Engineer. Email to job@carigalihess.com, indicating position applied for as subject of the email. Now you wonder, did Wata supply the right titles?
  • Murphy is looking for a completions team leader.  Send your applications here.
  • Lynas is looking for a QA engineer, E&I planner, Project Engineer, Senior Process Engineer.

Food for last month was catered by Tabung Haji.

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From Rueters – Malaysian dealers to hike price of premium fuel

November 13, 2010

Anyone else know about this?

Dateline 2010-11-01:

Malaysian petrol dealers said on Monday they will raise the price of the premium grade RON 97 fuel by 5 sen or 2.4 percent to 2.15 ringgit ($0.695) a litre on Tuesday.

“RON 97 has not been subsidised by the government and since world oil prices have gone up, the petrol price gets adjusted,” Hashim Othman, president of the Petroleum Dealers Association of Malaysia, told Reuters.

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From Bernama – Government Optimistic on PETRONAS Chemicals Group’s Prospects

November 12, 2010

Dateline 2010-11-02:

The government is optimistic about Petronas Chemicals Group Bhd’s growth prospects, both in expanding into more complex petrochemical products and supporting upstream and downstream industries, said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.

“We have great faith and high expectations that Petronas will contribute to drive innovative new development and reinforce Malaysia’s reputation as one of Southeast Asia’s premier petrochemicals production hubs,” he said.

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Resource Article – Sobri Abu

November 11, 2010

Here’s an article from the Malaysian Petroleum Club publication, Resource. It is on Sobri Abu of PETRONAS petrochemical fame.

Resource article on Sobri Abu


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Shout Out – Talk on Civil, Structural & Pipeline Engineering In Oil & Gas Industry

November 10, 2010

This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will hosting a talk on the 13th November, 2010. It’ll be at 9:00 am (makan-makan at 8:30). You still gotta climb those steps at Wisma IEM.

BIODATA OF SPEAKERS

Author 1

Ir Mohd Nazri Mustafa is currently a Principal Civil Engineer with Petronas Group Technology Solutions. He has more than 18 years of experience in Oil & Gas industry. He has a Bachelor of Civil Engineering from The University of Wollongong, Australia. He is a Professional Engineer registered with the BEM.

Author 2:

En Zulhilmi Lihin is currently a Senior Structural Engineer with Petronas Group Technology Solutions. He has more than 8 years of experience in Offshore Engineering. He has actively involved in RBI Assessment, Structural Reliability & Integrity, design & construction of offshore platforms.

Author 3:

En A Sirwan M Tuselim is currently a Principal Pipeline Engineer with Petronas Group Technology Solutions. He has more than 20 years of experience in Pipeline Engineering. He has a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from University of Strathclyde, Scotland. His specialization is in FFS, RBI and Pipeline Integrity Management.

Get the form here.  Flyers for the above and other events may be obtained here. A map to Wisma IEM is presented here. BTW, my Technical Division came up with the name for the website, MyIEM. Yea, us.

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IEM Shout Out – OGMTD 20th AGM

November 9, 2010

The OIl, Gas and Mining Technical Division AGM will be held at 2nd Floor, Wisma IEM, 21 Jalan Selangor, Petaling Jaya.

It will be held at 11am on Saturday, 13th November 2011.

AGENDA

1. Opening Address by the Chairman of Session 2009/2010.

2. Confirmation of Minutes of the 19th Annual General Meeting held on 21 November 2009

3. Matters Arising.

4. Secretary’s Report for the Session 2009/2010

5. To receive and adopt the Financial Statement for the year ending 30 October 2010

6. Election of the Office Bearers for the Session 2010/2011

7. Address by the Chairman for Session 2010/2011

8. Any Other Business

 

Your presence will contribute to the success of this meeting.

The flyer for the above event is available here. Flyers for other events may be obtained here. A map to Wisma IEM is presented here.

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From the Star – Petronas Gas appoints 4 new directors

November 7, 2010

Taken from the Star, dateline 2010-11-02:

Petronas Gas Bhd has appointed four new directors following the resignation of two directors, namely Datuk Mohammed Azhar Osman Khairuddin and Farehana Hanapiah.

It told Bursa Malaysia that the newly appointed non-independent and non-executive directors were Rosli Boni, Mohammad Medan Abdullah, Ramlan Abdul Malek and Lau Nai Tuang.

Mohammed Azhar also resigned as a Petronas Gas audit committee member. Rosli was appointed a new audit committee member.

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You can subscribe to an online version of the paper at the Bluehyppo site, follow links to e-browse.

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Resource Article – Wah Seong Corporation

November 4, 2010

Here’s an article from the Malaysian Petroleum Club publication, Resource. It is on Chan Cheu Leong, CEO of Wah Seong Corporation.

PDF Article on Wah Seong CEO

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From the Star – EPPs to achieve GNI target

November 3, 2010

Taken from the Star, dateline 2010-10-26:

MALAYSIA’S oil, gas and energy sector is expected to register an annual growth of 5% from 2010 to 2020.

This ambitious goal will deliver RM131.4bil in terms of gross national income (GNI) by 2020, or doubled the current contribution. It will also create an additional 52,000 jobs.

To achieve this target set out under the Economic Transformation Programme (ETP), 12 entry point projects (EPPs) have been identified. The EPPs will generate RM47.1bil to GNI, while another RM61.2bil will come from business opportunities and baseline growth.

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Two Graphs showing incremental GNI and new jobs

You can subscribe to an online version of the paper at the Bluehyppo site, follow links to e-browse.

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From Bernama – Malaysia Has Potential To Become One Of World’s Key Deep-Water Oil And Gas Hubs

November 2, 2010
From Bernama, dateline 2010-10-27:

Malaysia is a leading player in the oil and gas industry in the Asia-Pacific region and according to industry experts, has the potential to be one of the world’s key deep-water oil and gas hubs.

In this context, the upcoming 18th International Oil & Gas Industry Exhibition & Conference (OSEA) 2010, will give local companies an excellent opportunity to further showcase their expertise and specialised services.

To be held from Nov 3-Dec 3 at the Suntec Singapore, the event will involve 1,500 international exhibitors and is expected to receive over 22,000 participants from 60 countries and regions.

The contribution from the sector is expected to increase by approximately 20 per cent over the next five years to reach RM81.9 billion or 11.1 per cent of Malaysia’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

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