Saturday Star 2010-10-09 – Job Opportunities

October 11, 2010

Sorry bout last week. Was in a rush, and headed offshore. Needless to say, the job opportunities column got shuffled to the bottom of the list.

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  • I see that Qatar Petroleum is looking for people for their production department Dukhan. They are looking for a maintenance planning and scheduling engineer, field production supervisor, field operator, electrical technician, instrument technician, mechanical technician. You can visit  at AP‘s site for more information. Apply here.
  • AkerSolutions ads say ‘it takes extraordinary talent to see possibilities in impossible surroundings’. A good quote to pick up. Visit them here if you want to see if you are woman enough to meet the challenge.
  • Sabic has an advert. They are looking for analyzer engineer, DCS & CS engineer, electrical engineer, field instrument engineer, instrument and analyzer engineer, and a whole mess of other stuff. You can apply via email here or here. Or key in your resumes online here. Login under candidate login and password at the website.
  • Transocean ‘the world’s largest offshore drilling contractor and leading provider of drilling management services worldwide’ is looking for Operations, Marine & Maintenance personnel. Applicant can expect demanding supervisors, challenging work conditions, strenuous physical labour, equal work schedule, a rewarding career, competitive remuneration and benefits. Send an email to recruitment.kul@deepwater.com
  • Here’s a new one. Eastern Pacific Industrial Corporation Berhad (EPIC) is looking for Senior Manager, Corporate Communication, Legal & Secretarial, Manager, Marketing, Manager/Senior Executive, Corporate Finance Investment Liason, Senior Executive, Technical Service. Visit them at their website, or email to ghr@epicgroup.com.my.

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From the Business Times – Petronas Gas raised to ‘buy’ at Maybank

October 10, 2010
Taken from the Business Times, dateline 2010-10-06:
 
Petronas Gas Bhd was raised to “buy” from “hold” at Maybank Investment Bank Bhd, which said the natural gas distributor is a major beneficiary as Malaysia liberalizes its gas supply and prices.

The share-price estimate was increased to RM12.80 from RM10.40, Andrew Lee, an analyst at Maybank Investment, said in a report today.

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From the Star – Government should lead way in Johor O&G hub plan

October 9, 2010

IDR, JCorp and Khazanah, take note on how you spend my tax money.

From the Star, dateline 2010-10-09:

Johor wants the Federal Government to lead the way in developing Johor’s southeast areas of Teluk Ramunia and Pengerang into a new oil and gas (O&G) hub in the region.

A senior official with the State Economic Planning Unit (Upen), who declined to be identified, has proposed that a federal level unit be set up to oversee and facilitate the implementation of the plan to ensure the project would be on the right track. He said it was important to have such a unit involved in the development of the country’s O&G hub projects and related activities as there was none at the moment.

He added that the central unit would coordinate in the planning of the hub, including putting infrastructure facilities such as water, power, telecommunications, connectivity, logistics and giving incentives to investors.

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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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IEM Shout Out – CETD 24th AGM

October 5, 2010

The Chemical Engineering Technical Division AGM will be held at 3rd Floor, Tan Sri Prof Chin Fung Kee Auditorium, Wisma IEM, 21 Jalan Selangor, Petaling Jaya.

It will be held at 9am on Saturday, 9th October 2010.

Flyers for the above and other events may be obtained here. A map to Wisma IEM is presented here.

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From Rueters FACTBOX-Malaysia to kickstart private investment

October 2, 2010

Dateline 2010-09-21:

Malaysia on Tuesday outlined ambitious plans to double its national income (GNI) by stimulating $444 billion of investments over the next 10 years, mostly from the private sector.

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OIL AND GAS: It will see investments of 218 billion Malaysian ringgit ($70.30 billion) over the next 10 years, starting with liquefied natural gas facilities in peninsular Malaysia by 2013. A 10-million tonne regional oil storage hub will be built in Johor state, next to Singapore, by 2015 to turn Malaysia-Singapore into an Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp type hub.

By 2017, Malaysia will be the number one oil services hub in Asia and by 2020, there will be 5 gigawatts (GW) of hydro capacity, 1.25GW of solar and a nuclear plant.

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From the Star – More solid oil and gas fabricator sector

September 30, 2010

Any backstreet companies in Balakong and Puchong been approached yet for consolidation?

Taken from the Star, dateline 2010-09-23:

The proposal to consolidate the oil and gas industry’s fabrication assets makes sense as local players will have to bulk up against others in the region to increase their likelihood of winning major contracts.

Analysts told StarBiz the proposal made sense as it would facilitate the winning of new contracts especially as demand for oil platforms picked up.

The proposal, suggested in the oil, gas and energy National Key Economic Area lab under the Economic Transformation Programme, would entail the merger or acquisition of smaller players by the bigger ones.

According to a source, approaches have been made to industry players and Petroliam Nasional Bhd on the proposal and they have been receptive although nothing concrete has been hammered out yet.

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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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Malaysia and Brunei sign offshore pact

September 29, 2010

Doesn’t the word ‘pact’ send shivers down your spine? I’m from the ‘Warsaw Pact’ generation, and fears when you were young just carry on into the silver and golden years.

From MECIP / Upstream:

Malaysia’s Petronas and Brunei’s government have agreed to jointly develop one of two offshore blocks off Borneo.

The offshore exploration areas, formerly designated as Block L and Block M and now renamed CA1 and CA2, were awarded to PETRONAS and Murphy Oil in 2003 but were cancelled in April after Malaysia and Brunei agreed that the blocks were not part of Malaysia.

Petronas and Brunei yesterday signed the production sharing agreement for Block CA1. Both countries hoped that the agreement for Block CA2 would be finalised soon.

“Both leaders noted that the signing represented a significant step forward in the development of cooperation between the petroleum authorities of both countries in this area,” the Malaysian government said in a statement.

Malaysia and Brunei also said there was potential for future cooperation beyond Block CA1 and CA2 and a possible joint venture in a third country in oil and gas exploration, reported Reuters.

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Shout Out – 2-Day Course On Specific Materials &Amp; Their Behaviour In Engineering Applications

September 28, 2010

This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will hosting a course on the 6th and 7th October, 2010. For a change, it will be held at TUS room, Wisma IEM, Petaling Jaya.  The course is worth 13 CPD or PDP points.

The course is designed to provide knowledge and understanding of the properties, characteristics and weldability of the following specific materials: –

  1. Stainless steel (austenitic, ferritic, martensitic, duplex)
  2. Aluminium and alloys
  3. Cryogenic steels (nickel and its alloys) and
  4. Creep resistant steel (chromium, molybdenum and alloys)

The applicable welding consumables, processes and techniques used for each specific material are also covered

The course will be presented by En. Mohd Faisal Yusof. Mohd Faisal joined TWI in 2001 after spending 7 years in the welding and gas industry and 3 years in teaching subject University of Kuala Lumpur. Originally trained as a welding instructor and lecturer, Faisal gained training in European Welding Technologist and Specialist at TWI UK. His early experience was spent on the development and maintaining quality of welding machines and gases in Oil and Gas industries and development of welding procedures and customer services

Faisal now works as Training Manager in TWISEA for welding inspection courses East Asia including Indonesia, Singapore, Philippine, Australia and Vietnam.

Flyers for the above and other events may be obtained here. A map to Wisma IEM is presented here.

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

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IEM Shout Out – CDM Validation and Verification Processes

September 28, 2010

This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will hosting a talk on the 2nd October, 2010. It’ll be at 10:00 am (makan-makan at 9:30 am). You still gotta climb those steps at Wisma IEM.

Malaysia signed the Kyoto Protocol on the 4th September 2002 and among others allows the investment from Annex 1 countries emission for “green project” in exchange for the certified emission reductions (CERs). The CDM process has a number of stagesonce the project design document (PDD) is prepared and submitted. The PDD is validated by operational entity (OE). Once the PDD has been approved by the national authority, the project can be registered by the executive board. The verification, also done by OE is to ensure the project implementation and monitoring is as per stated in the PDD. This is to be done prior to the issuance of CERs. The speaker will cover both processes i.e. validation and verification which are crucial to ensure a smooth development of a CDM project.

The speaker Ms Aminah Ang is the Head of Technical Section at the Management System Certification Department of SIRIM QAS International Sdn Bhd. She is responsible in ensuring the CDM Validation, Verification and Certification services are managed in accordancewith the UNFCCC’s Clean Development Mechanism Modalities and Procedures.

Get the form here.  Flyers for the above and other events may be obtained here. A map to Wisma IEM is presented here.

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PETRONAS plans crude price formula change in 2011

September 26, 2010

Isn’t it ironic that Tapis field is not operated by PETRONAS? It’s still in the hands of a foreign multi-national.

From the Malaysian Insider, dateline 2010-09-23:

Malaysian state oil firm PETRONAS is reviewing its crude price formula, paving way for a change for the first time in eight years, industry sources said today.

The move comes after two other Southeast Asian producers Vietnam and Indonesia said they planned to review their price formulae, abandoning volatile local benchmarks in favour of European bellwether Brent to price their crudes.

Local markers suffer from low liquidity due to production decline at mature fields, with prices frequently diverging from global benchmarks, traders and analysts had said.

PETRONAS has been using 100 percent Tapis prices from the Asian Petroleum Price Index (APPI) since 2002.

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