Dropping by at the Kompleks Operasi Petronas (KOP) on Sunday, 11th Oct, 2009 (yes, I do work on Sundays), I noticed that PCSB has quite the community spirit.
PCSB-PMO Open House 2009
October 15, 2009
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OTS is Everywhere
October 14, 2009Who says Operator Training Simulators is confined to the la-de-daa world of oil & gas?
OTS Everywhere
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Exxon – Poster Booboo
October 13, 2009ExxonMobil Malaysia is usually top notch when it comes to posters, presentations and all other pictorial forms of communication. That why this poster amuses me so much:
Let’s see now, on average I travel 60km a day, yet using the recommended grade of motor oil, I can gain up to 250 miles (400 km) per day. Why isn’t my tank overflowing with the 340km worth of petrol I can gain per day? Or is this based on someone who travels 20,000 km per day?
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Saturday Star 2009-10-10 – Job Opportunities
October 12, 2009- Synergy is looking for safety engineers. Visit the Synergy websites (Jakarta and KL) for contact details.
- Saudi Aramco Total is looking for a Quality Specialist, Environment Head, Snr On-Stream Analysers’ Field Technician (awkward title), Central Planning Supervisor, Rot Eqt Senior Specialst, Instr Eng, DCS Eng, Elec Eng, ECS Eng, Rot Eqt Eng. Apply to Melorita.
- Carigali Hess is looking for a Reservoir Engineer, Petroleum Engineer. Email to mselvamaithan@carigalihess.com, indicating position applied for as subject of the email. Now you wonder, did Wata supply the right titles?
- Nippon Oil Exploration (Malaysia) Ltd (NOEX) asks, “Do you want to be part of a sustainable energy initiative for the future?” If so, there’s a position of Manager, HR & Admin open. Snail mail to Human Resource Section NIPPON OIL EXPLORATION (MALAYSIA) LTD, Lot 1168, 3rd Floor, Wisma Interhill, Miri Waterfront Commercial Centre, 98000 Miri, Sarawak, Malaysia before the 20th.
My eating recommendation for the week will be Restoran Tong Juan Seafood. For those who have ever worked in the O&G industry on the East Coast of Malaysia would have gone there sometime, usual after thinking ‘Where is there to eat around here?’ Of course, you would also have visited Hai Peng as well
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ESPs in Malaysia – Finally
October 7, 2009As I go on my marketing rounds, I went and visited Dato’ R. We went quaffing and dungeon crawling … nope wrong blog. I gotta stop playing Nethack.
Anyhow, he shared with me that he and his team has installed electrical submersible pumps (ESPs) in a Malaysian operations environment. The units are installed using CTUs as opposed to drilling rigs (to the workover engineers among you, can you explain why this is important?). The ESPs are Western Submersible Pumps.
Gaslift now has competion. Some of the ESP advantages I can think of are:
- less compression capacity is required, as the volume of recirculated gas is reduced.
- Improved controllability: flowrate only depends on pump perfomance curves, rather than say, compressor availability.
- Mature Tech: someone count how many ESPs are in Acheh.
Though I think that use of ESPs indicate that Malaysian fields are acknowledged to be on the decline.
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Saturday Star 2009-10-03 – Job Opportunities
October 5, 2009- Synergy is looking for safety engineers. Visit the Synergy websites (Jakarta and KL) for contact details.
- And that’s it.
Man, I gotta get to Chee Meng‘s sometime this month.
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Saturday Star 2009-09-26 – Job Opportunities
September 28, 2009First of all, let me say Selamat Hari Raya Eidul Adha Fitri, maaf zahir dan batin, and happy holidays (you can tell I’m a 1Malaysia Malaysian, right?).
- Synergy is looking for safety engineers. Visit the Synergy websites (Jakarta and KL) for contact details.
- Murphy is looking for people with the right fit. I hope they don’t mean they are looking for ‘V’ type body shapes, that’s blatant discrimination against us unfit types (I’m more of an ‘A’ shape). Let’s see, they are looking for snr reservoir eng, metering tech, petroleum engineer. Apply here.
- And if nothing grabs your fancy, KFC is conducting a set of walk-in interviews for Assistant Restaurant Manager Trainee. Hey, they have a clear promotion structure, hourly rates and great food.
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IEM Shout Out – Emerging Technologies to Monetize Small Natural Gas Resources
September 27, 2009This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will be having a talk on Saturday 10th October, 2009. It’ll be at 9:00 am (makan-makan at 11:00) at Wisma IEM. That’s right people, as part of the new health drive you are required to walk up 3 flights of stairs to get your 2 CPD points.
The number of large natural gas fields for mankind’s exploitation is reducing as we go into the future. Future natural gas fields are relatively smaller, scattered in various geographical locations and contains higher acidic components. As the world’s energy demand continues, there is an urgent need to develop emerging technologies to monetize small natural gas resources around the globe which could not be economically carried out now.
The above will be presented by Dr. Ir. Chan Tuck Leong, is a Chemical Engineer graduated from Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS. He is currently the Head of Gas Technology in the gas business of the national oil company. His responsibility covers assessment of emerging gas monetization technology for commercialization and exploitation of small gas reserves.
Fliers for the above and other events may be obtained here.
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The SOGE Story – Member of MOGSC
September 25, 2009I have started getting emails related to MOGSC activities, so I presume that Synergy is a paid-up, card carrying, flag waving member of MOGSC. I haven’t seen any benefit yet, except probably a ‘Huh?’ when our name was circulated for approval. I wonder if there are 3rd degree members, 33rd degree members, aprons and rolled up trousers involved (sorry, just finished reading the Lost Symbol).
Looking forward to the Hari Raya do at MPC. Another photo opportunity. Just call me paparazzi of the oil and gas industry.
I submitted SOGE’s membership for MOGEC the same day as the MOGSC application. Maybe we’re not good enough for them…
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From the Star – Stuck with dirty diesel
September 24, 2009Taken from the Star, dateline 2009-09-11
TWO weeks ago, PETRONAS announced that it was upgrading the diesel it was selling at its pumps to Euro 2M environment standard as part of its efforts to help protect the environment.
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The Euro 2M standard permits only a maximum of 500ppm of sulphur in the fuel, a huge improvement over the previous standard, which capped sulphur content at 3,000ppm.
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To make matters even worse, we are at least two generations behind immediate neighbours Singapore and Thailand where Euro 4 diesel is widely available.
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Two years later (2004), then Natural Resources and Environment Minister Datuk Azmi Khalid announced that the Government was no longer satisfied with Euro 2 but wanted Euro 4 fuel to be made available this year.
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In the words of a senior Petronas official: “This means that our Euro 2M diesel was seven years late in coming.”
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