As part of marketing rounds, we went a bit further north to Dungun, to sample the food there. Unfortunately, no foodie pictures, but here’s a sight for you.
Marketing Rounds – Kerteh 2017-04
May 17, 2017
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Saturday Star 2017-05-13 – Job Opportunities
May 15, 2017Happy Prepare for Ramadhan week. IGL has pivoted into training, so book your seats now.
We’re thinking of republishing Young Turks of PETRONAS, but it’s a minimum 500 book printing run. Do I have enough interested persons to purchase?
Donate to your favorite charity (me), buy my recommendations, or through my Amazon store. Or get the Young Turks series (3 books until I can get YTP republished). Where are those corporate sponsors? Or throw donations at me, my camera dive case flooded, and I need a new replacement. Heck, if you want to send me a Canon 5D Mk III plus dive case, I will not say no.
- I have a feeling that The Star isn’t the preferred O&G job recruitment portal now. I see more adverts via social media. What do you think, is it a step change that the papers need to embrace?
- I’m looking for jobs for 3Q2017. Send me your POs.
Food choice of the week? The nostalgic food stall, near your parents home. McD Bangsar Baru does not count.
Seeing that Joe Dever has passed away, 
Flight from the Dark (Lone Wolf, Book 1)
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Malaysia’s energy industry sees a stronger 2017
May 12, 2017Dateline 2017-04-31, Oxford Business Group:
Petronas is pushing ahead with development of a large-scale refinery and petrochemicals plant in the southern state of Johor, with support from Saudi Arabia guaranteed as of last month.
In late January Petronas confirmed it would complete its Refinery and Petrochemical Integrated Development (RAPID) project on schedule, with production to commence in 2019. When fully on-line, the complex will have the capacity to process 300,000 bpd and up to 7.7m tonnes of petrochemicals annually.
Following the announcement, oil giant Saudi Aramco announced at the end of February that it would invest $7bn in the RAPID project out of a total investment of $16bn. This put to rest concerns that the programme would be scaled back or delayed, amid reports in January that the Saudi company had stepped away from forming a partnership with Petronas.
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Public understanding vital before embarking on nuclear power programme
May 11, 2017Dateline 2017-04-30, Astro Awani:
While the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has certified Malaysia’s readiness to “make an informed decision” on introducing nuclear power, there remains a question mark over whether the public is ready to embrace this particular alternative energy source.
Many are haunted by the disaster that struck the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan in March 2011 following a massive earthquake and tsunami, as well as the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine where an accident in 1986 caused radiation-related fatalities.
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IGL – Directors’ Presentation Series 2017-03 – FDP
May 10, 2017Ir. Abdul Razak Yakob presented a talk on Field Development Plans (FDP)at IGL offices. Friends and associates were invited to turn up. A whole from East101 was there.
Where you at?
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Aramco JV was well thought out, says Petronas
May 9, 2017Dateline 2017-04-27, Malay Mail:
The joint venture with Aramco for the Refinery and Petrochemical Integrated Development (RAPID) was not done overnight but had been looked at since 2014, said Petronas group executive vice-president Md Arif Mahmood.
Arif said the Malaysian unit was “never forced into the joint venture” and had always been eyeing a partner like Aramco.
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Right time for oil and gas players to consolidate: MPRC
May 9, 2017Ws that the best picture they could get of Syed Azlan?
Dateline 2017-04-27, NST:
WITH crude oil prices at a relatively plateau level, the time is right for oil and gas players to collaborate or consolidate, said Malaysia Petroleum Resources Corp (MPRC) senior vice-president Syed Azlan Syed Ibrahim.
“Although we foresee 2017 will not be far off than 2016, I do not think it will be worse. This is the opportunity for players to make the hard decision to restructure or reform. That time is now.
“They need to do it now so that when the market goes back up they will be ready,” he said after the MPRC business seminar, here, on Friday.
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Saturday Star 2017-05-06 – Job Opportunities
May 8, 2017Happy Ingress Gaming, ‘Magnus builder and Smurfing the Earth’ week. IGL has pivoted into training, so book your seats now.
We’re thinking of republishing Young Turks of PETRONAS, but it’s a minimum 500 book printing run. Do I have enough interested persons to purchase?
Donate to your favorite charity (me), buy my recommendations, or through my Amazon store. Or get the Young Turks series (3 books until I can get YTP republished). Where are those corporate sponsors? Or throw donations at me, my camera dive case flooded, and I need a new replacement. Heck, if you want to send me a Canon 5D Mk III plus dive case, I will not say no.
- I have a feeling that The Star isn’t the preferred O&G job recruitment portal now. I see more adverts via social media. What do you think, is it a step change that the papers need to embrace?
- I’m looking for jobs for 3Q2017. Send me your POs.
Food choice of the week? The nostalgic food stall, near your parents home. McD Bangsar Baru does not count.
Seeing that Joe Dever has passed away,
Flight from the Dark (Lone Wolf, Book 1)
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Petronas says RM200b ‘forgone revenue’ from selling natural gas cheaper in Malaysia
May 7, 2017Dateline 2017-04-25, The Edge:
Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas) has forgone more than RM200 billion in revenue from selling natural gas in Malaysia at rates lower than global prices since the country regulated prices of the fuel after the 1997/1998 Asian financial crisis.
The Edge Malaysia business and investment weekly (Edge Weekly) in its latest March 27 to April 2 issue, quoted Petronas president and group chief executive officer Datuk Wan Zulkiflee Wan Ariffin as saying despite Malaysia revising the price of natural gas upward every six months, the local rate was still below the international price.
“I think the forgone revenue since we started is more than RM200 billion because we have not been able to sell natural gas at market value. In the past, we made investments just to ensure security of supply. But moving forward, there is this perennial issue of non-market pricing.
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Longhouses near gas pipeline given fire safety talk
May 6, 2017How exactly would these talks decrease the risks to the longhouses?
Dateline 2017-04-24, Borneo Post:
Zone 6 of the Fire and Rescue Department (Bomba) and Sabah Sarawak Gas Pipeline (SSGP) recently held a fire safety campaign for longhouses along the gas pipeline in Niah near here.
It was held at Clarence Unjun longhouse and involved fire safety working committees from nearby longhouses – Merudi Jalin longhouse, Robert Antas Gani longhouse, Sabang Empungan longhouse and Ngalantar Senggaling longhouse, including Clarence Unjun longhouse.
The campaign included auditing longhouses close to the SSGP gas pipeline to assess their level of fire safety.
The longhouse residents were taught on the security measures around the gas pipeline by SSGP and given fire safety talk and demonstration on how to use fire extinguishers by Bomba.
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