Wata – Malaysian Oil and Gas Engineer

Happy Slow Boat to Seligi Week.

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.

• A mate of mine is looking for a MD/EngMan type person to help run his engineering company (the main business is skid manufacturing). He can’t handle the work volume, so you know that his oil & gas company is bucking the trend, and has a bright future ahead. If I know you, send your CV’s to me. If I don’t know you, send your CV along anyway, but note I will contact your references. I am not getting a commission for this ad, you know.
• I’m looking for fresh meat-ish, to help with a peak work period.
• Nothing in the papers today.
• I’m looking for jobs for 4Q2016. Send me your POs.

Support your local bookshop!  Bookalicious at The Summit Subang is a good choice. I think they focus on trilogies, quadrilogies, and other ologies. Tell them I sent you, and enjoy the look of perplexity on their faces. Those of you who have dropped my name, thanks!

Food choice of the week? Any weight loss diet.

Let’s get a bit nostalgic with the book selection.

Wetter, Louder, Stickier: A Baby Blues Collection (Baby Blues Scrapbook), BBXX: Baby Blues: Decades 1 & 2, Bedlam

Dateline 2016-06-16, Daily Express:

Amid the challenging global oil price environment that has forced oil and gas industry players to restructure, oil giant Shell remains keen in promoting local talents to meet future demand of skilled manpower.

Although prediction of recovery is impossible to make, the company that has a proud 125-year history in the country believes the answer to the chicken and egg question is all about balance and readiness.

Oil and gas companies including Shell have been forced to restructure in reaction to challenging oil price.

But there have been questions how they would refill their need for skilled workforce if and when signs of recovery begin to show.

“If you look at the broader environment, every company has gone through some form of restructuring.

Every oil and gas company has gone through that cycle whether last year or are still going through it now.

And that’s just a reflection of a lower volume of work,” said Ian Lim, Sabah Shell Malaysia General Manager.

“But the danger is that in times like this people stop investing in talent and training. Not so much the oil and gas companies but the vendors and the government and vocational schools.

And typically what happens when the market picks up we start to award jobs, vendors start to look for people who are qualified. The danger you get there is you won’t get Sabahans or Malaysians but the work needs to be done then you increase your wage cost by looking for international (workers).

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Happy Training for Engineer’s Run 2016 week.

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.

• A mate of mine is looking for a MD/EngMan type person to help run his engineering company (the main business is skid manufacturing). He can’t handle the work volume, so you know that his oil & gas company is bucking the trend, and has a bright future ahead. If I know you, send your CV’s to me. If I don’t know you, send your CV along anyway, but note I will contact your references. I am not getting a commission for this ad, you know.
• I’m looking for fresh meat-ish, to help with a peak work period.
• Nothing in the papers today.
• I’m looking for jobs for 4Q2016. Send me your POs.

Support your local bookshop!  Bookalicious at The Summit Subang is a good choice. I think they focus on trilogies, quadrilogies, and other ologies. Tell them I sent you, and enjoy the look of perplexity on their faces. Those of you who have dropped my name, thanks!

Food choice of the week? Any weight loss diet.

Let’s get a bit nostalgic with the book selection.

Wetter, Louder, Stickier: A Baby Blues Collection (Baby Blues Scrapbook), BBXX: Baby Blues: Decades 1 & 2, Bedlam

Really? Mine are shrinking, along with other things due to stress generated by the ongoing business climate.

Dateline 2016-06-15, NST:

Earnings of local oil and gas (O&G) firms are not likely to shrink further as the downtrend in crude prices has largely stabilised and even tested new highs recently, analysts said. The 31 listed O&G companies saw aggregate 2015 revenue drop a moderate 18 per cent but pre-tax profit plummet 57 per cent, exacerbated by the impairment of assets and intangibles. RAM Ratings expects average Brent crude price of US$40 (RM163.60) a barrel this year and US$45 a barrel next year. It said crude prices are likely to stay volatile in the coming months, pressured by a slew of uncertainties over supply growth and concerns on unsustainable consumption growth in major consumer markets.

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