Saturday Star 2015-11-21– Job Opportunities

November 23, 2015

Happy Rain Week. Donate to your favourite charity (me), buy my recommendations, or through my Amazon store. Or get the Young Turks series (all 4 books). 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.

  • ExxonMobil Research and Engineering (EMRE) is looking for people. Visit the website.
  • I’m looking for jobs for 1Q2016. Send me your POs.
  • An associate of mine is looking for a technical safety part-time adviser. 2 Associates, actually. Needs to be needle sharp with respect to QRAs, and HSE safety cases. A calm demeanor to handle nonsensical questions from young engineers helps as well. Either that, or a drinking problem.
  • Nothing much in the news. Were you expecting jobs galore? Has The Star dropped out of favour? I see more job adverts on the facebook private groups.

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? Hmm.

Seen the Episode VII trailer? Booked the theater? If you say “What is episode Vii?”, I disown you.

During these trying times, perhaps you should focus on self improvement. The following are a good set of books to start automating your uncertainty budget tables.

The Cartoon Guide to Statistics, Hands-On Start to Wolfram Mathematica, Doubt-Free Uncertainty In Measurement: An Introduction for Engineers and Students

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Q&A with Datuk Wan Zulkiflee Wan Ariffin

November 22, 2015

Dateline 2015-10-13, NST:

Wan Zul speaks on the Petronas venture in British Columbia, RAPID Pengerang, and investment in new technologies in the second and final part of the wide-ranging interview with the Business Times.

Q: What is the level now in terms of upstream in other countries?

A: The bigger ones in terms of gas would be a Turkmenistan, Egypt, Myanmar, Canada, Indonesia, Australia and Azerbaijan. For oil it would be Sudan, Chad and, of course, Iraq.

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Petronas to continue aggressive exploration

November 20, 2015

And they will be exploring using offshore standby vessels?

Dateline 2015-10-13, The Star:

Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas) will continue to undertake aggressive exploration and appraisal activities despite the global low oil price environment.

General Manager, Malaysia Petroleum Management, Mohd Redhani Abdul Rahman said Petronas feels that this is one of the main strategic thrusts that has been working for Malaysia for the past five to 10 years.

“In the last five years, 970 exploration wells were drilled in South-East Asia and about one fifth of them, or 171 wells, were drilled in Malaysian waters.

“The 970 wells drilled have brought in an additional 10 billion barrels of oil equivalent, with Malaysia contributing half of the new addition,” he said at the Asia Petroleum and Geoscience Conference and Exhibition (APGCE) 2015 here yesterday.

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Change fuel pricing from USD to ringgit, Putrajaya told

November 19, 2015

Putrajaya gets told a lot, don’t you think?

Dateline 2015-10-13, TMI:

Pakatan Harapan today urged Putrajaya to revamp ‎the formula to determine local fuel prices by switching the reference currency from the US dollar to the ringgit. This, they said, would protect Malaysians from high fuel prices because of the continuous drop in the val‎ue of the ringgit in recent months.

“The formula to determine the actual true and fair price of fuel is the cost of crude oil and its processing to refine it to RON95 added with the guarantee of profit to oil companies,” Rafizi Ramli, who is PKR secretary-general, said in a press conference today

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Marketing Rounds – IChemE Hazards Asia Pacific 2015 2of 2

November 18, 2015

I’m clearing out my old photos. Here are some photos from the Hazards AP. Will we see any oil & gas companies next year?

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Q&A with Petronas’ new CEO

November 17, 2015

Article jumps straight into it, without names and such.

Dateline 2015-10-12, NST:

Q: What is your take on the overall oil and gas industry?

A: What we anticipate is that this will be a prolonged environment of low oil prices. It is not a sudden dip in a cycle or anything. We think this would be prolonged because of the structural shift in the industry. And with many things happening at the same time, this confluence of world events has caused impact. When we look back, this is similar to what we experienced in 2008, where that, too, took quite a few years before prices picked up again.

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Saturday Star 2015-11-14– Job Opportunities

November 16, 2015

Happy Rain Week. Donate to your favourite charity (me), buy my recommendations, or through my Amazon store. Or get the Young Turks series (all 4 books). 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’m looking for jobs for 1Q2016. Send me your POs.
  • An associate of mine is looking for a technical safety part-time adviser. 2 Associates, actually. Needs to be needle sharp with respect to QRAs, and HSE safety cases. A calm demeanor to handle nonsensical questions from young engineers helps as well. Either that, or a drinking problem.
  • Nothing much in the news. Were you expecting jobs galore? Has The Star dropped out of favour? I see more job adverts on the facebook private groups.

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? Hmm.

Seen the Episode VII trailer? Booked the theater? If you say “What is episode Vii?”, I disown you.

During these trying times, perhaps you should focus on self improvement. The following are a good set of books to start automating your uncertainty budget tables.

The Cartoon Guide to Statistics, Hands-On Start to Wolfram Mathematica, Doubt-Free Uncertainty In Measurement: An Introduction for Engineers and Students

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Steering through tough times

November 15, 2015

Dateline 2015-10-12, NST:

Acknowledging that the current global oil price doldrums could be prolonged, Petronas hasmapped out a six-point strategy to help the oil giant tide over the trying times and to stay profitable.

Outlining his game plan, Petronas president and group chief executive officer Datuk Wan Zulkiflee Wan Ariffin said it would weed out inefficiencies, manage costs, cut back some capital expenditure and seek more revenue.

In an exclusive interview with the New Straits Times, his first with the media since assuming his job on April 1, Wan Zul said his set of challenges were markedly different from his predecessors.

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Groundbreaking Of Gas Malaysia’s 1st CNG Project

November 14, 2015

Dateline 2015-10-12, Malaysian Reserve:

Gas Malaysia-IEV Sdn Bhd (GMIEV), a subsidiary of Gas Malaysia Bhd, recently held a groundbreaking ceremony to mark the start of the construction of its compressed natural gas (CNG) station in Gebeng in Kuantan, Pahang.

The project will allow GMIEV to offer a complete value chain of mobile gas solutions; from processing of gas into CNG to transportation and distribution to end-users.

GMIEV will purchase natural gas from Gas Malaysia and will maintain and operate the compression, transportation and pressure regulating unit which are key components of the virtual pipeline.

When completed, the CNG station will be able to deliver compressed gas to customers within a 200km radius of Gebeng.

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IEM Shout Out – Half Day Course on Incorporating CDIO (TM) framework through Project based learning (PBL)

November 13, 2015

This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will be having a course on 27th November, presented by Ir Assoc. Prof. Dr. Satesh Namasivayam . It’ll be at 9am at Wisma IEM.

Ready to engineer. So it is said. But what is engineer and how do you engineer? What are the barriers to engineer and what are the key factors necessary to educate engineer? How to think like an engineer? Incorporating CDIOTM framework through Project based learning (PBL) can be one of the solutions. The CDIOTM initiative has been developing as more collaborators from all over the globe are taking this initiative as a base for their educational institutions adopting what so-called the “active learning” policy which includes, but not limited to, a complete system of a well-designed syllabus covering the skills and characteristics of graduating engineers.

Throughout CDIOTM phases, the learning process has changed from passive-note taking to more active-project-based education. This half-day workshop is designed with three (3) objectives as follows

  • Introduce participants to Conceive-Design-Implement-Operate initiative
  • Integrate CDIO initiative in curriculum to address complex, value added engineering products, processes, systems in modern and team-based environment;
  • Review the know-how of conceiving, designing, implementing and operating complex engineering systems of appropriate complexity.

Ir Assoc Prof Dr. Satesh Namasivayam BEng (1st Class Hons) PhD (London) FIMechE MIEM CEng PEng CIT (HRDF) is a Chartered and Professional Mechanical Engineer, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Deputy Dean from the School of Engineering at Taylor’s University, Malaysia.

You can register here, and get the flyer here.

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