Saturday Star 2015-10-17– Job Opportunities

October 19, 2015

Happy HAZOP 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. 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? Alfalfa.

Seen the Episode VII new trailer? 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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Malaysian oil and gas companies feel the pinch

October 18, 2015

Isn’t this article about 6 months late? University students, plan your careers now.

Dateline 2015-09-15, The Star:

Apart from the value of the ringgit to the US dollar, the other closely watched number if the price of crude oil.

For Malaysia, a net exporter of oil and gas, the price of crude oil has a major implication on the Malaysian economy.

The Government’s Budget is premised on the average price of Brent crude oil at US$55 a barrel and right now, the average for the year is close to that. With Brent trading below that number, it is very likely that the average for the year is going to come in lower than what the Government had forecast months ago when it revised its budget for 2015.

But the implication does not stop at the Government’s fiscal position. The collapse of the price of crude oil has had a major effect on companies, employment and the economy.

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Petronas safety problems no surprise at home

October 17, 2015

I… have no comment. Oh, did I mention I have a PETRONAS license for safety services?

Dateline 2015-09-15, Vancouver Sun:

Malaysians wouldn’t be as surprised as Canadians to learn that Petronas, a global energy company critical to B.C.’s LNG future, has been struggling with major safety and structural integrity issues in its offshore oil and gas operations, according to a Malaysian environmental consultant.

Eugene Lee, who wrote a 2013 report on the lack of transparency surrounding the state-owned company, said he was unaware of the internal audit obtained by The Vancouver Sun outlining safety issues so serious they were “almost certain” to lead to “catastrophic” incidents.

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Is it time to buy oil and gas stocks?

October 16, 2015

Nah, wait till 2H2016.

Dateline 2015-09-14, The Star:

IT is often regarded that the best time to accumulate a stock is when nobody is looking at it. Would that hold true for oil and gas [O&G] stocks whose prices have been beaten down in the wake of the collapse of oil prices?

“Yes and no, perhaps one can start looking at certain O&G companies that are not so directly impacted by the oil price and those that are in the brownfield segment,’’ said a senior analyst.

The analyst added that earnings for KNM and Dialog were more tied to jobs related to the massive Refinery and Petrochemical Integrated Development (Rapid) project by Petronas at Pengerang, Johor.

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EM Shout Out – Technical Visit to Solar Farm Kompleks Hijau Solar, Gading Kencana Sdn Bhd

October 15, 2015

This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will hosting the visit on Wednesday the 28th Oct, 2015.

Gading Kencana Sdn Bhd has successfully commissioned a 8-MW solar farm on a 6.86 hectar land in Bemban, Melaka with an investment cost of  RM 86-million. The solar farm has a total output of 10,120 MWh annually. It is enough to power some 1,800 local households. The electricity produced is being purchased by  Tenaga Nasional Bhd at 80 cents per kilowatt hour of electricity under the Feed-in Tariff (FiT) scheme managed by Sustainable Energy Development Authority Malaysia (SEDA) and the Energy Commission.

You can register here. Flyers may be obtained here.

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Marketing Rounds – Teaching at Heriot Watt

October 14, 2015

I was honoured to give a talk on the 22nd September to young victims… um minds at Heriot-Watt university, Malaysia campus. Topic was on safety. I could only take a photo before I started the 2 hour presentation.

I  wonder if I’ll be invited back to abuse the next batch

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IEM Shout Out – Two-Day Workshop on on Asset Management Standards and Assessments

October 13, 2015

My technical division will be hosting a 1 day seminar on the 17th to 18th November , 2015. It is worth 13 CPD points, and held at Wisma IEM. The course will be presented by Ir Al-Khairi Mohd Daud.

The main aims of this course are to:

  • Introduce participants to the concepts, practices and application of asset management and their implications for the optimized management of physical assets;
  • Provide an overview of PAS 55 /iSO55000 requirements for physical asset management and how these apply to the organisation;
  • Review options and good industry practice for asset management planning and for implementation of optimized plans over asset life cycles;
  • Show how these can be integrated with a business management system to align with other requirements including management system standards, relevant specifications and regulatory requirements;
  • Learn how to do good asset auditing and assessment programme.

Ir. Al-Khairi has 21 years of experience in research, cement, oil and gas, petrochemical, oleo chemicals industries and health care facilities. He has gained various experiences in design, construction, testing and commissioning, operate and maintain facilities and plants from various multinational companies both abroad and locally. He has served in various roles as engineers and manager to the plant and facilities.

Register here, or download the form here.

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(revised) IEM Shout Out – One-Day Workshop on Rock Blasting and Explosive Engineering

October 13, 2015

This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will hosting the above seminar on Wednesday the 15th Oct, 2015 by Mr. Mohamad Razif Kemat, Mr. Yap Hong Hor, and Ir. Look Keman Sahari.

This Workshop will be a series of Courses on the Application of Explosives in mining, quarrying and Construction industries tailored to the engineers and other professionals such as Safety personnel who need to know how explosives are used safely and efficiently in rock blasting operation, mining, quarrying, and construction industries.

The Workshop will introduce the various types of explosives used in the commercial application and suitability of particular explosives for a particular application. The right choice of an initiation system, for example, will determine the degree of disturbance to the public and the potential complaints from them which may cause delays in a blasting project. This may also help the project manager to understand the proposal made by the consulting engineer or blasting engineer for a particular blasting project instead of just depend on blasting contractor’s proposal which purely focus on the cheapest costs.
The Workshop is also a good introduction to those who wish to learn about the productive use of explosives in our life. It includes lectures and demonstration of explosive products (dummy samples) used in our industries.As a result of fast pace development housing, business centres, factories etc are being built near existing structures. Development within city areas for examples requires firm foundation below the surface where underground space are also used as car parks, LRT stations, bus station etc. Excavation of underground space requires the removal of soil and also rocks. In both Selangor and Penang Island the need for building new houses for expanding population requires the cutting and levelling of hilly areas. All these require the use of explosives.

 

You can register here. Flyers may be obtained here.

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Saturday Star 2015-10-10– Job Opportunities

October 12, 2015

Happy HAZOP 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. 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? Alfalfa.

Seen the Episode VII new trailer? 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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Petronas: Powerful, enigmatic, world player

October 11, 2015

No, I didn’t leak the video.

Dateline 2015-09-11, Vancouver Sun:

When B.C. invited Petronas to play a pioneering role in establishing the province’s nascent liquefied natural gas industry, it brought in a powerful, highly politicized, and deeply enigmatic global energy giant.

Malaysia’s state-owned national oil company, now facing criticism over a leaked report to The Vancouver Sun outlining serious safety and structural integrity issues in its Malaysian offshore operations, hasn’t yet fully committed to the $11.4 billion project near Prince Rupert.

Yet its clout has already been on display. While all the major LNG players in B.C. have quietly lobbied both the federal and B.C. governments to provide tax breaks, only Petronas openly threatened to abandon B.C. if it didn’t get its way.

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