Foreign interest in Sabah SOGIP

September 11, 2015

Hail Eastern Europe.

Dateline 2015-08-05, Daily Express:

The district will be receiving foreign investments worth many billion Ringgit to build mega projects related to the oil and gas (O&G) industry here.

Member of Parliament Datuk Sapawi Ahmad, who disclosed this, said projects are expected to be constructed at the Sipitang Oil and Gas Industrial Park (SOGIP) in Sindumin that will have a huge impact on the development of O&G industry and socio-economic aspects here.

“I was made to understand that several foreign companies have shown interest to invest in our oil and gas industry in particular in SOGIP here that has a total acreage of 4.065-acre, as it is the only site exclusively for the O&G industry in Sabah.

“One particular investor is from Romania who have contacted the State Government through the Industrial Development Ministry to show their interest to spend their money in constructing a project in SOGIP. Only the concerned authorities would know the details on specific project that Romania hopes to invest here.

“These upcoming projects would bring positive impact to the industry and development of infrastructure and social development as well as helping the government in bringing about rapid development in the O&G industry in the State,” he said.


MyCAN urges Malaysians to reject nuclear-related bill

September 10, 2015

Please support the bill. It’s an enabler of my golden parachute plan. And it implicitly means that the rakyat doesn’t trust the brotherhood of local engineers to partake in such a project. Where you sit on this? Get it, my CAN? Sigh, my standup comedic talents are wasted.

Dateline 2015-08-04, The Rakyat Post (who?):

Due to the perilous repercussions, a coalition of NGOs called Malaysian Coalition Against Nuclear (MyCAN) has called on Malaysians, including Members of Parliament (MP), to reject the Atomic Energy Regulatory Bill.

In a statement, today, MyCAN urged MPs on both sides of the political divide to heed the concerns of civil society and demands that the nuclear power project be terminated on grounds of public health and safety, economics, energy security, environmental protection and sustainable development.

MyCAN, which comprises of NGOs such as Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) and Sahabat Alam Malaysia, rejected the Atomic Energy Regulatory Bill, which was likely to be tabled at the next parliamentary sitting from Oct 19 to Dec 3.


Marketing Rounds – MOGSC CORAL 2.0 Tech Standards and Late Life

September 9, 2015

I was honoured to be one of the facilitators for the day. Though, time will tell if they invite me back.

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Petikan dari “Tuah Jebat Di PETRONAS” – Renungan Mohd Idris Mansor

September 8, 2015

Tentang ‘Seven Sisters’:

Dunai hari ini (2005) adalah amat berlainan. 30 tahun dulu, minyak dan gas merupakan domain beberapa syarikat minyak, iaitu “The Seven Sisters.” Apabila PETRONAS ditubuhkan, kami sebagai pekerja-pekerja yang diambil berkhidmat, secara tidak langsung, mejadi orang-orang yang paling aktif tentang industri minyak dan gas. Jadi, kami dipertanggungjawabkan dengan perundingan-perundingan yang perlu dibuat. Selain itu, apabila bos telah memanggil anda dan berkata, “kamu pergi laksanakannya,”anda akan berkata, “baik, tuan!” Anda tidak boleh berkata, “maaf tuan, saya tidak tahu bagaimana.”

Wish my staff were as enthusiastic for the bleeding edge.

Visit here and buy books so I have some spending money. I expect you to buy the whole set of 4.


IEM Shout Out – Talk Fire And Gas Detection Systems On Offshore Platform

September 8, 2015

My technical division will be hosting a talk seminar on the 12th September , 2015. It is worth 2 CPD points, and held at Wisma IEM. The course will be presented by Ir. Gan Chun Chet. Safety practitioners, fill up the seats, please.

Offshore platforms are equipped with a fire and gas detection technology to mitigate a hazardous situation. Calculated risk analysis (through simulation) has improved the risk of a catastrophic fire incidents around the region. An analysis by utilizing fire and gas mapping calculates the chances of a fire risk. This technique is widely used today and is still continuously being developed for improvement purposes. With proper forecasting or predictive technique, a failure can be avoided.

In an uncertainty situation, the risks among the people working on an offshore platform increase when there is a fire and gas detection system failure. An investment in a reliable fire and gas detection system is a necessity. A fail-safe system design which shutdowns the platform to protect the assets, environment and people, when a fire or gas leakage occurs must be available, be reliable and be dependable when required.

CENTRIFUGAL PUMP THEORY AND APPLICATION shall provide the audience with the knowledge and principles of pump design, sizing, selection and performance analysis. The course will be beneficial to engineers dealing with pump and will be presented in a way that is comprehensible to the engineers who are with or without the oil and gas background. The objectives of the course are to provide exposure to the audiences on understanding of fundamental design of centrifugal pump, the critical pump parameters when evaluating pump selection and making the best decision on specification.

Ir. Gan Chun Chet is a Mechanical Engineering graduate from the University of Manchester, United Kingdom in 1996. He also has a Masters of Science in Operations Management awarded by University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), United Kingdom in 1997.

He started his career with the General Industry, and later moved to the Oil and Gas Industry where he has accumulated 17 years of working experience. In the general industry, he worked together with an engineering team to resolve daily Plant issues encountered. Some of the problems consisted of noise problems, and compressor/pumps vibration problems. Monitoring the progress and taking actions are vital to resolve the issues.

In the oil and gas industry, he works with other engineers in the area of predicting equipment failures. Practices such as redundancy, field voting, review check activities, are some examples of practices in failure mitigations.

Register here, or download the form here.


Saturday Star 2015-09-05– Job Opportunities

September 7, 2015

Happy FAM Week. Donate to your favourite charity, 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.

  • I’m looking for jobs for 4Q2015. 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? Anything under RM5.

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

Join the Star Wars Fever:

Star Wars Trilogy Episodes IV-VI (Blu-ray + DVD), Star Wars Trilogy Episodes I-III (Blu-ray + DVD), Heir to the Jedi: Star Wars


Petronas Gas Q2 Pre-Tax Profit Falls To RM527.10 Mln

September 4, 2015

Dateline 2015-08-04, Malaysia Reserve:

Petronas Gas Bhd’s pre-tax profit for the second quarter ended June 30, 2015, fell to RM527.10 million from RM578.92 million in the corresponding quarter of 2014.

Revenue declined to RM1.08 billion from RM1.10 billion previously due to lower utilities revenue.

In a filing to Bursa Malaysia, Petronas Gas said the lower revenue was due to electricity tariff rebate effective March 1, 2015.

Petronas Gas expected its 2015 performance for gas processing, gas transportation and regasification segments to remain stable.

 


Even Big Oil Is Admitting Oil Prices WON’T Rebound Soon

September 3, 2015

Nah, as soon as we have happy with 1MDB, the prices will rebound. I say 3Q 2015. And the Chronicle copied the article verbatim, even the embedded ads. Did your reporter work for an oil & gas engineering house?

Dateline, 2015-08-02, Malaysia Chronicle:

Chevron acknowledged on Friday what the other major oil companies have been reluctant to say publicly: Cheap oil is here to stay, perhaps for years.

“We lowered our long-term price outlook,” Chevron Chief Financial Officer Pat Yarrington told investors during the company’s second-quarter earnings call. Although she declined to offer specifics, she suggested that the oil majors will just have to get used to low oil prices.

After Chevron and the other two U.S. “supermajors” — ConocoPhillips (COP – Get Report) and Exxon Mobil (XOM – Get Report) — reported disastrous earnings this week, they tried to appease investors with dividends and major spending cuts.

The most important factors for Chevron’s lowered price outlook, Yarrington said, were slow global economic growth — particularly in China — and abundant shale production in the U.S.


1MDB’s plans for a cash cow in nuclear power plant

September 1, 2015

I need an inroad to 1MDB. Where are TH’s land banks?

Dateline 2015-08-01, FMT:

The troubled government investment arm 1Malaysia Development Bhd may have plans to milk a future “cash cow” by going into the nuclear power generating business, according to a speculative analysis by a business school researcher.

Wan Ahmad Fayhsal, a fellow at Universiti Putra Malaysia’s Putra Business School, wrote about the links between 1MDB and Malaysia Nuclear Power Corporation, a government unit in the Prime Minister’s Department.

He also set out the links between key people in the two organisations, the role of financier played by Azman Hashim’s right hand man in AmBank group, and the Wei brothers, successful construction and property development businessmen and their links to Jho Low.


IEM Shout Out – Talk Fire And Gas Detection Systems On Offshore Platform

September 1, 2015

My technical division will be hosting a talk seminar on the 12th September , 2015. It is worth 2 CPD points, and held at Wisma IEM. The course will be presented by Ir. Gan Chun Chet. Safety practitioners, fill up the seats, please.

Offshore platforms are equipped with a fire and gas detection technology to mitigate a hazardous situation. Calculated risk analysis (through simulation) has improved the risk of a catastrophic fire incidents around the region. An analysis by utilizing fire and gas mapping calculates the chances of a fire risk. This technique is widely used today and is still continuously being developed for improvement purposes. With proper forecasting or predictive technique, a failure can be avoided.

In an uncertainty situation, the risks among the people working on an offshore platform increase when there is a fire and gas detection system failure. An investment in a reliable fire and gas detection system is a necessity. A fail-safe system design which shutdowns the platform to protect the assets, environment and people, when a fire or gas leakage occurs must be available, be reliable and be dependable when required.

CENTRIFUGAL PUMP THEORY AND APPLICATION shall provide the audience with the knowledge and principles of pump design, sizing, selection and performance analysis. The course will be beneficial to engineers dealing with pump and will be presented in a way that is comprehensible to the engineers who are with or without the oil and gas background. The objectives of the course are to provide exposure to the audiences on understanding of fundamental design of centrifugal pump, the critical pump parameters when evaluating pump selection and making the best decision on specification.

Ir. Gan Chun Chet is a Mechanical Engineering graduate from the University of Manchester, United Kingdom in 1996. He also has a Masters of Science in Operations Management awarded by University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), United Kingdom in 1997.

He started his career with the General Industry, and later moved to the Oil and Gas Industry where he has accumulated 17 years of working experience. In the general industry, he worked together with an engineering team to resolve daily Plant issues encountered. Some of the problems consisted of noise problems, and compressor/pumps vibration problems. Monitoring the progress and taking actions are vital to resolve the issues.

In the oil and gas industry, he works with other engineers in the area of predicting equipment failures. Practices such as redundancy, field voting, review check activities, are some examples of practices in failure mitigations.

Register here, or download the form here.