Wata – Malaysian Oil and Gas Engineer

Dateline 2026-01-23, The Stars:

UALA LUMPUR: Petroliam Nasional Bhd (PETRONAS), through Malaysia Petroleum Management (MPM), has unveiled the Offshore Self-Regulation Management System (OSRMS) 2.0 and the Guideline for Offshore Floating Facilities (GOFF) 2.0 to enable self-regulation of offshore facilities.

PETRONAS said the enhanced framework will enable it to manage and oversee the safety, integrity and reliability of offshore assets in Malaysian waters in accordance with the Occupational Safety and Health (Exemption for Plant Requiring Certificate of Fitness at the Place of Work of Petronas Within Maritime Zones) Order 2024 [P.U.(A) 292].

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Dateline 2026-01-20, The Edge Malaysia:

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 20): PJBumi Bhd has entered into a contract to purchase five drilling rigs as the group prepares for its upcoming oil and gas integrated project management (IPM) drilling work in Indonesia.

The two sets of 750-horsepower (HP) AC drilling rigs and three sets of 550HP AC drilling rigs, supplied by China-based Gaoyou Hao Xiang Petroleum Machinery Co Ltd, carry a total consideration of US$39.87 million (RM161.58 million), according to the group’s bourse filing on Tuesday.

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Dateline 2026-01-26, Upstream:

Malaysian operator Hibiscus Petroleum is progressing a planned carbon, capture and storage project at its stronghold oil and gas asset in the PM3 shared offshore area between Malaysia and Vietnam.

The company has now awarded a contract to Malaysia’s Reservoir Link Energy for a third-party subsurface review and technical assurance on a CCS study, and is understood to be targeting the first injection of carbon dioxide into a selected offshore reservoir in the fourth quarter of 2028.

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Dateline 2026-01-18, New Straits Times:

BANDAR BARU BANGI: National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (Niosh) executive director Datuk Ayop Salleh said recent gas leak and explosion incidents showed the need for better training and risk management to prevent tragedies.

He said all parties must take seriously the separate incidents involving exposure to gas, including the ammonia gas leak at the Seremban Toll Plaza and the air-conditioning system explosion at HELP University in Bukit Damansara.

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Dateline 2026-01-15, New Straits Times:

SEREMBAN: An ammonia gas leak from cylinders transported by a lorry occurred near the Seremban Toll Plaza exit towards Kuala Lumpur here this afternoon.

In the incident at about 1.50pm, a toll worker and a security guard at the toll plaza were rushed to hospital after allegedly inhaling the gas.

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Dateline 2026-01-15, New Straits Times:

KUALA LUMPUR: An oil waste processing and management plant in Kampung Olak Lempit, Banting, caught fire last night.

Selangor Fire and Rescue Department operations control centre said firefighting efforts were ongoing. The department received information on the fire at 10.03pm before deploying six fire engines with a strength of 37 officers and personnel to the scene, it said.

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Dateline 2026-01-14, Free Malaysia Today:

PETALING JAYA: Sarawak leaders are divided over Petronas’s move to have the Federal Court clarify the regulatory framework surrounding its operations in the state, with some backing the move and others cautioning against its impact on the state’s rights.

Kota Sentosa assemblyman Wilfred Yap said the application filed by Petronas in the Federal Court should be seen as a step towards addressing long-standing legal uncertainty arising from overlapping federal and state oil and gas laws.

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Dateline 2026-01-14, Reuters:

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 14 (Reuters) – Malaysia’s state-run utility firm has signed a two-year energy agreement to transmit electricity from Laos to Singapore, reviving a Southeast Asian multilateral power trade deal that had stalled since 2024.

Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) in a bourse filing on Wednesday said the Energy Wheeling Agreement Phase 2, part of a power integration project involving Laos, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore, will allow up to 100 megawatts of generation capacity in Laos to supply power to Singapore via Thailand and Malaysia, using existing transmission links.

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Dateline 2026-01-08, The Edge Malaysia:

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 8): Oil and gas services company Alam Maritim Resources Bhd has secured a RM29 million contract to provide free-span rectification works for a gas pipeline.

The contract, awarded by Vestigo Petroleum Sdn Bhd, covers the 60km Tembikai Non-Associated Gas pipeline offshore Terengganu, according to a bourse filing on Thursday.

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Dateline 2026-01-10, Daily Express:

Kota Kinabalu: The expansion of oil and gas activities into areas overlapping the Tun Mustapha Marine Park (TMP), following developments linked to the Bambazon Cluster off the northern coast of Sabah, is cause for serious concern, according to RimbaWatch.

It reminded Malaysian authorities of their obligations under the Paris Agreement and international climate law, as well as responsibility to mitigate the impacts of climate change.

It urged Sabah Parks to strengthen the Sabah Parks Enactment 1984 to explicitly exclude harmful activities such as oil and gas exploration and production in or near marine and coastal protected areas.

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