Why Sarawak is questioning the law that created Petronas

March 11, 2018

See connection between May 13 and PDA.

Dateline 2018-01-27, The Edge Markets:

Sarawak is questioning whether the Petroleum Development Act (PDA) — the law that created Petroliam Nasional Bhd, Malaysia’s only Fortune 500 company and vested with the nation’s oil and gas wealth — is still relevant today.

The question hinges on the state of emergency under which the bill was passed in 1974, according to The Edge Malaysia‘s cover story ‘Why Sarawak questions the Petroleum Development Act’ for the week of Jan 29-Feb 4 by assistant editor Khairie Hisyam Aliman, citing the Sarawak Chief Minister (CM).

The CM Datuk Patinggi Abang Abdul Rahman Zohari, popularly known as Abang Johari, told the weekly that the issue is a critical matter Sarawak is actively pursuing.

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MOGEC – Golf Series 24 March 2018, Bukit Kemuning Golf and Country Resort

March 9, 2018

We look forward to your registration. Now. Contact khasmah@mogec.org.my

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Saturday Star 2018-03-03 – Job Opportunities

March 5, 2018

Happy worry about the future week. IGL has pivoted into training, so book your seats now.

We’re thinking of republishing Young Turks of PETRONAS, but it’s a minimum 500 book printing run. Do I have enough interested persons to purchase?

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.

  • I have a feeling that The Star isn’t the preferred O&G job recruitment portal now, and they have moved adverts to another online presence (I bought a dead tree edition this week). I see more adverts via social media. What do you think, is it a step change that the papers need to embrace?
  • I’m looking for jobs for 2Q2018. Send me your POs.

Food choice of the week? I’ll think about it.

This week, may I suggest you have a peek at Dakwah Corner? They have branches in Subang Parade, PJ Section 14, Ampang Park (okay, forget about the Ampang Park branch)

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IEM Shout Out – 2018-03 “Talk on Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery (CEOR) Strategy and Approach- Offshore Peninsular Malaysia Case Study”

March 2, 2018

My technical division will be hosting a talk on the 10th March, 2018. It is worth 2 CPD points, and held at Wisma IEM. The talk will be presented by Ali Sabzabadi

The term Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) is being used in petroleum industry as Tertiary oil recovery whereby additional recovery can be obtained after natural recovery processes and conventional methods (e.g. water injection) have been exhausted. The EOR processes can be broken down in to three main categories, Thermal EOR (e.g. Steam injection), Immiscible/Miscible EOR (e.g. Lean Gas, CO2 injection) and Chemical EOR (e.g. Alkaline/Surfactant/Polymer injection). The field in focus that has been studied for Chemical EOR (CEOR) is an offshore oil field development in the Malay Basin in Peninsular Malaysia operated by PETRONAS Carigali, with Exxon as 50% stake holder.

Ali Sabzabadi holds a MEng. In Petroleum Engineering from Imperial College London, and a Chartered Petroleum Engineer with Energy Institute and member of UK Engineering Council. He has over 19 years of experience in Petroleum Engineering specialised in classical and applied reservoir engineering, Nu-merical Simulation, Full Field Development and Planning, Reservoir Management and Surveillance. His current role is leading an integrated subsurface technical team responsible for reservoir studies, full field reviews and developments up to EOR evaluations For Angsi and Besar fields in peninsular Malay-sia, and recently with Sarawak Oil FDP division. He has completed Full Field Development (FDP) plan for first offshore Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery project for biggest oil producer field in Peninsular Malaysia. Have authored and co-authored few technical papers (SPE 165294, IPTC 18150, IPTC 18257).

Register here, or download the form here.

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Shout Out – 2018-03 Course on “Understanding Process Control For Oil & Gas Production Operators, Technicians And Engineers”

February 27, 2018

Can process engineers, please attend?

My technical division will be hosting a course on the 28th to 29th March, 2018. It is worth 13 CPD points, and held at Wisma IEM. The course will be presented by Associate Professor Dr. Syamsul Rizal Abd. Shukor.

The oil & gas production processes (such as sand separation, produced water treatment, seawater filtration, crude oil and gas treatment) require reliable monitoring and control strategy to maintain optimum operational performance. Moreover, process operations are always being affected by disturbances, which negatively affect product quality and cause unplanned process shutdown. Therefore, a good understanding and competency on the major oil & gas production process operations and control are vital for the production personnel. This 2-day course is designed to educate the participants on the engineering design and process control practices in the oil & gas production processes, such as sand separation, produced water treatment, and crude oil desalting.

The course will cover the following major topics:

  • Introduction to Oil & Gas Production Processes (such as sand separation, produced water treatment, crude oil treatment, etc.)
  • Basics of Process Control
  • Process Characteristics: Static and Dynamic
  • Final Control Elements
  • Controller Algorithm and Controller Tuning
  • Single & Multiple Control Loops

Associate Professor Dr. Syamsul Rizal Abd. Shukor received his B.Eng (Hons) in Chemical Engineering from University of Bradford, UK in 1997. In 2000, he was conferred M.Sc (Chemical Engineering) by Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). He received his PhD in Chemical Engineering from University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK and specializes in process control and simulation. He is currently an Associate Professor in Chemical Engineering with USM. His research areas are in process control and simulation, process intensification systems, and hydrodynamics of fluid flow in microchannels. He has conducted various training, workshops, seminars, short courses and consultation for chemical & process industries in process control and separation technologies. He has also participated in the Gas Treatment Plant Project Onshore Gas Terminal in Turkmenistan under PETRONAS Carigali, Acid Gas Removal Unit (AGRU) project in TNBR Sdn. Bhd., as well as handling process safety management (PSM) of PETRONAS Sarawak Operation (SKO).   He is an active member of Society of Engineering Education Malaysia, Malaysian Automatic Control Engineers Society, and the Custodian of Malaysia Process Control (MyPC) Society.

Register here, or download the form here.

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Saturday Star 2018-02-24 – Job Opportunities

February 26, 2018

Happy finally have some work week. IGL has pivoted into training, so book your seats now.

We’re thinking of republishing Young Turks of PETRONAS, but it’s a minimum 500 book printing run. Do I have enough interested persons to purchase?

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.

  • I have a feeling that The Star isn’t the preferred O&G job recruitment portal now, and they have moved adverts to another online presence (I bought a dead tree edition this week). I see more adverts via social media. What do you think, is it a step change that the papers need to embrace?
  • I’m looking for jobs for 2Q2018. Send me your POs.

Food choice of the week? I’ll think about it.

This week, may I suggest you have a peek at Dakwah Corner? They have branches in Subang Parade, PJ Section 14, Ampang Park (okay, forget about the Ampang Park branch)

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Mubadala soon to decide on investment in Malaysia gas: Al Kaabi

February 25, 2018

Wait, I thought they had committed to SK320.

Dateline 2018-01-15, The Edge (no, not U2):

Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala Investment Co. is about to make final investment decision on big gas discovery in Malaysia, Musabbeh Al Kaabi, CEO of Mubadala Investment Co., says at conference in United Arab Emirates capital.

* Mubadala is in talks with Tellurian about potential investment in Houston-based co.’s gas project in state of Louisiana; no decision yet:

* Mubadala seeking to expand its chemicals business in North America, to continue investing in petrochemicals

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IEM Shout Out – 2018-03 “Talk on Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery (CEOR) Strategy and Approach- Offshore Peninsular Malaysia Case Study”

February 23, 2018

My technical division will be hosting a talk on the 10th March, 2018. It is worth 2 CPD points, and held at Wisma IEM. The talk will be presented by Ali Sabzabadi

The term Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) is being used in petroleum industry as Tertiary oil recovery whereby additional recovery can be obtained after natural recovery processes and conventional methods (e.g. water injection) have been exhausted. The EOR processes can be broken down in to three main categories, Thermal EOR (e.g. Steam injection), Immiscible/Miscible EOR (e.g. Lean Gas, CO2 injection) and Chemical EOR (e.g. Alkaline/Surfactant/Polymer injection). The field in focus that has been studied for Chemical EOR (CEOR) is an offshore oil field development in the Malay Basin in Peninsular Malaysia operated by PETRONAS Carigali, with Exxon as 50% stake holder.

Ali Sabzabadi holds a MEng. In Petroleum Engineering from Imperial College London, and a Chartered Petroleum Engineer with Energy Institute and member of UK Engineering Council. He has over 19 years of experience in Petroleum Engineering specialised in classical and applied reservoir engineering, Nu-merical Simulation, Full Field Development and Planning, Reservoir Management and Surveillance. His current role is leading an integrated subsurface technical team responsible for reservoir studies, full field reviews and developments up to EOR evaluations For Angsi and Besar fields in peninsular Malay-sia, and recently with Sarawak Oil FDP division. He has completed Full Field Development (FDP) plan for first offshore Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery project for biggest oil producer field in Peninsular Malaysia. Have authored and co-authored few technical papers (SPE 165294, IPTC 18150, IPTC 18257).

Register here, or download the form here.

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Reality check for Malaysian oil and gas players

February 22, 2018

My counter doesn’t retract.

Dateline 2018-01-15, The Star:

Oil and gas (O&G) counters have gained much attention of late following the rise in oil prices.

Since the new year began, O&G stocks that operate in the upstream services segment such as UMW Oil & Gas Corp Bhd (UMW-OG), Sapura Energy Bhd and Bumi Armada Bhd have seen impressive gains of as much as 55% in just two weeks.

But some counters had retraced at least half of their gains by the end of last week.

Notably, they reminded that upstream O&G service players would be the biggest beneficiaries should capital spending return. However, there is no hint of the former happening just yet.

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Saturday Star 2018-02-17 – Job Opportunities

February 19, 2018

Happy worry about a new year week. IGL has pivoted into training, so book your seats now.

We’re thinking of republishing Young Turks of PETRONAS, but it’s a minimum 500 book printing run. Do I have enough interested persons to purchase?

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.

  • I have a feeling that The Star isn’t the preferred O&G job recruitment portal now, and they have moved adverts to another online presence (I bought a dead tree edition this week). I see more adverts via social media. What do you think, is it a step change that the papers need to embrace?
  • I’m looking for jobs for 2Q2018. Send me your POs.

Food choice of the week? Please patronise King’s Confectionery at IOI Mall. A member of the family is working there while waiting for exam results. Go on, you know you want to a donut (British edition) every 3 hours.

This week, may I suggest you have a peek at Dakwah Corner? They have branches in Subang Parade, PJ Section 14, Ampang Park (okay, forget about the Ampang Park branch)

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