Wata – Malaysian Oil and Gas Engineer

Dateline 2017-07-11, NST:

Malaysia’s Oil, Gas and Energy (OGE) sector is targeted to grow five per cent annually until the year 2020.

Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said the government had mapped out various policies and incentives to spearhead the growth of the OGE sector as it is one of the key result areas in the ongoing Economic Transformation Programme (ETP).

“And as part of the ETP that will propel Malaysia forward into a truly developed nation, the OGE sector is targeting a five per cent annual growth until 2020.

“Entry Points Projects such as Enhanced Oil Recovery, regional storage solutions, and unlocking of premium gas demand among others, are targeted to contribute RM131 billion in incremental Gross National Income, and generate about 52,000 jobs by 2020.

Zahid was speaking at the 16th Asian Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Engineering Exhibition 2017 before launching the event.

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Dateline 2017-07-10, Malay Mail:

Malaysia’s petroleum and natural gas industry has registered a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12.5 per cent from 2010 to 2015, with the number of establishments engaged in the industry rising to 157 from 87 over the period, said the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DoS).

In a statement today, it said the value of gross output amounted to RM120.4 billion compared with RM105.9 billion in 2010 (CAGR: 2.6 per cent).

“Extraction of crude petroleum and natural gas group recorded the largest value of RM108.9 billion, contributing 90.4 per cent, while support activities for petroleum and natural gas extraction group registered RM11.5 billion in 2015 (9.6 per cent),” it said.

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Happy Paka 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 4Q2017. Send me your POs.

Food choice of the week? Mango Shake at Masjid an-Naim, Sura Jetty, Dungun.

Book choice of this week, Chemical Engineering Process Simulation, authors are Nishanth Chemmangattuvalappil Denny Ng Kok Sum Rafil Elyas Cheng-Liang ChenI,Lung Chien Hao-Yeh Lee. I intend to get a signed first edition, and place it in my Charles Dickens first edition cabinet.

My technical division will be hosting a 2 day course on the 4th and 5th October 2017. It is worth 12 CPD points, and held at Wisma IEM. The course will be presented by Ir.Danaraj Chandrasegaran.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course participants will:
• Acquire better core presentation fundamentals.
• Will understand all the possible use cases for adopting Prezi in their own work processes.
• Will be able to create a basic Prezi presentation.
• Understand the purpose and value of powerful presentations
• Analyses audience needs and create presentations accordingly
• Set objectives and plan an appropriate structure
• Use your improved platform skills to answer audience questions with confidence
• Create an action plan to fine tune your presentation skills following feedback from the facilitator

Danaraj Chandrasegaran P.Eng MIEM CEng MIMechE. He is a Chartered Engineer and has honours degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Technology Malaysia. He also holds a MEng degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Malaya. He also presently a committee member with The Institution of Engineers Malaysia and Institution of Mechanical Engineers (UK) Malaysia Chapter. Since starting his career as a Mechanical Engineer, Danaraj has had a varied service; both in front line project execution as well as in technical, training, and management functions. His career has a diverse outlook on project execution ranging from building construction, marine, mining and energy industry; as a mechanical engineer. He has worked on several large-scale projects worldwide such as Shell Malikai TLP and Barzan Offshore Project. In addition, had edited and completed many large writing projects such technical reports, operating manuals and technical papers in the oil and gas industry.

Register here, or download the form here.

Happy happy 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 4Q2017. Send me your POs.

Food choice of the week? Support your local institution that provides wifi, study opportunities and a safe and clean environment. Yes, eat at McDonalds today.

Book choice of this week, Chemical Engineering Process Simulation, authors are Nishanth Chemmangattuvalappil Denny Ng Kok Sum Rafil Elyas Cheng-Liang ChenI,Lung Chien Hao-Yeh Lee. I intend to get a signed first edition, and place it in my Charles Dickens first edition cabinet.