Repsol to invest RM600mil in oil & gas projects

March 12, 2017

Dateline 2017-02-08, The Star:

Repsol Oil and Gas Malaysia Ltd is investing about RM600mil for the construction of two oil platforms and in drilling several wells.

The platforms are to be constructed at Peninsular Malaysia 3 (PM3) near the border with Vietnam and at Medan Kinabalu off Sabah waters.

The company’s communication, government relations and community senior general manager Farid Jaafar said works for the projects would start at year-end and early next year respectively.

He said the projects would generate employment and business opportunities for locals.

“Despite the slowdown in the oil and gas sector, Repsol is still expanding due to our commitment and business strategy,” he added.

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Sarawak deserves separate price tier for oil, says SUPP

March 10, 2017

Dateline 2017-02-04, FMT:

The Sarawak government has been urged to take charge of its oil resources to buffer Sarawakians against the cost of rising fuel prices.

Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP) Youth publicity secretary Milton Foo proposed a separate tier of oil prices for the state as a “temporary mechanism” to ensure “Sarawakians are treated more fairly” in view of the state’s contribution to the country’s oil production.

Foo said petroleum found in Sarawak should belong “to the people of Sarawak.”

“We deserve a separate tier or system of oil prices from Peninsular Malaysia, which should be at least 20% lower since we have contributed so much to petroleum resources in Malaysia,” he said in a statement today.

Sarawak contributes 47% of Malaysia’s total oil production.

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Marketing Rounds – METFEST

March 8, 2017

I was honoured to be the IEM representative for UniKl’s Malaysian Engineering Technology Festival (METFEST) on 10th December, 2016.

 

 

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Saturday Star 2017-03-04 – Job Opportunities

March 6, 2017

Happy Wata  IEM VP and Council Candidacy. Vote for me, and spread the word, wilya? 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. 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 2Q2017. Send me your POs.

Food choice of the week? I would suggest visiting Cicerello’s, Freemantle. Sponsor my flight and accomodation, so I can go there as well.

Seeing that Joe Dever has passed away, you may want to revisit his books:

Flight from the Dark (Lone Wolf, Book 1), Legends of Lone Wolf Omnibus 1, War of the Wizards (The World of Lone Wolf, Book 4)

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Expert: Price pick-up will spur consolidation

March 3, 2017

Dateline 2017-02-01, NST:

The bottoming out of oil prices will give impetus to the consolidation of upstream oil and gas (O&G) service providers in Malaysia, said an industry specialist. Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific vice-president for energy and environment Ravi Krishnaswamy said companies are getting more confident as crude oil prices start to pick up, making mergers and acquisitions (M&As) a more viable option. Smaller companies find it more difficult to survive, especially where digital technology is concerned, as they are not able to invest and grow and meet the global criteria, he added. “The best thing to do for these smaller players is to look for synergies with other bigger players or get acquired as this would be a more resilient approach. “Although Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas) has been very open about the industry’s need to merge and consolidate, it cannot force these companies to do so, hence the need to encourage such activities instead,” Ravi told NST Business recently.

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Exclusive: Petronas considers $1 billion stake sale in offshore gas project – sources

March 2, 2017

Dateline 2017-02-20, Reuters:

Malaysian state-owned oil and gas firm Petronas is aiming to sell a large minority stake in a prized upstream local gas project for up to $1 billion as it seeks to raise cash and cut development costs, two sources familiar with the matter said.

Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas) is looking to sell a stake of as much as 49 percent in the SK316 offshore gas block in Malaysia’s Sarawak state, the sources told Reuters, a move that would be among its first major recent sales as it grapples with oil prices that have slumped by half over two-and-a-half years.

That slide has squeezed the cash flows of Petronas [PETR.UL], hurt its earnings and forced it a year ago to announce a 50 billion ringgit ($11.2 billion) cut in capital expenditure over four years.

Petronas, which accounts for a third of Malaysia’s oil and gas revenue, has also cut its dividend. Sources had told Reuters in September it is considering selling its majority stake in a $27 billion Canadian liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant, although the company denied it.

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Saturday Star 2017-02-25 – Job Opportunities

February 27, 2017

Happy Wata  IEM VP and Council Candidacy. Vote for me, and spread the word, wilya? 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.

  • Repsol is looking for people, Maintenance Engineer, Pipeline Inspection Engineer, Engineering and Integrity Manager. Visit their website, or send mail here. Did they get new acreage, or they letting go of the old guard?
  • I have a feeling that The Star isn’t the preferred O&G job recruitment portal now. 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 2Q2017. Send me your POs.

Food choice of the week? I would suggest visiting Cicerello’s, Freemantle. Sponsor my flight and accomodation, so I can go there as well.

Seeing that Joe Dever has passed away, you may want to revisit his books:

Flight from the Dark (Lone Wolf, Book 1), Legends of Lone Wolf Omnibus 1, War of the Wizards (The World of Lone Wolf, Book 4)

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Malaysia’s Petronas says RAPID project on track for 2019 start-up

February 26, 2017

Dateline 2017-01-26, Yahoo! Finance:

Malaysia’s state oil firm Petroliam Nasional Berhad said on Thursday its new $27 billion refining and petrochemical complex project in the southeast Asian country is on track for start-up in 2019.

Sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Wednesday that Saudi Aramco had shelved its plans for a partnership with the company, known as Petronas, on the Refinery and Petrochemical Integrated Development (RAPID) project, raising questions about its future.

RAPID, located within the Pengerang Integrated Complex in the southern Malaysian state of Johor, is designed to have a 300,000-barrel-per-day oil refinery and a petrochemical complex with a production capacity of 7.7 million metric tonnes.

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Under fire, Tabung Haji says received RM1.06b from oil and gas investments

February 25, 2017

Stop. Picking. On. TH.

Dateline 2017-01-26, Malay Mail Online:

Pilgrimage fund Lembaga Tabung Haji (TH) said today it recorded a RM1.06 billion cumulative revenue from all its investments in the oil and gas sector, amid claims that it may have lost RM700 million from the move.

TH said its diversified investments in various sectors have enabled it to cover the increasing costs of Haj operations and subsidy for Malaysian pilgrims every year since 2000, which is expected to rise to around RM200 million this year.

“TH is a long term investor in the oil and gas industry. TH first made investment in this sector in 2001 and has recorded a respectable cumulative RM1.06 billion income from all our investments therein,” TH said in a statement here.

The company however did not specify the amount of profit from its investments into the industry.

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Japan’s JX, Petronas start Malaysia LNG train

February 21, 2017

Dateline 2017-01-24, Hellenic Shipping News:

JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corp said its venture with Malaysian state oil firm Petronas has started commercial operations at the ninth liquefaction train at the Petronas LNG complex in Bintulu, Sarawak.

The train, with a production capacity of 3.6 million tonnes of LNG per year, started on Jan. 1.

The launch of the ninth train comes at a time when U.S. LNG exporters are sending tankers to Asia to fill a gap in the region’s demand as markets have tightened more-than-expected on surging consumption in China and Pakistan, and because of Australia’s struggles to ramp up production.

But still, the LNG market remains well supplied, with available LNG capacity standing 45 percent above demand last year, according to Reuters Eikon data.

JX Nippon Oil, a unit of Japan’s biggest oil refiner JX Holdings, last June bought a 10 percent equity stake in a Petronas subsidiary that was developing the ninth train in Malaysia’s Sarawak state.

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