Wata – Malaysian Oil and Gas Engineer

Add more meters, please, so I can do an uncertainty calculation.

Dateline 2016-04-27, The Star:

The Government is focusing on getting the necessary framework in place for third party access (TPA) to pave the way for the liberalisation of the gas market in Peninsular Malaysia.

It will also push for rationalisation and subsequent deregulation of gas price in a move towards a market-based pricing of energy, the Performance Management and Delivery Unit (Pemandu) said in the National Transformation Programme Annual Report 2015 released on Tuesday.

“The advent of market liberalisation will facilitate the entry of new industry players, encourage more efficient utilisation, and benefit customers by enabling competitive gas pricing,” the report said.

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Happy Umrah Week. Donate to your favourite charity (me), 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, 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’m looking for jobs for 2Q2016. 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 in the papers this week. See Happy note above.

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? Any weight loss diet.

During these trying times, perhaps you should focus on self improvement. The following are a good set of books to start automating your uncertainty budget tables.

The Cartoon Guide to Statistics, Hands-On Start to Wolfram Mathematica, Doubt-Free Uncertainty In Measurement: An Introduction for Engineers and Students

And the shrinking income cake is asked to be recut:

Dateline 2015-12-29, FMT:

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Briefly, Jeffrey wants Umno to halt its politics of race and religion fueling its divide-and-rule tactics to cover up the plundering of the economy, defer the GST or at least reduce it to 2 per cent from the current 6 per cent, and exempt Sabah and Sarawak from the consumption tax. “Sabah is also entitled to 40 per cent net revenue entitlement under the Federal Constitution and other financial rights like 10 per cent export duty and 10 per cent import and excise duty on petroleum products.”

“The measly 5 per cent oil royalty should also be reconsidered in the wake of the emergency laws being done away with and the Petroleum Development Act and the oil agreement being considered redundant as a result.”

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Happy 30 dollars a barrel week (we really, really hope). Donate to your favourite charity (me), 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, 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’m looking for jobs for 2Q2016. 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 in the papers this week. See Happy note above.

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? Any weight loss diet.

During these trying times, perhaps you should focus on self improvement. The following are a good set of books to start automating your uncertainty budget tables.

The Cartoon Guide to Statistics, Hands-On Start to Wolfram Mathematica, Doubt-Free Uncertainty In Measurement: An Introduction for Engineers and Students

Dateline 2015-12-21, Borneo Post:

The oil and gas (O&G) industry will still likely face headwinds ahead as uncertainties of oil prices continue, driven by various global events.

The research arm of CIMB Investment Bank Bhd (CIMB Research) in a recent report, pointed out that recently, the industry has been hit by three events that will likely affect oil prices.

“Brent and WTI have both declined to US$37.19 (down 3.3 per cent) and US$35.74 (down 4.3 per cent) respectively overnight on news of surprising weekly build-up in US crude inventories coupled with the Federal Reserve’s 0.25 per cent rate hike announcement earlier this morning.

“This was further exacerbated by the proposal that US may lift the 40-year ban on crude oil exports. Investors have been bracing themselves for these decisions where the hike would support the dollar, and make oil (priced in dollars) more expensive to other currency holders,” the research team explained.

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