When was the last time you were here? We miss you, and please collect your handphones from storage.
Kerteh Airport
October 29, 2014
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Petronas awards Petrofac USD 500m RAPID refinery contract in Malaysia
October 28, 2014Gotta get in bed with Petrofac E&C. But weren’t they disbanded, and sucked into Petrofac-RNZ? Dateline 2014-08-13, Oil & Gas Technology:
Located in Pengerang, within the state of Johor, Malaysia; Petronas’ RAPID project is by far the largest liquid-based green-field downstream undertaking in Malaysia
Worth more than USD 500m, the competitively tendered lump-sum EPCC scope of work includes three sulphur recovery units, two amine regeneration units, two sour water stripping units, a liquid sulphur storage units and a sulphur solidification package unit.
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Saturday Star 2014-10-25 – Job Opportunities
October 27, 2014Happy new year 1436 AH. 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. I need RM360 to get The Star ePaper. Or go to umrah, whichever you prefer.
- I’m lining up jobs for next quarter, for IGL Services. Whisper to (better yet, carpe jugulum) your boss, and send work my way.
- Nothing interesting this week, though I hear that Technip is still looking for project engineers for Libra FPSO Project & Rapid. > 5 years experience. Send CVs to me, and a donation, and I’ll forward it on. Or save yourself some money, and send it to Technip directly.
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? How if you visit Vietnam, how about visiting and updating GoHalalVietnam! for your food needs. For your other needs, talk to your local tour guide/ concierge / man on the street.
How about some references to improve your health?
You Are Your Own Gym: The Bible of Bodyweight Exercises, Body by You: The You Are Your Own Gym Guide to Total Women’s Fitness, 100 No-Equipment Workouts
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Adenan misleading Sarawakians on oil royalty
October 26, 2014Dateline 2014-08-22, Free Malaysia Today:
Sarawak DAP has warned the people that Chief Minister Adenan Satem is trying to pull wool over their eyes by linking a measly 10 per cent stake in various gas projects, the latest being in MLNG.4, with the 20 per cent oil royalty demand.
Sarawak DAP Chief and DAP National vice-chairman Chong Chieng Jen urged Adenan to come clean on his recent talks with Petronas on the oil issue.
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Malaysian firm brought suitor to Roc Oil
October 25, 2014Dialog, again. Dateline 2014-08-12, Business Spectator:
A previously silent player in the Roc Oil takeover saga has emerged as a little known Malaysian company, which may have helped to broker the successful $474 million offer from Chinese conglomerate Fosun.
Dialog Group, a Malaysian company providing technology services to the oil and gas industry, has emerged as a key player in the dialogue between Fosun and Roc Oil, reporting by Data Room has discovered.
It is believed that Dialog secretly accumulated a 4.3 per cent holding in Roc Oil via ANZ earlier this year. An ANZ subsidiary is listed as the second-biggest holder in Roc Oil, after fund manager Allan Gray, according to Bloomberg data.
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Petronas details RAPID project contract awards
October 24, 2014I don’t see IGL’s name here… Dateline 2014-08-11, Oil & Gas Journal:
Malaysia’s state-owned Petronas has confirmed the award of 11 major contracts related to critical milestones in the development of its refinery and petrochemical integrated development (RAPID) complex at Pengerang in southeastern Johor, Malaysia (OGJ Online, May 13, 2011).
Five of the contracts are for engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning (EPCC) for RAPID’s refinery and steam cracker component, Petronas said.
The EPCC contracts were awarded to:
- A consortium of CTCI Corp., Chiyoda Corp., Synerlitz (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd., and MIE Industrial Sdn. Bhd. for the residue fluid catalytic cracking units, LPG treating unit, propylene recovery unit, and caustic neutralization units.
- Sinopec Engineering (Group) Co. Ltd. and Sinopec Engineering Group (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. for the crude distillation unit, atmospheric residue desulfurization units, and hydrogen collection and distribution units (OGJ Online, Aug. 7, 2014).
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Let Sabah have all 10% oil royalty – UPKO
October 23, 2014Dateline 2014-08-10, Borneo Post Online:
United Pasokmomogun Kadazandusun Murut Organisation (UPKO) yesterday urged the Federal Government, which is receiving a five per cent share of the oil royalty from Petronas, to instead give it to the oil producing states.
“We in Upko have been saying all along, there is an urgent need for Sabah, being an oil producing state, to be given more than the five per cent share it is getting at the moment. I wish to reiterate our party congress resolutions for several years now, that the most practical solution is for Putrajaya to give its share to Sabah. This is doable,” said Upko acting president Datuk Madius Tangau.
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MOGSEC 2014
October 22, 2014I paid a quick visit to MOGSEC 2014, and caught up with a few people. Alfameli, yumm.
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IEM Shout Out – Full-Day HAZOP Training For Team Members – A Practical Approach
October 21, 2014My technical division will be hosting a 1 day seminar on the 20th November, 2014. It is worth 6.5 CPD points, and held at Wisma IEM. Since I’m giving it, I expect hoards will have to be turned away at the gates. And it’s a big room, so I need to fill the seats.
A Hazard and Operability study is a formal and systematic and detailed examination of the process and engineering intentions of new or existing facilities which assesses the hazard potential and effects on the facility as a whole when operation is outside of the design envelope, or individual items of equipment malfunction.
This course is designed to educate participants in the HAZOP process from the perspective of a HAZOP team member. It is meant to provide both instruction and workshop sessions so that the participants:
- Are familiar with the concept of ‘risk’
- Are familiar with the theory behind HAZOP
- Are familiar with the actual HAZOP workshop process
- Have expectations as to what the HAZOP will (and won’t provide)
- Understand what deliverables can be expected from a HAZOP
- Have the opportunity to participate in HAZOP exercise in a safe environment
- Opportunity to share HAZOP experiences
At the end of the session, the participants should:
- Understand the responsibilities of all parties in the HAZOP
- Have experience in a HAZOP session.
- Understand the outcomes from a HAZOP session
Wata has 19 years of experience in the oil and gas industry, in both design and operations.
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Building an O&G business thanks to NZ education
October 21, 2014Way to go, NZ! Dateline 2014-08-09:
TAN Sri Dr Ngau Boon Keat credits his success as a leading businessman in Malaysia’s oil and gas (O&G) industry today to the quality education he received years ago in New Zealand. In particular, he speaks highly of his professors and lecturers at the University of Canterbury, whom he said have all been instrumental in cultivating his interest in the industry.
In fact, the words of one his lecturers have been the guiding principle in his life and in running his business Dialog Group Berhad.
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Wata - Malaysian Oil and Gas Engineer 