IEM Shout Out – Talk on Petronas Technical Solutions & Services

December 9, 2013

This is a shout out for the IEM. My technical division will be having a pre-AGM talk on Saturday, 14th December, 2013 at 9am. Makan-makan at 8:30am.

This presentation will provide a quick introduction into the workings of Group Technical Solutions, a department under the Technology & Engineering Division (T&E). It comprises of:

1.  Sharing of specialised engineering solutions that have achieved standardisation across PETRONAS for operation and project execution requirements:
a.    PETRONAS Risk Based Inspection(PRBI™)
b.    PETRONAS Asset Life Study (P-ALS™)
c.    PETRONAS Instrumented Protective Function (P-IPF™)
d.    PETRONAS Electrical Safety and Operability Review (P-ELSOR™)
e.    iCON® – Process Simulation software

As for the speaker:

Ir. Pau Kiew Huai is the Head of PETRONAS Group Technical Solutions (GTS) and CEO of PETRONAS Global Solutions Sdn. Bhd. (PGTSSB). He first joined GTS in 2006 as General Manager for Engineering where he undertook various engineering and technical roles in the department before being made Senior General Manager in 2011. He was then appointed to his present position effective April 2006. Ir. Pau has over two decades of extensive experience in the Oil & Gas industry and holds a B.SC (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Nottingham, the United Kingdom.

You can register here, and download the form here. A map to the Wisma IEM is provided here. Note Wisma IEM is where the nursing college is (don’t ask).

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Saturday Star 2013-12-07 – Job Opportunities

December 9, 2013

Buy my recommendations, or through my Amazon store. Where are those corporate sponsors? Or throw donations at me. I need RM360 to get The Star ePaper.

  • I’m looking for a senior process engineer, 7+ years experience. Send your cv here. Also looking for technical safety persons, metering / measurement engineers and other seniors you think will catch my eye.
  • Nothing of interest this week.

Help me (and you) increase my cloud presence. Pleease use some form of cloud storage, so if you lose your laptop with those oh-so-important reports, be assured that (with Internet access) the files are still accessible. Use my referrals for Dropbox, MiMedia,  SpiderOak, MediaFire, Ubuntu One, Sugar Sync.

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!

This week, my theme is, you need to be a better all round engineer. Hence, some selections for the process engineer:

A Simple Guide To Understanding Jet Engines, Process Plant Instrumentation: Design and Upgrade, Mechanical Design of Process Systems: Piping and Pressure Vessels

The IEM has a coffee table book out, Engineering Heritage of Malaysia (no, it is not Datuk Seri Samy Vellu’s bio). Visit here for details.

Food?I had lunch at Chakri Palace, KLCC. Blooming expensive. Anyone want to treat me to dinner there?

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Malaysia eyes more natural gas power to fuel cars

December 8, 2013

Dateline 2013-10-09, Sin Chew Git Poh:

At a time when countries across the globe are facing the inconvenient truth about environmental changes, an ordinary taxi sputtering along an expressway in Malaysia can be viewed by the rest of the fuel-guzzling world as a forerunner to a more sustainable future as a result of the country’s emphasis on compressed natural gas (CNG) from petrol.

With its well-maintained expressways, punctuated by frequent stops offering rest, food, and gas, and road signs that proclaim a 110-km/h speed limit and remind drivers to stay on the left, the country knows it needs to charge ahead to meet progress head on.

This is why it is aggressively driving the introduction of environment-friendly alternative fuels. Malaysians are proving that taking care of the environment does not mean a return to a non-motorised utopia.

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Malaysia’s North Malay Basin project to start gas production by end 2013

December 7, 2013

Dateline 2013-10-08, Platts:

Production from the first phase of the $5.2 billion North Malay Basin project, which envisages development and commercialization of nine stranded gas fields offshore Terengganu in Peninsular Malaysia, is scheduled to begin by the end of 2013.

“The early production system phase will be ready by the end of 2013 and the full field development phase will be ready in 2017,” a spokesman with Malaysia’s national oil and gas company Petronas said in an email.

Petronas’ upstream arm, Petronas Carigali, and the Malaysian subsidiary of US-based Hess in June 2012 signed three production sharing contracts, paving the way for the implementation of the North Malay Basin project. The three PSCs, in which Petronas Carigali and Hess have an equal 50% stake, are for blocks PM302, PM325 and PM326b.

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IEM Shout Out – OGMTD 23nd AGM

December 5, 2013

The Oil, Gas and Mining Technical Division AGM will be held at Wisma IEM C&S Lecture Room, Second Floor

It will be held at 11am on Saturday, 14th December 2013.

Register here, and download the flyer here. A map to Wisma IEM is presented here.

Since I’m the Chairman, come, y’all and heckle us. We also need a coruum, and need to vote in a new secretary / treasurer.

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Saturday Star 2013-11-30 – Job Opportunities

December 2, 2013

Buy my recommendations, or through my Amazon store. Where are those corporate sponsors? Or throw donations at me. I need RM360 to get The Star ePaper.

  • I’m looking for a senior process engineer, 7+ years experience. Send your cv here. Also looking for technical safety persons, metering / measurement engineers and other seniors you think will catch my eye.
  • Lundin‘s looking for whole mess of people, production and opns manager, operations engineer, metering and take-off engineer (hey), safety engineer (hey-hey), OIM. If your genus matches this requirement, send your cv here.

Help me (and you) increase my cloud presence. Pleease use some form of cloud storage, so if you lose your laptop with those oh-so-important reports, be assured that (with Internet access) the files are still accessible. Use my referrals for Dropbox, MiMedia,  SpiderOak, MediaFire, Ubuntu One, Sugar Sync.

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!

This week, my theme is, you need to be a better all round engineer. Hence, some selections for the process engineer:

A Simple Guide To Understanding Jet Engines, Process Plant Instrumentation: Design and Upgrade, Mechanical Design of Process Systems: Piping and Pressure Vessels

The IEM has a coffee table book out, Engineering Heritage of Malaysia (no, it is not Datuk Seri Samy Vellu’s bio). Visit here for details.

Food?I had lunch at Chakri Palace, KLCC. Blooming expensive. Anyone want to treat me to dinner there?

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Iranian oil tycoon used Labuan to skirt sanctions on Iran, says New York Times report

December 1, 2013

Dateline 2013-10-06, Malaysian Insider:

An Iranian tycoon has used the tax-free port of Labuan for his oil business to skirt Western sanctions imposed on his country, the New York Times reported.

Babak Zanjani, 39, devised a scheme to disguise the origins of Iranian oil and sold it on the open market by transferring millions of barrels from tanker to tanker, often using Labuan as the drop-off point, as alleged by the European Union.

The New York Times quoted Zanjani in interviews with Iranian reformist weekly Aseman and the semi-official Iranian Students’ News Agency as saying that he used a vast network of 64 companies in Dubai, Turkey and Malaysia to sell millions of barrels of oil, earning US$17.5 billion (RM55.6 billion) in foreign exchange for Iran’s oil ministry, the Revolutionary Guards and the Iranian central bank.

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Petronas defends Bumiputera record, says no to companies without expertise

November 29, 2013

So, how do SME’s break into this lucrative market? PETRONAS companies seem to have a rep of being reluctant in issuing small contracts to individual companies, with a penchant to use established call-out contracts with big-a players.

Dateline 2013-10-05, Malaysian Insider:

Petronas will continue helping Bumiputera companies but it will not award contracts to those with no track record in the oil and gas sector, said its CEO and president Tan Sri Shamsul Azhar Abbas (pic).

He said Petronas does not sideline Bumiputera companies as alleged by the Malay Economic Action Council (MTEM) but awards projects to them based on merit, transparency and competence.

Last year, Petronas gave out RM52.48 billion in contracts to companies which were majority-owned by Bumiputeras. It was almost double the RM29.35 billion awarded in 2011. In 2010, the total was RM25.97 billion.

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IEM Shout Out – OGMTD 23nd AGM

November 28, 2013

The Oil, Gas and Mining Technical Division AGM will be held at Wisma IEM C&S Lecture Room, Second Floor

It will be held at 11am on Saturday, 14th December 2013.

Register here, and download the flyer here. A map to Wisma IEM is presented here.

Since I’m the Chairman, come, y’all and heckle us. We also need a coruum, and need to vote in a new secretary / treasurer.

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McDermott, THHE Formalize JVs to Tap Malaysia’s EPCIC Market

November 27, 2013

Dateline 2013-10-04, Rigzone:

McDermott International, Inc. (McDermott) reported Thursday that the company’s affiliates and Malaysia-based TH Heavy Engineering Berhad (THHE) have confirmed the formalization of several Joint Ventures. The joint ventures were formally approved by THHE shareholders at their annual general meeting June 3.

“This is a milestone occasion for both companies” said Scott Cummins, senior vice president and general manager, McDermott in Asia Pacific. “We have worked together on previous international bids as prime contractor and subcontractor, but with the new joint ventures we are both better able to commit and combine resources to enhance our joint Malaysian business. “

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