Malaysia’s LNG exports rise to 8-month high

January 26, 2014

Dateline 2014-01-09, Business Times:

Malaysia’s liquefied natural gas exports rose 8.3 per cent in November to the highest level since March as prices dropped, according to data from the Statistics Department.

Petroliam Nasional Bhd, the state-owned oil and gas producer known as Petronas, shipped almost 2.3 million metric tonnes of LNG, the data show. That’s up from 2.1 million in October.

Kuala Lumpur-based Petronas received RM5.46 billion for November exports. That’s about US$14.10 per million British thermal units. The price was US$14.26 in October.

Malaysia was the world’s second-largest exporter of LNG in 2012 with output of 23.7 million metric tonnes, according to the industry-funded International Group of Liquefied Natural Gas Importers.

 

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Malaysia’s Sona May Buy Indonesian Oilfield For RM418m

January 25, 2014

Bargain, I would have thought. Malaysian Digest, dateline 2013-12-09:

Sona Petroleum Bhd, an oil and gas (O&G) cash shell, has identified a new oil field asset in Indonesia to buy after failing to clinch a deal in September.

Sources claim that Sona Petroleum is looking to buy a 100% stake in a Sumatra oilfield which is producing 1,500 barrels of oil per day. The oilfield is also said to have the capability of ramping up production to 4,000 barrels a day.

Sona Petroleum is currently conducting a due diligence on the assets and if it is favourable expects to conclude the deal by early next year. Sona Petroleum has been actively scouring for oilfields. It had reviewed one in Australia, but had since abandoned the idea.

Back in September, there was wide speculation that Sona was looking to take up a stake in Singapore-listed RH Petrogas Ltd, an O&G company controlled by Sarawak tycoon Tan Sri Tiong Hiew King. However that deal didn’t come through.

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Malaysia, Brunei ink historic megabuck deals

January 24, 2014

Dateline 2013-12-09, The Star:

Malaysia and Brunei have inked historic and money-spinning deals to jointly drill for oil and gas in the resource-rich waters off the maritime border shared by the two nations, between the northern parts of Sarawak, Brunei and Sabah.

The national oil companies of the two nations also agreed on a deal to explore for shale gas in a joint project in Canada.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Najib Tun Razak and Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah on Sunday night witnessed the signing of the deals between Malaysia’s national oil company Petronas and PetroleumBRUNEI after their meeting at the palace here in the sultanate.

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Malaysia’s first oil and gas terminal to open soon

January 22, 2014

Methinks the reporter messed up the title. Also, is it implicit the SOGT never told local residents what to expect during an emergency flaring? Dateline 2013-12-09, The Star:

The country’s first integrated oil and gas terminal is set to be operational by early next year after undergoing several months of a commissioning process.

Project director Noor Illias Mohd Idris said the commissioning process of the RM3.8bil Sabah Oil and Gas Terminal (SOGT) in Kimanis was due to begin soon.

“This is one of our biggest projects and is capable of processing 1.25 million standard cubic feet of gas and 260,000 barrels of oil daily,” he said at a media briefing yesterday.

During the commissioning process, he said, loud noises due to the emission of gas flares as high as 100m would be heard by villagers within Kimanis and nearby areas.

“The flare is normal during commissioning due to the release of gas during equipment testing.

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Saturday Star 2014-01-18 – Job Opportunities

January 20, 2014

Happy HAZID and HAZOP week

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 else catches my eye.

Here’s a quick list of tech podcasts I follow:

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.

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Shell Malaysia makes effort to cultivate awareness on O&G

January 18, 2014

I like where the article states ‘Mat said’, and I can’t find any reference to this mysterious ‘Mat’ in the preceding text.

Dateline 2013-12-05, Borneo Post:

Shell Malaysia has come of age with cutting edge technologies in the oil and gas industry whilst cultivating Malaysians to take the company to the next stage.

This was presented to the media at a Wells to Wheels briefing in Miri organised by Shell’s Corporate Affairs Department.

“Over 90 per cent of the 6,500 staff employed by Shell Malaysia are Malaysians, and the 450 expatriates are carefully picked while another 398 Malaysians are working for Shell companies abroad,” he said.

About 40 per cent of the staff are working in upstream industries, he added, whereby some of the staff are fourth-generation employees of this Malaysian pioneering oil and gas company under Royal Dutch Shell umbrella.

Mat said Shell Malaysia has came a long way and pioneering technology such as Gas-To-Liquid ( GTL) technology in Shell Middle Distillate Synthesis (SMDS) project in Bintulu is now used in Qatar plant with ten-folds capacity.

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Malaysian players win big from latest Petronas contracts

January 15, 2014

Dateline 2013-11-19, Seatrade Global

The recent award of contracts for a massive block of 13 work package from Petronas to six local companies to some extent signals the coming of age of the Malaysian offshore services industry.

The hook-up and offshore platform maintenance contracts worth a combined MYR10bn ($3.1bn) over five years, is one of Petronas’ largest service contracts currently in place, CIMB Research oil and gas (O&G) analyst Norziana Mohd Inon was quoted as saying.

Petronas said earlier this week that the contract involved the hook-up and commissioning and maintenance services for offshore facilities and included all the necessary services, such as manpower services, marine spread services, and tools and equipment required for the execution of the respective work scopes.

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IEM Shout Out – Talk on Flyrock Issues at Quarries and Construction Sites

January 15, 2014

This is a shout out for the IEM. My technical division will be having a talk on Saturday, 8th February, 2014 at 9am. Makan-makan at 8:30am.

Flyrock issues had been in the newspapers and other media regularly every year sometimes with fatalities and other times caused serious damages to properties and also serious injuries to people. Rock blasting at quarries and construction sites is actually an essential part of development work and can be done safely even at location very close to properties. However, highly qualified blasting engineers and experience shotfirers are needed to ensure compliance with safety requirements imposed by the authorities. Low vibration limit and almost no airblast are required to ensure minimum disturbance to the public. Only when blasting is not permitted alternative means such as expansive cement and pyrotechnics materials are considered. The talk will discuss the flyrock issues and mean to tackle it and the alternative means to blasting when and where it is possible. The talk can be useful to project managers or engineers who are likely to be responsible for blasting at their sites.

As for the speaker:

Ir. Hj Look Keman graduated with a degree in Mining Engineering from Stratchlyde University in 1979 and M.Sc in Explosives Engineering from Cranfield University in 1991. He initially worked as Research Engineer with Mines Research Institute in Mining Geotechnical Engineering specialising in Slope Engineering for mines, tailing dams etc. Later he worked as Inspector of Mines in Perak, Selangor, Negeri Sembilan and Malacca and after his postgraduate studies. He specialised in Rock blasting in mines quarries and Construction sites. He had been involved in many investigations on flyrock issues from quarries and construction sites since 1991 till now and will discuss on his experience and mitigation techniques to minimise or eliminate the problem. He retired from the Mines Department in 1996 and work as Consultant Engineer.

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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‘Use Op Fajar as template in protection of oil rigs’ Read more: ‘Use Op Fajar as template in protection of oil rigs’

January 14, 2014

So close to Ops Wata, at least I could claim copy protection.

Dateline 2013-11-20, NST

OWING to growing threats to Malaysia’s resources, the government is mulling initiatives to protect oil rigs located off its coastline and in international waters.

Defence Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein said the maritime sector could learn from the success of Op Fajar, the operation to escort Malaysian International Shipping Corporation (MISC) cargo vessels by Royal Malaysian Navy auxiliary ships plying the Gulf of Aden.

“Op Fajar has proved to be a huge success and elements of it can be explored to protect our maritime assets, including oil platforms offshore and in international waters.

“We must take proactive and preventive measures rather than wait for tragedies to happen.

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Saturday Star 2014-01-11 – Job Opportunities

January 13, 2014

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.
  • Technip is looking for its next biggest asset: You (seen your BMI lately?) Visit here soon. Apply to Synergy first.

Here’s a quick list of tech podcasts I follow:

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.

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