From Offshore – Malaysian Berantai platform in place

December 25, 2011

Dateline 2011-12-19:

Petrofac says the jacket and topsides have been installed for the first wellhead platform for Petronas’ Berantai project off Malaysia.

The drilling program has started on schedule, and the FPSO Berantai should sail to the field location around end-March 2012.

In block PM304 offshore peninsular Malaysia, gas lift facilities on the Cendor field should begin operating on year-end. Petrofac also expects the field development program for the West Desaru fault block to be approved early next year.

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From Borneo Post Online – Malaysia’s O&G sector to flourish – MIDF Research

December 24, 2011

Dateline 2011-12-19:

Despite uncertainties stemming from slower global economic growth, the nation’s oil and gas (O&G) sector is expected to thrive next year following healthy order backlogs seen this year.

According to MIDF Research Sdn Bhd (MIDF Research), the acceleration of Petronas’s RM300-billion capital expenditure (capex) along with the development of the country’s liquefied natural gas sector (LNG) would provide cushion against the global economic slowdown.

“We believe 2012 will be an exciting year for the domestic O&G players in view of the potential announcement for sizeable projects like Malikai Deepwater project, the RM15-billion North Malay Basin, Petronas’s RM60-billion refinery and petrochemical integrated development (Rapid) as well as the floating LNG development,” pointed out MIDF Research.

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From Borneo Post Online – O&G players actively vying for RSC awards

December 23, 2011

Dateline 2011-12-14:

With 22 identifiable marginal oilfields to be developed over the next few years, the next risk service contracts (RSC) will probably be awarded by mid-2012 since potential bidders would have submitted their proposals by the first quarter of the year.

“Petronas is not limiting development plans for the marginal fields. Instead the oil players are free to devise their game plan, subject to Petronas’ approval. They could also participate in fields of their choice as well as with their preferred local working partners,” said HwangDBS Vickers Research Sdn Bhd (HwangDBS Research) in a research note yesterday.

There were many foreign oil companies, which focused largely on marginal oilfields including London-based Petrofac, US-based Newfield Exploration Co, UK-based Salamander Energy Plc, Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala Oil & Gas, Australia’s Roc Oil Co Ltd, French-founded Perenco Group and Swedish Lundin Petroleum AB.

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From Offshore Shipping Online – Leighton Offshore opens engineering business in Malaysia – wins US$10 million Iraq contract

December 22, 2011

If Leighton was the former engineering consulting arm of DPS, what’s DPS Consultants Malaysia?

Dateline 2011-12-07:

Leighton Offshore has officially launched a new engineering business in Malaysia. DPS Leighton Engineering Sdn Bhd (LE), a fully owned PMC subsidiary of Leighton Offshore, provides engineering and PMC solutions for Leighton’s international EPCIC and LOFS business.

Leighton’s detailed engineering and PMC arm has grown from the former oil and gas engineering consulting business of DPS Bristol (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd, which was acquired by Leighton.

LE will also be providing technical, procurement and management support to DPS Consultant Malaysia Sdn Bhd, which provides oil and gas consultancy services in Malaysia.

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View from a HAZOP

December 20, 2011

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Saturday Star 2011-12-17 – Job Opportunities

December 19, 2011

Support me by purchasing my recommendations, or buying through my Amazon store. I need the money to pay for running this site. Corporate level sponsors are encouraged.

If you need my help to submit your CVs, donate to the blog, and I’ll review your CV to see if it is worthy of my (and my associates’) expectations. If you can’t figure out how to donate, no need to ask.

  • I’m looking for a senior process engineer, 7+ years experience. Send your cv here . Also looking for process safety persons, lead piping designer, lead instrument engineer, and other seniors you think will catch my eye.
  •  Shell is looking for people for their Floating LNG Facility. You can visit www.shell.com/careers and select Job Search & Apply → Malaysia.
  • Carigali Hess is has a full page advert. Send your cv here,  with a detailed resume stating references, expected remuneration, contact telephone and email address, before 31st December.
  • BC Petroleum, a JV company comprising of Roc Oil Malaysia and Dialog D&P Sdn Bhd, are looking for people. Send your cv here.
  • Ranhill WorleyParsons has an advert. Visit the website (select ‘Search Jobs’ and select country ‘Malaysia’, or ‘Advanced Job Search’).
  • Murphy is looking for a gaggle of engineers. Apply here, or visit here. When was the last time you saw a .aspx in a published website address?
  • I see that Qatar Petroleum is looking for people to support Dukhan. Apply here or visit the website.
  • Talisman is looking for a Senior Well Intervention Engineer. Apply here, and visit their site.

May I suggest that readers install the Waze app on their phones? And use it as much as possible? It says its a “a social mobile application providing free turn-by-turn navigation based on the live conditions of the road. 100% powered by users, the more you drive, the better it gets. Join the community of drivers in your area today!” The more you use it, the better info I get in planning my journey round KL, and hopefully the rest of Malaysia.

If you are fans of classic gaming, support those old time PC classics at Good Oil Games. I wish they had a local setup here. And they just started their Xmas 50% off drive!

Support your local bookshop! Visit Bookalicious at The Summit Subang, good selection of imported books. I think they focus on trilogies, quadrilogies, and otherologies. Tell them I sent you, and enjoy the look of perplexity on their faces

Let’s talk a bit about deepwater books:

  

Deepwater Petroleum Exploration & Production, A Sea in Flames, Disaster on The Horizon

This week’s food recommendation is anything strawberrish from Cameron Highlands. Or from Offshore Bintulu.

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EMEPMI – More Stringent Call Screening

December 18, 2011

It looks like ExxonMobil’s keepers of the telephonic gates have had upgraded instructions. They will no longer give out extension numbers of people in the building, and I think they don’t let you talk to someone if you don’t know their number. Talk about brick walls.

I need to incorporate these procedures in my company.

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From Jakarta Globe – Malaysia’s PETRONAS Profit Up 54.3 Percent

December 17, 2011

Dateline 2011-12-02:

Malaysian state energy firm Petronas said on Thursday that its second-quarter net profit increased 54.3 percent from the year-earlier period, boosted by higher crude oil prices.

Petronas said in a statement that its profit for the three months ending Sept. 30 was 18.35 billion ringgit ($5.84 billion), up from 11.89 billion ringgit in the same quarter last year.

Revenue for the company, Malaysia’s only Fortune 500 firm, also increased 26.0 percent in the quarter to 71.83 billion ringgit year-on-year despite a “challenging” economic environment, it said.

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From The Borneo Post – KBB eyes future oil and gas related contracts with strategic partnership

December 15, 2011

Why am I interested in this, you wonder…

Dateline 2011-12-02:

KKB Engineering Bhd (KKB) is on track to some possible oil and gas (O&G) related contracts in the pipeline as the company has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Brooke Dockyard & Engineering Works Corporation (Brooke Dockyard) to set out its intention and mutual understanding in connection with a proposed strategic alliance and joint-venture.

The collaboration includes a lease of the deepwater river front yard by KKB to Brooke Dockyard for its O&G substructure and other works, with the exclusive rights given to KKB to undertake such works to the extent its service can meet Brooke Dockyard’s client requirements.

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Blast from the Past

December 13, 2011

Anyone seen this caterer lately? Especially onshore?

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