From Bernama – Nippon Oil To Conduct Onshore Exploration In Miri

June 17, 2010

Cool, there might be an opertions room in NOEX’s offices in Miri. And on oil pad in the middle of the Miri Fan.

Dateline 2010-06-10, taken from Bernama:

Japanese oil and gas company, Nippon Oil Exploration (Malaysia) Ltd, will carry out a seismic study within Miri starting this September as part of its onshore oil and gas exploration of Block SK333 in the city here.

The study, which would employ the vibroseis seismic survey technology, the latest in onshore exploration, is expected to be completed in three months, said Nippon Oil’s Managing Director, Hideki Kitagawa on Thursday.

Speaking at an awareness session on the project here, he said the new technology would be used in Malaysia for the first time.

He said the survey follows the awarding of a contract by Petronas to Nippon Oil in 2007 to carry out works on Block SK333, which is about 3,800 kilometres square in size.

About 97 per cent of the total acreage had been surveyed and mostly located in the rural part of the Miri Division near Marudi district.

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Senipah Resort

June 16, 2010

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From O&G Journal – ExxonMobil to boost Tapis field production in Malaysia

June 15, 2010

I understand that the Tapis EOR CPP ITB was sent out to all parties listed under the appropriate PETRONAS SWAC code, as there wasn’t any pre-screening performed. That meant that some parties were invited to bid for a project whose bank guarantee amount was similar to their yearly income.

Taken from the Oil & Gas Journal, dateline 2010-06-10:

 ExxonMobil to boost Tapis field production in Malaysia

Eric Watkins, OGJ Oil Diplomacy Editor

LOS ANGELES, June 10 — ExxonMobil Corp. said its enhanced oil recovery project at Malaysia’s Tapis field will start in 2013, with an estimated gross investment of more than $1 billion, according to a senior company executive.

“This latest contract includes commitments to implement an enhanced oil recovery project at the Tapis field and will be the first ever large-scale project of its kind in Malaysia,” said ExxonMobil senior vice-president Andrew Swiger.

“The Tapis project represents yet another major step forward to develop Malaysia’s full energy potential,” Swiger told the Asia Oil & Gas Conference.

Tapis field is one of seven mature offshore fields that ExxonMobil (78%) and state-owned Petronas (22%) have agreed to develop as part of a 25-year production-sharing contract that was finalized in June 2009.

Under the agreement, which includes provisions for the deployment of EOR and further drilling to boost output, work will be carried out on all seven fields, including Seligi, Guntong, Tapis, Semangkok, Irong Barat, Tebu, and Palas.

The Tapis oil development, which lies 190 km off Terengganu in 64 m of water, produces an extra-light, low-sulfur crude, and once served as the benchmark for pricing oil cargoes in Australia, Indonesia, and Vietnam.

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Saturday Star 2010-06-12 – Job Opportunities

June 14, 2010

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First off, 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.

  • There is an opening as admin staff at Synergy. We are also looking for someone with the ability and personality to fill up the position as a permanent member of the family. To balance things out, we’re focusing on competant female applicants.
  • Shell is looking for people, though mostly in the subsurface department. Didn’t they just go through a rightsizing exercise? I guess they got rid of some deadwood, and need to fill those shoes. Visit www.shell.com/careers and select Job Search & Apply → Job Search for Professionals → Region → Asia → Malaysia. The ad asks you to quote reference DVT035C, but you know you should quote ‘razmahwata.wordpress.com’.
  • Saudi Aramco (actually Saudi Aramco Total) has a full page advert. go Visit www.satorp.com.
  • Wow, Dayang Enterprise Sdn Bhd (known affectionately as Dayang to us Esso old timers) is looking for a mess of people. I congratulate them on winning whatever support contract that requires so many people.  Apply here or  here. Or snail mail before 18th June to HR Manager, Dayang Enterprise Sdn Bhd, Sublot 5-10, Lot 46, Block 10, Jalan Taman Raja (Hilltop), Miri Concession Land District, P.O. Box 1134, 98000 Miri, Sarawak.
  • Optimal (tagline Optimise your Career Potential) is looking for a Production Technician. Hmmm, do you Kertehians want to apply? Visit their website, or apply here.
  • Expro (“Well Flow Management”) is looking for a Operator / Senior Operator Well Testing, Drill Stem Test (DST) Operator. Apply here.
  • SPIE is looking for a expeditor and buyer (cool, one to cut a PO, the other to chase up, kinda like a tag team). visit their site to apply.

Going back to the basics of chemical engineering, here are some texts I referred to, in an attempt to grasp the fundamentals of chem eng back in my Part I and Part II days. Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering, An Introduction to Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer: With Applications in Chemical and Mechanical Process Engineering (out of print, written by one of my lecturers). Introductory texts to Gas Processing would be John M Campbell’s Gas Conditioning and Processing V. 1: The Basic Principles, Gas Conditioning and Processing V. 2: The Equipment Modules, which you get if you attend the course.

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From UPI – Malaysia poised as next oil and gas hub?

June 13, 2010

I guess I should start hitting the books. Does anyone recommend a good text on deep water engineering? Or know a deep water engineer we can hire at cut-throat rates?

Taken from UPI, Dateline 2010-06-09:

Malaysia could become the world’s fourth deep-water oil and gas hub after Houston, Rio de Janeiro and Europe, an industry executive said.

“In terms of subsea industry, Malaysia is already a hub by itself,” Bernard Di Tullio, president and chief executive officer of Technip Group, an offshore and engineer contractor with a presence in 48 countries, told reporters Tuesday on the sidelines of the 15th Asia Oil and Gas Conference in Kuala Lumpur.

Demand for deep-water access in Asia Pacific has been strong in the past two or three years, Di Tullio said, and Malaysia has been responding quickly in developing the sector.

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Senipah

June 12, 2010

It must be really remote if you can’t find a town on Google Maps.

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PETRONAS – Involved in War Crimes?

June 11, 2010

There’s a title you never expected to see. It’s interesting that Lundin is implicated as well, as it is also a Malaysian PSC. Kinda reminds one of the time ExxonMobil was accused of supporting violence against the local Sumatran populace.

Taken from the AFP, dateline 2010-06-08:

Report blames Swedish oil firm for Sudan war crimes

STOCKHOLM — A consortium led by Swedish Lundin Petroleum is partly to blame for war crimes committed in Sudan between 1997 and 2003, a report by the European Coalition on Oil in Sudan (ECOS) charged Tuesday.

ECOS, an umbrella group of European organisations “working for peace and justice in Sudan”, said it believed Lundin and its consortium partners Petronas Carigali Overseas from Malaysia and OMV Exploration from Austria “may have been complicit in the commission of war crimes and crimes against humanity” in Sudan.

Lundin Petroleum, previously called Lundin Oil, denied the allegations.

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Malaysian Oil Producer, Reverse Auction

June 10, 2010

From what I’ve been told, PETRONAS is starting to use reverse auctions to squeeze the best price out of Design Engineering Services contractors. I have heard that PCSB-SKO has used this technique at least thrice, and that’s without me actively investigating the matter.

The way it works is as follows: Approved service providers are told to login to an auction page at a given time. The scope of work/services being auctioned off is given a starting price, hopefully the price is higher than what the SPs think is a fair value.

When the auction starts, service providers will be allowed to input their price to execute the work, the only limitation is that it has to be lower than the incumbent price (duh). To prevent last minute sniping, I’ve been told that the auction only closes 60 minutes after the last entry.

Now, I believe Shell did this either in the UK or Australia, but there were complaints from the industry. When will the outcry come from our local players? Or is there no recourse for a intellectual discussion on the topic?

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From the Star – Petronas keen on home oil fields

June 8, 2010

So, does this article explain why PETRONAS now has EVPs, similar to ExxonMobil, and how we, er they are scrambling to prevent Malaysia from becoming a net crude import nation? Oh, and how their new President is making his mark and leaving his legacy?

Take from the Star, dateline 2010-06-05:

KUALA LUMPUR: Petroliam Nasional Bhd (PETRONAS) will search for more oil and gas reserves in Malaysia at the expense of overseas exploration and has changed its management structure to have its executive vice-presidents in charge of key operations to shoulder more responsibility.

Domestic oil exploration would see PETRONAS drill deeper for oil and gas on the shallow waters of Malaysia but the company is also looking to increase the amount of oil it pumps out from existing wells in Malaysia.

PETRONAS will also be pouring more management time on its oil and gas business and would be looking to scale back and divest operations which it considers non-core to the crux of PETRONAS.

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You can subscribe to an online version of the paper at the Bluehyppo site, follow links to e-browse.

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Saturday Star 2010-06-05 – Job Opportunities

June 7, 2010

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  • There is an opening as admin staff at Synergy. We are also looking for someone with the ability and personality to fill up the position as a permanent member of the family.
  • RasGas is looking for Facilities Interface Coordinator, Shift Supervisor, Utility Operators, Power Operators, PTW Controllers. CVs to be submitted here. You can phone the local recruiters at +603 2078 1917/8. I believe RasGas is a JV, one of the partners being ExxonMobil.
  • I see that Qatar Petroleum is looking for people. They are looking for Head of Maintenance & Engineering Support, Contracts and Materials Coordinator (how much to put you in my pocket?), Facilities Engineer (Electrical & HVAC), Lead Facilities Eng, Facilities Supervisor. Apply here.
  • Wasco is looking for a VP, PPI Industries Sdn Bhd. Graduates, please apply here. I want to see the blowback.
  • Talisman is looking a Reservior Eng, Structural Eng, Inspection Planner, Integrity Eng, Rotating Eng, Mech Eng, Instr Eng, Ops System Analysis. Apply here, and visit their site. Now, how exactly does one arrange an presentation with the purse holders in that company?

If you are interested in oil and gas surface facilities, I would recommend getting Surface Production Operations, Volume 2:, Second Edition: Design of Gas-Handling Systems and Facilities and Surface Production Operations, Volume 1, Third Edition: Design of Oil Handling Systems and Facilities. And don’t forget the Coulson & Richardson classic, Chemical Engineering, Volume 6: An Introduction to Design (Chemical Engineering Technical Series)

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