From The Star: Exxon and Coca-Cola to invest in Malaysia

November 28, 2009

Dateline 2009-11-14:

SINGAPORE: Two American companies are expected to make substantial investments in the local beverage and gas sectors soon.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said petroleum firm ExxonMobil Corporation had expressed its intention to venture into high CO2 content gas extraction while beverage giant Coca-Cola wanted to build a new modern plant in Malaysia.

Hah, here’s a funny one. ExxonMobil will be extracting CO2. Coca-Cola products are carbonated, which means they require a CO2 source in the future. What is that upcoming CO2 extraction source, I wonder?

I predict the next Coca-Cola plant will be in Kertih. What say you? “Beverage and gas sectors’ indeed.

BTW, I’ll be in Miri next week. Any more eating place suggestions?

 

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From Upstreamonline.com: PETRONAS founder heads royalty probe

November 27, 2009

Taken from upstreamonline.com, deadline Wed 25th Nov (original article source here):

The founding chairman of PETRONAS, Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah has agreed to head a Parliamentary Caucus mooted by Malaysian opposition coalition Pakatan Rakyat (PR) to redistribute oil royalties from the federal government to the state authorities.

PR leader Anwar Ibrahim said Razaleigh had accepted the invitation in the Parliament this morning.

The Caucus aims to draft amendments to the Petroleum Development Act to ensure that oil-producing states — including opposition-controlled Kelantan — receive royalties in line with the philosophy that constituted the Act in 1974, the Malaysian Insider reported.

And if you want Ku Li’s views, here’s a sample taken from his blog.

Me? I’ll enter politics when corruption makes it worth my while.

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The SOGE Story – HMI Web Training

November 26, 2009

I think this training course is on Honeywell’s HMI Web system, though with the multitude of courses we give our engineers and the rate they are improving, I’m losing track. Contact the Technical Director if you need Synergy’s services.

Heck, you NEED our services, you just don’t know it yet.

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Shout Out – IEM OGMTD AGM

November 19, 2009

The Oil, Gas & Mining Tech Division will be having their (our?) 19th AGM on Sat, 21st Nov, 2009 at 10.30 am, at the 3rd Floor, Auditorium, Wisma IEM, Petaling Jaya, Selangor. Please come and get yourself elected into the Committee.

AGENDA (I guess I should be intimately familiar with this, seeing that I am the Sec/Treas)

  1. Opening Address by the Chairman of Session 2008/2009.
  2. Confirmation of Minutes of the 18th Annual General Meeting held on 22nd November 2008
  3. Matters Arising.
  4. Secretary’s Report for the Session 2008/2009
  5. To receive and adopt the Financial Statement for the year ending 30 October 2009
  6. Election of the Office Bearers for the Session 2009/2010
  7. Address by the Chairman for Session 2009/2010
  8. Any Other Business

Your presence will contribute to the success of this meeting. Actually, I’m hoping that you will raise all sorts of issues and questions. How about challenging me for the position of Deputy Chairman?

A map to Wisma IEM is presented here. It’s the building identified as ‘Puteri Nursing College.’

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IEM Shout Out – Maximising Value Creation Through Value Improvement Program

November 18, 2009

This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will hosting the above seminar on the 21st November. It’ll be at 9:30 am (makan-makan at 9:00) at Wisma IEM. That’s right people, as part of the new health drive you are required to walk up 3 flights of stairs to get your 2 CPD points.

This presentation outlines the techniques and process for achieving such optimisation by presenting case studies of five Value Improvement Program (VIP) in Petronas operating unit. This covers oil, gas and petrochemical businesses. Improvement opportunities were identified throughout the complexes with the feedstock interface yielding the largest profit gains. The program continues, but to date more than 50 opportunities have been implemented, from which the benefits has exceeded RM 50 million.

Lots of interesting monetary figures being bandied about in the blurb. Come and listen, and see if the speaker walks the talk.

The talk will be led by En. M. Taufik bin Mokhtar. En. Taufik obtained his masters degree from Imperial College, London, UK. En Taufik has 9 years of working experience in Petronas. His work experience includes plant operations and project management and provision of technical support services. He has led Value Improvement Program in various PETRONAS operating units and has helped the implementation of the program in five different plants in Kertih and Kuantan areas with success. Currently, En. Taufik is Staff Engineer in Group Technology Solutions, Research and Technology Division of PETRONAS.

Fliers for the above and other events may be obtained here. A map to Wisma IEM is presented here. It’s the building identified as ‘Puteri Nursing College.’

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Saturday Star 2009-11-14 – Job Opportunities

November 16, 2009

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, you are definitely Cylon fodder.

  • Synergy is looking for safety engineers. Visit the Synergy websites (Jakarta and KL) for contact details.
  • Qatar Petroleum is recruiting. Jobs are available for Snr Eng (Electrical) & Lead Eng (Electical). The rest are technician posts. Apply here.
  • Nippon Oil Exploration (Malaysia) Ltd (NOEX) asks, “Do you want to be part of a sustainable energy initiative for the future?” If so, there are positions for a Project Manager, Contract Enginer and QA/QC Engineer. Snail mail to Human Resource Section NIPPON OIL EXPLORATION (MALAYSIA) LTD, Lot 1168, 3rd Floor, Wisma Interhill, Miri Waterfront Commercial Centre, 98000 Miri, Sarawak, Malaysia before 18th Dec, 2009.
  • Here’s an interesting one. Smith International Inc. is looking for Field Engineers (KL/Labuan based). They say that their ‘D&E unit provides a comprehensive range of products including Well Bore Departure/Rotating Control Device…’ Apply here.
  • Another interesting one. Proserv Offshore’s business is focussed on four main areas of expertise: Decommissioning Contractors & Engineers, Abandonment Services, Subsea & Marine Technology, High & Ultra High Pressure Pump services (I guess these aren’t the guys who supply Proserve sampling systems). Looks like this company is coming in on the crest of a boom. They’re looking for a project engineer & operation / project manager. Apply here.

 

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From the Star – Govt to Pay Royalty to Kelantan

November 15, 2009

From the Star, dateline 2009-11-10:

A Kelantan state executive councilor said the Federal Government was obliged to pay cash to petroleum producing states and not just in the form of a compassionate fund (wang ehsan).

Datuk Husam Musa said this was according to Clause 4 of the Petroleum Development Act (PDA) 1975.

…

Royalty Kelantan

Follow Kickdefella’s blog if you are interested in this mix of oil & politics.

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

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Is this Natuna Island?

November 13, 2009

When I was a wee lad, there was all this gungho about developing Natuna East, which had a gas reservoir with high CO2 content, which could result in one of the largest structures offshore, amazing engineering feat, spot on Mythbusters and so on.

I seem to travel over the following island a lot while visiting East Malaysia. Is this Natuna Besar?

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Marketing Rounds – Visit to MLNG

November 11, 2009

As part of Synergy’s ongoing mission to boldly go where no one has gone before, we recently visited MLNG in Bintulu, as guests of MECIP. We thank them for providing us a forum in which to present our talents in providing specialist process support to MECIP’s downstream expertise.

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The SOGE Office – Full to the Brim

November 10, 2009

Another Photosynth view of the office. We’re getting a bit more fuller, and I suppose we have enough money to pay for the rent and the lights. We’d like some more work during these trying times.

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