Strange I have to go to an overseas website to get the news. It was reported by Bernama as well.
At the Malaysian Liquefied Natural Gas plant in Tanjung Kidurong, Sarawak, 3 workers were overcome by gas while inspecting a large gas pipeline there, 1 of them has died, the condition of the other 2 in hospital remains unknown. 5th August 2009.
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Hmm, no particular place to recommend this week. So, let’s go back to the ever faithful Chee Meng’s. Last fling before Ramadhan?
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Dateline 2009-08-13 taken from the Star:
The US$7bil Transpeninsular Pipeline (TPP) project that was to take off nearly two years ago may yet become a reality as a Chinese party is said to be keen to take a stake in the project with a shareholding agreement expected to be signed as early as tomorrow.
Malaysia - Transpeninsular Pipeline
Maybe Synergy can propose doing the flow assurance for this pipeline… nah, it’s single phase, any university student who stayed awake during the compressible flow lectures should be able to do this.
You can subscribe to an online version of the paper at the Bluehyppo site, follow links to e-browse.
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Here’s a little something that I wrote,
you might want to play it note for note…
Enough 80s already.
Operator Training Simulators (OTS) train operators on fundamental plant operations and improve their ability to optimize plant performance with the same simulation tool. OTS mirrors the exact look and feel of a plant, captures operator best practices, provides a standardized, level training ground to evaluate operator performance and enables operators to exercise best practices.
Sample - Condensate Stabilizer OTS
The model is capable of simulating the following operations:
In addition to the above operations, the system is capable of simulating operations dictated by process disturbances and equipment failures introduced by the instructor.
The core element of any training simulator system is the simulation model of the plant unit operations and process controls. The UniSim system provides the ability to construct simulation model without computer programming knowledge by providing a library of building block modules used for simulating the behavior of devices such as pumps, columns, heat exchangers, valves, compressors, vessels and DCS control points. Major equipment types vary significantly from one plant to another. This variability is not generally in the overall functionality of the equipment, but in specific details such as geometry, configuration details, piping, service, etc. This variability greatly affects the operation of the equipment and hence the dynamic simulation of that operation.
Honeywell USO
The approach used in the UniSim system is to model the operation of such equipment using modules that are more fundamental. These modules contain a mathematical engineering model (based on first principles of chemical engineering) of the equipment type including heat, material and momentum balances, thermodynamic and operating equations, both algebraic and differential. Each equipment types can be further defined using equipment parameters that customise the module to reflect the actual operating and physical characteristics of the device.
The Instructor Station (I/S) is the control center of the simulator. The I/S allows access to the simulator’s special features, which do not exist at the actual site. These include:
The I/S interface also lets the instructor monitor the progress of the training session with lists and trends of process and control system variables.
Honeywell USO
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Yesterday was the photo session, today I’ll provide my views on the presentations and discussions. As I didn’t bring in any recording devices, the piece below focusses on what interested me.
I arrived late, so I missed the Welcoming Speech and Keynote Address. My apologies.
First talk I attended was an introduction to PETRONAS’s inhouse steady state process simulation software, iCON. The talk was given by Mr Shahrul Azman Zainal Abidin, Principal Engineer GTS. I have seen this presentation and derivations of it over the past 5 years (starting in 2004/5, when it was called PetroSIM), so nothing spectacular there. You can go visit the VMG site to pick up a brochure of the civilian version of this package. I was interested to note that they are working on a dynamic version of the package.
After the tea break, we were treated to an application of how iCON was used to investigate and optimise onshore gas receiving facilities, of which LCOT was one. What was interesting to me was that the result of doing the work inhouse resulted in a cost saving of RM382k (±10k), which give me a baseline as to how much to charge for a reasonably simple network, and 3 operating cases. Woohoo! This portion was presented by Mr Muzaimi B A Talib, Staff Engineer PCSB.
We went through an overview of the famed PETRONAS Technical Standards, led by Ir V.R.Harindran, Custodian Engineer GTS. Too bad they weren’t giving handouts, as it was an interesting trip down memory lane. Some items I took away from the presentation was:
There was next a presentation by Mr Alex Zulkarnain B Zulkarim, Senior Manager GTS. His concern was the quality of engineering expertise in PETRONAS, especially among the junior rank and file. Items he touched on were:
After the crowd was tranquillised with lunch, came the contractors’ point of view. Ir. Rozali Ahmad, president of MOGEC, presented on MOGEC’s aims, intentions and events calendar. But all this was blown away by the list of challenges the engineering companies have when faced with PETRONAS as a client. You’ll have to get the list from MOGEC, if they ever own up to presenting it in the first place.
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Agenda PETRONAS Contractors Forum 2009
I attended this session yesterday. Though it was a whole day session, ample time was provided to do networking, fishing, eating, spirited questioning (sorry for the blood on the wall), eating, photographs… did I mention eating?
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Apologies for the late entry.
I don’t have a food recommendation this week. Anyone want to recommend a halal place in Bintulu that serves the local cuisine?
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I thought I’d post a link to Kickdefella’s blog entry where he writes about a visit to Cakerawala platform via boat flotilla, with members of the Kelantanese administration.
Nice night photo of the asset. And I see quite a lot of life jackets not done up properly.
I suspect CHOC’s internal memo writing staff are working themselves up in a fenzy about the unusual visit.
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Taken from Bernama, dateline August 1:
KOTA BAHARU, Aug 1 (Bernama) — The federal government is looking into the question of oil royalty for Kelantan, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said Saturday.
He said the matter was still under study because of overlapping areas in the vicinity of the oil platform.
“When the study has been completed, I will send a representative to convey the result of the study to the state government,” he told reporters after opening the Kota Baharu Umno Division delegates meeting, here.
Kelantan is seeking RM1 billion in oil royalty from the federal government, claiming that the money constituted five per cent of the earnings from petroleum and liquefied natural gas extracted from offshore Kelantan since 2004 as per a report of the Statistics Department.
What ‘overlapping areas’ are being referred to? I know that the Joint Development Area is part of Kelantan costal waters, but you would think division of profits would have already been sorted out with neighbouring governments. If not, I pity CHOC.
And which oil platform we talking about? Isn’t it a gas platform that’s out there. Chakerawala, anyone? Or maybe they are talking about oil equivalent barrels (oeb)?
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A first – topless lady on page M15 of this week’s The Star. Score one for non-imaginative (or sly) photographers!
Here’s a new food place, run by a friend of mine. One6 kopitiamhas a mini-library inside the shop, my kind of place. Now, if it had the latest editions of O’reilly books… Think I’ll be stopping over there every time I get in on a late flight from KLIA, as it’s on the way home.
Some reflexology thoughts:
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