Saturday Star 2009-12-05 – Job Opportunities

December 7, 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 WildCat fodder.

  • Saudi Aramco and Total have created SATORP, I see. They are looking for mass balance technicians – snr, midterm pilot panner, process eng, performance control engineer, process control eng, scheduling eng, oil accounting eng… hey, looks like they need quite a few people in the hydrocarbon allocation department. Apply to Melorita
  • Tompel is looking for a senior drilling supervisor.

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The SOGE Story – Out and About in Miri

December 5, 2009

I’ve been in Miri for a week, attempting to address 97 HAZOP nodes in 5 days. As you can imagine, I couldn’t hit that target, though I did manage 60+ nodes.

Here are some photos of the Saberkas pasar malam. Yes, the theme is food.

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IEM – Value Improvement Program

December 5, 2009

Here are some photos I took during the talk held in conjunction with the Oil, Gas and Mining Technical Division’s AGM.

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From the Star: Talisman Scholar Visits Offshore

December 3, 2009

Taken from the Star, dateline 2009-11-29

WORKING on an oil rig isn’t something many would relish, but Gan Hui Ling, 23, enjoyed her stay and made full use of her offshore experience.

Spending a week aboard the Bunga Raya Platform – located in the overlapping maritime zone of Malaysia and Vietnam – the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) Bioprocess Chemical Engineering final-year student familiarised herself with the processes and equipment aboard the rig.

Though thankful that she wasn’t claustrophobic, Hui Ling’s only gripe was the rig’s limited space, which raised some accommodation problems.

Hui Ling says that the scholarship award gives her more motivation for her final year.

Her one week on the rig was part of her internship with Talisman Malaysia Limited, the national division of the oil and gas company from Calgary, Canada.

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We hope that this inspires more lady engineers to break into oil and gas. Read ‘accomodation problems’ as ‘a four bunk room had to be emptied for one lady’, or have they changed policies offshore already?

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 2009-11-28 – Job Opportunities

December 2, 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.

  • My sources: Hess is looking for Senior Mechanical Engineers. Bribe me, and I’ll deign to look at your CVs. Put me in another tax bracket, and I may forward your CVs on.
  • Synergy is looking for safety engineers. Visit the Synergy websites (Jakarta and KL) for contact details.
  • Talisman is looking fora Mechanical & Piping Eng. Apply here, and visit their site.
  • Lundin advertises again! Yes, I purposely put these two items next to each other. If you’re an old time like me, you appreciate the irony. They are looking for a Drilling Manager and 2 Drilling Engineers. What, they plan to give the engineers two sharp sticks, and be quick about it?  Apply here, and visit their site.

I really can’t recommend any food places this week. I’m in Miri, and nothing local catches my attention. For those knowing me, it would mean the places I’ve eaten till now must really be blah. C’mon people, send me your contact details and take me (and my family) out for dinner!

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News – Award of Malikai to MMC-Amec

November 29, 2009

I know that this is old news, but I didn’t want to be chased by lawyers and phrases such as non-disclosure, confidentiality undertaking, and so forth. The news has already broken here.

Congratulations to MMC-Amec for winning the Shell Malikai FEED contract. I wish you all the best, and hope that any spillover will come my way. Cheques to Synergy Oil & Gas Engineering Sdn Bhd, please.

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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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