Since there was a big sign saying no photos outside the hall, I couldn’t take sweeping panoramic shots. On the other hand, I did manage to take photos with some local celebrities.
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Another week, another scan of the Saturday Star newspaper. Here’s a list of job ads in the paper:
Sigh, since I have moved with Synergy out of KL, will you patronise Chee Meng in my memory? Or invite me to meetings around Bukit Bintang at lunchtime? Is he doing packet specials?
And visit the Dilbert site for some real life O&G experiences.
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Dateline 2009-06-13, taken from the New Straits Times:
OSK expects oil to stabilise at US60.
OSK Research Sdn Bhd expects crude oil price to stabilise at US$60 (RM120) per barrel in the immediate term as there is no reason to justify the continuous price rise.
NST - OSK Oil Price Prediction
I’m all for oil to stabilise in the USD60-80 price range. That will allow pre-price crash projects to restart while not having a significant impact on gas prices, though I do hope that there will be an impetus to invest in energy saving innovations. Anyone know how to bring down the price of the Toyota Prius and Honda Civic Hybrid?
You can subscribe to an online version of the paper at the Bluehyppo site, follow links to e-browse.
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Another week, another scan of the Saturday Star newspaper. Here’s a list of job ads in the paper:
And that’s it.
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Another week, another scan of the Saturday Star newspaper. Here’s a list of job ads in the paper:
Wow, looks like the O&G industry is picking up, though most of these job are for the senior engineer.
Sigh, since I have moved with Synergy out of KL, will you patronise Chee Meng in my memory? Or invite me to meetings around Bukit Bintang at lunchtime? Is he doing packet specials?
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This week, I took my first flight on a Firefly flight to Kerteh. Not bad, I left on the 6:30am (red eye!) from Subang and returned on the 6:20pm. Managed to get a whole day’s worth of work in there.
One amusing thing I saw was when we were deboarding the aircraft. The stewardess solidly plants herself halfway down the aisle, and allows the rear seating passagers to debark via the back door (there is no front exit) before letting the front seating passengers depart. I guess they are afraid of tipping over the plane if the front passengers left the plane first?
Also, cargo is stored between the cockpit and the passeger aisle. Again, weighing down the front of the plane to prevent tip tipping back.
The flight schedule follows the former MHS charted flight, with 2 flights a day, and no flights Friday, Saturday or Sunday, though rumour has it that this will change soon.
I’d get Firefly to tie up with the local Kerteh hotels, and package the flight and hotel ala Berjaya.
Also, when they going to sponsor Kampung Kuantan?
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Disclaimer: the speaker is from Synergy.
Back to business. This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will be having a talk on the 22nd May. It’ll be at 5:30 pm (makan-makan at 5:00) 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.
Oil and gas operations require assurance that a given product moves from one point to another. This assurance may require knowing for example, the backpressure caused by a transportation pipeline onto well production facilities, the amount of liquid and gases caused by the interplay of two phase flow in a pipe, the buildup of wax deposits that can constrict flow.
Abnormal situations are looked at as well, for example restarting a pipeline that has been stopped, blowing down a pipeline from high alarm limits, and pigging a line at various speeds. Flow assurance is the art of manipulating tools and providing an interpretation as to whether the given process and physical conditions may be cause and concern. An experienced flow specialist is able to analyze the system, and provide solutions to minimize the effects of unwanted flow artifacts. These solutions can be provided on a design as well as operational level.
Ir. Kevin Shanta has 14 years of experience in process design, simulation modeling (both steady state and dynamic) and plant operations. Upon graduating in 1994 he worked in the oleochemical industry managing the production of fatty acids He then moved to the oil and gas industry where he was involved in dynamic simulation of offshore topsides. He proceeded to broaden his skills by working the several design companies in Malaysia before moving to Perth to perform flow assurance for a subsea development.
Currently, he is the Technical Director for Synergy Oil and Gas Engineering, part of a multinational engineering company overseeing the Malaysia engineering operations.
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Another week, another scan of the Saturday Star newspaper. Here’s a list of job ads in the paper:
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Dateline 2009-04-28 (story link here):
Oil and gas services provider Deleum Bhd has tendered for contracts worth RM300 million to RM400 million, group managing director Chandran Aloysius Rajadurai said today.
These comprised service and project contracts, he said, adding that a major chunk involved jobs in Malaysia.
Currently, Deleum has projects worth RM1 billion which will keep it busy up to 2016, he said after the company’s annual general meeting here.
Asked if the decline in crude oil prices from an all-time high of US$147 per barrel has impacted the industry, Chandran said: “Some major projects have been deferred, some are being reassessed and some have been stopped.”
I need to squeeze some work out of Deleum.
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Okay, I survived the talk I gave last week, though I’m not sure the audience did. My apologies for a bit of rambling. Contact me, and I’ll give you a private taste.
Back to business. This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will be having a talk on the 28th April. It’ll be at 5:30 pm (makan-makan at 5:00) 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.
Business decisions requires information to be at your finger tips. Many giant companies globally have started to implement Real-Time Information Management Systems to facilitate decision making. PETRONAS Carigali Sdn Bhd (PCSB) has pioneered the development and implementation of its own information management system known as PCIM to manage Life Cycle Data and Documents based on Neutral Data Format. This facilitates in
realizing Integrated Operation or Smart Field which will enable instant business decisions. Part of PCSB Neutral Data Format and Data Model has been adopted as International Standard (ISO 15926 : Integration of Life Cycle Data for Process Plants including Oil and Gas Production Facilities) to support “interoperability” which is important elements of Information Management System.
Lots of words. Further elaboration will be provided by En. Wan Hassan Wan Mamat:
He serves in the Board of Directors of POSC-CAESAR Association, Norway as Co-Chairman, championing Integrated Operations and Standardization. He drives the implementation of life-cycle information management with software integrations and interoperability for PETRONAS based on ISO15926 towards realizing “Integrated Operations of SMART Field”.
He is also Advisor to Malaysian Oil and Gas Services Council on Information Management and Deployment of ISO15926 for the Malaysian Oil and Gas Industry.
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