Saturday Star 2009-04-25 – Job Opportunities

April 27, 2009

Another week, another scan of the Saturday Star newspaper. Here’s a list of job ads in the paper:

  • Oo, PETRONAS has a full page advert. Those of you who believe you are worth the skewed starting salary PETRONAS offers (and PETRONAS doesn’t pay engineering companies enough to offer the same skewed salary), please apply.  Note that this time round, they are looking for 7 years plus experience. Send your CVs to talent@petronas.com.my.
  • Technip, with the tagline ‘Engineer your Future @ Technip’, is looking for structural, subcontract (!), senior contracts (!) engineers. G’won girl, engineer the heck out of that paperwork. Visit http://careers.technip.com.my if you are interested.
  • As Jabba reminds me, Synergy is recruiting Lead and Senior Safety Engineers. Send an email to Synergy if you have the qualifications. Very short listed applicants will be contacted. Others: submit at your peril.

Ah, Chee Meng, Chee Meng, the chicken rice shop. Sigh, since I have moved with Synergy out of KL, will you patronise Chee Meng in my memory? I’ll probably be there next Wednesday.

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IChemE – More Expats Required

April 24, 2009

My contribution to the Malaysian Brain Drain. Become a member of the Institution of Chemical Engineers to get the other articles.

icheme-article-expats

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Safety – A Reminder

April 23, 2009

As people associated with offshore activities, safety plays a large part in our work culture. Among basic ingredients are:

  • Be aware of risks, and the associated events / initiators.
  • Plan to eliminate/ reduce the probability of an event happening, and minimise the consequences of such events (good old Risk Matrix).
  • Implement the actions recommended above.
  • Implement the actions AS recommended above.
  • Continuous monitor of the risk and improvement to actions (feedback, another familiar ChemEng concept).

You can translate the list to almost any aspect of work / life, even something as complicated as a SIMOPs procedures.

Now, here’s a real life scenario. As I was driving down Jln. XXX next to the USJ Intergrated School, I see that they have a zebra crossing, and a person posted to direct people to cross the street while he holds back traffic.

So far, so good.

Just as I am about to drive across the zebra crossing, this person, while standing on the right CURB (from my viewpoint), holds back the oncoming traffic flow, doesn’t tell me to stop, and BECKONS a father and son team on my left to cross the road.

See where the failure is? I blame management and apathy, myself.

No participants were harmed in the making of this scenario, though a few choice thoughts hummed through my head.

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Saturday Star 2009-04-18 – Job Opportunities

April 21, 2009

Another week, another scan of the Saturday Star newspaper. Here’s a list of job ads in the paper:

  • SABIC is recruiting. It is looking for a maint mech eng,  mechanical engineer, mech insp eng, instrument and controls engineer, comm eng, stress analysis eng, corrosion / metallurgy eng, process eng, advanced process control eng, SHE eng, fire eng. You can apply via email here.
  • Synergy is recruiting Lead and Senior Safety Engineers. Send an email to Synergy if you have the qualifications. Very short listed applicants will be contacted. Others: submit at your peril.

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Exxon CEO Compensation Package

April 18, 2009

For all you Exxon and ex-EPMI wage slaves, here’s how much you made for your leader. Source article here.

April 13 (Bloomberg) — Exxon Mobil Corp., the largest oil company, raised Chief Executive Officer Rex Tillerson’s compensation by 34 percent last year to $22.4 million.

Tillerson’s salary rose 6.9 percent to $1.87 million and his bonus increased 19 percent to $4 million, the Irving, Texas- based company said in a filing today with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

The 57-year-old Tillerson’s restricted stock awards were $7.81 million, and the value of his pension and other deferred compensation rose $8.29 million. Other compensation, including personal security and use of the company’s aircraft, totaled $446,826.

Tiger at Lost World of Tambun

Tiger at Lost World of Tambun

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IEM Shout Out – Wata’s Talk at the IEM

April 18, 2009

Here’s some self promotion. This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will be having a talk on the 23rd April. It’ll be at 5:30 pm (makan-makan at 5:00) at the IEM , Bangunan Ingenieur, PJ.:

This presentation will provide a quick introduction into the engineering of oil production. It will start with an introduction to important oil properties to consider when producing an oilfield, and how this data is used. It then moves to a generic offshore production facility, pointing out the salient points, design considerations and major equipment used in oil production. It closes out with a quick look at downstream facilities.

For my background, you can hunt around somewhere on this site.

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Taxes and Service Taxes – Help?

April 15, 2009

There’s an old adage that says only 2 things are certain in life: death and taxes. The former you personally experience once, the latter every time money moves around.

For consultant companies like SOGE, we have had to register with the Customs Department so that we can collect service tax, which puts us in the same category as the delightful mamak shop across from our offices.

Service tax is applicable to all our work which will be applicable to an asset in Malaysia. Note that it doesn’t depend on who our client is, but where the ultimate user of our brain power resides. Since business is slow, our total cumulative service tax is about RM3.45 for this quarter.

Anyone know whether service taxes are applicable to assets located in the Thai-Malaysia Joint Development Area (JDA)? This would cover companies like CHOC, CPOC. I think service taxes don’t apply, but I may be wrong.

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Saturday Star 2009-04-11 – Job Opportunities

April 14, 2009

Another week, another scan of the Saturday Star newspaper. Here’s a list of job ads in the paper:

  • Oo, PETRONAS has a full page advert. Those of you who believe you are worth the skewed starting salary PETRONAS offers (and PETRONAS doesn’t pay engineering companies enough to offer the same skewed salary), please apply.  Note that this time round, they are looking for 7 years plus experience. Send your CVs to talent@petronas.com.my.
  • Dialog is looking for you to ‘further your ambition in the oil & gas industry’. There are positions for IT support, network, tech sales, project. Send an email here or snail mail to Humarn Resources Department, Dialog Group of Companies, 109, Block G, Phileo Damansara 1, No. 9, Jalan 16/11, 46350.
  • Petrofac is looking for a reservoir engineer, junior petroleum engineer, junior reservoir engineer. Email to vacancy.kl@petrofac.com, or snail mail to Human Resource.

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From the Star – Perisai Seeks Tie-ups

April 8, 2009

Dateline 2009-04-07 (story link here):

KUALA LUMPUR: Perisai Petroleum Teknologi Bhd hopes to either build or acquire more strategic marine assets to assist in the offshore installation of small fields and deepwater developments, says managing director Nagendran Nadarajah.

He said the company planned to co-own the assets via partnerships and joint ventures, as financing was somewhat limited in the current economic slowdown.

“Now is the time to build more strategic assets in preparation for the next rebound in oil price.

Another opportunity for you wheeler dealers out there.

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

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The SOGE Office – A Fuller Office

April 7, 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.

Sorry for the lack of news. Been kinda distracted, and out of the country.

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