Saturday Star 2010-01-09 – Job Opportunities

January 12, 2010

I’ve been busy, how have you been?

  • First off, Synergy is looking for lead safety engineers, safety specialists, junior and lead process engineers and technical writers. We’re on an expansion drive, people! Visit the Synergy website for contact details. For leads, you need 5 years plus experience. Ah, heck. If you have more than 5 years experience in O&G, apply. If you have less than 5, send a donation to the offshore account, and still get abuse. For juniors, go pick up a copy of Cambridge’s ChemEng syallabus, and go study like the Tripods (all of them) are tomorrow.
  • Jobs available are avaiable in Qatar Petroleum for Snr Petroleum Engineer, Snr Completion Eng, Snr Inspection Eng, Snr Corrosion Eng. Apply here.
  • Subsea 7 has an office here now. They are looking for a snr proposals eng (Sing, KL), proposals eng (KL). Too bad they aren’t looking for engineering degree holders for these positions.

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Saturday Star 2010-01-02 – Job Opportunities

January 4, 2010

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, expect to be mocked.

  • First off, Synergy is looking for lead safety engineers, safety specialists, junior and lead process engineers and technical writers. We’re on an expansion drive, people! Visit the Synergy website for contact details. For leads, you need 5 years plus experience. Ah, heck. If you have more than 5 years experience in O&G, apply. If you have less than 5, send a donation to the offshore account, and still get abuse. For juniors, go pick up a copy of Cambridge’s ChemEng syallabus, and go study like the Tripods (all of them) are tomorrow.
  • SynergyKL is also looking for temp admin staff.
  • Our favourite Saudi recruiter, SABIC, is at it again. Ibn Zahn is looking for a pp(??) process sectio head, control system engineer, rotating equipment eng, inspection & corrosion eng, enviroment engineer and process engineer.  You can apply via email here or here. Or key in your resumes online here.

Here’s a place to eat: Bandar Djakarta, Alam Sutera, Serpong, Tangerang, Indonesia. Invite me along if you do go.

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Saturday Star 2009-12-26 – Job Opportunities

December 28, 2009

There were no newspapers published (or at least none distributed) last Saturday. Off the top of my head, the current jobs available are:

  • Rumour has it that Petrofac is looking for a Project Manager to handle insanely large amounts of money. Jabba should apply.
  • Synergy is looking for lead safety engineers, safety specialists, junior and lead process engineers and technical writers. We’re on an expansion drive, people! Visit the Synergy website for contact details. For leads, you need 5 years plus experience in the oil & gas industry. For safety specialist applicants, you need to be well versed in HAZOP, HAZID, QRA, FERA and Formal Safety Assessment. Ah, heck. If you have more than 5 years experience in O&G, apply. If you have less than 5, send a donation to the offshore account, and still get abuse. For juniors, go pick up a copy of Cambridge’s ChemEng syallabus, and go study like the Tripods (all of them) are tomorrow. 

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News – Award of Cendor FEED to DPS

December 27, 2009

Since the news is now on DPS’ webpage, I can safely congratulate them on their win, and encourage them to send runoffs and spillovers Synergy’s way:

DPS have been awarded a FEED study by Petrofac for the Phase II development of the Cendor field in Malaysia. The FEED scope includes the engineering of a spread moored FPSO (topsides, marine, mooring and risers) plus three wellhead platforms and the infield pipelines. The FEED will also look at the removal of the existing MOPU and the installation of the new facilities with minimal production downtime.

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From UpstreamOnline – Kelantan may receive oil payout in 2010

December 26, 2009

From UpstreamOnline, dateline 2009-12-21:

Kelantan will be compensated as early as next year for the oil and gas extracted from the resource-rich Malaysian state, according to International Trade and Industry Minister Mustapa Mohamed.

“The Federal Government will have to liaise with PETRONAS to find out how much has been extracted from the oil fields and when this is determined, we will meet the Kelantan Government to decide on the development projects to be implemented.

“This can be done as early as next year and the money will be forthcoming, as promised by Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak,” the Minister was cited as saying in the Star newspaper.

Mustapa warned the opposition party-led state government of Kelantan against taking the matter to court, saying it would only make it ‘difficult for the people to get the money’.

As earlier reported, Kelantan had previously set out to hire a team of lawyers to press for more than 1 billion ringgit ($291 million) oil royalties it claimed to be owed by the Federal Government.

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From Bernama – oil royalty payment to Terengganu

December 25, 2009

Taken from the pages of Bernama, dateline 2009-12-23:

KUALA TERENGGANU, Dec 23 (Bernama) — The Terengganu government is still discussing with the federal government the long-standing oil royalty payment to the state.

Menteri Besar Datuk Ahmad Said said the state government had rejected the Finance Ministry’s offer of RM1.686 billion in oil royalty and demanded that the state be paid RM2.792 billion for the period 2000 to 2009.

However, both parties had yet to reach a consensus on the matter. he said.

“Although the state government is hoping to resolve the oil royalty issue as soon as possible, there are several matters in the agreement which have yet to be agreed upon by both parties.

“I cannot explain the issues or new matters involved in detail as the discussion is still ongoing and it could jeopardise the outcome,” he said in reply to Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang (PAS-Rhu Rendang) in the state assembly here today.

Don’t you just love politics?

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From Rueters – PETRONAS says to maintain govt payouts

December 19, 2009

Taken from Rueters, dateline 2009-12-16:

Malaysia’s state oil company PETRONAS [PETR.UL] will maintain its annual 30 billion ringgit ($8.79 billion) dividends to the government despite prospects of weaker profits and significant investment outlays in Iraq.

Malaysia is facing its largest budget deficit in more than 20 years. It currently depends on Petronas for nearly half of government revenue.

The Edge Financial daily quoted Petronas President and Chairman Hassan Marican as saying the company’s profits for financial year ending in March 2010 will not be as good as last year because prices and sales volumes were down.

This probably came about from the (wishy-washy) government’s fear of upsetting the people, as an article from The Star, dateline 2009-12-10 said:

Lower oil prices will limit royalty to Government

PETALING JAYA: Lower crude oil prices that hit Petroliam Nasional Bhd’s (PETRONAS) bottomline hard this year are likely to limit the national oil firm’s ability to repeat the huge payout to the Government last year.

Recent official statements indicated that Petronas’ petroleum payments to the Government are expected to fall between 14% and 19% in the financial year ending March 31, 2010 (FY10) to between RM60bil and RM64bil.

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Looking for a Technical Writer

December 16, 2009

I’m looking for one.  Respond in your comment with a summary of your experience.

If you need to ask what one is, you needn’t apply.

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From The Star – 20-litre ruling

December 16, 2009

From the Star, dateline 2009-12-16:

The ban on the sale of petrol and diesel over 20 litres to foreign cars within a radius of 50km from any point of entry into the country will take effect today.

Domestic Trade, Cooperative and Consumerism Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob said the ban, which was aimed at preventing the smuggling of petrol and diesel, would be in place until a new mechanism for the management of oil subsidy is implemented in May next year.

“Directives have been issued to all petrol stations in the stipulated areas on the new ruling. We have also issued notices to all foreign-registered vehicles in the country informing them of the new regulation,” he told reporters at the Parliament lobby yesterday.

With the ruling, he said, only Singapore-registered vehicles were allowed to leave Malaysia with more than 20 litres in their tanks as the authorities in the republic had already imposed a ruling that all vehicles crossing its borders must have their tanks at least three-quarters full of fuel.

I’ve always thought that the petrol stations whose main source of income (and the most vocal in complaint) is selling subsidised fuel to foreign cars, should be considered to be the same category as raiders of our national coffer. Think about it, they are colluding to give away a subsidy meant for the rakyat (at the cost of say RM1/liter) to foreigners. Where do you think that money came from, and whether it is better spent here at home?

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 2009-12-12 – Job Opportunities

December 15, 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, no need to ask.

  • Interesting one: Orlean Invest West Africa Ltd. Not looking for engineers, but a new face to the classified adds. You can apply here.
  • Oryx GTL has a full page spread. There are a whole slew of positions: Head Eng, Head Eng Support, Senior Metallurgical Engineer, Senior Proc Eng, Head Opns Reliability, Snr Process Control Eng, Cost Eng, Safety Eng. You can apply here.

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