Widow demands explanation for ship-rig collision off Miri

November 22, 2020

Was it manslaughter? Accidental death? Act of God (insurance companies’ favourite get out clause)?

Go start a fund for the widow. Better yet, go get the big companies’ HSSE departments to adopt the children.

Dateline 2020-10-29, FMT:

A woman whose husband died on board a ship that collided with an oil rig last Tuesday is demanding an explanation for what she called an act of negligence by the ship’s management.

Nateshwari Dhusan, the widow of Aaron Michael Rajasgara, one of two persons who died in the accident, told The Borneo Post that she felt hopeless and wanted answers about what had happened.

“What were the captain, chief mate and second mate doing? What were the deck crew doing?“ she asked.

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RE adoption by O&G companies to slow amid low oil price

November 21, 2020

To sound like a broken record, how do I get into this gig?

Dateline 2020-10-30, Malaysian Reserve:

RENEWABLE energy (RE) projects in Malaysia led by oil and gas (O&G) players are expected to decelerate due to high gearing amid low oil price environment.

AmInvestment Bank Bhd (AmInvest) analyst Alex Goh said Yinson Holdings Bhd is the only party — among local service providers — that has taken the plunge by investing US$30 million (RM124.8 million) for a 95% equity stake in Rising Sun Energy Pte Ltd, which has a 160MW solar farm in Bhadla Solar Park Phase II in Rajasthan, India.

“Nevertheless, we envisage a slow adoption of renewable projects by local O&G providers given that a large segment is currently burdened by high gearing amid a low oil price environment,” Goh said in a report yesterday.

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Preventing single hulled vessels from transporting oil will negatively impact the economy, says association president

November 20, 2020

Dateline 2020-10-28, The Star:

The Sarawak and Sabah Shipowners Association is against the implementation of the Malaysia Shipping Notice (MSN) that was enforced in August this year.

Association president Ling Soon King said Wednesday (Oct 28) that the new regulation would impact economic activities that relied on diesel fuel.

The Marine Department of Malaysia had, on Aug 5,2020, issued the MSN, which prohibited existing single hulled, single bottom tankers under the Malaysia Flag from carrying oil irrespective of the age of the ship.

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Oil, gas to play key role for decades despite energy transition: Petronas CEO

November 19, 2020

Dateline 2020-10-28, S&P Global:

Malaysia’s state-run Petronas will be pursuing most of its oil and gas projects, but by using more cost-effective and cleaner processes, as it strongly believes that those fuels will have a major role to play for the next three decades at least, CEO Tengku Muhammad Taufik told the India Energy Forum by CERAWeek Oct. 28.

“Even in the most green of scenarios, oil and gas will still constitute half of the energy basket. We still believe there is life in this business — and not only life, there is promise in it. The only harsh thing is that we need to produce it more cost effectively and cleaner,” he said.

Taufik said that Petronas was carefully looking at its upstream portfolios in about 20 countries to ensure that they delivered value and were cost effective at $40/b — the company’s medium-to-long-term average oil price outlook. In addition, the projects needed to work on containing emissions.

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PBB urges Sarawak govt to set up Petroleum Heritage Fund to help students and senior citizens

November 15, 2020

Yeah, and set one up for Sabah and other states as well. Or set it up to to counter corruption and inefficiency in the bureaucracy. Just saying.

Dateline 2020-10-25, The Malay Mail:

Parti Pesaka Bumiputra Bersatu (PBB) senior vice president Datuk Seri Fadillah Yusof today urged the state government to set up Sarawak Petroleum Heritage Fund (SPHF), using state sales tax (SST) payment from oil and gas companies.

“Perhaps a budget of RM1 billion could be considered for SPHF in the 2021 State Budget,” he said at the PBB special mini-convention for the southern zone at the Borneo Convention Centre Kuching (BCCK) here.

Fadillah said the funds will enable the state government to provide free higher education in the form of scholarships or grants to all Sarawakian students.

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Political stability may be behind Shell’s recent shift to Sarawak, says analyst

November 14, 2020

Dateline 2020-10-25, FMT:

An analyst believes Shell’s decision to downsize its operations in Sabah and move its personnel into Sarawak was partly driven by the political stability in the latter.

Sociopolitical analyst Awang Azman Pawi said the stability of the state government under the leadership of Chief Minister Abang Johari Openg has managed to instill foreign and local investors’ confidence in Sarawak.

“This has (particularly) attracted foreign investors to pump more investments into Sarawak and this can also be attributed to this latest move by Shell (in Sabah),” he told FMT.

“The repositioning of Shell’s focus (back) to Miri is because Sarawak is seen to be having a clearer state policy as well as better facilities. This exudes confidence that the state is prepared to further develop and move forward in the oil and gas industry.”

According to Awang Azman, Sarawak’s determination in defending its rights by being bold enough to stand up to Putrajaya on issues pertaining to oil and gas was also another consideration.

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Sabah’s oil and gas dealt a severe blow by Shell

November 12, 2020

IGL is ready to step into the void, using the concept community owned entities (COE) to bring wealth to the local landscape. I would have called it community owned commercial kickstarters, but the acronym would have been hilaaaariuos.

Dateline 2020-10-23, The Malaysian Insight:

SHELL’S announcement on October 15 that the Plaza Shell Office at Kota Kinabalu will be closed with a relocation of all Sabah staff to the new Miri headquarters in 2021 was received with unceremonious silence.

The Kota Kinabalu office was set up in November 2015 with promises of Shell’s significant presence, strategic partnership and offer of measurable progress for the Sabah state. This change of commitments, a sad truth on change of events, draws much reservation, suspicion and unveils unprecedented break of promises from Shell to Sabah, its people and communities.

The well-set and progressive 200 Shell staff occupying four floors of the 14-storey Plaza Shell, a distinguished landmark in Kota Kinabalu being strategically located in the city’s business district may see the last of its pivotal presence very soon. Their lives, sadly, may never be the same again.

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MOGEC Live Webinar: Green Energy, Blue Skies and Black Gold – Are We At Breakpoint? by En Zainul Rahim Mohd Zain

November 10, 2020

You are cordially invited to our free WEBINAR 😊.

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NST Leader: Decarbonising Malaysia

November 6, 2020

I don’t know how to classify this article, a hybrid of RE and O&G?

Dateline 2020-10-08, NST:

Businesses in Malaysia, like elsewhere, spill much ink in extolling the virtues of going green. Many stop at that.

Just look at the voluminous annual corporate social responsibility reports produced by companies and you learn, very quickly, why environmental degradation happens.

There is something promising happening in Malaysia that may compel companies to put their money where their mouth is, as the saying goes. Called Climate Change and Principles-based Taxonomy (CCPT), it is essentially a means to make transparent climate-related financial disclosures by financial institutions.

A multi-party effort led by Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM), CCPT began to get public attention when BNM issued it as a discussion paper on Dec 27 last year. The idea is older, perhaps as old as the Paris Climate Accord of 2015. Or older.

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ExxonMobil’s sale of Malaysian assets heats up

November 3, 2020

Dateline 2020-10-03, The Star:

EXXON Mobil has shortlisted three bidders for its oil-producing offshore assets in Malaysia that are worth billions of ringgit.

According to sources, Hibiscus Petroleum Bhd is among the shortlisted bidders along with United Kingdom-based EnQuest plc.

One source points out that Sapura Energy Bhd has also expressed interest in ExxonMobil’s assets. It is unknown if the oil and gas (O&G) company made it to the list.

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