Crucial for Malaysian O&G companies to innovate to survive — Dr Mahathir

July 2, 2019

For safety, at which point does/did innovation in safety features reach peak ALARP, and now O&M has to bear the flag?
Dateline 2019-05-23, The Borneo Post:

Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad says the oil and gas (O&G) industry remains volatile and therefore, it crucial that Malaysia continues to highlight its potential in the oil, gas and energy (OGE) sector while keeping up-to-date with the latest innovation and technology to strengthen its position.

He said this in his support message for the upcoming Asian Oil, Gas & Petrochemical Engineering Exhibition (OGA) series which will be returning next month to showcase the latest cutting-edge technology and the most innovative companies/individuals in O&G industry.


IEM Shout Out – 2019-07 One Day Course on “Offshore Sand Separation: Design, Operation and Maintenance”

July 1, 2019

My technical division will be hosting a 1 day course on the 23rd July 2019 It is worth 6.5 CPD points, and held at Wisma IEM. The course will be presented by Ir. Dr. John Eow.

In the upstream offshore oil & gas production, effective and efficient sand separation and management are vital, since the presence of sand particles and solids in wellhead production lines are likely to cause erosion and blockage issues in the subsequent downstream equipment at production platforms. As a consequence, dangerous incidents, such as failures of flowlines, production vessels, pumps and control valves, have a higher risk of occurring. Moreover, oily sands discharged into the sea are also an environmental concern.

This full-day course is designed to educate the participants on the engineering design, operation and maintenance of the technologies for the removal and cleaning of the sands and solids prior to discharge. Proven sand removal technologies, such as wellhead desanders, produced water desanding hydrocyclones, sand fluidizers, and sand cleaning systems are commonly used in the upstream oil & gas production. However, these sand removal and cleaning systems need to be designed and operated correctly to ensure optimized separation performance.

Ir. Dr. John Eow is a Chartered Engineer (UK) and a Professional Engineer (BEM), with more than 15 years’ experience in the Oil & Gas industry, having worked with sand separation and management, produced water treatment, crude oil dehydration-desalting, seawater treatment & injection, and gas processing technologies and equipment.   He also conduct lectures in chemical and process engineering at Singapore Institute of Technology. Dr. John obtained his B.Eng in Chemical Engineering (1st Class Hons) and PhD in 1998 and 2002, respectively, from University of Surrey, UK.   His PhD work was on electrostatic water-oil treatment technology.   Over the years, he has worked as a technology specialist with oil & gas technology-provider companies, such as Global Process Systems (Malaysia), Keppel Offshore and Marine (Singapore), Cameron Process Systems (Singapore, Japan and Malaysia), and EDES Technology Malaysia.   His experiences cover a wide range from Technical and Commercial Proposal to Detailed Engineering to Commissioning to Production Improvement & Troubleshooting for oil & gas processes and technologies.   He has also conducted technical training and process improvement work for Saudi ARAMCO, SABIC, PETRONAS, Sarawak SHELL, CNOOC, Murphy Oil Sarawak, Husky Oil Energy, GAIL India, Transwater API, CPOC, Boustead-Salcon Water Solutions, etc.

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Oil royalty: Some issues need to be discussed with federal govt, says Kelantan MB

June 30, 2019

Dateline 2019-05-21, Malay Mail:

The Kelantan government hopes that its oil royalty lawsuit against Petroliam Nasional Berhad (Petronas), which has been withdrawn, will be fully settled soon.

Mentri Besar Datuk Ahmad Yakob said the matter should have been settled by now, but due to some technical issues, it had not.


Sabah-Sarawak Gas Pipeline Shit for Maintenance

June 29, 2019

Yes, I have the evidence to prove it. I suggest that firing your spell checker is not a good idea.

Dateline 2019-05-21, AOG:

Malaysia’s state oil and gas company Petroliam Nasional Bhd said on Tuesday it has shut the Sabah-Sarawak gas pipeline that feeds gas to its liquefied natural gas (LNG) complex at Bintulu in the state of Sarawak as part of maintenance work.

Operations will resume when the maintenance work is completed, said Petronas, as the company is popularly known, in a statement, without specifying how long works would take.

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Malaysia’s Petronas achieves first LNG production at floating facility

June 28, 2019

Dateline 2019-05-21, Yahoo/Reuters:

Malaysian state-owned oil firm Petronas said on Tuesday it has achieved its first liquefied natural gas (LNG) production at its floating LNG facility off the eastern state of Sabah.

Petronas, or Petroliam Nasional Bhd as it is formally known, said production was attained three days after the Petronas FLNG (PFLNG) Satu facility achieved first gas.

Petronas had earlier said in March it relocated the PFLNG Satu to the Kebabangan cluster field in Sabah, some 90 km northwest of the state’s capital city of Kota Kinabalu.

The facility was previously moored in the Kumang cluster field off the coast of Bintulu in neighbouring Sarawak, where it began the world’s first LNG production from a floating platform in 2017.

 


MB: Pahang wants federal govt to reconsider oil royalty payment to state

June 27, 2019

I.. am missing something here? Who’s paying who? There’s oil in them thar hills?

Dateline 2019-05-19, Malay Mail:

The Pahang government wants the federal government to re-consider the payment of oil royalty or “wang ihsan” (compassionate money) to the state.

Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Wan Rosdy Wan Ismail said a letter on the matter would be sent soon and the state would leave it to the federal government to decide on the amount.


Kelantan drops suit against Petronas, but not federal government

June 25, 2019

Dateline 2019-05-18, Malay Mail:

Kelantan has withdrawn its oil royalty lawsuit against national petroleum company Petronas, the state government’s lawyer Aleeya Elyana Ahmad Mahreez confirmed.

But she said the PAS-led state government is proceeding with the lawsuit against the federal government, which is named as the second defendant, Berita Harian reported today.


IEM Shout Out – 2019-07 One Day Course on “Offshore Sand Separation: Design, Operation and Maintenance”

June 24, 2019

My technical division will be hosting a 1 day course on the 23rd July 2019 It is worth 6.5 CPD points, and held at Wisma IEM. The course will be presented by Ir. Dr. John Eow.

In the upstream offshore oil & gas production, effective and efficient sand separation and management are vital, since the presence of sand particles and solids in wellhead production lines are likely to cause erosion and blockage issues in the subsequent downstream equipment at production platforms. As a consequence, dangerous incidents, such as failures of flowlines, production vessels, pumps and control valves, have a higher risk of occurring. Moreover, oily sands discharged into the sea are also an environmental concern.

This full-day course is designed to educate the participants on the engineering design, operation and maintenance of the technologies for the removal and cleaning of the sands and solids prior to discharge. Proven sand removal technologies, such as wellhead desanders, produced water desanding hydrocyclones, sand fluidizers, and sand cleaning systems are commonly used in the upstream oil & gas production. However, these sand removal and cleaning systems need to be designed and operated correctly to ensure optimized separation performance.

Ir. Dr. John Eow is a Chartered Engineer (UK) and a Professional Engineer (BEM), with more than 15 years’ experience in the Oil & Gas industry, having worked with sand separation and management, produced water treatment, crude oil dehydration-desalting, seawater treatment & injection, and gas processing technologies and equipment.   He also conduct lectures in chemical and process engineering at Singapore Institute of Technology. Dr. John obtained his B.Eng in Chemical Engineering (1st Class Hons) and PhD in 1998 and 2002, respectively, from University of Surrey, UK.   His PhD work was on electrostatic water-oil treatment technology.   Over the years, he has worked as a technology specialist with oil & gas technology-provider companies, such as Global Process Systems (Malaysia), Keppel Offshore and Marine (Singapore), Cameron Process Systems (Singapore, Japan and Malaysia), and EDES Technology Malaysia.   His experiences cover a wide range from Technical and Commercial Proposal to Detailed Engineering to Commissioning to Production Improvement & Troubleshooting for oil & gas processes and technologies.   He has also conducted technical training and process improvement work for Saudi ARAMCO, SABIC, PETRONAS, Sarawak SHELL, CNOOC, Murphy Oil Sarawak, Husky Oil Energy, GAIL India, Transwater API, CPOC, Boustead-Salcon Water Solutions, etc.

Register here, or download the form here.


Malaysia’s Sabah-Sarawak gas pipeline shut for repairs: sources

June 21, 2019

Dateline 2019-05-14, Business Times:

[SINGAPORE] Malaysia’s state oil and gas company Petroliam Nasional Bhd has temporarily shut the Sabah-Sarawak pipeline that feeds gas to its liquefied natural gas (LNG) complex at Bintulu in the state of Sarawak, two industry sources said on Tuesday.

The 500-kilometre pipeline that transports gas from Kimanis in Sabah state to the LNG plant in Sarawak was shut from the start of May for repairs that will take about two months, one of the sources with knowledge of the matter said.

This has slowed production at the Bintulu plant, and potentially will curb spot LNG exports from Malaysia, a second source told Reuters.

 


IEM Shout Out – 2019-06 Talk on “Environmental Forces Effect on Structure Decommissioning Operation”

June 20, 2019

My technical division will be hosting a talk on the 22nd June 2019. It is worth 2 CPD points, and held at Wisma IEM. The talk will be presented by yours truly, so come and fill seats, especially since I am giving it during the fasting month.

Recently, aging, abandoned and unused offshore oil and gas platforms, subsea completion and related structures, with more than 600 projects are planned to be decommissioned within 5 years period. Studies made recently expects expenditure on offshore decommissioning projects to increase from approximately $2.4 billion in 2015 to &13 billion-per-year by 2040, a major increase of 540%. The challenges related to lifting and lowering technology is the weight of the structures to be installed, which combined with the dynamic response, can exceed the capacity of the lifting system. The harsh environment is acknowledged as the greatest challenge that should be carefully considered. Typically, such analysis on the structure at the splash zone governs the expected major loadings in the hoisting system and in turn the allowable sea state since the water particle kinematics is larger in the splash zone and computationally simulated to predict the total motion. In this study, the DNV Recommended Practice for Modelling and Analysis of Marine Operation (DNV-RP-H103, April 2009) is used as guidelines with emphasis on the hydrodynamic coefficients and analysis methodology for the splash zone down crossing analysis, which is considered to be the operation limiting criteria.

Ir. Mohd Fakhruddin, an energetic engineer with years of experience working in offshore, oil and gas engineering, focusing on transportation installation offshore structures. Graduated from Australian Maritime College, AMC in Bachelor of Engineering (Marine and Offshore System) in 2011, involved in the oil and gas industry as CFD Project Engineer at BMT Fluid Mechanics Ltd., and continues his career progression as Naval Architect at Sapura Energy in 2013 to 2019.Currently working as Subsea Installation Engineer at McDermott APAC. In 2015, he continues his study in Master of Science, UMT as a part time student, graduated on November 2018. Dedicated and experienced Naval Architect/Subsea Engineer in all phases of engineering operations related to hydrodynamic problems.

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