Go beyond technical limits, local engineers, technicians urged

December 27, 2018

Dateline 2018-11-08, Borneo Post:

Local engineers and technicians must have the motivation to take on some challenges by going beyond the technical limits of engineering to help solve the problems here.

The Upskilling Sarawak Engineers and Technicians (USET) taskforce chairman Pau Kiew Huai said now with new challenges, engineers and technicians need to think of innovative ways to do things correctly.

He said this during the Institution of Engineers, Malaysia (IEM) conference on plant reliability at Kidurong Club on Tuesday.

He said this is where the taskforce comes in to help in the capability building of engineers and technicians in Sarawak to cope with modern world and the challenge of new technologies.

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Diving Komodo 2018-11 1 of 8

December 26, 2018
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Job Opportunity 2018-12 – Process Engineer, 6 Months

December 25, 2018

Someone asked me to look for an offshore operations process engineer, 5-10 years experience, for a 6 months stint in a oil & gas operating company (name withheld). Must have done process in an operations environment. Any names or takers, contact me via comments below.

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Thanks to 1MDB, Petronas now enjoys huge reserves, says Najib

December 25, 2018

There you go.

Dateline 2018-11-06, FMT:

Days after two former ministers blamed 1MDB for Barisan Nasional’s defeat in the May 9 polls, Najib Razak has defended the state investment arm and says it indirectly helped Petronas increase its reserves.

In a Facebook post, the former prime minister said that for 15 years up to 2012, the national petroleum company was forced to subsidise gas that it supplied to independent power producers (IPP).

This led to Petronas incurring losses of over RM10 billion every year.

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Analysis: Trans-ASEAN gas projects losing relevance amid the fast-paced LNG growth

December 24, 2018

Not a purely Malaysian item, but since some of our longdistance pipelines were meant to be part of the network, it’s interesting.

Dateline 2018-11-07, S&P Global:

An ambitious project to link Southeast Asia with a network of natural gas pipelines is losing relevance to a much faster build-out of LNG import terminals as the region leans increasingly towards seaborne supplies.

The Trans-ASEAN Gas Pipeline was first conceived in the 1980s to boost the region’s energy security using Southeast Asia’s own prolific gas reserves, but was slow to progress like most politically driven large-scale energy projects.

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Students from four universities benefit from Prestige programme

December 23, 2018

Dateline 2018-11-05, The Star:

AIMING to create a broader understanding of the natural gas industry and the importance of Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) aspects among university students, Malaysian Gas Association (MGA) held its annual Practical Environmental, Safety & Industrial Guidance for Student Engineers (Prestige) programme in Sabah recently.

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Sarawak to impose sales tax on petroleum products

December 22, 2018

Does this include plastics?

Dateline 2018-11-05, Malay Mail:

The Sarawak state government will impose 5 per cent sales tax on all petroleum products next year, Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Abang Johari Openg said today.

“This will take effect on January 1 next year,” he said when tabling the state Budget 2019 in the state legislative assembly.

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Malaysia’s Petronas completes first commercial LNG cool-down service at Bintulu

December 21, 2018

So before this, what did they do at Bintulu Port?
Dateline 2018-11-05, S&P Global:

Malaysia’s state-owned Petronas has completed its first commercial gassing up and cooling down service at the Bintulu LNG export plant in northern Borneo, adding to the company’s portfolio of LNG-related services in Southeast Asia.

The operation, which consists of cooling down an LNG carrier’s tanks to cryogenic temperature after dry-docking and before loading its next cargo, was performed on the vessel Singapore Energy in approximately 11 hours, Petronas said in a statement on Monday

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STAR: Sarawak should get part of Petronas dividend

December 20, 2018

Dateline 2018-11-03, Malay Mail:

Sarawak should have a fair share of the RM30 billion special dividend that state-owned Petroliam Nasional Berhad (Petronas) will pay to the federal government, State Reform Party (STAR) president Lina Soo said today.

She said Sarawak is producing as much as 800,000 boe (barrel oil equivalent) per day, and with the oil price hovering around US$77 per barrel, it is equivalent to RM250 million on a daily basis.

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Diving Tenggol 2018-09 Pt 6 of 6

December 19, 2018
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