Saturday Star 2017-12-23 – Job Opportunities

December 25, 2017

Happy short work week. IGL has pivoted into training, so book your seats now.

We’re thinking of republishing Young Turks of PETRONAS, but it’s a minimum 500 book printing run. Do I have enough interested persons to purchase?

Donate to your favorite charity (me), buy my recommendations, or through my Amazon store. Or get the Young Turks series (3 books until I can get YTP republished). Where are those corporate sponsors? Or throw donations at me, my camera dive case flooded, and I need a new replacement. Heck, if you want to send me a Canon 5D Mk III plus dive case, I will not say no.

  • I have a feeling that The Star isn’t the preferred O&G job recruitment portal now, and they have moved adverts to another online presence (I bought a dead tree edition this week). I see more adverts via social media. What do you think, is it a step change that the papers need to embrace?
  • I’m looking for jobs for 1Q2018. Send me your POs.

Food choice of the week? Support your local mee bandung.

This week, may I suggest you have a peek at Dakwah Corner? They have branches in Subang Parade, PJ Section 14, Ampang Park

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Oil & Gas Significant In Quest To Become High-Income Nation

December 24, 2017

High income, but probably not high value added services. Now, when 4D becomes linked to your paycheck, and a list of all plate numbers of vehicles involved in accidents are made available via a an app on Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone and Symbian…

Dateline 2017-11-09, Malaysian Digest:

The oil and gas (O&G) industry remains one of the significant contributors to Malaysia’s economy and revenue in the strive to become a high-income nation by 2020.

Despite facing numerous challenges and dwindling contribution to the government’s revenue, it is still an industry to be reckoned with, considering the sheer size of its workforce and multiplier effect to the economy.

In the medium term, the O&G industry remains a significant contributor to the economy and revenue as the economy progressively expands into other sectors, namely the services industry.

With crude oil prices averaging US$50 per barrel this year, they bolster government’s income and allocation to boost the economy and support programme towards meeting the goal of becoming a high-income nation under the National Transformation Programme.

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RM4.5b Trans Sabah Gas Pipeline to be funded with loan from China, guaranteed by Malaysia

December 23, 2017

Why not just say, paid by Malaysia?

Dateline 2017-11-08, The Edge:

The Trans Sabah Gas Pipeline (TSGP) will be funded by a soft loan of RM4.53 billion from the Export and Import (EXIM) Bank of China and guaranteed by the Malaysian government, said Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, Datuk Seri Abdul Rahman Dahlan.

The RM4.53 billion constitutes the total cost of the project, Rahman Dahlan said in a statement today, refuting an allegation on social media that Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak had collateralised oil and gas blocks off Sabah to China for a loan of RM100 billion.

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Petros still far from picking its CEO

December 22, 2017

Dateline 2017-11-08, The Malaysian Insight:

SARAWAK-OWNED petroleum company, Petroleum Sarawak Bhd (Petros), is no nearer to picking its chief executive officer.

Petros board chairman Hamid Bugo said the board was screening the more than 40 applicants that had responded to its advertisement for the post in local and national newspapers.

“It will take some time. This is a very important position and we want to choose the best person,” he said yesterday after attending Chief Minister Abang Johari Openg’s press conference to announce the appointment of Sarawak Energy Bhd (SEB) to spearhead research on hydrogen fuel and hydrogen fuel cell applications in the state.

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MPs petition Petronas to quit Myanmar over treatment of Rohingya

December 21, 2017

Y’all oilers, where do you stand? This isn’t related to Malaysia waters, but a news item that should put you on a side of the fence. Anyhow, go give support. Now. Run.

Dateline 2017-11-08, FMT:

Forty-seven opposition MPs have petitioned Petronas urging the national oil corporation to pull out from Myanmar until its government recognises the rights of the Rohingya.

PKR’s Pandan MP Rafizi Ramli, who spoke for the group, said they had written to Petronas chief executive officer and president Wan Zulkiflee Wan Ariffin seeking a meeting to discuss the issue.

“Petronas has invested in several projects in Myanmar. However, only the Yetagun gas field in the Andaman Sea is in production.

“Petronas took up a stake in the project after an American investor withdrew,” he told a news conference in Parliament today.

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Tenggol – 2017-10 Pt 1 of 4

December 20, 2017

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Shell excel in oil extraction from Sabah deepwaters

December 19, 2017

Is this an advertorial?

Dateline 2017-11-07, NST:

As Sabah contributes about 50 per cent of the country’s oil production and with 60 per cent of production in the state comes from Shell, the oil company hopes to keep oil production competitive and growing sustainably in the next years to come.

Sabah Shell petroleum company general manager Ian Lim said Shell is doing well in oil production performance over the years, particularly in Sabah deep water.

“Within the Shell group, we compete very well. One of the things we are proud of is that in a lot of internal conversation, whenever we talk about business, we talk about which team and asset is producing well.

“The word Sabah deepwaters shows up and it’s really a proud moment as well as recognition to the team and where we are at. Of course, there is still improvement to be made but Shell is on (the right) track,” he said.

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Saturday Star 2017-12-16 – Job Opportunities

December 18, 2017

Happy still on vacation week. IGL has pivoted into training, so book your seats now.

We’re thinking of republishing Young Turks of PETRONAS, but it’s a minimum 500 book printing run. Do I have enough interested persons to purchase?

Donate to your favorite charity (me), buy my recommendations, or through my Amazon store. Or get the Young Turks series (3 books until I can get YTP republished). Where are those corporate sponsors? Or throw donations at me, my camera dive case flooded, and I need a new replacement. Heck, if you want to send me a Canon 5D Mk III plus dive case, I will not say no.

  • I have a feeling that The Star isn’t the preferred O&G job recruitment portal now, and they have moved adverts to another online presence (I bought a dead tree edition this week). I see more adverts via social media. What do you think, is it a step change that the papers need to embrace?
  • I’m looking for jobs for 1Q2018. Send me your POs.

Food choice of the week? Support your local mee bandung.

Thinking about the zombie apocalypse, you need something to jumpstart access to those dodgy Internet sites:

The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm

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Malaysia’s Petronas, Aramco to finalize RAPID deal after resolving ‘technical issues’: Bernama

December 17, 2017

Dateline 2017-11-03, Reuters/Bernama:

Malaysian state energy company Petronas and Aramco are facing “technical issues” in finalizing the Saudi oil major’s $7 billion investment in a refinery project, but the deal will be completed soon, state news agency Bernama reported on Friday.

The government “is giving room to Petronas and Saudi Aramco to resolve several technical issues related to the investment agreement,” Bernama reported, citing Abdul Rahman Dahlan, a minister in the Malaysian prime minister’s office.

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Malaysia confident of resolving issue of natural gas tax at JDA border

December 16, 2017

Dateline 2017-11-02, The Star:

Malaysia is confident that Thailand’s intention to impose tax on natural gas produced by Petronas at the border of the Joint Development Area (JDA) fields in the Gulf of Thailand can be resolved.

Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Abdul Rahman Dahlan said the natural gas produced by Petronas outside the JDA should not be taxed as it was not being used in Thailand even though it was sent for processing in Songkla before being transported to Bukit Kayu Hitam.

He said the natural gas produced was only “on transit” in Songkla as it was channelled through the same pipeline, and 100% of it was sent to Malaysia.

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