Saturday Star 2017-03-11 – Job Opportunities

March 13, 2017

Happy Wata  IEM VP and Council Candidacy. Vote for me, and spread the word, wilya? 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. I see more adverts via social media. What do you think, is it a step change that the papers need to embrace?
  • ExxonMobil Engineering Global Support is looking for Advanced Control Engineer, Chemical Engineer, Chemical Engineer (Butyl), Control Systems Engineer, Heat Transfer Engineer, Instrumentation Engineer, Licensing Technical Support Engineer, Machinery Engineer, and many others. Looks like downstream is the place to be. Register at http://www.exxonmobil.com/careers/my and visit the career fair at Grange St. Paul’s Hotel, London. Though if you can afford that, why you applying?
  • I’m looking for jobs for 2Q2017. Send me your POs.

Food choice of the week? I would suggest visiting Cicerello’s, Freemantle. Sponsor my flight and accomodation, so I can go there as well.

Seeing that Joe Dever has passed away, you may want to revisit his books:

Flight from the Dark (Lone Wolf, Book 1), Legends of Lone Wolf Omnibus 1, War of the Wizards (The World of Lone Wolf, Book 4)

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Repsol to invest RM600mil in oil & gas projects

March 12, 2017

Dateline 2017-02-08, The Star:

Repsol Oil and Gas Malaysia Ltd is investing about RM600mil for the construction of two oil platforms and in drilling several wells.

The platforms are to be constructed at Peninsular Malaysia 3 (PM3) near the border with Vietnam and at Medan Kinabalu off Sabah waters.

The company’s communication, government relations and community senior general manager Farid Jaafar said works for the projects would start at year-end and early next year respectively.

He said the projects would generate employment and business opportunities for locals.

“Despite the slowdown in the oil and gas sector, Repsol is still expanding due to our commitment and business strategy,” he added.

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Oil price recovery fires hope for Malaysian economy

March 11, 2017

Dateline 2017-02-07, Astro Awani:

The recovery of global oil prices is expected to benefit Malaysian economy as it will lead to domino effect across other sectors and commodities.

According to OCBC Bank, the recovery of oil prices will also be the catalyst for Malaysian export dan supporting the ringgit value.

OCBC Economist Wellian Wiranto said the oil price would hover around US$D65 per barrel by the end of 2017, subsequently contributing positively to national coffers.

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Sarawak deserves separate price tier for oil, says SUPP

March 10, 2017

Dateline 2017-02-04, FMT:

The Sarawak government has been urged to take charge of its oil resources to buffer Sarawakians against the cost of rising fuel prices.

Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP) Youth publicity secretary Milton Foo proposed a separate tier of oil prices for the state as a “temporary mechanism” to ensure “Sarawakians are treated more fairly” in view of the state’s contribution to the country’s oil production.

Foo said petroleum found in Sarawak should belong “to the people of Sarawak.”

“We deserve a separate tier or system of oil prices from Peninsular Malaysia, which should be at least 20% lower since we have contributed so much to petroleum resources in Malaysia,” he said in a statement today.

Sarawak contributes 47% of Malaysia’s total oil production.

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Second RM6b ammonia plant

March 9, 2017

Dateline 2017-02-03, Daily Express:

A second ammonia plant will be built at the Sipitang Oil and Gas Industrial Park (SOGIP) as part of the oil and gas industry’s development in Sabah this year.

Disclosing this, Deputy Chief Minister-cum-Industrial Development Minister Datuk Seri Raymond Tan said the project will see Sabah venturing into the natural gas downstream industry and would cost more than the existing Sabah Ammonia Urea Project (Samur) in Siptang.

“Sabah is looking into developing the oil and gas industry as another prospective area to be ventured into like engaging in natural gas development instead of selling our ample natural gas without value adding.

“What Samur does is turn the natural gas into solid substance like fertilisers and the project is worth about RM6 billion.

“Hence, for this year, Sabah will be venturing into another project which is a different one because Sabah will have a bigger share in setting up the second ammonia plant with the cost being more than RM6 billion,” he said at a Chinese New Year luncheon, Thursday.

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Marketing Rounds – METFEST

March 8, 2017

I was honoured to be the IEM representative for UniKl’s Malaysian Engineering Technology Festival (METFEST) on 10th December, 2016.

 

 

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IEM Shout Out – Two Day Course, Business Communication for Success 2017-03

March 7, 2017

My technical division will be hosting a 2 day course on the 22nd and 23rd March, 2017. It is worth 12 CPD points, and held at Wisma IEM. The course will be presented by Ir. Danaraj Chandrasegaran, PEng, MIEM, CEng and Ms. Ratnavathy Ragunathan.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course participants will:
• Acquire better core writing fundamentals
• Learn strategies to help you speak and write more clearly
• Strengthen your public presentation skills
• Write more effective reports and other internal documents
• Use plain language to keep messages accessible

Ir. Danaraj Chandrasegaran, PEng, MIEM, CEng, MIMechE graduated from University Teknologi Malaysia in 2001 with Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering (Hons), subsequently, pursued his Master Degree in University of Malaya. He has published in international journals and conferences in the past. His career has a diverse outlook on project execution ranging from building construction, marine, mining and energy industry; as a mechanical engineer. He is also a Chartered Engineer of Engineering Council UK and Corporate Member of Institution of Mechanical Engineers (UK).

Ms. Ratnavathy Ragunathan graduated with B. Sc. (Computer Sc.) from University Putra Malaysia in 2002 and subsequently obtained M. Ed. (TESL), University of Malaya in 2012. She worked for both the industry and academia focusing on English Language teaching for adults and professionals. Her specialties are on Business English and Communication Skills; also, a Cambridge ESOL Certified Speaking Examiner. She has developed curriculums, written articles and presented papers on English Teaching with a global outlook. Currently, she is engaged with one of the leading English Language Centre in Kuala Lumpur.

Register here, or download the form here.

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Saturday Star 2017-03-04 – Job Opportunities

March 6, 2017

Happy Wata  IEM VP and Council Candidacy. Vote for me, and spread the word, wilya? 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. 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 2Q2017. Send me your POs.

Food choice of the week? I would suggest visiting Cicerello’s, Freemantle. Sponsor my flight and accomodation, so I can go there as well.

Seeing that Joe Dever has passed away, you may want to revisit his books:

Flight from the Dark (Lone Wolf, Book 1), Legends of Lone Wolf Omnibus 1, War of the Wizards (The World of Lone Wolf, Book 4)

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Pioneer firm to enhance carbon stock

March 5, 2017

Not oil and gas, but an interesting trade to look into.

Dateline 2017-02-02, Borneo Post Online:

Malaysia’s first carbon credit rating company hopes to see other states follow Kelantan’s move after the state has given the company 25 per cent of its land mass for forest preservation and to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.

Under the United Nations (UN) collaborative programme – Reducing Environment from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD), Climate Change Protector (CCP) Sdn Bhd was given 396,000 hectares of forest to preserve the flora and fauna of the region.

The company, specialising in renewable and sustainable energy, received the project under UN’s REDD initiative for a 30-year concession period with the Kelantan state government.

CCP chief executive officer Tang Too Siah said the recent memorandum of agreement (MoA) signed on January 9 was the Kelantan state government’s initiative to protect the region from illegal and legal mining activities.

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Manager sought over employee’s death

March 4, 2017

We categorically deny that this involves any of our companies.

Dateline 2017-02-01, Daily Express:

Police are looking for a manager of an oil and gas company over the death of an employee.

R. Satesh, 27, from Sabak Bernam, Selangor, is being sought for help in the investigations into the death of Indian national Joseph Kishore Gilbert, 42.

Sentul OCPD Asst Comm R. Munusamy said the victim was found in a weakened state at a condominium in Jalan Kasipillay here around 5am on Jan 19.

“His body was covered in bruises and he was taken to hospital but died,” he said at a press conference at the district police headquarters Tuesday.

olice arrested four people, aged 27 to 39, following the death. Two of them were from the oil and gas company and the other two were medical professionals.

ACP Munusamy said police believe the victim was beaten up at the company office, which was located in the same condominium, shortly before he was found.

“We are still waiting for the post-mortem report but the 51 bruises all over his body pointed to the victim being beaten with a thick cable wire.

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