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Anniversary – Piper Alpha Disaster
July 6, 2016
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PFLNG SATU reaches Kanowit gas field offshore Malaysia
July 5, 2016Dateline 2016-06-08, Offshore:
Petronas’ first floating LNG vessel, PFLNG SATU, has reached the Kanowit gas fieldoffshore Malaysia, the company posted on social media.
The vessel set sail from Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. Ltd. shipyard in Okpo, South Korea, to the Kanowit gas field, 180 km (112 mi) offshore Sarawak on May 14.
“After [a] 2,120 nautical mi (2,439 mi /3,925 km) journey to Malaysia, on the 30 May 2016, the PFLNG 1 has finally reached its destination,” Petronas posted.
The vessel measures 365 m (1,198 ft) in length, 60 m (197 ft) in width, and 33 m (108 ft) in height. It is designed to operate in water depths between 70 m and 200 m (230 ft and 656 ft) and has a processing capacity of 1.2 million metric tons of LNG per year.
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Saturday Star 2016-07-02– Job Opportunities
July 4, 2016Ramadhan Kareem, Eid Mubarak.
Donate to your favorite charity (for this month, choose other than 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.
- A mate of mine is looking for a MD/EngMan type person to help run his engineering company (the main business is skid manufacturing). He can’t handle the work volume, so you know that his oil & gas company is bucking the trend, and has a bright future ahead. If I know you, send your CV’s to me. If I don’t know you, send your CV along anyway, but note I will contact your references. I am not getting a commission for this ad, you know.
- I’m looking for fresh meat-ish, to help with a peak work period.
- Nothing in the papers today.
- I’m looking for jobs for 4Q2016. Send me your POs.
Support your local bookshop! Bookalicious at The Summit Subang is a good choice. I think they focus on trilogies, quadrilogies, and other ologies. Tell them I sent you, and enjoy the look of perplexity on their faces. Those of you who have dropped my name, thanks!
Food choice of the week? Any weight loss diet.
Let’s get a bit nostalgic with the book selection.
Wetter, Louder, Stickier: A Baby Blues Collection (Baby Blues Scrapbook), BBXX: Baby Blues: Decades 1 & 2
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The State of the Nation: Two reminders from Petronas’ tough 1Q2016
July 3, 2016Heck, there are more reminders, from other companies dying during this period.
Dateline 2016-06-06, The Edge:
This article first appeared in Corporate, The Edge Malaysia Weekly, on May 23 – 29, 2016.
PETROLIAM Nasional Bhd’s (Petronas) recent results announcement is an urgent reminder that the recent rebound in crude oil prices does not mean that the worse is over for Malaysia’s economy, which is trying to wean itself off a heavy dependence on oil-related revenues.
Recall that oil and gas saw a ghastly start to the year. Crude oil prices ended last year at about US$41 per barrel and quickly tumbled to below the US$30 per barrel level in mid-January, a level not seen in 12 years.
It sent shockwaves around the globe. Everyone in oil and gas reeled while oil-dependent countries scrambled to deal with reduced revenues.
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Online job postings decline, says report
July 2, 2016I see jobs on Facebook. Maybe the report was biased to a certain income level?
Dateline 2016-06-07, FreeMalaysiaToday:
The rate of online job postings has dropped in Malaysia by 18 per cent over the past one year, The Sun reported.
According to the Monster Employment Index (MEI) Malaysia, which measures online job posting activities, there was an overall drop between April 2015 and April this year.
Furthermore, in April this year none of the job sectors and occupational groups witnessed any positive annual growth.
The freeze on hiring foreign workers earlier this year and the overall holding back of hiring activities by certain industries was also a factor in the drop, according to Monster.com managing director Sanjay Modi.
“Sectors affected were the construction, shipping and logistics sectors, where hiring numbers have been hit as reflected in the MEI data.
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JX Nippon Oil, Petronas team on Malaysian LNG venture
July 1, 2016Dateline 2016-06-03, Nikkei Asian Review:
JX Nippon Oil & Energy will work with Malaysian state-run oil company Petronas to tap the Southeast Asian market for liquefied natural gas, aiming to take advantage of rising demand fueled by economic growth.
The Japanese company will invest roughly 60 billion yen ($552 million) in the operator of an LNG plant to be built by Petronas in northern Borneo. The plant, to debut in 2017, will have an annual capacity of 3.6 million tons, equivalent to 10% of Malaysia’s LNG market.
The LNG will be sold through a Petronas subsidiary to local power companies as well as to gas companies in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. JX Nippon Oil plans to team with Petronas to market to other Southeast Asian countries as well. The Japanese company hopes to earn more than 100 billion yen over the life of the contract, which runs until 2037.…
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Labuan is ideal for O&G decommissioning works
June 29, 2016Bit out of the blue, ain’t it?
Dateline 2016-06-03, Daily Express:
The island, renowned in the past for oil and gas sector fabrication, maintenance, logistical support and storage works, is ideal as a base for decommissioning works.
However, for such project management, there are less than five locals who have the actual experience in managing decommissioning projects subject to the Best Practicable Environmental Option (BPEO).
Although cutting tools, marine spread and engineering teams are available locally, the police will not approve explosives as the best option for decommissioning, leaving only abrasive water jetting and diamond wire cutting as the preferred choices.
Ir. Dr Dasline Sinta, CEO and principal consultant of Dream Catcher Energy Sdn Bhd, said about 300 platforms in Malaysia are located in water depths of eight to 138 metres.
In his presentation at the 5th Sabah Oil and Gas Conference and Exhibition titled “Decommissioning of offshore oil and gas facilities in Sabah and Sarawak”, he said based on field life estimation, about 15 platforms could be decommissioned soon.
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Marketing Rounds – Ballet of the Excavator
June 29, 2016This type of work gives the SHO a heart attack. If there was one.
https://plus.google.com/+RazmahwataMohdRazalli/posts/aTqags5Rr29
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Sabah lacks oil-gas sector skills: Don
June 28, 2016And after all the effort to make Sabah a spin-off of Malaysia’s Oil & Gas Hub.
Dateline 2016-06-02, Daily Express:
Despite Sabah having abundant oil and gas (O&G) resources, there is a lack of skilled technical Sabahan manpower in the O&G industry.
This situation was highlighted by Professor Ir. Dr Rosalam Sarbatly (pic), the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) in his presentation “Challenges and opportunities in developing the skill and talented human capital in oil and gas sector in Sabah” at the 5th Oil and Gas Conference and Exhibition recently.
Dr Rosalam is also the executive director for UMS Oil & Gas Sdn Bhd (UOil).
“This is compounded by a lack of interest among many local students in science, technology engineering and mathematics, particularly from rural areas,” Dr Rosalam explained, pinning his hopes on rural area students, as more urban students tend to opt for prestigious professions like architecture, medicine, law, accountancy and others.
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Saturday Star 2016-06-25– Job Opportunities
June 27, 2016Ramadhan Kareem and Happy New Staff week.
Donate to your favorite charity (for this month, choose other than 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.
- A mate of mine is looking for a MD/EngMan type person to help run his engineering company (the main business is skid manufacturing). He can’t handle the work volume, so you know that his oil & gas company is bucking the trend, and has a bright future ahead. If I know you, send your CV’s to me. If I don’t know you, send your CV along anyway, but note I will contact your references. I am not getting a commission for this ad, you know.
- I’m looking for fresh meat-ish, to help with a peak work period.
- Nothing in the papers today.
- I’m looking for jobs for 4Q2016. Send me your POs.
Support your local bookshop! Bookalicious at The Summit Subang is a good choice. I think they focus on trilogies, quadrilogies, and other ologies. Tell them I sent you, and enjoy the look of perplexity on their faces. Those of you who have dropped my name, thanks!
Food choice of the week? Any weight loss diet.
Let’s get a bit nostalgic with the book selection.
Wetter, Louder, Stickier: A Baby Blues Collection (Baby Blues Scrapbook), BBXX: Baby Blues: Decades 1 & 2
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