I was honoured to present my thoughts on SIL, SIF, IPF and other abbreviations to a willing crowd on the 9th September 2015.
Marketing Rounds – IEM SIL course
November 25, 2015
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Saturday Star 2015-11-21– Job Opportunities
November 23, 2015Happy Rain Week. Donate to your favourite charity (me), buy my recommendations, or through my Amazon store. Or get the Young Turks series (all 4 books). 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.
- ExxonMobil Research and Engineering (EMRE) is looking for people. Visit the website.
- I’m looking for jobs for 1Q2016. Send me your POs.
- An associate of mine is looking for a technical safety part-time adviser. 2 Associates, actually. Needs to be needle sharp with respect to QRAs, and HSE safety cases. A calm demeanor to handle nonsensical questions from young engineers helps as well. Either that, or a drinking problem.
- Nothing much in the news. Were you expecting jobs galore? Has The Star dropped out of favour? I see more job adverts on the facebook private groups.
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? Hmm.
Seen the Episode VII trailer? Booked the theater? If you say “What is episode Vii?”, I disown you.
During these trying times, perhaps you should focus on self improvement. The following are a good set of books to start automating your uncertainty budget tables.
The Cartoon Guide to Statistics, Hands-On Start to Wolfram Mathematica, Doubt-Free Uncertainty In Measurement: An Introduction for Engineers and Students
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Q&A with Datuk Wan Zulkiflee Wan Ariffin
November 22, 2015Dateline 2015-10-13, NST:
Wan Zul speaks on the Petronas venture in British Columbia, RAPID Pengerang, and investment in new technologies in the second and final part of the wide-ranging interview with the Business Times.
Q: What is the level now in terms of upstream in other countries?
A: The bigger ones in terms of gas would be a Turkmenistan, Egypt, Myanmar, Canada, Indonesia, Australia and Azerbaijan. For oil it would be Sudan, Chad and, of course, Iraq.
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Revised Nuclear Bill To Be Tabled In December
November 21, 2015Dateline 2015-10-13, Malaysia Reserve:
The revised Atomic Energy Regulatory Bill, which would pave the way for Malaysia’s use of nuclear energy for power generation, will be tabled at the next Dewan Rakyat sitting, according to sources.
The controversial bill is expected to be tabled in the last two days before the sitting ends on Dec 3, said people familiar with the revision.
The paper is being finalised by a special unit under the Prime Minister’s Department and its Minister Datuk Mah Siew Keong is expected to present it.
“The timing will be appropriate as Malaysia wants to deploy nuclear energy to meet rising energy demands and to diversify its energy sources,” a source told The Malaysian Reserve.
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Petronas to continue aggressive exploration
November 20, 2015And they will be exploring using offshore standby vessels?
Dateline 2015-10-13, The Star:
Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas) will continue to undertake aggressive exploration and appraisal activities despite the global low oil price environment.
General Manager, Malaysia Petroleum Management, Mohd Redhani Abdul Rahman said Petronas feels that this is one of the main strategic thrusts that has been working for Malaysia for the past five to 10 years.
“In the last five years, 970 exploration wells were drilled in South-East Asia and about one fifth of them, or 171 wells, were drilled in Malaysian waters.
“The 970 wells drilled have brought in an additional 10 billion barrels of oil equivalent, with Malaysia contributing half of the new addition,” he said at the Asia Petroleum and Geoscience Conference and Exhibition (APGCE) 2015 here yesterday.
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Change fuel pricing from USD to ringgit, Putrajaya told
November 19, 2015Putrajaya gets told a lot, don’t you think?
Dateline 2015-10-13, TMI:
Pakatan Harapan today urged Putrajaya to revamp the formula to determine local fuel prices by switching the reference currency from the US dollar to the ringgit. This, they said, would protect Malaysians from high fuel prices because of the continuous drop in the value of the ringgit in recent months.
“The formula to determine the actual true and fair price of fuel is the cost of crude oil and its processing to refine it to RON95 added with the guarantee of profit to oil companies,” Rafizi Ramli, who is PKR secretary-general, said in a press conference today
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Marketing Rounds – IChemE Hazards Asia Pacific 2015 2of 2
November 18, 2015I’m clearing out my old photos. Here are some photos from the Hazards AP. Will we see any oil & gas companies next year?
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Q&A with Petronas’ new CEO
November 17, 2015Article jumps straight into it, without names and such.
Dateline 2015-10-12, NST:
Q: What is your take on the overall oil and gas industry?
A: What we anticipate is that this will be a prolonged environment of low oil prices. It is not a sudden dip in a cycle or anything. We think this would be prolonged because of the structural shift in the industry. And with many things happening at the same time, this confluence of world events has caused impact. When we look back, this is similar to what we experienced in 2008, where that, too, took quite a few years before prices picked up again.
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Saturday Star 2015-11-14– Job Opportunities
November 16, 2015Happy Rain Week. Donate to your favourite charity (me), buy my recommendations, or through my Amazon store. Or get the Young Turks series (all 4 books). 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’m looking for jobs for 1Q2016. Send me your POs.
- An associate of mine is looking for a technical safety part-time adviser. 2 Associates, actually. Needs to be needle sharp with respect to QRAs, and HSE safety cases. A calm demeanor to handle nonsensical questions from young engineers helps as well. Either that, or a drinking problem.
- Nothing much in the news. Were you expecting jobs galore? Has The Star dropped out of favour? I see more job adverts on the facebook private groups.
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? Hmm.
Seen the Episode VII trailer? Booked the theater? If you say “What is episode Vii?”, I disown you.
During these trying times, perhaps you should focus on self improvement. The following are a good set of books to start automating your uncertainty budget tables.
The Cartoon Guide to Statistics, Hands-On Start to Wolfram Mathematica, Doubt-Free Uncertainty In Measurement: An Introduction for Engineers and Students
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Steering through tough times
November 15, 2015Dateline 2015-10-12, NST:
Acknowledging that the current global oil price doldrums could be prolonged, Petronas hasmapped out a six-point strategy to help the oil giant tide over the trying times and to stay profitable.
Outlining his game plan, Petronas president and group chief executive officer Datuk Wan Zulkiflee Wan Ariffin said it would weed out inefficiencies, manage costs, cut back some capital expenditure and seek more revenue.
In an exclusive interview with the New Straits Times, his first with the media since assuming his job on April 1, Wan Zul said his set of challenges were markedly different from his predecessors.
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Wata - Malaysian Oil and Gas Engineer 