The Oil, Gas and Mining Technical Division AGM will be held at Wisma IEM Wisma IEM, Auditorium Tan Sri Prof. Chin Fung Kee, Third Floor
It will be held at 11am on Saturday, 12th December 2015.
Register here, and download the flyer here. A map to Wisma IEM is presented here.
My tenure as an adviser has come and gone, y’all and heckle us. We also need a quorum, and need to vote in a new secretary / treasurer.
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Dateline 2015-10-14, NST:
AMERICAN industrialist, oilman, and at one time, the country’s richest private citizen, John Paul Getty, was once asked of attributes to his success. He said: “rise early, work hard, strike oil.”
Just as bankers know beyond any doubt that they will be around as long as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, oilmen like Petronas president and group chief executive Datuk Wan Zulkiflee Wan Ariffin whom this newspaper spoke to last week, knew that for as long as the world’s insatiable demand for energy continues, the company has a future. The challenge is in managing it properly.
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I was honoured to present my thoughts on SIL, SIF, IPF and other abbreviations to a willing crowd on the 9th September 2015.
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Happy 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.
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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Dateline 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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Dateline 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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And 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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Putrajaya 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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I’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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Article 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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