Help reduce fuel dependence, energy group tells Putrajaya

December 13, 2014

Dateline 2014-10-02, Malaysian Insider:

The government must help the public reduce its petrol if it wishes to continue slashing fuel subsidies, the Association of Water and Energy Research Malaysia (Awer) said today.

Awer president Piarapakaran S. said effective public transportation, proper road designs, EURO4 type fuel, energy efficient vehicles (EEV) and minimum energy performance standard (MEPS) for vehicles would lessen Malaysians’ energy dependence in the transportation sector.

“The implementation of EURO4 type fuel, EEV and MEPS for vehicles must be sped up as these are short-term solutions with immediate results,” he said in a statement.

He said the government should introduce more EEVs, as this would mean more vehicles that were environmentally-friendly and reduced fuel cost.
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No reason to raise petrol price when crude oil price is at a 3-year low – Chong Zhemin

December 12, 2014

Dateline 2014-10-01, Malaysian Insider:

Barisan Nasional has decided to increase the petrol prices at a time when the people are suffering from rising cost of living. This is not only a betrayal to the people’s trust but also a huge burden to the people.

And this is done when the international oil price has fallen to the lowest in nearly three years,

Yesterday, India and United Kingdom announced a reduction in petrol prices, making the petrol hike in Malaysia all the more ironic.

India announced a drop in petrol price by 65 paise (4 sen). United Kingdom has also reduce the petrol prices by 5 pence (27 sen). So, there is absolutely no reason for Najib administration to increase the petrol price when countries around the world are reducing petrol prices.

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IEM Shout Out – OGMTD 24th AGM

December 11, 2014

The Oil, Gas and Mining Technical Division AGM will be held at Wisma IEM C&S Lecture Room, Second Floor

It will be held at 11am on Saturday, 13th December 2013.

Register here, and download the flyer here. A map to Wisma IEM is presented here.

Since I’m the Advisor, come, y’all and heckle us. We also need a quorum, and need to vote in a new secretary / treasurer.

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IChemE Malaysia Awards for Innovation and Excellence 2014

December 10, 2014

Congratulations to the winners of the awards! I hope to be inspired by them.

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PT Pertamina to acquire Malaysian assets for $2 billion

December 9, 2014

Date 2014-09-30, Oil & Gas Journal:

PT Pertamina Malaysia Eksplorasi Produksi has agreed to acquire 30% of the Malaysian oil and gas assets belonging to Murphy Sabah Oil Co. Ltd. and Murphy Sarawak Oil, both wholly owned subsidiaries of Murphy Oil Corp., for $2 billion in cash.

The two companies will work jointly in a long-term partnership in which Murphy will remain operator. Murphy says it will continue to execute its development plans and expand through future exploration in both deepwater and shallow-water Malaysia.

Roger W. Jenkins, Murphy president and chief executive officer, commented, “We are excited to strengthen our partnership with Pertamina and look forward to working with them and our other partners in Malaysia.

“We will continue to evaluate all aspects of our portfolio,” Jenkins added. “This transaction allows us to redeploy the proceeds through an individual or combination of strategic and financial initiatives such as increased drilling capital in the Eagle Ford shale, acquisition opportunities, debt reduction and share repurchases.”

The deal, subject to approval from Malaysia’s state owned Petronas, is effective Jan. 1. The first and second phases are expected to close in fourth-quarter 2014 and first-quarter 2015, respectively.

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IEM Shout Out – Talk on Fitness to Work Offshore: Medical Requirements

December 9, 2014

This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will be having a talk on 13th December, 2014 by Dr. Hazlee Bin Abdul Hadi . It’ll be at 9:00 am (makan-makan at 8:30) at Wisma IEM.

Offshore medicals are carried out to ensure an individual is fit to work in an offshore oil and gas exploration and production environment and travel to a specific country, and to promote good health in general.
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In April 2012, Dr. Hazlee was appointed as Medicine and Occupational Health Advisor for PETRON Fuel International (M) Sdn Bhd at Menara I & P, Damansara Kuala Lumpur until now. He is a member of Malaysian Corporate Health Advisors Forum (MCHAF).

You may register here, and download the form here.

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IEM Shout Out – Talk On Integrated Waste Recovery and Regeneration System (REGEN System) in Palm Oil Mill

December 9, 2014

This is a shout out for the IEM. The Chemical Engineering Technical Division (know as CETD to friends) will be an afternoon talk on Friday, 12th Dec, 2014 by Dr. Denny K. S. Ng and Dr. David L. K. Lim.

As pointed out by National Biomass Strategy 2020, Malaysia had 83 million dry tonnes of palm-based biomass in 2012 with an estimated value of RM 24.9 billion. This is expected to increase to approximately 100 million dry tonnes by 2020.  Besides, palm oil mill effluent (POME) is also expected to increase to 100 million tonnes by 2020.  Based on the huge amount of palm-based biomass and POME available, there is a huge potential to recover and regenerate those biomasses into value-added products. To fully recover the biomasses, an integrated waste recovery and regeneration system (REGEN System) in palm oil mill is developed.  In this talk, an overview of REGEN system is presented. Besides, applications of REGEN system in palm oil mill are also discussed.

As for the speakers:

Dr. Denny K. S. Ng is the Founding Director of Centre of Sustainable Palm Oil Research and Associate Professor at the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, The University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus.  He is also the Manager of Professional Training at the Centre of Excellence for Green Technologies and Research Theme Associate of Crops for the Future Research Centre (CFFRC). His areas of specialisation include energy management, resource conservation via process integration techniques (pinch analysis and mathematical optimisation), synthesis and analysis of biomass processing and integrated bio refineries, as well as energy planning for greenhouse gas emission reduction.

Dr. David L. K. Lim is the Managing Director of Eureka Synergy Sdn. Bhd. Besides, he is also Executive Director of Havys Oil Mill Sdn. Bhd., Green Plant Organic Fertilizer Sdn. Bhd., etc. Dr. David Lim received his PhD in rotor-dynamic engineering from Staffordshire University, UK in 1994.  He has more than 15 years of hand-on experience in palm oil industry including designing of palm oil mill, development of biomass processing technologies, etc.

You can register here, and download the form here.

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Saturday Star 2014-12-06 – Job Opportunities

December 8, 2014

Happy School Holidays. 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. I want to go for umrah.

  • I’m lining up jobs for next quarter, for IGL Services. Whisper to (better yet, carpe jugulum) your boss, and send work my way.
  • Carigali Hess is looking for a Senior Reservoir Engineer, Senior Process Safety Engineer, Senior Drilling Engineer, Petroleum Engineer. Send your exaggerations here,  with a detailed resume stating references, expected remuneration, contact telephone and email address, before 20th December, 2014.
  • I hear that Technip is still looking for project managers, senior project engineers, project engineers for Libra FPSO Project & Rapid. > 5 years experience. Send CVs to me, and a donation, and I’ll forward it on. Or save yourself some money, and send it to Technip directly.

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? How if you visit Vietnam, how about visiting and updating GoHalalVietnam! for your food needs. For your other needs, talk to your local tour guide/ concierge / man on the street.

How about some references to improve your health? I’ve been on this plan for about 12 weeks. Muscles have moved from buttery to rubbery.

You Are Your Own Gym: The Bible of Bodyweight Exercises, Body by You: The You Are Your Own Gym Guide to Total Women’s Fitness, 100 No-Equipment Workouts

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MALAYSIA ENERGY PROFILE: SECOND-LARGEST OIL AND NATURAL GAS PRODUCER IN SOUTHEAST ASIA – ANALYSIS

December 7, 2014

Dateline 2014-09-30, Eurasia Review:

Malaysia’s energy industry is a critical sector of growth for the entire economy, and it makes up almost 20% of the total gross domestic product. New tax and investment incentives, starting in 2010, aim to promote oil and natural gas exploration and development in the country’s deepwater and marginal fields as well as promote energy efficiency measures and use of alternative energy sources. These fiscal incentives are part of the country’s economic transformation program to leverage its resources and geographic location to be one of Asia’s top energy players by 2020. Another key pillar in Malaysia’s energy strategy is to become a regional oil and natural gas storage, trading, and development hub that will attract technical expertise and downstream services that can compete in Asia.

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Extract from “The Will to Compete” – The Recruitment Drive

December 6, 2014

Thanks to you, the readers, I have sold out of Young Turks (plus my own personal autographed copy, anyone want to send that back to me?)

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PETRONAS Board began its headhunting and recruiting in November 1974. Senior Officers and Management Trainees report for duty as early as December 1974. These officers were left to fend for themselves. The only guideline they could get was the speech delivered by th DYMM Yang Di Pertuan Agong when the Malaysian King introduced the Petroleum Development Act 1944 for debate in the Malaysian Parliament.

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Visit here and buy books so I have some spending money.

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