Saturday Star 2014-03-01 – Job Opportunities

March 3, 2014

Happy Attend Flow Measurement Conference 2014 Day (if they pay me, I’ll link to the site at some point).

Buy my recommendations, or through my Amazon store. Where are those corporate sponsors? Or throw donations at me. I need RM360 to get The Star ePaper

  • I’m looking for a senior process engineer, 7+ years experience. Also looking for technical safety persons, metering / measurement engineers and other seniors you think will catch my eye.
  • JX Nippon Oil & Gas Exploration (Malaysia) Ltd is looking people. Click through to the site → RECRUIT → Employment at Miri (Malaysia).
  • Nothing else going on today

Here’s a quick list of tech podcasts I follow:

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!

Since Sir Terry Pratchett has a new volume out, here’s an opportunity to complete your collection :

  

Raising Steam (Discworld), Dodger, Snuff (Discworld)

The IEM has a coffee table book out, Engineering Heritage of Malaysia (no, it is not Datuk Seri Samy Vellu’s bio). Visit here for details.

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Report: Petronas invites bids for Besar gas field

March 2, 2014

Dateline 2014-01-20, The Edge:

 

Petronas Carigali Sdn Bhd has invited bids for its Besar gas field (for two wellhead platforms), according to international oil & gas news portal Upstream Online.

Besar gas field is located offshore Peninsular Malaysia.

This piece of news was reported on the official website of Upstream Online. Alliance Research, quoting Upstream Online in its research note today, reported the bids are due at the end of February.

It said the initial contract award is slated for the end of this year, with a separate tender for installation to emerge later on.

“The contract value will be RM100 million to RM150 million for both wellhead platforms. Malaysian players might have advantage for the Besar project,” said Alliance research analyst Arhnue Tan.

She continues to rank the oil & gas (O&G) sector as ‘overweight’ as robust contract flow is expected to come from marginal fields, enhanced oil recovery projects and new gas developments.

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Petikan dari ‘Pantang di Cabar’

March 1, 2014

Tentang depoh pukal pertama:

Depoh pukal pertama dibina di Pelabuhan Pasir Gudang Johor. Ianya dibina menggunakan kepakaran kontraktor asing dari luar negara. Apabila diamati cara kontraktor tersebut mengendalikan kerjanya, kontraktor asing tersebut sebenarnya menjadi penyelia sahaha. Mereka menggunakan kontraktor-kontraktor dalam negeri yang pernah bekerja untuk Shell atau Esso untuk mereka gabungkan bagi menjalankan kerja.

Dapatkan buku ini di sini.

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Shell and UAE’s Mubadala swap Malaysian offshore field stakes

March 1, 2014

Dateline 2013-01-19, Zawya:

Royal Dutch Shell and Mubadala Petroleum have swapped equity stakes in two exploration blocks off Malaysia, the Abu Dhabi-based energy company said on Sunday.

Mubadala has taken a 20 percent interest in the Shell-operated deepwater Block 2B and Shell took a 20 percent interest in the Mubadala-operated Block SK320 in return.

“The equity swap agreement is an important step for Mubadala Petroleum’s growth strategy in Malaysia and marks our first partnership in Southeast Asia with Shell, an important player in deepwater exploration,” Maurizio La Noce, chief executive of Mubadala Petroleum, said in a statement.

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Malaysia’s Trans Peninsular Pipeline Project: Will It Take Off? – Analysis

February 28, 2014

Going through Kedah and Kelantan. Not in this political lifetime.

Dateline 2014-01-16, Albany Tribune (what?):

MALAYSIA’S TRANS Peninsular Pipeline Project (TPP) between Kedah on the west coast and Kelantan on the east seems to have been revived. First proposed in 1994, the project had experienced some difficulties in the initial years and came to a halt in 2010. If realised, the 310-km pipeline will move oil from the coastal city of Yan in Kedah to Bachok in Kelantan and out to the South China Sea.

The New Straits Times reported that during the Fifth World Chinese Economic Forum held in Kuala Lumpur in October 2013, China had shown interest to revive the privately-funded TPP, estimated to cost more than US$7 billion. Chinese President Xi Jinping has yet to confirm how this is to be carried out.

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Keel work begins for floating LNG facility

February 27, 2014

Oil & Gas Journal, dateline 2014-01-14:

Petronas said keel work has begun for its first floating LNG facility.

The first block of the keel was laid in the presence of representatives of Petronas, Technip, and Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering at the shipyard in Okpo, South Korea.

“The keel laying signifies yet another significant achievement of the project in its construction phase,” said Petronas Vice-Pres. Datuk Abdullah Karim.

The PFLNG 1 facility is slated for completion in fourth-quarter 2015. The 365-m long facility will weigh 125,000 tonnes. Construction began in June 2013 with the cutting of steel for its hull.

The facility will be installed in Malaysia’s Kanowit gas field, 180 km offshore Sarawak. It will produce 1.2 million tonnes/year of LNG. Petronas said it will play a significant role in efforts to unlock gas in Malaysia’s remote and stranded fields currently deemed uneconomical to develop (OGJ Online, June 6, 2012).

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Petronas takes major steps to spur industry

February 26, 2014

Dateline 2014-01-12, Yahoo! (from Business Times):

PETROLIAM Nasional Bhd (Petronas) is undertaking major steps to rejuvenate the oil and gas industry.

The move is in the face of Malaysian oilfields now entering the mature phase, marked by declining oil and gas extraction, after more than 30 years of extensive exploration and production.

As the custodian of the country’s hydrocarbon resources, Petronas has initiated risk- sharing contracts (RSCs) for marginal oilfields over the last few years.

This is to develop resources from smaller oilfields, and at the same time, explore enhanced oil recovery (EOR) technology to improve production from other fields that are maturing.

Petronas executive vice-president (exploration and production business) Datuk Wee Yiaw Hin said it is estimated that 50 per cent of Malaysia’s producing oilfields have EOR potential.

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Malaysia’s Petronas announces first oil from KBM offshore cluster fields

February 25, 2014

Platts, dateline 2014-01-13:

First production from the offshore Kapal, Banang and Meranti Cluster fields offshore peninsular Malaysia began under a Risk Service Contract on December 16, Malaysia’s state-owned Petronas said Monday.

The initial production rate from the cluster averaged more than 10,000 b/d, with peak production of 13,000 b/d, Petronas said.

KBM, which is being developed by Coastal Energy of Houston in an RSC with Malaysian oil services company Petra Energy, is the third RSC to be successfully brought into production following the Balai Cluster and the Berentai fields, Petronas said.

KBM, which started development in mid-2012, is an eight-year development project, Petronas said.

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Saturday Star 2014-02-22 – Job Opportunities

February 24, 2014

Happy Recover from the Flu day.

Buy my recommendations, or through my Amazon store. Where are those corporate sponsors? Or throw donations at me. I need RM360 to get The Star ePaper

  • I’m looking for a senior process engineer, 7+ years experience. Send your cv here. Also looking for technical safety persons, metering / measurement engineers and other seniors you think will catch my eye.
  • Nothing else going on today

Here’s a quick list of tech podcasts I follow:

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!

This week, my theme is, you need to be a better all round engineer. Hence, some selections for the process engineer:

A Simple Guide To Understanding Jet Engines, Process Plant Instrumentation: Design and Upgrade, Mechanical Design of Process Systems: Piping and Pressure Vessels

The IEM has a coffee table book out, Engineering Heritage of Malaysia (no, it is not Datuk Seri Samy Vellu’s bio). Visit here for details.

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MTEM calls Petronas CEO names for purported mistreatment of Dr M

February 23, 2014

I missed the ranting and name-calling.

Dateline 2014-01-09, The Malay Mail:

In an expletive-ridden rant today, the Malay Economic Action Council (MTEM) castigated Petronas chief Tan Sri Shamsul Azhar Abas over the alleged mistreatment of the state oil firm’s former adviser Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

The Malay business lobby group later retracted part of their emotional descriptions of Shamsul in a news conference, but related allegations of high-handed action against the former prime minister within 24 hours of Dr Mahathir’s departure from the Petronas office here last month.

“Is this how a national oil company treat a man who was very instrumental at turning Petronas into a Fortune 500 company and equipped with undeniable contribution in his 27 years and to date tenure?

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