Saturday Star 2013-11-30 – Job Opportunities

December 2, 2013

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.
  • Lundin‘s looking for whole mess of people, production and opns manager, operations engineer, metering and take-off engineer (hey), safety engineer (hey-hey), OIM. If your genus matches this requirement, send your cv here.

Help me (and you) increase my cloud presence. Pleease use some form of cloud storage, so if you lose your laptop with those oh-so-important reports, be assured that (with Internet access) the files are still accessible. Use my referrals for Dropbox, MiMedia,  SpiderOak, MediaFire, Ubuntu One, Sugar Sync.

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.

Food?I had lunch at Chakri Palace, KLCC. Blooming expensive. Anyone want to treat me to dinner there?

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Extract from “The Young Turks of PETRONAS”

December 1, 2013

Describing political upheaval:

“The sudden demise of Tun Abdul Razak in February of 1976 caused quite a ripple not only to the country’s political leadership but also to the PETRONAS leadership. Tengku Razaleigh, the Chairman, and Junus Sudin, the Managing Director, were obliged to leave PETRONAS. When Tun Hussein Onn, Malaysia’s third Prime Minister, appointed Tengku Razaleigh as Minister of Finance in October that year…”

Visit here and buy books so I have some spending money over the school holidays. I need to send the kids to expensive camps.

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Iranian oil tycoon used Labuan to skirt sanctions on Iran, says New York Times report

December 1, 2013

Dateline 2013-10-06, Malaysian Insider:

An Iranian tycoon has used the tax-free port of Labuan for his oil business to skirt Western sanctions imposed on his country, the New York Times reported.

Babak Zanjani, 39, devised a scheme to disguise the origins of Iranian oil and sold it on the open market by transferring millions of barrels from tanker to tanker, often using Labuan as the drop-off point, as alleged by the European Union.

The New York Times quoted Zanjani in interviews with Iranian reformist weekly Aseman and the semi-official Iranian Students’ News Agency as saying that he used a vast network of 64 companies in Dubai, Turkey and Malaysia to sell millions of barrels of oil, earning US$17.5 billion (RM55.6 billion) in foreign exchange for Iran’s oil ministry, the Revolutionary Guards and the Iranian central bank.

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OIL & KEDAH, KA-CHINK! China keen to revive oil pipeline plan, beams Dr M

November 30, 2013

Dateline 2013-10-06, Malaysia Chronicle:

CHINA has given the thumbs-up for an oil pipeline to be built across the northern region of Peninsular Malaysia, an idea that has been on the drawing block since the past decade.

Former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said the pipeline plan was discussed during his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping yesterday and the latter had responded positively.

“He thinks it is a good idea and will consider it. He will see how he can support it,” Dr Mahathir said after meeting Xi before the president ended his three-day visit to Malaysia yesterday.

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Petronas defends Bumiputera record, says no to companies without expertise

November 29, 2013

So, how do SME’s break into this lucrative market? PETRONAS companies seem to have a rep of being reluctant in issuing small contracts to individual companies, with a penchant to use established call-out contracts with big-a players.

Dateline 2013-10-05, Malaysian Insider:

Petronas will continue helping Bumiputera companies but it will not award contracts to those with no track record in the oil and gas sector, said its CEO and president Tan Sri Shamsul Azhar Abbas (pic).

He said Petronas does not sideline Bumiputera companies as alleged by the Malay Economic Action Council (MTEM) but awards projects to them based on merit, transparency and competence.

Last year, Petronas gave out RM52.48 billion in contracts to companies which were majority-owned by Bumiputeras. It was almost double the RM29.35 billion awarded in 2011. In 2010, the total was RM25.97 billion.

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IEM Shout Out – OGMTD 23nd AGM

November 28, 2013

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, 14th December 2013.

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

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

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McDermott, THHE Formalize JVs to Tap Malaysia’s EPCIC Market

November 27, 2013

Dateline 2013-10-04, Rigzone:

McDermott International, Inc. (McDermott) reported Thursday that the company’s affiliates and Malaysia-based TH Heavy Engineering Berhad (THHE) have confirmed the formalization of several Joint Ventures. The joint ventures were formally approved by THHE shareholders at their annual general meeting June 3.

“This is a milestone occasion for both companies” said Scott Cummins, senior vice president and general manager, McDermott in Asia Pacific. “We have worked together on previous international bids as prime contractor and subcontractor, but with the new joint ventures we are both better able to commit and combine resources to enhance our joint Malaysian business. “

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Diving Photos – Lombok 1oo5

November 27, 2013

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Plenty of jobs in O&M phase for BUMI oil & gas firms – Petronas COO

November 26, 2013

Yup, you can get jobs buy undercutting your competition, hang the quality.

Dateline 2013-10-16, Malaysia Chronicle:

Bumiputra oil and gas companies should tap opportunities present at the operation and maintenance (0&M) phase of any Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas) projects, said its chief operating officer Datuk Wan Zulkiflee Wan Ariffin.

Analysts estimate that Petronas allocates between 10 and 20 per cent of its capital expenditure (capex) on the 0&M of its assets.

The national oil and gas company has set aside RM300 billion for capex over a five-year period, starting from 2011.

O&M-related works, which come into play at the post-commissioning stage, are more longterm in nature. Hence, O&M jobs are normally seen as recurring income-based contracts.

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Nga calls for Petronas to be audited by Auditor General

November 26, 2013

Yes, PETRONAS, open the kimono, or baju kurung if you want local flair. And did the Honourable MP just find the Petroleum Act? I would like to see whether PETRONAS has been missing any firearms as well, and how much did their printers cost?

Dateline 2013-10-02, The Star:

Taiping MP, Nga Kor Ming calls for Petronas to be audited by the Auditor General and eventually debated in the Dewan Rakyat.

“Petronas has been around for 38 years now, however it has not been audited even once.

“I also found that section 3 of the Petroleum Act (1974) states that it only allows the office of the Prime Minister to have access to the accounts as it is classified as private and confidential,” he said during a press conference at the parliament on Wednesday.

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