Shout Out – One-Day Seminar On Drilling Engineering

October 30, 2013

This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will be  hosting a seminar on the 13th November, 2013. It’ll start at 9:00 and is worth 6.5 CPD hours.

Drilling Engineering Overview shall present the audience with the knowledge and arts of drilling wells, especially in Malaysia. It shall be presented in a way that is comprehensible to the engineers who are with or without the oil and gas background. The objectives of the seminar are to provide exposure to audiences on the drilling practices and issues as well as to familiarize the audience with an appreciation of a Drilling Engineer’s work scope.

Ir. (you gotta stress the Ir.) Hj. (even worse, you gotta spell it out) Razak Yakob has been in the oil and gas industry for 16 years working for companies such as ExxonMobil, Halliburton, and Talisman Energy. His core expertise is in Drilling Engineering but the working experience spans from development and exploration, technical support, training, finance and consultation, As a consultant, he has worked in countries such as China, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Algeria and others. Currently, he is an independent consultant providing consultancy services for Drilling Engineering at PETRONAS Carigali Sdn Bhd. He was a graduate of Colorado School of Mines in the United States with a degree majoring in Petroleum Engineering and a minor in Mechanical Design.

Register here or download the form here. A map to Wisma IEM is presented here.

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IEM Shout Out – Talk On Introduction to Measurement

October 30, 2013

This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will be having a talk on Wed, 6th October, 2012. It’ll be at 5:30 pm at Wisma IEM. Note that no CPD points will be awarded, but I think the talk is important enough for you to attend.

Measurement is an important part of the oil and gas industry. The industry focus has mainly been on improving safety and optimizing production, but without accurate and credible measurement, there will be an unacceptable level of uncertainty in the amount being produced. This uncertainty may translate to commercial disputes, or improper management of available reserves.

This presentation will provide an introduction to measurement. The session will be broken down as follows:

Part 1: Introduction to Measurement (approximately one hour)
Part 2: Why Measurement is Important (approximately one hour)

The presentations are part of TUV NEL’s ‘Free Flow Measurement Training’ series.

Gilbert has worked in the Engineering Industry since 1966 progressively developing a career path, which included a Managing Directorship in a specialised Flow Measurement Consultancy Company. The majority of his career has been concentrated in the area of flow measurement, allocation, sampling and analysis in the Oil and Gas Industry. His current role is developing a Flow Consultancy business for TÜV NEL in the Asia Pacific Region.

Chris is a flow measurement consultant at NEL in Glasgow, Scotland who specialises in the oil & gas industry. He has approximately 5 years experience at NEL and works predominately on consultancy for the oil & gas industry. Chris has in depth knowledge of flow measurement technologies, allocation and measurement uncertainty. Chris has been the technical lead on several high value projects during his time at NEL. Chris’s knowledge and expertise were exploited in the NEL led Joint industry Project researching measurement techniques for high viscosity fluids. He was also responsible for the modification to the NEL oil flow facility to incorporate high viscosity fluids up to 1500 cSt. He has presented technical papers on flow measurement at several conferences around the world, including Calgary, Kuala Lumpur, London and Oslo. He has also represented NEL at the Energy Institute HMC-1 meetings and been part of the Oil & Gas Focus Group steering committee.

You can register here, and flyers for the above and other events may be obtained here.

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Academician lashes out at deputy finance minister’s attempt to fool people

October 29, 2013

Dateline 2013-09-06, The Malaysian Chronicle:

An academician today takes deputy Finance minister (DFM) Ahmad Maslan to task over what he described as untruth explanation on oil prices in Malaysia compared to neighbouring countries.

Attempting to soothe public anger over the recent fuel price hike, Ahmad pointed out that Malaysia is the 8th lowest in the world in terms of price of fuel after Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Iran and Nigeria.

“Are we trying to deny the fact that the price of petrol in Brunei, Qatar, Bahrain, Algeria, Sudan, Libya and Oman is cheaper than Malaysia? Why Ahmad did not disclose the petrol prices in those countries?” UKM School of History, Politics and Strategy lecturer Dr Mohamad Agus Yusoff responded to Ahmad’s reasoning in a Facebook posting today.

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Saturday Star 2013-10-26 – Job Opportunities

October 28, 2013

Happy Budget Analysis 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.
  • Sadara is inviting chemical professionals. A whole page advert. Email them here, or here, or visit their site.
  • PBJV are looking for people. Examples of positions are construction engineer, electrical engineer, turbo machinery engineer (rare commodity), safety office (wow, even inanimate objects can apply), commissioning engineer, mechanical/piping engineer. Email them here. Don’t forget to leave me a tip.
  • Here’s an interesting one. UMW Oil & Gas is looking for a head, drilling academy at Batu Rakit. Has INSTEP subbed out this training program? Email them 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.

Break the Low Yat stranglehold! Support Newegg Malaysia, or check Amazon’s International Shipping. Yeah, baby!

Let’s go back to basics, the quanta of it all:

  

Alice in Quantumland: An Allegory of Quantum Physics, The Wizard of Quarks: A Fantasy of Particle Physics, Scrooge’s Cryptic Carol: Visions of Energy, Time, and Quantum Nature

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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Rising cost a challenge for O&G industry, says Shell

October 27, 2013

I would like to be an acceptable part of the rising cost.

Dateline 2013-09-06:

Shell Malaysia, the Malaysian arm of Royal Dutch Shell plc, said costs are escalating to an extent that the profitability of some of its projects could be threatened.

“The projects will be threatened by very high cost. We need help from the Malaysian services industry to be more competitive in terms of their cost,” said Shell Malaysia chairman Ian Loh in Miri yesterday.

Loh was speaking to reporters at the official opening of the company’s Asia Pacific Wells Learning Hub in Miri, Sarawak.

He said the oil and gas (O&G) industry in Malaysia is facing a challenge on costs which requires them to find innovative ways to reduce these costs.

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IEM Shout Out – Talk On Introduction to Measurement

October 26, 2013

This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will be having a talk on Wed, 6th October, 2012. It’ll be at 5:30 pm at Wisma IEM. Note that no CPD points will be awarded, but I think the talk is important enough for you to attend.

Measurement is an important part of the oil and gas industry. The industry focus has mainly been on improving safety and optimizing production, but without accurate and credible measurement, there will be an unacceptable level of uncertainty in the amount being produced. This uncertainty may translate to commercial disputes, or improper management of available reserves.

This presentation will provide an introduction to measurement. The session will be broken down as follows:

Part 1: Introduction to Measurement (approximately one hour)
Part 2: Why Measurement is Important (approximately one hour)

The presentations are part of TUV NEL’s ‘Free Flow Measurement Training’ series.

Gilbert has worked in the Engineering Industry since 1966 progressively developing a career path, which included a Managing Directorship in a specialised Flow Measurement Consultancy Company. The majority of his career has been concentrated in the area of flow measurement, allocation, sampling and analysis in the Oil and Gas Industry. His current role is developing a Flow Consultancy business for TÜV NEL in the Asia Pacific Region.

Chris is a flow measurement consultant at NEL in Glasgow, Scotland who specialises in the oil & gas industry. He has approximately 5 years experience at NEL and works predominately on consultancy for the oil & gas industry. Chris has in depth knowledge of flow measurement technologies, allocation and measurement uncertainty. Chris has been the technical lead on several high value projects during his time at NEL. Chris’s knowledge and expertise were exploited in the NEL led Joint industry Project researching measurement techniques for high viscosity fluids. He was also responsible for the modification to the NEL oil flow facility to incorporate high viscosity fluids up to 1500 cSt. He has presented technical papers on flow measurement at several conferences around the world, including Calgary, Kuala Lumpur, London and Oslo. He has also represented NEL at the Energy Institute HMC-1 meetings and been part of the Oil & Gas Focus Group steering committee.

You can register here, and flyers for the above and other events may be obtained here.

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Extract from “The Will to Compete”

October 26, 2013

Describing the early interactions with oil & gas producers:

“I remember in 1976 hearing with awe at a briefing given by a Major Oil Company on oil trading, distribution and logistics that their budget for transportation and logistics was Ringgit 350 million a year in Malaysia alone. Now what could we do with a Ringgit 10 million grant that was the sum total of our capital at the time?” (Muri Muhammad)

You know you want this book, purchase it here.

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Jabu lauds Shell for setting up learning hub in the state

October 26, 2013

Now give training to local engineering firms at a nominal cost (say, one Big Mac meal), and then I really start jumping for joy.

From the Borneo Post onlne, dateline 2013-09-06:

Mri: Shell Malaysia opened its Asia Pacific Wells Learning Hub, the first in the Asia Pacific region and third globally after its Houston Centre in the United States and Rijswijk Centre in the Netherlands, here yesterday Officiating at the official

opening, Deputy Chief Minister, Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Alfred Jabu Numpang said the state strongly supported Shell and other oil and gas companies in continue developing their operations in the state.

Praising Shell for setting up the learning hub in the state, he added that the state government had always been appreciative of positive initiatives in technological advancement.

“The applications of technological knowledge are important tools to provide cutting edge amidst global competition for productivity, efficiency, scientific interest, environmental compliance and profitability.

“I am very happy today to witness Shell Malaysia bringing advance training facilities for petrol chemical, oil and gas onshore, located here,” said Jabu.

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Tan keen to have oil and gas training centre in east coast

October 25, 2013

I was wondering how ‘Tan’ was in the title. Turns out the original article misprinted his name.

Daily Express, dateline 2013-09-06:

Deputy Chief Minister cum Minister of Industrial Development Datuk Raymond Tan Shu Kiah has expressed his keenness to have an oil and gas skills training centre to be built in the east coast of Sabah.

He expressed his intention during the courtesy call by a delegation from Talisman Malaysia Limited to his office here Thursday.

Talisman Malaysia has managed few operational activities in Sabah and wishes to groom their business in Sabah at the same time to be fully committed with their corporate social responsibility in Sabah including the environmental, socio-economic, and educational programme.

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PETRONAS disproves notion Malaysia can produce cheaper petroleum

October 24, 2013

Really? Heck, they why do they complain when us Malaysian first class engineering companies don’t charge third-world prices? or when we want to pay our slaves … er, shining technical staff, the same pay grade as them?

The Malay Mail, dateline 2013-09-04:

Petronas today clarified there is a common misconception that Malaysia will be able to produce cheaper petroleum products such as gasoline and diesel if it were to produce and consume its own crude oil.

However, the national oil corporation said that the Tapis blend of crude oil found in Malaysian waters was the most expensive crude feedstock.

As such, by exporting its Tapis blend and importing the lesser quality sour crude for its own domestic consumption, Malaysia has benefitted further by reaping higher for its crude oil natural resource while ensuring energy security for its own domestic consumption.

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