CRUCIAL to audit Petronas after M’sia falls 12 spots in transparency rankings – Dr Dzu

June 19, 2013

Dateline 2013-05-29:

PAS has called on Putrajaya to conduct an audit on Petronas after a survey showed Malaysia’s ranking in revenue management transparency dropping to 34th spot from 22nd in 2010, far below countries like Timor Leste and the Philippines which were ranked 13th and 23rd respectively.

The 2013 Revenue Watch Institute and Transparency International Report on government disclosure in oil, gas and minerals management in 58 resource rich countries released in April saw Malaysia scoring three per cent lower than

in 2010, performing poorly in all three criteria touching on matter of accountability like reporting practices and safeguards and quality control.

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IEM Shout Out – Technical Visit To Gas Malaysia Berhad

June 18, 2013

This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will be visiting Gas Malaysia Berhad, No.5 Jalan Serendah 26/17, Shah Alam, Selangor on Tuesday 25th June, 2013.

Gas Malaysia is a natural gas distribution company in Malaysia. The company headquarters is located in Shah Alam. It has three regional offices, located in Prai, Gebeng and Pasir Gudang, and seven branch offices located throughout Peninsular Malaysia.

The company was incorporated on 16 May 1992 to construct and operate the natural gas distribution system within Peninsular Malaysia. In December 2000, Gas Malaysia expanded its business to include the reticulated liquefied petroleum gas.
As of July 2005, the company had 452 industrial customers, more than 600 commercial customers and over 3,000 residential customers.As of February 2011, Gas Malaysia had 33,707 residential and commercial customers as well as 691 industrial customers. In 2010, total gas sold by Gas Malaysia was 117.8 million British thermal unit throughout Peninsular Malaysia. As of February 2011, its network of gas pipelines covered a total of 1,726.6 kilometers (1,072.9 mi)

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IEM Shout Out – Technical Visit To Selinsing Gold Mine Manager Sdn Bhd

June 17, 2013

This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will be visiting Selinsing Gold Mines Manager Sdn Bhd, 157 Jalan Bukit Bius, 27200 Kuala Lipis, Pahang on Saturday 22nd June, 2013.

The Selinsing Gold Mine project is located at Bukit Selinsing near Sungai Koyan, approximately 65km north of Raub and 30km west of Kuala Lipis. A trip to Selinsing from Kuala Lumpur may take between 2 to 3 hours depending on traffic and weather condition.

Selinsing has a long mining history. Mining commenced prior to 1888 and has operated intermittently through to 1966. Underground and open cut mining, together with tailings treatment has produced an estimated 85,000 ounces of gold during this period. Fast forward to present day between 2003 and 2005, treatment of the tailings using heap leach extraction produced 6,624 ounces. In October 2008, a new gold treatment plant was built resulting in the first gold poured from the gravity circuit 12 months later. July 2009 saw open pit mining started at the location and began hauling ore material to the ROM pad for production and by February 2010 the projects’ own carbon-in-leach (CIL) circuit commenced commissioning.

The Selinsing deposit occurs along the north striking Raub, Bentong Suture, and a major tectonic feature that runs through peninsular Malaysia. The deposit is hosted by a series of auriferous quartz veins and stockworks of quartz veinlets in a package of sheared calcareous epiclastic sediments. Gold mineralization at Selinsing is associated with high grade quartz veining and associated sericitization and silification within a major shear zone.

The Selinsing gold mine project contains a resource comprised of an indicated mineral resource of 4.82 million tonnes at 1.49 gpt Au, using a cut-off of 0.59 gpt Au for contained ounces of 231,000 ounces of gold, and an inferred mineral resource of 10.32 million tonnes at a grade of 1.17 gpt Au for contained ounces of 388,000 ounces f gold at similar cut-off grade. The resource is a near surface, open pitable deposit containing gold bearing material amenable to CIL treatment, with comprehensive metallurgical test work showing 92% to 95% recovery by CIL.

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Saturday Star 2013-06-15 – Job Opportunities

June 17, 2013

Buy my recommendations, or through my Amazon store. Where are those corporate sponsors? Or throw donations at me.

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.

  • I’m looking for a senior process engineer, 7+ years experience. Send your cv here. Also looking for process safety persons, lead piping designer, lead instrument engineer, and other seniors you think will catch my eye.
  • SapuraKencana is looking for warm bodies to fill up offshore constuction and subsea services, fabrication and hook up commissioning, drilling, geotech and maintenance services, energy and JVs. “Interested candidates are invited to visit our website for details…” blah blah.
  • Lundin‘s looking for an oil and gas procurement lawyer. Umm, what creature doth they seek? Anyhow, if your genus matches this requirement, send your cv here. And if you are a procurement executive, contract management/ compliance executive, procurement assistant, you can apply as well. Send me your bride scale of rates, please.
  • Here’s something interesting. Petroleum Industry of Malaysia Mutual Aid Group (PIMMAG) is looking for a manager, Operations and Training. Visit their website to find out more.
  • IEV is looking for a senior installation / structural engineer – Mooring, Tendon and TLP Installation, draughtsman, HSSE manager. Send your CV here.
  • Side note: My mechanic complains that there are not enough trained mechanics are being extruded from our schools. If you know of any idle ones, he’s looking for some. Ask them to contact Kong Ming Chai at +60122951023. On another note, has this shortfall hit the news? Can I get the contract for 1Repair?

Help me (and you) increase my cloud presense. 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!

  

If you are interested in oil and gas surface facilities, I would recommend getting Surface Production Operations, Volume 2:, Second Edition: Design of Gas-Handling Systems and Facilities and Surface Production Operations, Volume 1, Third Edition: Design of Oil Handling Systems and Facilities. And don’t forget the Coulson & Richardson classic, Chemical Engineering, Volume 6: An Introduction to Design (Chemical Engineering Technical Series)

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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Oil and gas have reason to be optimistic in Malaysia

June 16, 2013

Dateline 2013-05-29, Bikya News:

 Oil and gas companies in Malaysia are seeing a future full of optimism. The positive energy comes on the heels of better reports for the market after fears of a potential recession wracked the country late last year.

The latest set of financial results released by these counters have been mixed as the first three months of the year has usually been a slow period due to the seasonal monsoon weather patterns but analysts pointed out that this time around, political risks had also played a part in having an impact on the industry.

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IEM Shout Out – Technical Visit To Selinsing Gold Mine Manager Sdn Bhd

June 15, 2013

This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will be visiting Selinsing Gold Mines Manager Sdn Bhd, 157 Jalan Bukit Bius, 27200 Kuala Lipis, Pahang on Saturday 22nd June, 2013.

The Selinsing Gold Mine project is located at Bukit Selinsing near Sungai Koyan, approximately 65km north of Raub and 30km west of Kuala Lipis. A trip to Selinsing from Kuala Lumpur may take between 2 to 3 hours depending on traffic and weather condition.

Selinsing has a long mining history. Mining commenced prior to 1888 and has operated intermittently through to 1966. Underground and open cut mining, together with tailings treatment has produced an estimated 85,000 ounces of gold during this period. Fast forward to present day between 2003 and 2005, treatment of the tailings using heap leach extraction produced 6,624 ounces. In October 2008, a new gold treatment plant was built resulting in the first gold poured from the gravity circuit 12 months later. July 2009 saw open pit mining started at the location and began hauling ore material to the ROM pad for production and by February 2010 the projects’ own carbon-in-leach (CIL) circuit commenced commissioning.

The Selinsing deposit occurs along the north striking Raub, Bentong Suture, and a major tectonic feature that runs through peninsular Malaysia. The deposit is hosted by a series of auriferous quartz veins and stockworks of quartz veinlets in a package of sheared calcareous epiclastic sediments. Gold mineralization at Selinsing is associated with high grade quartz veining and associated sericitization and silification within a major shear zone.

The Selinsing gold mine project contains a resource comprised of an indicated mineral resource of 4.82 million tonnes at 1.49 gpt Au, using a cut-off of 0.59 gpt Au for contained ounces of 231,000 ounces of gold, and an inferred mineral resource of 10.32 million tonnes at a grade of 1.17 gpt Au for contained ounces of 388,000 ounces f gold at similar cut-off grade. The resource is a near surface, open pitable deposit containing gold bearing material amenable to CIL treatment, with comprehensive metallurgical test work showing 92% to 95% recovery by CIL.

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Petronas: Defers $20 Billion Petrochemical Plant Decision to 2014

June 15, 2013

Isn’t the reason for deferment obvious? Can you spell “1AkuJanjiLepasUndi?”

Dateline 2012-05-22, Fox Business News.

Malaysia’s Petroliam Nasional Bhd. has deferred for another three quarters a decision to proceed with what the government describes as one of the country’s most important oil-and-gas projects.

A decision about building the $20 billion petrochemical complex in the southern state of Johor has been deferred until the first quarter of 2014, Petronas Chief Operating Officer Wan Zulkiflee Wan Ariffin said on Wednesday. He didn’t give a reason. It had been scheduled to announce if it will go ahead by next month. Petronas is currently conducting a new “front-end engineering design study,” Mr. Zulkiflee told a news conference.

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Third PSC contract attracts much interest

June 14, 2013

Dateline 2013-05-19, Borneo Post:

The announcement of the third round of Petroliam Nasional Bhd’s (PETRONAS) risk service contract (RSC) licensing for 10 marginal fields has excited the sector favourably, attracted up to two dozen players in its process.

According to AmResearch Sdn Bhd (AmResearch) in a sectoral outlook previously, the fields for this third round include Bunga Pelaga, Rompin, Endau, Lada Hitam, D41 and A21 off Sarawak, Rusa Timur, Mutiara Hitam and Kuda Terbang off Sabah and Ophir, the lone field on offer off Peninsula Malaysia.

The research firm noted that five of the fields — Ophir, Bunga Pelaga, Lada Hitam, Rusa Timur and Mutiara Hitam — were offered in two earlier licensing rounds in 2011 and 2012.

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BEM – Visit to UTM

June 13, 2013

To encourage people to obey an Act of Parliament  and register with the BEM if their job involves the engineering arts, the BEM is rolling out a program to get graduates registered en mass.

Here are photos taken after our meeting with folks at UTM Skudai on March 29th, 2013. Keep in touch to see what happens next.

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Should Sarawak have less MP seats?

June 12, 2013

Yes, there is an oil & gas angle, bear with me. Dateline 2013-05-26, FMT:

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The key to improving Sarawak’s socio-economic gap is to redefine the Pertroleum Act 1974.

More money for Sarawak is of course very attractive and indeed makes it sounds as if it’s the first solution to poverty woes.

However, it is pointless to lobby for more money if funds are siphoned away through the unknown channels of corruption

Fact is Sarawak and Sabah have paid more than their reasonable dues to the federal government.

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