Apparently a main reason why PETRONAS staff get bonuses is … elections? In that case, they should change the Constitution to have elections every 6 months.
Dateline 2013-04-02 by the Sunday Straits Times:
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak announced bonuses for the 40,000 employees of national oil firm PETRONAS on Tuesday, signalling a long wait for a general election is nearly over as he seeks last-minute support from the middle class.
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This is a shout out for IEM. The Chemical Engineering Technical Division will be organizing a Half-Day Course on Half-day Course on A bird’s Eye View On Intellectual Property Law-Practical Approach On protection of your IP Rights on 18th May, 2013 (Thursday & Friday) at Wisma IEM, PJ. The session is scheduled to start at 9 a.m. (registration at 8.30 a.m.) and end around 1 p.m. Participant will be granted 3.5 CPD/ PDP hours at the end of the course.
This half-day course is designed to expose the participants to IP law and/or to create a continuous IP awareness and provide an overview on IP law (selected areas). It provides a springboard to educate participants in way to protect their branding, trade marks, patents, copyright and confidential information. It gives the participants a platform to understand and discuss critical issues (whether their own IP rights or others) faced by them in their day to day dealings.
At the end of the session, the participants should:
Understand the basic concept of trade mark copyright, patents, confidential information;
- Aware of ways to protect their IP rights (selected IP rights);
- Be exposed to some tips on how to avoid any infringement or potential infringement of IP rights of others;
- Understand how to enforce their IP rights when there is infringement
Mr. Bahari heads the Intellectual Property practice group and became a partner of Lee Hishammuddin Allen & Gledhill in January 2009. His background is in corporate and commercial dispute resolution and litigation. He has extensive experience in disputes resolution in respect of land law, companies insolvency and banking litigation.
Ms. Eunice Chan Wei Lynn is a Senior Associate at Lee Hishammuddin Allen & Gledhill. She graduated from Cardiff University, Wales, United Kingdom and was called to the English Bar and Malaysian Bar. Her main area of practice is in intellectual property law and advise and assist clients on all aspects of IP protection and ownership including portfolio management and IP related agreements and transactions. She is also involved in transactional and advisory work in the areas of biotechnology, information technology and franchising
Register here or download the form here. A map to Wisma IEM is presented here.
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Aren’t Newfield selling of their Malaysian assets? Anyone have change to spare?
Dateline 2013-04-03:
Newfield Exploration Co. (NFX), the U.S. oil producer exploring the sale of offshore assets, had what it called the “largest conventional exploratory success” in its history with a natural gas discovery off the coast of Malaysia.
The B-14 well encountered 1,585 feet (483 meters) of net natural gas in about 250 feet of water 50 miles (80 kilometers) offshore, The Woodlands, Texas-based company said in a statement today after the close of regular trading. Newfield operates Block SK 310 and has a 30 percent interest. Mitsubishi Corp. (8058) owns 30 percent and Petronas Carigali holds 40 percent, Newfield said.
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From the Energy Business Review, dateline 2013-04-02:
Australia-based independent petroleum company ROC Oil announced that the drilling of West Acis-2 well has begun in the Balai Cluster Risk Service Contract (RSC), Malaysia.
The Balai Cluster RSC includes four fields, Balai, Bentara, West Acis and Spaoh.
West Acis-2 located in the West Acis field, offshore East Malaysia, is the fourth well being drilled in the pre-development phase drilling program in the Balai Cluster.
It will be drilled to a planned target total depth of about 2,440m subsea.
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I saw this and wondered, what was PCSB Peninsular Malaysia Operations (PMO) doing, giving out press statements? Dateline 2013-04-02:
The RM12 billion petroleum royalty demand by the Kelantan government is not based on any reasonable grounds, said a statement issued by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) here today.
The statement said the demand not only was unreasonable from the legal standpoint but also technicalities related to activities for oil and gas extraction in the area concerned.
“According to the law, the state of Kelantan, just as the state of Terengganu and all other states in Peninsular Malaysia, only have rights to demand petroleum royalty if extraction of oil and gas is done not more than three nautical miles from the low tide line or the shore of the state concerned,” it said.
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From the Edge (which has disabled text copying on its pages) dateline 2013-04-02. And when he coming round to see us poor folks?
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak warned staff of national oil and gas firm Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas) that the opposition’s promises on Malaysia’s resources could bring “economic disaster” if implemented.
At a meeting with Petronas employees today, Najib took the opportunity to demolish the four key promises made by Pakatan Rakyat with regards to oil and gas management and Petronas.
Although he did not name the opposition pact, he alluded that his administration’s plans for the country were facing “threats,” including from those “who have come up with grandiose manifestos”.
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Not strictly Malaysian, but it could have been the Sulu Sultanate who…
Dateline Jakarta Post 2013-04-02:
State-owned oil and gas company PT Pertamina has taken over filling stations previously owned by Malaysia’s PT Petronas Niaga Indonesia after weak sales prompted Petronas close them down.
Pertamina director, Afdal Bahaudin, said on Tuesday that the company had purchased the stations, which are mostly in Java.
“We have purchased fuels stations in selected locations only,” he said.
Afdal declined to reveal the transaction value. He only said that the prices of the stations varied depending on location.
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Here’s an new acronym I learnt, PETRONAS’s GBU. It’s the Gas Business Unit of PETRONAS. Those of you familiar with the GPPs (Gas Processing Plant), yup, they under the GBU.
I heard about this Unit because of a situation where information had to be obtained from them. Information could not be obtain officially directly between staff of the same business / technical rank, but the request had to be flown up to flag country, across the BUs, then back down again.
Does anyone know where the PGB resides in this organization?
I give you some information I obtain from the Internets:
Is it a coincidence that if the GBU lost a leg, it woud be the GRU?
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Thanks for hanging round. Been busy and travelling round the past month, and it isn’t going to get any better.
Buy my recommendations, or through my Amazon store. Where are those corporate sponsors? Or throw donations at me. I need money to purchase a dive light.
If you need my help to submit your CVs, donate to the blog, and I’ll review your CV to see if it is worthy of my (and my associates’) expectations. If you can’t figure out how to donate, no need to ask.
This week, it looks like you (the advertisers) are recycling last weeks adverts. Since it’s a holiday today (Monday), I guess you are justified
Hey, its kinda short this week. How about I include last week’s adverts?
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