After 2 interview sessions trying to hire our best and brightest as new meat for the oil & gas consulting industry, I feel that the following stress relief equipment is needed just to maintain my sanity.
BTW, the above is courtesy of Marriot Resort and Spa, Miri.
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This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will hosting a visit to Visit to Top Glove Bhd on the 21st May, 2013. You will be awarded with 2 CPD points.
Tenaga Kimia Sendirian Berhad (TKSB) is the leading supplier of a complete range of civil high explosive products, blasting accessories, bulk emulsion delivery and technical services in Malaysia and countries in the South East Asian region.
TKSB is one of the pioneers in the manufacturing of emulsion explosives since 1983, known then as EMULITE and now as EMULEX®. TKSB caters to all its customers’ needs by listening to them and maintains its philosophy as being the total solutions provider to its users. TKSB wish to be “Your Partner with Total Blasting Solutions”.
You can register for the event here, or get the flyer here.
Maybe you can get free samples.
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Dateline 2013-04-07:
Malaysia’s non-commodity Khazanah Nasional, founded in 1993, is ranked 23 with US$34 billion in assets and a Linaburg-Maduell Transparency Index (LM-TI) of 5.
The world’s largest sovereign wealth fund (SWF) is Norway’s oil-based Government Pension Fund-Global. It was set up in 1990 and is currently registered with assets worth US$664.3 billion with a perfect 10 LM-TI.
UAE-Abu Dhabi’s oil-based Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, established in 1976, is ranked second with US$627 billion with a 5 LM-TI.
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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.
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From Reuters, dateline 2013-04-05:
Malaysia’s state owned oil and gas firm Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas) PETR.UL raised the offer price to take over shipping firm MISC Bhd (MISC.KL) in a deal valued at 9.2 billion ringgit ($3 billion).
The revised offer of 5.50 ringgit per share comes after MISC’s other major shareholder, the Employees Provident Fund found the original bid of 5.30 per share to be unattractive.
Petronas did not disclose reasons behind the revised offer on Friday, which is 0.73 percent or four sen higher than MISC’s share close of 5.46 ringgit per share.
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Dateline 2013-04-05, The Malaysian Insider:
Former Petronas CEO Tan Sri Hassan Marican has been named as chairman of Pavilion Energy Pte, a new energy company under Singapore’s investment fund Temasek Holdings.
Hassan, who left the national oil company at the beginning of 2010 allegedly due to friction with the government, has been accepting directorships with several foreign firms in the energy sector, including as chairman of Singapore Power Ltd in February last year.
According to a Bloomberg report, Hassan was appointed together with chief executive Seah Moon Ming who joined Temasek in March.
The report pointed out that Pavilion Energy was set up with an initial authorised capital of S$1 billion (RM2.47 billion), to capitalise on the growing demands in Asia, especially on liquefied natural gas (LNG).
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From the NST, dateline 2013-04-03:
Kelantan govt’s claim involves technical matters, says PM’s Office
KUALA LUMPUR: THE Kelantan government’s RM12 billion petroleum royalty demand is not only unreasonable from the legal standpoint but also concerns technicalities related to activities for oil and gas extraction in the area concerned.
The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), in a statement issued yesterday, said Kelantan, just as Terengganu and all other states in Peninsular Malaysia, only had rights to demand petroleum royalty if extraction of oil and gas was done not more than three nautical miles from the low tide line or the shore of the state concerned.
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Does this mean that before this, the decision to award tenders was the PM’s?
From the Malaysian Chronicle, dateline 2013-04-03:
Decisions on tender awards for upstream and downstream activities in the oil and gas sector are left in Petronas’ (Petroliam Nasional Bhd) hands, said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak.
The government does not want to have a say in the decision-making process.
“A few months ago, I decided that all the tenders be decided by the board’s wisdom … I don’t want to make the decision,” Najib said during a townhall session with Petronas staff yesterday.
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This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will hosting a visit to Visit to Top Glove Bhd on the 22nd May, 2013. You will be awarded with 2 CPD points.
Top Glove has established in 1991 with one of factory and three production lines. Currently, it has 23 factories and 458 production lines across Malaysia, Thailand and China, which is the world’s largest rubber glove manufacturer. To stay ahead in product development, Top Glove collaborates with government agencies such as Rubber Research Institute of Malaysia (RRI) and Lembaga Getah Malaysia (LGM) to keep itself abreast with latest rubber research technology. All factories are fitted with modern machineries and online quality control measures to ensure the highest quality products. Top Glove emphasize on ISO 9001 and compliance of ASTM and EN455 standards. Top Glove’s commitment has been recognized and rewarded through numerous awards, the latest awards are 2012 ASEAN Business Award-“ Most Admired ASEAN Enterprise” for the category of Corporate Social Responsibility (Large Company), special achievement organization category by Malaysia Achievement Organisation, MIS ASIA 100- Top 100 IT departments in ASIA, MOSHPA Occupational Safety & Health Awards 2012 by Malaysian Occupational Safety & Health Professionals’ Association and Penghargaan Industri Negeri Perak 2011/2012 by Department of Environment (Perak). Top Glove’s corporate mission statement is “To be a World Class Glove Manufacturer providing top quality products with excellent services through continuous improvement and innovation”
Participants of this visit will also be briefed on Top Glove’s latest development in addition to the plant tours at Top Glove’s Corporate Office premises.
You can register for the event here, or get the flyer here.
Maybe you can get free samples.
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