Once a university student, always a university student.
What I would like to know is, what document this came from, and has it itself been cited?
Once a university student, always a university student.
What I would like to know is, what document this came from, and has it itself been cited?
Dateline 2012-03-19:
Malaysian shipping firms Bumi Armada Bhd and MISC Bhd are front runners for a contract to supply a floating, production, storage and offloading vessel to U.S-based oil and gas firm Hess Corp , the Edge Malaysia reported on Saturday.
Bumi Armada has partnered with Singaporean offshore services firm Ezra Holdings Ltd and MISC has joined hands with Malaysian offshore oil and gas firm Ramunia Holdings Bhd to bid for the job, the business weekly reported, quoting unidentified industry sources.
“It should be announced soon, the latest by the end of this month, if Hess wants the job to start by year-end,” the paper quoted an oil and gas official as saying.
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Sugar and caffeine – an engineer’s basic food group.
When may we seen one of these machines here? Coca-cola, line me up for a contract! An endorsement wouldn’t be bad as well.


Dateline 2012-03-17:
Petronas Carigali Sdn Bhd’s (Petronas Carigali) agreement to buy natural gas from Natuna at a revised price of US$6 per million British thermal units (mmBtu) will expedite the process of raising domestic gas selling prices, which are heavily subsidised at present.
Theoretically, the adjusted Natuna price was 31 per cent higher than the price currently paid by the power segment (US$4.57 per mmBtu) but two per cent lower than industrial segment’s of US$6.12 per mmBtu, said Maybank Investment Bank Bhd (Maybank IB) in its report yesterday.
“While a hike in gas prices is inevitable, policymakers have yet to come out with a concise gas price blueprint,” it highlighted.
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Dateline 2012-03-17:
The elevated price of crude oil, which translates into higher costs, will continue to be the main concern among Asean economies as they face a slowdown in growth due to a drop in exports.
For Malaysia, economists are now leaning towards no change in the benchmark interest rate, which has been kept at 3% since May last year when the overnight policy rate (OPR) was raised by 25 basis points.
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We are pleased to announce that The Institution of Engineers, Malaysia will be holding its Annual Dinner on Saturday, 21st April 2012 at Sime Darby Convention Centre, Kuala Lumpur. We are greatly honoured to have Y.B. Dato’ Sri Douglas Uggah Embas, the Honourable Minister of Natural Resources and Environment as Guest of Honour.
We would like to appeal to you to support IEM by purchasing/sponsoring tables. Funds generated from the sale of tables will go towards to the IEM Building Fund. Your generous support is very much appreciated.
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May I suggest that readers install the Waze app on their phones? And use it as much as possible? It says its a “a social mobile application providing free turn-by-turn navigation based on the live conditions of the road. 100% powered by users, the more you drive, the better it gets. Join the community of drivers in your area today!” It’s definitely getting better for the Klang Valley area, though we need more users from East Malaysia.
Support your local bookshop! Visit Bookalicious at The Summit Subang, good selection of imported books. I think they focus on trilogies, quadrilogies, and otherologies. Tell them I sent you, and enjoy the look of perplexity on their faces. Maybe I should say that next time I visit them. Those of you who have dropped my name, thanks!
BTW, did I tell you that I am the Secretary of MOGEC?
For those of you who have a healthy skepticism to my industry, these books are for you:
Why We Hate the Oil Companies: Straight Talk from an Energy Insider, The Party’s Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies, Barbarians of Oil: How the World’s Oil Addiction Threatens Global Prosperity and Four Investments to Protect Your Wealth (Agora Series)
This week’s food promotion is … masak asam pedas. If you find nice places around PJ, let me know. I’ve tried the one across from the PJ State Police Station, and the shop next to Dewan MPSJ in PJ State.

Dateline 2012-03-08:
National Gas Company SAOG (NGC) said today that it has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Shell Malaysia Trading to purchase the latter’s LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) assets in west Malaysia for an undisclosed sum.
NGC, one of the largest LPG companies in the Middle East, said that its entry into Malaysia was done in partnership with Wan Zulkifle Wan Yusoff, a senior LPG industry professional.
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I really hope their intelligent pigs don’t get up and transform. For the low down, visit Rosen here.
Dateline 2012-03-06:
Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas) has proposed a pricing mechanism for natural gas once the regasification terminal in Melaka comes into operation in August.
“We have sat down with three [deputy ministers] a few weeks ago, and we proposed a review of the formula. It is now being brought to the Economic Council. So, we are waiting for that,” said president and CEO Datuk Shamsul Azhar Abbas at the national oil corporation’s financial results announcement yesterday.
The terminal will allow Petronas to import gas to make up for the current shortage. A pricing mechanism is necessary as currently Petronas’ supply of gas is heavily subsidised.
With the additional supply of imported gas, local prices will slowly rise to be on par with international market prices.…