From Business Times – PETRONAS,Shell ink oil deals in Malaysia

November 25, 2011

Dateline 2011-11-11:

Petroliam Nasional Bhd, Malaysia’s state oil company, signed two production-sharing deals with Royal Dutch Shell’s Malaysian unit today.

An agreement for two 30-year contracts to recover oil off the Southeast Asian nation’s Sarawak and Sabah coasts was sealed today, Shell said in an e-mailed statement.

The companies aim to extend the life and increase the recovery rate at the Baram Delta and North Sabah fields, it said.

This may result in an additional oil production of as much as 100,000 barrels per day of oil equivalent and extend their life beyond 2040.

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From Bernama – BC Petroleum To Invest RM2.55 Billion In Small Field Risk Service Project

November 24, 2011

I’m sorry, 53 jobs?

Dateline 2011-11-10:

BC Petroleum Sdn Bhd will invest up to RM2.55 billion in the small field risk service project of the Balai Cluster Field, offshore Sarawak.

The project, which will be carried out in two phases, is awarded by Petronas.

BC Petroleum is a joint-venture company between Roc Oil Malaysia (Holdings) Sdn Bhd, Dialog D&P Sdn Bhd and Petronas Carigali Sdn Bhd.

The project is projected to contribute RM4.95 billion to the country’s gross national income (GNI) and create 53 jobs by 2020.

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The Malay Mail – Evidence ‘blown up’

November 23, 2011

Dateline 2011-11-08:

The key evidence which could have pinpointed the cause of the explosion at the Empire Shopping Gallery on Sept 28 is believed to have been wiped out in the blast.

The Energy Commission of Malaysia said such was the devastation caused by the blast that it is facing an arduous task in trying to determine the origin of the explosion.

Its gas safety head, Yusni Sharif, said the blast, which occurred at 3.30am, was so extensive that any clues such as gas pipes, CCTV systems and partitions in the affected part of the building were either destroyed or heavily damaged.

“The evidence (we have) is not helping us at all. It’s not easy to put the puzzle together,” he said after officiating at a gas safety workshop organised by the Malaysian Association for Shopping and Highrise Complex Management here last week.

Yusni said the commission was trying its best to gather more concrete evidence and it would “take some time” to conclude its investigations.

“Information from witnesses is also not giving us a proper insight into the explosion,” he told The Malay Mail.

He said the commission had three months to wrap up the investigations.

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Wisma IEM – Upgrades In Progress

November 22, 2011

Soon, you won’t have to walk 2 flights of stair to get those CPD points…

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Saturday Star 2011-11-19 – Job Opportunities

November 21, 2011

Support me by purchasing my recommendations, or buying through my Amazon store. I need the money to pay for running this site. Corporate level sponsors are encouraged.

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.

  • 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.
  • Here’s a new one. There’s a company called Oceancare or is it (symbol)ceancare? The positions they are looking to fill looks as if they are starting a PSC company, i.e production and exploration services. Snail mail to Oceancare Corporation Sdn Bhd, Human Resource Department, 2nd Floor, Wisma Yong Lung, Lot 698 Pelita Commercial Centre, P.O. Box 1355, 98008 Miri. Or send your application here.
  • Murphy is looking for a gaggle of engineers. Apply here, or visit here. When was the last time you saw a .aspx in a published website address?

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!” The more you use it, the better info I get in planning my journey round KL, and hopefully the rest of Malaysia

If you are fans of classic gaming, support those old time PC classics at Good Oil Games. I wish they had a local setup here.

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

Since I’ve been exposed to FPSO’s recently, here’s a selection for you to be introduced to the topic:

FPSO Handbook, Ship-shaped Offshore Installations: Design, Building, and Operation, Floating Production Storage and Offloading: Vessel size, Topsides design, Re-fabrication, Hydrostatic analysis and Mooring system design.

This week’s food recommendation is Padi restaurant in Taman Puchong Utama

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From Borneo Post – Energy gluttony wasting millions

November 20, 2011

Dateline 2011-11-06:

IN the face of persistent economic volatility, Malaysians seem to be constantly tightening their fiscal purse strings even as costs of basic necessities soar ever higher with no end in sight.

Under these current conditions, few people in their right minds would set their pay cheques on fire or flush the contents of their wallets down the toilet.

Yet, as consumers, we are figuratively casting millions of our hard-earned ringgit to the wind every year without realising it’s due to wasteful energy consumption habits and energy inefficient household appliances

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KLIA2 – Photos

November 19, 2011

I had the opportunity (as part of Synergy’s business) to visit the site on a wet, rainy day.

Maybe someone will want to publish these pictures for posterity.

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PETRONAS Licensing – Conceptual and Detailed Design Work

November 18, 2011

Have you renewed your PETRONAS license recently? There’s been a change which seems to me shouts out ‘grow big or go home,’ and now shuts out small companies from bidding for multi-disciplinary engineering work.

From my point of view, there are two Standardised Work and Equipment Categories (SWEC) categories you need to be registered under to get the above work:

  • SE201010000 – ENG. DESIGN, ARCH. & DRAUGHTING SERVICES -Engineering Design- Conceptual Engineering Design/FEED
  • SE201020000 – ENG. DESIGN, ARCH. & DRAUGHTING SERVICES -Engineering Design- Detailed Design

However, the Minimum Technical Requirements (MTR) are so onerous that you can’t get these categories if you are small and don’t have a multidisciplinary team in your company (us small companies have tie-ups that would be technically capable of executing projects of the appropriate size, but we don’t have a single vehicle that would meet the requirements below).

What do you think? Are you affected by this change?

C’mon PETRONAS, lighten up.

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From Bernama – Musa Hails Petronas’ Focus On Sabah O&G Firms

November 17, 2011

Do you get the impression that us small folks in the Peninsular will be marginalized?

Dateline 2011-11-03:

Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman today expressed his appreciation to Petronas chief executive officer Datuk Shamsul Azhar Abbas for his sincere efforts to ensure business opportunities are given to local contractors in the oil and gas industry.

He said this was evident from Petronas’ commitment to award contracts worth RM600 million to Sabah firms in the Sabah Ammonia-Urea Plant (Samur) in Sipitang.

Musa said apart from this, investments worth billions of ringgit in downstream projects would create huge multiplier effects and offer diverse opportunities to locals.

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From Bernama – MMHE Secures RM1.4 Billion Contract From EMEPMI

November 16, 2011

Dateline 2011-11-03:

Malaysia Marine and Heavy Engineering Holdings Bhd (MMHE) has secured the RM1.4 billion Tapis Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) project from ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Malaysia Inc (EMEPMI).

The contract from the subsidiary of Exxon Mobil Corporation is for the construction and installation of the main structure for the Tapis R topside, which is the main structure of the Tapis EOR project.

EMEPMI chairman and president, Hugh W Thompson said the contract was part of the company’s long-term commitment to work closely with PETRONAS and their co-venture partner PETRONAS Carigali to develop Malaysia’s full energy potential.”

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