Wata – Malaysian Oil and Gas Engineer

The Chemical Engineering Technical Division AGM will be held at 3rd Floor, TUS lecture room, Wisma IEM, 21 Jalan Selangor, Petaling Jaya.

It will be held at 11am on Saturday, 1st October 2010.

Flyers for the above and other events may be obtained here. A map to Wisma IEM is presented here.

Dateline 2011-09-20:

Energy-efficient appliances not only pare down electricity bills, they reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power generation too.

AT the height of the oil crisis in the 1970s, renewable energy and energy efficiency (EE) were touted as Malaysia’s fifth fuel. However, the discovery of substantial deposits of oil and natural gas in the 1980s relegated EE issues to the back burner in no time.

The promotion of EE was “renewed” in the 1990s by the Electricity and Gas Supply Department (EGSD) and the Ministry of Energy (now the Ministry of Energy, Green Technology and Water, or KeTTHA). Some regulations on EE were drafted then but were not implemented due to “legal issues”.

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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.
• Talisman is looking for a Operations Engineer. Apply here, and visit their site. Is this because their current OE has been promoted? Are congratulations in order?

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.

Also, if you have spare CPU cycles, consider donating them to boinc, open-source software for volunteer computing and grid computing.

I see Maurice Stewart has some new books:

Gas Dehydration Field Manual, Gas Sweetening and Processing Field Manual, Gas-Liquid And Liquid-Liquid Separators

This week’s food recommendation is the IEM Family Day

IEM Family Day Taman Bandaran Kelana Jaya

Anyone want to send me the confidential root cause analysis report? Call me WikiWata.

Dateline 2011-09-15:

A fire at a shore-to-ship delivery pump at the Esso oil refinery here early Thursday morning saw workers running for their lives and flames visible from 2km away.

The fire, which started about 1am, was put out about three hours later and prevented from spreading to two oil refinery tanks and a nearby LPG bottling plant, said Negri Sembilan Fire and Rescue director Saadon Mokhtar.

He added that 32 firemen and 24 fire-fighters from Esso and Shell used foam to put out the burning nafta petroleum.

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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.
• Murphy is looking for a QA/QC specialist, lead surface facilities engineer. Apply here.
• Talisman is looking for a Senior Process Engineer. Apply here, and visit their site. Hey, this advert came out in July? Are there no takers? We’re willing to support them, at cost + profit margin.

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.

Also, if you have spare CPU cycles, consider donating them to boinc, open-source software for volunteer computing and grid computing.

I see Maurice Stewart has some new books:

Gas Dehydration Field Manual, Gas Sweetening and Processing Field Manual, Gas-Liquid And Liquid-Liquid Separators

This week’s food recommendation is Seri Menanti Resort in … Seri Menanti? Makan Negori berlado

Dateline 2011-09-13:

Malaysia’s oil giant, Petronas, on Tuesday officially started oil-drilling in Brunei waters near the Sarawak-Brunei border boundary in a historic joint-production sharing with the sultanate’s national oil company, PetroleumBrunei.

Petronas also secured a US$1.6bil (RM5.6bil) project in Brunei to construct a petro-chemical processing plant in this oil-rich sultanate.

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Dateline 2011-09-07:

Conglomerate Boustead Holdings Bhd has emerged to defend details of its unsuccessful bid to acquire a controlling stake in Esso Malaysia Bhd as the latter’s major shareholder, US oil and gas giant ExxonMobil Corp, last month inked a deal to dispose of its stake to Philippines-based food and beverage giant San Miguel Corp.

Boustead’s announcement yesterday saw Esso Malaysia’s share price up 16 sen to close at RM3.67 on speculation that the fight for control of its assets, which include the chain of petrol kiosk and a refinery, is far from over.

The deal attracted significant media and investor interest, with the crux of the dispute being the suitor’s plans for ExxonMobil’s assets, particularly the refinery in Port Dickson, Negri Sembilan and whether Boustead’s offer was inferior to that of San Miguel, whose proposal was accepted by ExxonMobil Corp.

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Dateline 2011-09-05:

What has the city’s reputation of having the best roasted duck and roasted chicken got to do with cooking gas?

Plenty, according to Ling Kok Ping, whose roasted ducks are among the most sought after in the city.

Ling, who has been in the business for 44 years, claimed that the “strong fire” from the gas piped to his house was the “open secret” because it ensured that the heat in the broiler was constant, thus contributing to the crispiness of the skin of the roasted ducks or chickens.

Ling was fortunate that he used piped gas to roast his ducks and chickens or else he might have to raise the prices, or worst, close shop following the recent high price of gas cylinders compared to other towns in Sarawak.

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