Wata – Malaysian Oil and Gas Engineer

Who would have thunk? Bee swarm at Jalan Ipoh – Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman. Remember this when you say ‘that event has a low probability of happening’. And when did Batu Road Supermarket close down?

I think Kikeh is due for a makeover (or is that workover?). Dateline 2011-06-14:

Malaysia’s first deepwater field is producing less than expected due to sand in the oil although output should recover by this year, the Business Times reported on Wednesday, citing its operator Murphy Oil Corp .

“The workover programme should be completed this year and production rates back to the planned level,” a Murphy spokesman was quoted as saying.

“We have three well shut-ins due to fines migration coming through the sandscreens and being produced with the oil. It is important to keep the fines materials out of the surface process equipment.”

Murphy was not immediately available for comment.

Murphy’s Kikeh field offshore Malaysia’s Borneo state of Sabah has a current gross production of around 52,000 barrels of oil per day. The report did not say how much production had dropped to.

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Those of you in the intersection region of the Petronas – tycoon – Sabahian Venn diagram, you might want to pay attention. Dateline 2011-06-15:

Sabah is clearly not in the nation-building plans of the Barisan Nasional government in the last 47 years. For todate, “not a single decent trunk road or highway” has been built for the state.

A former Sabah minister, Kong Hong Ming, said the federal government had failed to build a modern road network in the state almost half a century since the formation of Malaysia.

He said Sabahans were still begging for infrastructural development despite regularly giving away 95% of the state’s oil and gas resources to the federal government.

Kong, now a PKR leader, has accused the Umno-led BN federal government of taxing Sabahans and treating Sabah as a backwater.

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Oil & Gas Engineers never forget.

We thank Shell for their support to the community. Dateline 2011-06-21:

Cerebral palsy-afflicted Mohd Amirul Asyraf of Lahad Datu became Sabah’s first recipient of Shell Malaysia’s Special Excellence Awards for students with physical disabilities.

The 19-year-old former student of SMK Madai in Kunak is among three lucky disabled statewide this year to receive the special category scholarship from the oil and gas company.

Shell Malaysia is also sponsoring the studies of three disabled from the peninsula and four from Sarawak this year to study in local universities.

The special category scholarship was launched initially for students of Sarawak last year in conjunction with Shell’s 100 years of upstream operations in Miri.

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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.

First off, 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.

• SapuraCrest is looking for a mess of people. Email them here.
• Hess is looking for people, fresh meat encouraged to apply.
• Wow, Shell is looking for graduates, too. There’s a walk in interview at Shell House on th 16th, 2011. Attire is formal dinner, or am I messing with you. If you cannot make it, you can visit www.shell.com/careers and select Students & Graduates → Shell Recruitment Day.
• Sabic has an advert for Area Manufacturing – Yanbu. They are looking for a Turnaround Engineer, New Services Development Engineer, Specialized Services Engineer, Performance Review & Improvement Engineer, and Strategy & Planning Engineer.  You can apply via email here or here. Or key in your resumes online here. Login under candidate login and password at the website.
• Talisman is looking for a Project & Modification Integrity Engineer. Apply here, and visit their site.

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!”

How about a selection of books on chemical plants?
  

Ludwig’s Applied Process Design for Chemical and Petrochemical Plants, Fourth Edition,Process Plants: A Handbook for Inherently Safer Design, Second Edition, Chemical Engineering Design: Principles, Practice and Economics of Plant and Process Design.

Another reason for East Malaysia to secede.

Dateline 2011-06-17:

Sabah and Sarawak will lose their oil and gas resources “forever” if the Petroleum Act 1974 is not amended, United Borneo Front (UBF) leader, Jeffrey Kitingan, said.

He said that the two states have already experienced “100% losses” of their oil and gas resources under the Petroleum Act.

He added that unless MPs and party leaders in the two states compel the federal government to amend the Act now, the states will “lose forever” their reserves.

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Let’s vote to remove the diesel subsidy, and cultivate good energy saving habits.

Dateline 2011-06-16:

As unbelievable as it sounds, diesel costs more in oil-producing Sabah than in near-barren Peninsular Malaysia.

Decrying the withdrawal of fuel subsidies as “particularly unfair” to Sabah and Sarawak, the Federation of Sabah Lorry Transport Associations (FSLTA) said the industry was now forced to increase its charges by as much as 30% to cope with higher costs.

Said association president Steven Chua Pui Ming: “It’s all very confusing. Why is the subsidised diesel price RM1.48 in Sabah but RM1.43 a litre in Peninsular Malaysia?

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HoHoHoHo. Apparently someone has a sense of humour. Too bad they don’t have a sense of irony.

Dateline 2011-06-16:

The Government’s decision to reduce the price of RON97 petrol to RM2.80 a litre is a right and smart move to prove it is sensitive towards the movement of world’s oil prices, said the Petroleum Dealers Association of Malaysia (PDAM).

PDAM’s deputy president Datuk Zulkifli Mokti said although the drop was small, the efficient move taken indirectly proved the commitment of the government to lessen the people’s burden in terms of using the fuel.

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This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will be  hosting a seminar on the 12th July, 2011. It’ll start at 9:00 and is worth 6 CPD hours. You still gotta climb those steps at Wisma IEM. They promise up that the elevator will be ready by the next AGM.

Corrosion has been a concern in many industries. Corrosion can cause unexpected failures of structures and can result in huge losses in life, production as well as environmental. It has been reported that corrosion can, on average, causing around 3% of GNP in many industrialized countries.

Cathodic protection (CP) is one of few corrosion protection methods. It has been successfully used to overcome corrosion and extension of service life of structures. The course is aimed to provide the understanding of principle of CP, techniques of CP survey and measurements and interpretation of CP survey data.

The course will introduce you to the following topics:

•  Principle of Cathodic Protection
• Type of Cathodic Protection
• Criteria of Cathodic Protection
• Electrical Measurement for Cathodic Protection System
• Special Cathodic Protection Survey Techniques

Mr. Kang Kim Ang, MSc. Corrosion (UMIST. U.K.), Dip. Materials Engineering (TARC), C.Eng., FIMM, Micorr, a Chartered Engineer registered with Engineering Council, UK and the Corrosion Specialist and Cathodic Protection Specialist accredited by National Association of Corrosion Engineer (NACE), USA and Institute of Materials, Malaysia (IMM).

Engr. Ong Wei Rex, M. Eng. Mechanical (UTM), BSc. Mechanical (Material) Engineering (UTM), Cathodic Protection (CP) Level 2 accredited by National Association of Corrosion Engineer (NACE), USA and CP Technologist Level 2 accredited by Institute of Materials, Malaysia (IMM).

Engr. Ong has over 5 years of experience in corrosion control, Cathodic Protection, and special corrosion inspection and survey techniques in oil & gas, sector in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. He is currently the Senior Corrosion Engineer of Corrtrol Services Sdn. Bhd., a subsidiary company of CORRTROL Group.

Register here or download the form here. A map to Wisma IEM is presented here.