Wata – Malaysian Oil and Gas Engineer

Dateline 2011-05-21:

Petronas Gas Bhd (PTG) is expected to be the indirect beneficiary of gas subsidy cuts given that it would make it more palatable for Petronas to import liquefied natural gas (LNG) via PTG’s terminal for transmission around Peninsular Malaysia.

“While PTG does not directly benefit from lower gas subsidies or higher gas prices, the potential cut in gas subsidies next week does mean that the Government is resuming its subsidy review programme which should eventually see gas subsidies cut completely within some five to seven years,” said OSK Research Sdn Bhd (OSK Research) in a research note yesterday.

The research firm expected the increase in Petronas’s gas share price of 2.3 per cent over the last two days higher than average volume to be attributed by tPetronas Refinery and Petrochemical Integrated Development (Rapid) project in Pengerang, Johore and rumours of a cut in gas subsidies in June.

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Dateline 2011-05-17:

KUALA LUMPUR: Oil and gas (O&G) brownfield services provider Petra Energy Bhd does not expect further losses to come from its Kumang Cluster project in Sarawak, which had resulted in the company losing some RM26.3mil in the fourth quarter of last year.

The losses stemmed from the rejection of pipes due to quality issues, leasing and delays in the delivery schedule but the cost overruns were expected to be fully contained in the 2010 books, Petra Energy executive director Ahmadi Yusoff told reporters yesterday after the company’s shareholders meeting.

He added that the company was looking at pursuing legal action against the company it had sub-contracted the job to, Coral Alliance Sdn Bhd, as the loss amount was not a small quantum.

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This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will be  hosting a talk on the 10th June, 2011. It’ll be at 5:30 pm  (makan-makan at 5:00). You still gotta climb those steps at Wisma IEM.

There are several benefits of using hydrocarbon as refrigerant. Utilizing environmentally-friendly refrigerants and clean agents exceeding Malaysia’s commitment to the Montreal & Kyoto will earn the user 2 points under The Green Building Index scores.

More importantly user will benefit from reduction in the energy demand by improvement of chiller performance and in a long run a longer compressor life.

The talk will explain on the concept of hydrocarbon refrigerant, the application of the system with some case studies using Hychill Hydrocarbon Refrigerants. The speaker will clarify the myth surrounding the refrigerants and the benefits that the industry will get by using Hydrocarbon as the refrigerant

Ir. Al-Khairi Mohd Daud, PEng, M.I.E.M, C.Eng. MBA has nearly 20 years of experience in engineering projects, reliability and maintenance management with multinational companies in cement, oil and gas, oleo chemicals, petrochemicals and specialized building facilities including high technology research facilities, hospital and factory. Currently he is the principal consultant for Faqeh Management. He is passionate in helping the industry to improve the maintenance standard towards reliability and continuous improvement. He is also a Committee member of Oil, Gas and Mining Technical Division for IEM. Ir Al-Khairi is a Registered Electrical Energy Manager (REEM) as well as the country expert and local trainer for Energy Management Gold Standard (EMGS) under ASEAN ENERGY CENTRE/Greentech Malaysia. He is also a surveyor for Malaysian Society for Quality in Healthcare.

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

I’m involved in designing a liquid filled fuel delivery pipe network, buried 3m underground. I am considering NOT to install thermal relief valves, but this is dependent on how big thermal fluctuation temperatures are at that soil depth over a given period, say 4-, 12- and 24-hours.

Anyone know where I can access public domain information or purchase QC’d data for Malaysia?

Dateline 2011-05-17:

Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum) (TSX:LUP)(OMX:LUPE) is pleased to announce that it has commenced its Malaysian drilling campaign with the spud of the Tarap-1 well in the SB 303 Block offshore Sabah, East Malaysia.

The well will target Miocene sandstones in the Kindu sub basin. The well will be drilled with the Offshore Courageous rig in a water depth of approximately 70 meters. It will be a deviated well, directionally drilled to intersect a series of stacked seismic anomalies, with a planned total depth of 2,140 meters subsea.

The well is the first of the five well programme planned in 2011 by Lundin Malaysia BV in its Malaysian Blocks.

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I was listening to the radio last week, and there was a language lesson program which talked about the value of the pantun to the Malay culture. In an attempt to lower said culture, I propose we create pantuns based on the oil & gas industry. Here’re a few to set the bar…

Hisap rokok di kawasan produk,
Ditangkap, dihantar balik naik chopper.
Kalau tak nak ikut Standards of Business Conduct,
Tunggu sampai orang tak ada.

Pergi pelanta cari rezeki,
sampai-sampai kena buat downhole fishing.
Kalau musuh tak nak dicari,
Siapakan kerja sebelum gi golfing.

Senior engineer suruh sizekan heat exchanger
Young Turk kata, “Mudah! Guna OLGA!”
Kalau dah tak tau, kata ajelah tak tau
Buka buku text, majalah, iPad, gi belajar.

The rest had too many swear words.

Send in yours.

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The first advert is not in the Star. The intent is to form a full multi discipline project team for SKO pipeline rejuvanation. Among the activities anticipated will be deck extension, pipeline riser modification. Candidates have to perform engineering and design works, markup PFD P&ID layout design, in place analysis, structural integrity, equipment & line sizing etc. Positions open are:

• Mechanical engineer
• Structural engineer
• Process engineer
• Electrical engineer
• Instrument engineer

The advertiser is looking for engineers 3+ and above (sounds like a kindergarten). Anyhoo, contact ipsmalaysia.

• M3nergy is looking for a Manager – Technical, Head of Maintenance, Naval Architect / Marine Engineer.  Send your qualifications here or snail mail to M3nergy Berhad, Central Services Division (Recruitment Section) 25th and 32nd Floor, Wisma UOA II, 21 Jalan Pinang, 50450 KL.
• Berachah is looking for a pipeline lead / manager, and senior engineers.  Send your qualifications here or snail mail to M3nergy Berhad, Central Services Division (Recruitment Section) 25th and 32nd Floor, Wisma UOA II, 21 Jalan Pinang, 50450 KL.

Here are some books from the CCPS:

Links  

Guidelines for Safe and Reliable Instrumented Protective Systems
Incidents That Define Process Safety (CCPS Concept Books)
Guidelines for Process Hazards Analysis (PHA, HAZOP), Hazards Identification, and Risk Analysis

I only recently discovered that En. Anuar Taib was senior of mine. Small world.

Also, hasn’t Gemusut moved from JB yet?

Dateline 2011-05-16:

Shell Malaysia will invest RM5.1 billion this year to upgrade and expand its upstream, midstream and downstream operations.

Its chairman, Anuar Taib, said one of the projects was the development of the Gumusut field, offshore Sabah.

In a statement Monday, Anuar said in preparation for this, Shell, together with its partners, would build South-East Asia’s first floating production system (FPS) in Johor Baru.

“The FPS, which will sit in a water depth of approximately 1,200 metres, will have a capacity to process 135,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day, or the equivalent of one quarter of the nation’s production,” he said.

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Dateline 2011-05-16:

Integrated oil and gas brownfield services provider, Petra Energy Bhd, is in the process of identifying partners to form a consortium to participate in the development of marginal oil fields.

Its executive director/chief executive officer, Kamarul Baharin Albakri, said the company was now moving into the next level to be a participant in a consortium.

“Once we become a consortium member, we will split the responsibility of jobs among the members,” he told reporters after the company’s annual general meeting here today.

Malaysia has 106 marginal oil fields with an estimated 580 million barrels of oil.

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