Wah Seong, Wasco and GSI

March 13, 2010

Some industry news I heard about, while doing a risk assessment for one of our clients.

Remember Wah Seong, a company I previously mentioned as not having met? To quote from their website:

Staying focused is imperative in this dynamic, ever-challenging industry. Hence, the Group has now organised itself into 6 business divisions under its wholly owned subsidiary, Wasco Energy Limited.

Actually, it’s kind of funny. Both the old and new company websites are up and running, if you know the secret code. (For discovering this error, please send the check to IGL. Bullion and diamonds accepted).

Anyhow, I came across Gas Services International Ltd (GSI), which Wah Seong bought in 2005. It turns out that they have recently (this week) gone through an exercise where they will carry the Wasco brand.

Kinda like when Pöyry was building up its brand by renaming all its subsidiaries.

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Job Opportunity – MECIP

March 12, 2010

MECIP is looking for an electrical engineer to compliment her existing workforce. The Candidate must have a good degree in Electrical Engineering with 2-5 years working experience.

Fresh grads are also encouraged to apply.

Resumes can be sent an email here.

If I hear that the quality of applications is laughable, you will hear as well.

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IEM Shout Out – Structural Integrity Assessment in Oil & Gas Plants – A Case Study

March 9, 2010

This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will hosting the above talk on the 13th March, 2010. It’ll be at 9:30 am (makan-makan at 9:00) at Wisma IEM. That’s right people, as part of the new health drive you are required to walk up 3 flights of stairs to get your 2 CPD points.

It has been a standard industrial practice to carry out hazard analysis for hazardous operations. However, accidents still happen and occasionally, the consequences are alarming. In many cases, the accidents could be prevented if the hazard analysis exercise has been more effectively completed or if the analysis findings (information pertaining the hazards and controls) are communicated to and hence, appreciated by everyone. In response to this, the Bowie technique was invented and is being increasingly adopted in the oil & gas industry. It is simple and can be applied for all types of hazards, such as fire/explosion, environmental pollution, work-related accidents, transportation accidents, security threats, health hazards and many others. It is suitable forother industries as well e.g. construction, fabrication , manufacturing, aviation, shipping etc. The bow-tie technique emphasises on a pragmatic approach to identify not only hazard controls but also measures required to ensure the effectiveness of the identified controls. The overall findings are graphically presented  on a bowtie-like skeleton that allows easy understanding and communication.

Ir. Mohd Nazri Mustafa holds a B.E in Civil Engineering from the University of Wollongong, Australia. He has 18 years of experience in dealing with civil and structural engineering issues in oil, gas and, petrochemical plant environment. He has been involved in projects such as Gas Processing Plants GPP 5&6, Propane Dehydrogenation Plant Project, Malaysia LNG, GPP1 Revamp & Rejuvenation and Petronas projects in Sudan.

Fliers for the above and other events may be obtained here. A map to Wisma IEM is presented here. It’s the building identified as ‘Puteri Nursing College.’

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Saturday Star 2010-03-06 – Job Opportunities

March 8, 2010
  • ExxonMobil is looking for Drilling Engineers and Quality Engineers. Visit the site, or snail mail to Recruitment, Human Resources, Level 17, Menara ExxonMobil, 50088 KLCC, Kuala Lumpur.
  • ConocoPhillips is looking for a Process Engineer (way hey!). Send an email here.
  • SGS is looking an HSE officer, reliability engineer, risk based inspection engineer, corrosion engineer, material engineer, process risk eng (hey, apply to Synergy instead!), mech engineers, and the kingpin process management engineers. Send an email here.
  • M3nergy is looking for a Manager – HSE.
  • Wehaya is looking for sales eng, sales app eng (you’d better be good if you come knocking on my door), and product eng (again, you’d better know what you’re selling). Send an email here.

How’s the food at Chee Meng’s lately?

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The SOGE Story – MECIP Synergy Futsal Survivors’ Dinner

March 7, 2010

We had a dinner of sorts at BB Thai Seafood Restaurant, across the road from the Skypark (it will always be Terminal 3 to me). Members of the Synergy and MECIP team turned up.

We wonder what other team sports MOGSC MOGEC will come up with. Paintball? Paint-balling? Congkak? Televised Chess? Me, I’m up for Wii Sports.

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From The Star – Fuel subsidy scheme shelved

March 2, 2010

Man, I predicted this would be shelved 6 days into the scheme. I guess the proper people didn’t buy in (or buy off) into the scheme. Or is it a case of binary (flip-flip) government (Sorry, been watching the Big Bang Theory).

Dateline 2010-02-25, from The Star:

PETALING JAYA: The Government’s proposed fuel subsidy scheme based on the engine capacity of vehicles has apparently been shelved.

Sources indicate that the plan, which was originally set to be implemented on May 1, will not proceed even though a lot of the preparatory work has entered the final stage.

“We were so close to getting this off the ground,’’ said a source.

The Government had planned to introduce a tiered pricing system for petrol, depending on engine capacity, while foreigners would have to pay the market price.

You can subscribe to an online version of the paper at the Bluehyppo site, follow links to e-browse.

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Saturday Star 2010-02-27 – Job Opportunities

March 1, 2010

Another week, another scan of the Saturday Star newspaper. Here’s a list of job ads in the paper:

  • Dialog Group is looking for a whole mess of engineers. Send an email here or snail mail to Human Resources Department, Dialog Group of Companies, 109, Block G, Phileo Damansara 1, No. 9, Jalan 16/11, 46350.
  • Hey, Awan Inspirasi is looking for a HR Manager. Send an email here or snail mail to Recruitment Section, HR Department, 11th Floor, Menara Perak, 24 Jalan Perak, 50450 Kuala Lumpur.
  • Sabic has an advert.  The Ibn Zahr site is looking for a MTBE & Utility Operator, Control Sys Eng, Process Eng. You can apply via email here or here. Or key in your resumes online here. I believe this is the second time they are looking for people, the first one being a walk-in interview session in March. You asked for too much, people! Or they are looking for, what do you call it. ‘investment-efficient resources.’

I had food last Wed at Carigali Hess’s Cakerawala Platform. Catering was provided by my old acquaintances, Alfa Meli, though their website doesn’t say they do catering. Image rebranding?

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From the NST – Explosion at Labuan PETRONAS plant

February 28, 2010

Taken from the NST, dateline 2010-02-22:

LABUAN: There was a large explosion at the Petronas Methanol Labuan (PML)’s S1001 controlled natural gas Flare Tip that caused operations at the RM511 million methanol plant to cease today. Eighty-two PML contract workers and 46 of its staff were working there when the explosion occurred at 11.37 am but no one was hurt.

Two fire engines from the Labuan Fire and Rescue Service and the PML rescue unit rushed to the scene and controlled the situation within 30 minutes.

Speaking at a news conference, PML production chief, Mohd Kamis Abdul Manap, said a detailed investigation will be conducted to determine the cause of the explosion.

“We will conduct a comprehensive investigation before operations can continue. We will identify if there was weakness in the safety aspect,” said Mohd Kamis

Offhand, I would say failure of the Permit to Work System, opening up the process, air ingress into the vent, improper molecular seal vent, too low design pressure of the vent…

Wow, and I’m making all this up from the news clip above. Synergy would be most pleased in leading the 3rd party safety inspection. You know where we are.

You can subscribe to an online version of the paper at the Bluehyppo site, follow links to e-browse.

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When is an AND Gate an OR Gate? When you DTS

February 27, 2010

Here’s an interesting tidbit I picked up during my FS course in Bangkok.

There are two building blocks used in logic  programming:

And logic associated with these is:

Input Output
A B A AND B
0 0 0
0 1 0
1 0 0
1 1 1

And

Input Output
A B A OR B
0 0 0
0 1 1
1 0 1
1 1 1

 

Now, think in terms of ‘energised’ as Boolean value 1, and ‘non-energised’ as Boolean value 0, then go through the logic of a “de-energise to safe” (DTS) system. Assuming that A and B are sensing elements of a one out of two (1oo2) voting system, then if A or B trip (de-energise), the logic output of an AND gate is 0, i.e. non-energised.

Hence, an AND gate acts as an OR gate in a DTS system. And an OR gate acts like an AND gate.

And Synergy can give you more from where that came from

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From the NST – USM Trio turns Waste to ‘Gold’

February 26, 2010

Taken from the New Straits Times, dateline 2010-02-20:

Universiti Sains Malaysia is introducing its award-winning ViscoLigno, a chemically modified biopolymer that functions as a drilling mud gelling and viscosifying agent. Standing out from other more commonly used additives in mud drilling, the ViscoLigno is made of oil palm waste.

Its inventor, USM Chemical Sciences School lecturer Associate Professor Mohamad Nasir Mohamad Ibrahim, said ViscoLigno would prevent the soil from collapsing during the drilling process.

He said the substance would also allow soil residue to rise to the surface, allowing the drill to go deeper into the earth without getting stuck.

You can subscribe to an online version of the paper at the Bluehyppo site, follow links to e-browse.

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